"tscottme" wrote in message
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Turn off the damn TV. When was the last time you saw something important
on
TV news. I mean something where your life would have been materially
different had you not seen it.

You nailed it. Turn off the TV. It's not so much the media's fault, it's the
people who would pay attention to it. I'm not trying to say that news isn't
important, but it's not like you just *have* to know what is going on in
every corner of the world at every moment. In fact, doing so can damage the
psyche. That's because most of the world news is bad news. For most stories
to make the world news circuit, they have *got* to be bad. Watch enough of
it and pretty soon you get the feeling that the whole world is going to
hades on a handtruck.

You know, the world is like a soap opera. Nothing changes that much in two
weeks.

-Trent
PP-ASEL