Comments on: My Daily News Sources Are Depressing Me

By: politics and concealed weapon permits

politics and concealed weapon permits — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:09:17 +0000

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By: Roland

Roland — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:43:29 +0000

Bravo Scott!
You noticed what a lot of us didn’t know that we knew. All the negativity create anxieties, and lead nowhere positive. Is the glass half empty, or half full?

By: Rachael

Rachael — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:38:27 +0000

for real news you don’t hear from the corporate media, definitely try pacifica radio (i.e. kpfk.org), democracynow.org and read the nation. I know the feeling with the tv — I can hardly read/watch any of it, but I do want to know what’s going on and what people are doing to make this world better, so these sites I depend on regularly. Hope you get a fresh perspective! Rach

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:40:24 +0000

Scott,

I have to agree with you. This news are gettin’ more desperate than before. I used to read every morning about it but those are not what I want to read. So I used news.google.com instead and read the tech stuffs and I’m better off than reading CNN and FOXNEWS. Also, iphone.foxnews.com is slightly better than the real foxnews and not too bad depressing. CNN is worse. Great article by the way!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:25:12 +0000

i haven’t been able to check your blog for a week or so and i am just now catching up…although “off topic” i think this is a very important topic and i agree with you 110%…and by the looks of the comments here, you are definitely not alone…

By: Ralph

Ralph — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:46:26 +0000

Scott, I noticed about 6 months ago that the TODAY show on NBC began using sound to attract attention to each of it’s news stories. Every 30 or 40 seconds as they transition to a new headline, you’ll hear some digital audio that sounds like a car crash, or screaming tires, or something designed to make you look. I can hear the producers now, laughing, “Made you look…made you look!!” It’s so ridiculous that I’ve totally stopped watching the TODAY show.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:41:18 +0000

Scott, thanks for writing about the dismal state of news reporting. My wife and I feel the exact same way. We stopped taking the daily paper (”The State” in SC) about 9 months ago and try to selectively screen out and mute many news stories. The one news joy we’ve recently discovered is “Sunday Morning on CBS” with Charles Osgood. It’s an hour-and-a-half news and events program each Sunday morning that always leaves us informed and mostly uplifted. I’ve found nothing else like it out there. Thanks.

By: Conrad

Conrad — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:36:30 +0000

Avoid both Commercially Notable News and Fantastically Over eXageration if you want to know what’s happening. As many people have said, BBC is far better, although the best address for US news is the slightly more specific page http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/default.stm.

By: Iain Gunther

Iain Gunther — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:02:29 +0000

Hi Scott
I travel a lot and the only place to go is the BBC. Either on the web http://news.bbc.co.uk/ (check the button for International) or on the TV. It is unbiased and you can trust it. The other alternative is The Economist which is light years infront of the two American newsmagazines. You can get the Economist on the web with daily news updates when you subscribe.

By: scott

scott — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:43:56 +0000

You know, I’ve been meaning to blog the very same thing. There’s too much sensationalism in the media. Every time I go to CNN.com and look at the “latest news” headlines, I’m disgusted. I read the headlines and ask myself: does this help me? Does it inform the decisions I make as a citizen? Or is it the equivalent of interstate accident rubbernecking? I’d say a full 25% of what appears there is the latter. No wonder we’re a nation of imbeciles.

By: Renee

Renee — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:39:16 +0000

please excuse the misspellings on my last post! Hey Scott, speaking of the Middle East, have you read about all the dead women and children there!?!!!

By: Renee

Renee — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:36:46 +0000

Scott, I disagree with you that the “news” is depressing you. I read FP, NG, Time, etc. for all my news info but as a concerned parent, citizen and human being, I am interested in these headlines. I actually have google alerts specifically for cases of child abuse, torture, etc. for toddlers and babies ONLY and I have to tell you, I get 20-30 alerts a day! The WORLD and HUMANS depress me severely! These cases are on the rise and there is a much larger issue at hand. Drugs play a large part of these cases as do being a young parent, not to mention the constant flury of predators! The future of children and their safety needs to be addressed by the roots. This is the truth of our world, it gets very ugly and I certainly can’t live my days and pretend it doesn’t happen or that if I turn the other cheek it goes away. I know its everywhere and I pay attention. I try to get more involved with my community and with my neighbors to help protect and educate for the children’s sake not to someone else’s dismay…