28-04-2013, 09:48 PM
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The News
I don't often moan or grumble (on here or in 'real' life) but I've got to get this off my chest.I'm fed up of the news and its format. It is no longer news - it's just people reading out a list of the worst attrocities they can find happening anywhere in the world on a daily basis.
Am I to believe that there are no good-news stories? Nothing good or warranting a pat on the back for someone, none of that happens anywhere anymore?
Why is a diatribe of events considered news?
Just stop it news teams - people would like news items that makes them feel the world is worth living in.
That feels better
28-04-2013, 10:14 PM
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I cringe sometimes when I see the kind of thing you are concerned about Ben-varrey....Having watched the late late program "Unreported world" I am now beginning to think we are spared much of the more
graphic event images, occurring both at home and abroad.
Kate Adie was pretty fast in getting to the action & reporting it, but she developed the vacant eyes you see sometimes on people Eyes that have seentoo much
29-04-2013, 09:44 AM
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Re: The News
That is part of the problem isn't it Robert - we can end up becoming immune to the gore and horror and we're just left with a feeling of hopelessness. I remember a few years ago doctors saying that the news should carry a health warning - I didn't take it that seriously at the time but now I'm beginning to wonder.29-04-2013, 01:17 PM
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Re: The News
Originally Posted by ben-varrey
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That is part of the problem isn't it Robert - we can end up becoming immune to the gore and horror and we're just left with a feeling of hopelessness. I remember a few years ago doctors saying that the news should carry a health warning - I didn't take it that seriously at the time but now I'm beginning to wonder.
29-04-2013, 03:15 PM
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I think it's all part of a plot, keep telling them bad news all the time and when we have them all nervous wreaks and are lucky to alive, tell them we are only going to increase VAT by 2% instead of 5%, or something similar, break them down first and then we can get anything across, after all the government controls what goes out on the news although they say otherwise.
29-04-2013, 05:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Pats CG
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You're so right Karen - I only watch 'part' of the news, as soon as something comes on thats too much - I flip the switch over... Have not bought a newspaper in many years, a neighbour of mine started to get a paper everyday last year due to the terrible weather, I saw her change dramatically - depressed, I pleaded with her to 'stop' buying the papers, she did, things are a lot better now...
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