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

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Hello,

As the title suggests, the TV in our home is almost always set to GB News. When you go out, we turn it off, but the moment you return, it's back on again. We also have a digital radio in the kitchen that’s constantly tuned to GB News.

I personally don’t watch it all day since I’m usually gaming or working on my PC, but my grandparents do. They’re 82 and 76 years old, and GB News is on non-stop. The 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.

It's now reaching a point where they’re seriously considering moving to another country because of all the negativity surrounding the UK government decisions, pension issues, rising costs, and the general state of affairs. I can't help but think that if they weren’t consuming this much news all day, they might not even be thinking about leaving the UK.

What other channels can they watch that are free or not too much to pay that has NO ads, ads even make them sick. I can't even get them to stop watching it. My grandpa is always hearing it shouting at the TV or spending hours every day doing his crosswords and hearing the TV. 

How to deal with it, what can they do? Based in Redcar and so what can my grandpa do instant of being at home all day

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  • 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.

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    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. 

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  • in reply to Deleted User

    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. 

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