Stopped watching/reading the news?
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Yeah, Iāve really toned down my consumption of social media and news. The exception is that Iām addicted to Rick Beato on YouTube. But music feeds my soul so itās therapy for me.
Iām happier and mentally healthier.
Iām happier and mentally healthier.
I watch Rachel Maddow and Lawrence OāDonnelll on occasion. I like Jon Stewartās commentary also.
Have not watched the news in about 5 or 6 years. Even then there was so much bullshit and nonsense broadcast as news that was actually just the political position of whoever owned that station. I could not imagine what the news is like today with that fucker princess rump and bitch sidekick elon. To answer how it impacted me - Amazing! Not allowing yourself to be subjected to that never ending bullshit is a healthy step towards physical, emotional, and intellectual wellbeing and happiness.
Have you checked out Mary Spender? Has some interesting music related vids including a couple with Rick. She's also started a horology series with some interesting takes on time pieces.
Basically around the time Trump showed up. I started seeing the biases growing and eventually became outright support or everything he did was wrong.
Credibility disappeared and I stopped looking at it. I see the occasional headline online and stuff on the radio, but I'm not seeking it out and avoid most of it.
I feel a lot better and find if I pay attention to it it just begins to piss me off.
Mental health is becoming more important.
Credibility disappeared and I stopped looking at it. I see the occasional headline online and stuff on the radio, but I'm not seeking it out and avoid most of it.
I feel a lot better and find if I pay attention to it it just begins to piss me off.
Mental health is becoming more important.
Before this thread gets locked and we're told to move to either the US or Canadian politics thread, let me just say that the news these days is simply put, retarded. There is intense fear mongering trying to get everyone to worry and become divided.
Recently, an influencer's detainment in Arizona has gone viral. If what @Forum mod wrote is true, there is not one Canadian outlet that focused on this. It's clickbait captions and contents curated to attract rage and interaction whilst the media push their own agenda (narrative) including financial gain.
Social media, including Bluesky and Reddit, has been buzzing, but few are holding her responsible. Meanwhile, I've seen countless headlines go viral, not because they matter, but because they sellāstories of fools and morons who made bad choices, yet somehow captured attention. It makes you wonder: do they have media connections willing to push their narratives? Sensationalism drives clicks, not fairness. I know plenty of people whoāve been screwed over by landlords, businesses, and the government, but their stories didnāt fit the mediaās preferred narrativeāso they were ignored.
So when media says "support us". I say "fuck you".
It's not just the news trying to manipulate you, it is all aspects of media.
TV shows we watch
Movies we watch
Commercials
Advertising posters
Billboards
Manipulation spills out to all aspects of life.
Sales people
Friends
Significant others
Service providers in all industries
Human beings have evolved to have reasoning skills to combat manipulation, sadly it seems, most people have lost the ability of reason.
TV shows we watch
Movies we watch
Commercials
Advertising posters
Billboards
Manipulation spills out to all aspects of life.
Sales people
Friends
Significant others
Service providers in all industries
Human beings have evolved to have reasoning skills to combat manipulation, sadly it seems, most people have lost the ability of reason.
latest example of media brainwashing
There is a major medical scandal unfolding in Canada, and our media is fuelling it. In gender clinics across the country, doctors put healthy adolescents on invasive medical procedures that can impair fertility, sexual function, and bone density, damage bodily systems, and result in the removal of healthy organs. Teenage girls are being put into menopause, and young men are being chemically and surgically castrated. This is all done without a clear diagnosis or solid scientific evidence that these treatments are safe or beneficial.
Yet Canadaās mainstream media portrays these interventions, euphemistically called āgender-affirming care,ā as evidence-based, medically necessary, and lifesaving. Top outlets such as CBC, CTV, and Global present paediatric gender medicine as uncontroversial.
