Does anyone else find the news overwhelming ?
Yes, so I now completely avoid it
Me too which is a major contrast to how i was a few years ago when I would read the BBC news site several times a day.
if it's part of a wider world that is outside of my immediate control, then I'd rather live in ignorant bliss
Yep. I like my bubble.
I don't know... I don't watch them. I mean general news. But only the ones that are related to my interest. The general news I watched maybe few times in my life (to stop being called a cave woman) and it was kind of boring or I didn't really understand them. For me these are just talking heads in the tv.
Does anyone else find the news overwhelming ?
Nah, it is largely stuff that has happened in some shape or form before and we survived it so chances are it will just be more of the same.
What does get to me sometimes is the oversharing of opinions on news on social media. There are so many idiots and a-holes out there shouting their opinions in spite of an abundance of evidence to disprove them. Most of it is rage bait to get you commenting and thus earning them money through the interactions algorythms.
I also find almost every media source has some bias (often a huge amount) so if something interests me then I will look at the subject from a wide range of news sources and try to piece together an estimation of the truth from all those pieces.
The current situation in the middle east has so many blackouts on reporting that it makes it hard to understand what is really happening for example. The "allies" don't want reports of strikes against them or loss of planes etc so media outlets are often penalised if they report anything ofther than the official line.
As for the USA that is just a complete bunfight now - I doubt there is much chance of getting accurate reporting from any media outlet there.
So in the end I switch it off and just dip in from time to time, limit the exposure when I do and remember what history has taught us about these things.
No I don't, I'm a bit of a news hound ans watch and read quite a bit of it. I don't like not being informed about whats going on in the world.
Yes. I have reduced my TV consumption of news programmes because much of it is too distressing. I trend to watch some news programmes but look away and mute the sound until the programme moves onto another topic.
i get most of my news now from trusted sources online, and I usually read several different sources of the one story, so as to get a more balanced sense of the truth, without being influenced by just one political opinion.
The TV news is sensationalised and focused on emotions. This is why it has more impact.
I just stick to print and online non-video info from reliable sources. Some stories are hard to take though. I try not to imagine it too much
I know lots of terrible things happen and people suffer, but I don't need to see it all.
Yes, so I now completely avoid it. I noticed during COVID that it was too much, but I tried to keep up because rules and advice changed so much then. But it just gets more and more depressing, with people being just more horrible each day. So I don't watch or read it anymore, if it's part of a wider world that is outside of my immediate control, then I'd rather live in ignorant bliss.
Haha, yeah. Especially since here in the States you have to be careful about which news outlets you are tuning into.
If you ask me all the news is all just the celebrity gossip rubbish! And so called reality shows! Now I’m only using the tv for games and watching spongebob (and an ad for whoever the thundermans are every 20mins lol)
Yep, I don't even have a TV and never listen or read any news. It's all lies anyway and I am sick of lies. The only new I hear is from people telling me or me hearing it through others online. I guess a kind of hiding from the world.
Yes.
We have taken to watching the news on mute, plus with the subtitles on.
Not least of which, as in recent months, there is an ever-extending cast of characters regularly featuring on the news - whose voices our household genuinely no longer care to hear speak.
Yep! I find practically everything overwhelming
