It seems to me that it is easy to become addicted to the ‘news’ and current events blogs without realizing it. We ‘have’ to watch the news on TV, check out the latest news on the internet, and respond with boiling blood to the latest posting on the social media (even if it has been drug up from some years ago and presented as current).
Inflammatory headlines grip and overwhelm or senses as the mundane, profane, and arcane become monumental. Distortion of truth, lack of facts, and poor writing are the norm.
What we forget, is that each news source–even those most cherished and revered in our minds–exists to exist. All of them exist to sell us something, whether from advertisers or from their associated not-for-profit arm.
Perhaps we should take a step back and allow our senses to reconnect with our good-sense. Run your own survey–is your favorite news source correct any more than the weather report? If not, why pay them much attention?
Again, it is our support that keeps them in business at the level of performance (or lack of performance) that they enjoy. Bad press, for them, is as good as good press. It all gets customers to the product.
Don’t you have something more productive to do?
Just a thought.