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Boycott the news, for a better you.

addictivepersona said:
This morning my mom asked me if I'd heard about Egypt instating a curfew, banning the Internet and banning cell phone usage. I replied, "Why?" and mom was all "I don't know." ...Unless she missed that tidbit of information (which I don't doubt), it just goes to show what most people listen to while watching the news--They don't listen for the information as to "why," they listen for the "who, what, when, and where". Missing a big chunk of information there--If not the most important part.
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Excellent post!

As if the soundbite culture of TV news wasn't bad enough, 80% of viewers now are texting or looking at porn on their tablets and only hear every third word anyway! That's why the majority of Fox News viewers in 2004 thought that we had found WMD's and that the head of Al Qaeda and President of Afghanistan, Saddam Hussein was threatening to wipe out the state of Israel.

While I can't stand the majority of information dissemination in our country, I do love that the proliferation of media devices such as blackberries, iPhones, tablets, etc. puts so much information at our finger tips. I don't want to be told what is important (and ignore why ;)) but rather I want to have the ability to determine what I learn, what I read, what I ignore, etc. and my blackberry allows me to do this from virtually everywhere I go in such an efficient fashion.
 
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I am re-reading Walden, and Thoreau made a quote just for this thread:

"And I am sure that I've never read any memorable news in the newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steam-boat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, -- we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?"
 
Cane2theLeft said:
Excellent post!

As if the soundbite culture of TV news wasn't bad enough, 80% of viewers now are texting or looking at porn on their tablets and only hear every third word anyway! That's why the majority of Fox News viewers in 2004 thought that we had found WMD's and that the head of Al Qaeda and President of Afghanistan, Saddam Hussein was threatening to wipe out the state of Israel.

While I can't stand the majority of information dissemination in our country, I do love that the proliferation of media devices such as blackberries, iPhones, tablets, etc. puts so much information at our finger tips. I don't want to be told what is important (and ignore why ;)) but rather I want to have the ability to determine what I learn, what I read, what I ignore, etc. and my blackberry allows me to do this from virtually everywhere I go in such an efficient fashion.
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I bet that's what they said when the printing press was invented!
 
:)

I've started a list of quotes from the book that is quickly approaching the hundreds-- amazing that I read this book 5 years ago and didn't take a single thing away from it.
 
Changed said:
"And I am sure that I've never read any memorable news in the newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steam-boat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, -- we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?"
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HA! Perfect!

Yeah, most "news" is written by fucking jerkoff wanna-be reporters trying to meet their quota. (I'm just taking a wild guess...)
 
Interesting thread. Glad to know I'm not the only who felt this way. They really just try to make people worry and feel like shit. no wonder the US sucks so bad anymore.
 
Regenesis2 said:
No wonder the US sucks so bad anymore.
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the 'US' is simply a concept, created by somebody you've never seen or will know. Once you abandon the cycle of social reinforcement, you see that the only reality available is the one you create-- then you only have yourself to blame if you fuck it up... :D
 
Simply_Live said:
So... from reading the news, it has the potential to make you surround yourself with negative influences?
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No. What I was saying is that once you don't have the media cramming their agenda down your throat, you're more in control of your happiness-- you are free to surround yourself however you please. You won't notice an extreme change if you stop reading the news, but continue to surround yourself with other negative influences...
 
right on Simply but as far as muddling the truth to keep the world in "order"

(an open letter to the newsmedia, and those who believe the greater good is to control what people think through deception)

i diddnt vote for you, and quite honestly i dont care about you or you or you being assasinated any more than i care about deforestation, nuclear waste, toxification of my Earth's water and air, weather modification, or the amount of electromagnetic frequencies youve exposed my neurosystem to on a daily basis. i diddnt choose to be in your club (these things you call "Nations"), I diddnt choose for the world youre helping support, and as far as im concerned, everything you hide from me is for your benefit at my expense. if you choose to piss in my backyard, I damn well deserve to know the full, unabated, unmitigated truth about it. I am owed this as a sovereign being. To fail to tell me the truth about what youre doing in my world, and to further yet disguise the truth or feed me lies, is an immersion in inequity and a crime.

thats just how i feel about the news media, and the entities it serves. it creates an atmosphere of big brother handling the affairs, while the little people stay along for the ride.

addictivepersona said:
"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."
- Thomas Jefferson
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another goodie: "A man who reads only newspapers is more ignorant than a man who reads nothing at all" - Tommy J

if youre sick of mainstream news, take a gander:

http://thedailybell.com/
http://www.activistpost.com/
http://www.zcommunications.org/
http://dissidentvoice.org/
http://sovereignman.com
http://www.mercola.com/
http://www.inthesetimes.com/
http://educate-yourself.org/
http://killingthebuddha.com/
http://anarchyinyourhead.com/
http://www.physicstoday.org/
http://www.astronomy.com/
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/
http://www.motherearthnews.com/
http://www.naturalnews.com/


now get a bit more mainstream, and compare:
http://www.aljazeera.com/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
http://www.salon.com/
http://www.wired.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
( spiritually prepare yourself for this guy: )
http://www.cnn.com/
 
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