Watching & listening to the News all day bad for your health!

Why?

She's set in her ways and so she ends up not muting the TV as you still can hear it on the radio in the kitchen and the kitchen is only next door :P 

She it double-double time, My grandpa agrees with me also and he's sick and tired to the point that he might end up taking a walk and going outside the house however channel never changes. 

Hope the programs are good! very set in her ways and she always ends up saying not gonna be watching it that long as I can't stand sitting down too long 

She even likes Jacob Rees Mogg Xd 

They dislike the ads so much on other channels that they are forced not to watch it, then again, the woman of the house always has her ways set. I'm not always watching it however when I go down stairs they or she end up talking about the bad news and what's going on and I'm like here we go again. 

The news is a depressing thing to watch or read at any time, but all day must be overwhelming. I try to keep busy during the day with my work and hobbies; I rarely watch the news as it is always reporting things I don't want to hear.

Unfortunately I think news and adverts will occur on tv, could they switch the channel when these happen and then switch back after a couple of minutes?

Either that or they mute the tv. I have fond memories of my gran doing just that, if something or someone she disliked came on she would mute the sound and give us a huge lecture on this person we had never heard of before.

I hope you can find a solution.

I agree with you about the human psyche. When the war in Ukraine began, I couldn’t get the images and thoughts of suffering people and animals out of my head. Now, it feels as if I’m immunised against the lasting effects of watching horrific events, but that makes me feel guilty. I now try to do what is in my power to help, which isn’t much, and leave the rest aside. I wish there was more quality news available, and I wish that politicians wouldn’t put on a performance of meaningless rhetoric and even lies. This is happening within all political positions and it makes for boring viewing and a less informed voter. I would far rather they engage in debating the problems and solutions. 

Brazil must be a fascinating and beautiful country, but dangerous and ugly in places. I can’t imagine wanting to watch CCTV footage of somebody being crushed by bricks, never mind from different angles. I hope the UK and Ireland doesn’t go down that route, though already we are seeing more reality crime and hospital TV which often has images from phones or CCTV.

ArchaeC said:

over the last couple of years it has been hard to stomach, with reports showing and describing graphic details of the dead and war wounded, coupled with extreme political positions around the world.

My local TV new channel (Globo TV) here in Brazil delights in showing what CCTV footage they can get of car crashes, shootings, muggings and accidents with little or no censorship - all through the day,

Seeing some poor motorcyclist crushed under a toppled truckload of bricks from multiple dashcams is not what I want to see, but so many shops / bars have it playing during the day that it is hard to get away from.

People seem quite desensitised to it now and it almost seems to have moved the level of what is acceptable, making conventional news just less interesting to them.

The human psyche is a strange thing when seen from a macro point of view.

The news on most of the channels at the moment is depressing, and that goes for paid or free channels. You said your grandparents are listening to GB News on the radio, as well as the TV. That  would suggest that they like the content. If they have a BBC licence, they could watch BBC News 24 instead. It would be more objective in its reporting and might give your grandparents a wider perspective. I don’t know of other 24 hour news channels and although Channel 4 explores the news stories in depths, there would be advertisements. Lots of people watch the news and shout at it, but they mightn’t want to stop watching it and perhaps your grandparents are happy in their choice of channel, if not happy over the content. You could always ask them to switch the channel to something you want to see. Perhaps they wouldn’t like that but if you live in the same home, it wouldn’t be unreasonable for you to have a choice sometimes. Do you have a local newspaper, or free paper in your area? The free papers can be good for see what’s on and you could suggest that they or all of you go to something mentioned, eg garden centre, park, amateur dramatic production …

I used to switch between watching BBC, ITV and Channel 4, plus a few foreign channels for the news, but over the last couple of years it has been hard to stomach, with reports showing and describing graphic details of the dead and war wounded, coupled with extreme political positions around the world. Compared to some foreign channels, UK news channels have a limited choice of quality news stories that affect people around the world. Now I restrict most of my news intake to selective apps, websites and online newspapers, skimming over the bits that are too much to bear. 

GB news is a fairly new channel, it's not been around for nearly as long as the other news channels. I think some people like  things like GB news as it confirms their biases? My personal bias is against anything that has Jacob Rees Mogg on it, a man so ridiculous PG Wodehouse couldn't have made him up!

I watch TV on the channel 4 app (All4) and pay £3.99 a month to not have ads

I don't watch news at all.and hate ads too.

Empire said:

he issue is that most of the news is overwhelmingly negative bad news after bad news, which I feel can be harmful to mental well-being, causing unnecessary stress.

All the elderly family members I have known have been much the same although now there is a profusion of news channels now so they find it easier to find one that tells them what they want to hear.

Look at the newspapers most popular with the elderly (The Daily Mail is by far their toilet paper of choice) - it is almost all negative, scaremongering and depressing. This is because it is what they want to read.

Why? I can only guess. Perhaps their combined life experience tells them that this is the reality? Perhaps their lack of participation is so much of society makes them think it will fail without them and it is somehow satisfying to see this is the case.

Empire said:

How to deal with it

You could ask them to reduce it but I suspect they will be very set in their ways and entitled to their priviledge so doubt they will take much notice.

I suspect you will just have to accept your position at the bottom of the pecking order in the house and put up with it unfortunately.

Speak to your parents, suggest alternatives and find some studies that back up your theory if you want to - this may be the best way to get them on side.

For you, steer clear of it and preserve your own mental health.