I am SO DONE with the pointless sad news.

[kyrielle]

No, seriously...I don't need to know about kids who died in hot cars in other states. It doesn't help my life in any way, and there is nothing I can do to help with that problem. I certainly need to know about the risks and not to leave my kids in hot cars, but a) I know that and b) the sad stories don't really help.

I don't need to know about a great number of things the news tells me about. I need to know about things that affect my life or that I might be able to help with. (For example, when they were looking for a local woman who had done something fairly horrible - I will skip the details, because you don't need to know them! - having everyone aware just in case they saw her was important. Now that they've captured her, having us know not to keep an eye out, also useful. But do I really care about further coverage of what she did and the court process? NO I DON'T. Unless someone sets up a fund for a particular person...that I would want to know about.)

I also don't need to know about the feel-good humanitarian stories, but I don't mind those because they give something, if only the light pleasure of knowing there's still good in the world. Individual horror stories that can't be changed or addressed, and don't personally affect me other than by existing on the news, however, neither give me anything, nor permit me to give anything.

I wish there were not quite so MANY of them in the local headlines right now. I am tired of being tired. (SIX out of 10 leading stories at the moment. And you could make a case for one more, but I think it's more irrelevant than directly bad...but it wouldn't be IN the news if the woman at the center of the non-news hadn't been at the center of another story in prior years....)

Bleh.

Comments

[ladyvox.livejournal.com]

I hear you.
I have a love/hate relationship with the news.. be it local or national or international news. There's days where I just don't wánt more of it.. it's not making me feel happy or adding anything 'good' to my day, know what I mean? But I do want to keep in touch with what happens as well at the same time.. yet then when I do watch the news, I feel all down about all the crap that's going on in the world. Some days I just like to stay in my own little bubble and just use my energy for the things I cán influence and affect and pretend the rest of the world doesn't exist..

[kyrielle]

Yep, I hear you. And I'd apply that attitude to the local story about the woman they were looking for.

But so much of the news I see doesn't keep me in touch with anything useful. I mean...someone dead of a drug overdose. Someone drowned in a creek whilst being careless. A fatal car accident that's spun into a couple-days story about the people involved. A horrible, horrible shooting (not a mass shooting tho) *3000 miles away*.

This isn't NEWS. It's nothing we need to know. They don't even emphasize the things you should do to avoid these situations! They just try to tug our heartstrings until they fall out.