Flawed Coverage Putting Canadaās Youth at Risk
https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/how-gen...t-canadian-kids-mia-hughes-for-inside-policy/
There is a major medical scandal unfolding in Canada, and our media is fuelling it. In gender clinics across the country, doctors put healthy adolescents on invasive medical procedures that can impair fertility, sexual function, and bone density, damage bodily systems, and result in the removal of healthy organs. Teenage girls are being put into menopause, and young men are being chemically and surgically castrated. This is all done without a clear diagnosis or solid scientific evidence that these treatments are safe or beneficial.
Yet Canadaās mainstream media portrays these interventions, euphemistically called āgender-affirming care,ā as evidence-based, medically necessary, and lifesaving. Top outlets such as CBC, CTV, and Global present paediatric gender medicine as uncontroversial.
Flawed Coverage Putting Canadaās Youth at Risk
https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/how-gen...t-canadian-kids-mia-hughes-for-inside-policy/
I stopped watching news when I was 11 and it was much happier for it.
If itās important, I figured I would hear about it, and if it doesnāt directly know, or affect me or somebody that I know. And if thereās nothing I can do about it. Thereās no sense in me wasting energy feeling sad or depressed about something I canāt help in anyway.
Iād rather reserve that energy for something where I can make a difference.
I started watching news again in 2020, four days before lockdowns. And it was absolutely shocking to me that news no longer exists. It doesnāt matter if youāre looking at BBC, Al Jazeera or our main stream media. It was the most blatantly obvious shift to complete propaganda.
prior to being 11 news was kind of investigative journalism. It was raw facts and reporting, without relying on emotion and massive reactions to elicit a non-logical response from the public.
It was absolutely bizarre. And it still is.
I look at a variety of things from time to time, but will always go to the source if I want actual facts. I will watch the entire House of Commons meeting from start to finish. I will watch the entire debate from start to finish. I will call up dozens of people I know in an area I have a question about an ask them specifically what they have personally seen and witnessed, not what they have read, or heard.
We really donāt have news these days. Everything is propaganda. It doesnāt matter which side it is or what it is about. It is designed to be fear porn.
so Iām more succinct answer to the question would be that I was much happier when I wasnāt watching news at all.
from 2020 through 2023 of news from around the world. Did not make me happier. And it did not motivate me to do anything that actually created positive change. Probably the opposite, because I became consumed with things I couldnāt help or change or affect in a positive way whatsoever. And feeling powerless is generally not great for our overall well-being.
If itās important, I figured I would hear about it, and if it doesnāt directly know, or affect me or somebody that I know. And if thereās nothing I can do about it. Thereās no sense in me wasting energy feeling sad or depressed about something I canāt help in anyway.
Iād rather reserve that energy for something where I can make a difference.
I started watching news again in 2020, four days before lockdowns. And it was absolutely shocking to me that news no longer exists. It doesnāt matter if youāre looking at BBC, Al Jazeera or our main stream media. It was the most blatantly obvious shift to complete propaganda.
prior to being 11 news was kind of investigative journalism. It was raw facts and reporting, without relying on emotion and massive reactions to elicit a non-logical response from the public.
It was absolutely bizarre. And it still is.
I look at a variety of things from time to time, but will always go to the source if I want actual facts. I will watch the entire House of Commons meeting from start to finish. I will watch the entire debate from start to finish. I will call up dozens of people I know in an area I have a question about an ask them specifically what they have personally seen and witnessed, not what they have read, or heard.
We really donāt have news these days. Everything is propaganda. It doesnāt matter which side it is or what it is about. It is designed to be fear porn.
so Iām more succinct answer to the question would be that I was much happier when I wasnāt watching news at all.
from 2020 through 2023 of news from around the world. Did not make me happier. And it did not motivate me to do anything that actually created positive change. Probably the opposite, because I became consumed with things I couldnāt help or change or affect in a positive way whatsoever. And feeling powerless is generally not great for our overall well-being.
Human beings have evolved to have reasoning skills to combat manipulation, but have evolved to have manipulative skills to combat reasoning but have evolved to have reasoning skills to combat manipulation, but have evolved to have manipulative skills to combat reasoning but . . . .
