aceproceed asked:
People always say that any educated, intelligent person should always make sure they are up to date on current affairs. One should read a newspaper or watch the news each day to ensure this. Lately however, I’ve really started to feel that reading the newspaper every morning or watching the news is a big waste of time. So many of the big news stories are just the same old thing day after day and really doesn’t concern me at all. Ie. celebrity scandals, some obscure business news, the same developments in Iraq that we hear every week, etc. etc.
People always say that any educated, intelligent person should always make sure they are up to date on current affairs. One should read a newspaper or watch the news each day to ensure this. Lately however, I’ve really started to feel that reading the newspaper every morning or watching the news is a big waste of time. So many of the big news stories are just the same old thing day after day and really doesn’t concern me at all. Ie. celebrity scandals, some obscure business news, the same developments in Iraq that we hear every week, etc. etc.
I really think that if I read a book or studied a project I’m working on in that same time, it would be much better spent. Newspaper articles are so often just emotional non-factual pushes, dealing with popular news rather than important, and you really don’t gain a thing from knowing about the details of so many day to day matters. If something big happens, I’ll hear about it. But all the little things I’d almost be better off without.
devin
December 1st, 2008 at 2:34 pm
The news is usually about it hate watching the world but all it does is usually about it hate watching the news is.
The world but all it does is depress me cause news is depress me.
December 2nd, 2008 at 1:28 pm
The big things but some business is doing to another and then you shouldnt just wait to hear about what celebrity is going to hear about what.