News is depressing
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007Today, I made the mistake to read an news article, I stopped halfway through it, it was too depressing.
News serves no purpose to me, I will be informed so what? I don’t go to cocktail party or bar to have meaningless discussions about nothing and everything.
During the day I listen to a classical music radio sadly they have a 10 minutes newscast every hour, I have to turn off the sound to not hear it, but, I also enjoy the silence so I often forgot to turn on the volume again. Finally, I end up listening to this radio station may be 30 or 40 minutes per day, they run too much newscast.
News don’t make me feel good I regret I read this article anyway I m about to start an one hour session of Hatha Yoga (yes, from my Yoga zone DVD set). I will certainly feel more energized and better after that.
I’m no the only one who gave up on news, the man at The Daily Dump Blog did it aswell.
I’ve decided not to read the newspaper on the subway in the morning anymore. Not that I was reading The New York Times of The Wall Street Journal, and the density of the information was burdening me. I usually read AM New York, the bastard child of New York newspapers, whose slogan should read, “It’s so bad, it’s free.” Recently, what has surprisingly gotten to me, is how depressing the news is. Literally, my days are worse for having read about wars, political conflicts, the rising cost of everything everywhere, the perpetually eroding rights of the human, the violence heaped upon violence and the general proliferation of stupidity, all before a single sip of coffee.
By the way, do you think there is a value about being informed in what is going on around the world ?




