An article posted in The Guardian states why news is bad for
you (A newspaper telling you not to read news; no wonder print media is dying).
The reasons include killing creativity (I read the news every day and my jokes
aren’t re-used. Knock knock), wastes time (I do write blog entries about news
stories so valid), makes passive (laziness and poor weather prevents me from
going outside not the constant news stories about murder), inhibits thinking (I
am not dumb. I read the news), increases cognitive errors (That is an outrageous
point that in no way cna eb treu) , news is irrelevant (yet your coworkers find
you dumb if you do not know about it), no explanatory power (I have explained
every issue away), can create toxins in your body (there has to be a pill to counteract
this), and news works like a drug (and not a fund drug like booze or pot [not
that doing drugs is a good thing. Kids stay in school and don’t do drugs unless
you want to be a rapper])
There were two front page stories that I saw that may give credence
to why news is not that important. 1. How to find a sugar daddy? 2. Selfie of
the week. Those being headlines is probably an issue, but it makes it easy to
make fun of. I look forward to more bad news (as in quality not as in murder)
and being to make fun of it.
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