Do you really listen to the News?
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I've come to realise that the news media will report what they want, when they want. Sometimes it doesn't even matter what is going on, as long as there is a more sensationalized story out there, they will be all over it, again, and again, and again, and again!
Take the death of Anna Nicole for example. I loved Anna Nicole, I really did. She was quite a character, but she was fun to watch, just to see what she would be doing. I'm not going to get into the theatrics (that might be the wrong word) of her life, I admired that she did all she could do despite the flak she got sometimes.
I for one was sorry to hear that she had died, especially since she leaves a baby behind.
The news media, television especially, did an endless array of programming around her life and her death. At first it was interesting because I didn't realise so many people would be involved in a tug-of-war over her body and her baby (and that part is not over). But after a while it began to drone on my last nerves! And don't even get me started about her mother! [I'm calm....I'm calm]
Anyway, with all that overkill about Anna Nicole, there were other things more newsworthy going on in our country and around the world that perhaps didn't get as much focus as it should have. Well, it seemed that way to me!
I listen to the news to keep myself informed on what's going on in the world around me. Some things I'm interested in more than others, some things I zone out if I have no interest in it, and others stay at the forefront of my mind because it made an impact on me.
I wondered to myself if other people experience the news the same way. Do they zone out, change the station or channel or don't watch or read the news at all? I can't say I blame people if they don't listen to the news. After all, there's nothing but sadness some of the times, or make that most of the times.
It would be great if the news were simply treated for what it is, information. To inform the people of the country, state, city or township listening or watching so that they can know what's going on around them. Instead we're regaled with the showmanship that the daily news report have become and it's all about the ratings factor.
So we hear about some things more than we hear about others, even if they aren't really news.
I saw an interesting quiz online today at msnbc.com. It asked "How much do you really know the news?" I took it and found out that I knew more than I thought I did, at least for this week anyway! I was told "You answered 80% of questions correctly." The two questions I got wrong were about news that I had little or no interest in so I must have zoned out when I heard them!
You should take the quiz to see if you know what's going on in the news! Here's the quiz! Link
Take the death of Anna Nicole for example. I loved Anna Nicole, I really did. She was quite a character, but she was fun to watch, just to see what she would be doing. I'm not going to get into the theatrics (that might be the wrong word) of her life, I admired that she did all she could do despite the flak she got sometimes.
I for one was sorry to hear that she had died, especially since she leaves a baby behind.
The news media, television especially, did an endless array of programming around her life and her death. At first it was interesting because I didn't realise so many people would be involved in a tug-of-war over her body and her baby (and that part is not over). But after a while it began to drone on my last nerves! And don't even get me started about her mother! [I'm calm....I'm calm]
Anyway, with all that overkill about Anna Nicole, there were other things more newsworthy going on in our country and around the world that perhaps didn't get as much focus as it should have. Well, it seemed that way to me!
I listen to the news to keep myself informed on what's going on in the world around me. Some things I'm interested in more than others, some things I zone out if I have no interest in it, and others stay at the forefront of my mind because it made an impact on me.
I wondered to myself if other people experience the news the same way. Do they zone out, change the station or channel or don't watch or read the news at all? I can't say I blame people if they don't listen to the news. After all, there's nothing but sadness some of the times, or make that most of the times.
It would be great if the news were simply treated for what it is, information. To inform the people of the country, state, city or township listening or watching so that they can know what's going on around them. Instead we're regaled with the showmanship that the daily news report have become and it's all about the ratings factor.
So we hear about some things more than we hear about others, even if they aren't really news.
I saw an interesting quiz online today at msnbc.com. It asked "How much do you really know the news?" I took it and found out that I knew more than I thought I did, at least for this week anyway! I was told "You answered 80% of questions correctly." The two questions I got wrong were about news that I had little or no interest in so I must have zoned out when I heard them!
You should take the quiz to see if you know what's going on in the news! Here's the quiz! Link
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