I've not watched since the 2020 election and COVID. Well before then, I noticed you could go from one news program to another and they are all covering the same stories at the same time in the same order. When I traveled with work and had access to the news shows from different markets, I could see that this sameness was nationwide. The only differences are the local weather and the local sports. It's all centrally scripted.
I’ve noticed that current events and news are not very popular here. I’ve been following those topics on sites where they are of primary interest and dropping by here to pass the time of day with a friendly soul or two.
I linger on another site that always has a minimum of 5,000 members online at any given time, and I see what people are talking about and I read the conversations & debates there. I learn quite a bit from all sides. I also read my selected sites first thing in the AM. But I can't soak in it 7x24.
I call the news the gloom and doom show , I was sitting here last night playing with my iPad while hubs was watching the news , I wasn’t looking or hearing ……it cause if I’m sitting here and not wanting to watch anything ……. he will listen to what ever on TV through his hearing aids which he operates through is Apple phone Anyway he said I’m turning the tv off ..do you want it left on ? I said no …. but why ? He had watched about 15 mins of the hour long news and it was all GLOOM …young lad killed by a shark in SA yet another motorcyclist death on SA roads making it x number for the year ….very unusual for him to turn the TV off
I've quit watching it, too. I go online to Google news in the morning and read the headlines and that's about it. I lost faith in the TV news broadcasts over the past decade or so, as I heard them all tell the same stories with whatever slant they thought would please their core audience.
I choose what I want to read on my iPad Apple News , I look at a headline and decide if I want to read it latter , if so I can save the story @Andrea Lindsey
We watch it all, HOWEVER, not all of the time. CNN, Weather Channel, local news, national news on tv and on computer. For us, we just want to know what's happening whether it's bad or good. We both love tv and have since we met in 2000.
I watch occasionally to get a feel for what is being fed to the masses. I don't believe a thing they say however.
I like to know what's happening in the world, and you don't get that from the news. Instead, you get propaganda and talking heads.
I have the news on as background much of the day, although I find it anxiety provoking. Life long habit, hard to break, even as a small child my dad always encouraged me to read newspapers, at the time NY had so many and my dad read at least 4 and brought them all home. We listened and discussed the broadcast news, from my earliest memories. Habit really set in during Vietnam, the news became non stop, if not TV, which of course was nothing like what we have now to news radio, on 24/7. When it gets too depressing I watch Nickelodeon Jr. for my grandson's cartoons. Soothing!
We seldom turn on the television in our house, except for when we think we might have bad storms or tornadoes coming through, then we watch the local news. We only have antenna TV, because neither of us would watch enough television to be worth paying for it. Bobby doesn’t like to chat when he is eating, so he turns on the television while he eats instead of us having a conversation; but he turns it off again once he is done eating. So it is not really like actually watching something on TV. I read online for news, listen to videos and podcasts, and read news on social media. I love Twitter news because it is so fast. Something is just happening, and people are posting pictures and information online on twitter, and often, on facebook, too; so I check Twitter a lot for news on what is happening around the world.
Hmmmm…I just realized that a lot are saying watch the news but some are saying read the news. I consume a lot of news but most is read online. TV news drives me up the wall in short order. For me it’s much better to read it at my own pace.
Well, Yvonne, that sure isn't the way we are. We have a dining room and a table in it, but never/ever eat at it. When at home, we eat with the tv on all of the time and we are almost always talking about what we are watching. I'm just not the quiet type at all. We have seen older couples in restaurants that will be eating and hardly say a word to each other. We just can't do that.