I don't know what's going on

[NoJo]

I never read the newspaper, or even watch the news on TV. I glance at the headlines in the newsstand, and if all the "quality" national papers (Times, Guardian, Telegraph and Independent) have the same headline, I know something big is going on, like a tsunami or a pope.

But generally I don't really know what's going on. I feel a bit vague and parochial.

Please reassure me, tell me some of you are as ignorant of the news as me.

I actually get most of my news from Literotica posts.

 

[snooper]

I don't know what's going on

We had guessed that.

 

[Guest]

when mom was alive, i would read the paper with her and watch the news at dinner with her too. i felt pretty much in the know.
since then, i havent done much of that besides looking at classifieds fora job.
so...im in your corner joe.

 

[English Lady]

Mostly I don't have a clue.*L*

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

But generally I don't really know what's going on. I feel a bit vague and parochial.

Please reassure me, tell me some of you are as ignorant of the news as me.

I actually get most of my news from Literotica posts.

Surprise, surprise.

Sorry, Joe, would that I could ignore the news, but I'm a junkie. The damn Iraq war put me back on Zoloft.

You've got Vella in your corner and EL claims she doesn't have a clue (probably explains her sunny dispostion). So you may be vague, parochial, and ignorant of the news, but you're in great company.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[impressive]

Please reassure me, tell me some of you are as ignorant of the news as me.

I actually get most of my news from Literotica posts.

That'd be me, too -- except on issues that involve my advocacy work.

 

[Guest]

Surprise, surprise.

Sorry, Joe, would that I could ignore the news, but I'm a junkie. The damn Iraq war put me back on Zoloft.

You've got Vella in your corner and EL claims she doesn't have a clue (probably explains her sunny dispostion). So you may be vague, parochial, and ignorant of the news, but you're in great company.

Rumple Foreskin

i totally understand, Rumpy...
however, i think i lost my verve for the news when one particular broadcasting company actually showed a man being thrown off a bridge in Africa.
i felt so completely...unable to help...devastated that people are willing to take life and throw it away...i just couldnt watch any more.
i do listen to things going on...every now and then something big happens that i have to know about but really...on the whole, i just cant take the slaughter going on...

 

[NoJo]

when mom was alive, i would read the paper with her and watch the news at dinner with her too. i felt pretty much in the know.
since then, i havent done much of that besides looking at classifieds fora job.
so...im in your corner joe.

I know our Prime mimister is Blair, and Gordon Brown handles the money. And Charles married Camilla Parker-Bowles. Bush is American. And a woman called Jordan with big tits has a brown baby. There was something else, but it's gone now....

 

[silversword]

I know our Prime mimister is Blair, and Gordon Brown handles the money. And Charles married Camilla Parker-Bowles. Bush is American. And a woman called Jordan with big tits has a brown baby. There was something else, but it's gone now....

No. I think that just about sums it all up.

 

[oggbashan]

My newspaper bill is large. My wife and I read the papers and discuss some of the stories and the latest columnists.

I'm in the local paper either as a news item or as a correspondent far too often because I am trying to change things in our community and defend it from some of the greater stupidities of our local council. Sometimes I'm on the local radio station as well, quoted every hour on the hour.

Our local newspaper journalists ring me at home several times a week and the local radio station does the same about once a month. How sad is that?

Og

 

[cheerful_deviant]

I read the news daily, like Rump, I'm a bit of a news junkie.

But lately it's all been so depressing, I really must stop. Some of the stories of late are so disturbing that I stay awake at night thinking about them. Life in a vacuum is so much happier. As they say, ignorance is bliss.

 

[LadyTemptress]

I watch a lot of news throughout the day. I like to in the know.

 

[sophia jane]

I'm with you in ignorance Joe. I get alot of my news from lit, too. And from the little blurbs on my yahoo home page.

SJ

 

[NoJo]

Like Vella, I used to read the news with my dad, who was an ex journalist, and would read two or three newspapers a day, as well as doing the crosswords.

Then I worked for ten years in a financial trading floor, where CNN was showing on giant LCD screens literally 24/7 right in my field of vision, whenever I glanced up from my three computer monitors.

I saw the first plane crash into the WTC almost as it happened.

Starting from that footage of the plane crash, I spent the next *three days non-stop* in that trading room, (I was a technologist responsible for the trading systems) with the events unfolding continuously on those screens around me.

Two of my work colleagues were killed in the WTC attack, and another literally ran for his life down Maiden Lane from the hurtling debris.

Through the lack of sleep and general stress of those three days, I became sick forever of seeing the "News".

Like a few people I know, I ended up becoming a current affairs ostrich, and I now seem able only to focus on the very local events or the very broad sweeps of history in order to make sense of the world.

The eruption of lies and paranoia engendered by that plane crash have turned me forever from the news.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I don't watch the news or read the papers either. I watched the news during the election but the frustration engendered by the lies imposed on the American public by our adminstration... the increasing hostility of the public toward gays and liberals... I just don't want to know. I'm sure I'll get back to watching the news. But right now, I just don't need the anger in my life. I know what's going on in the world but in order to have some kind of inner peace, I have to maintain my distance. Dumb and happy. That's me.

 

[NoJo]

Dumb and happy. That's me.

That's you and your friend in the last av.

 

[Sabledrake]

I just generally don't care what's going on. I get the paper but read it mostly for the local events and funnies. Most of my news and current events, I get from The Daily Show and Leno's opening monologue.

-- Sabledrake

 

[OhMissScarlett]

My SO reads all the papers while he's at work everyday, so I usually watch the afternoon news just so I can discuss it with him over dinner. We don't have much in common in the way of music, art, books or movies, but we're never more united than when we're ranting about the president together.

I used to watch the evening news and CNN all the time, but my son is getting old enough now that he understands what they're talking about, so I quit watching it around him. The situation of the world isn't exactly PG viewing.

 

[NoJo]

You should let him watch the "final item", about the donkey that can count up to ten, or the guy who built his house out of bottle tops. He needs to know how the world is.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

You should let him watch the "final item", about the donkey that can count up to ten, or the guy who built his house out of bottle tops. He needs to know how the world is.

What! Fear Factor isn't indicitive of how the world really is?

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I used to watch it a lot and read a lot of papers, but after the invasion of Iraq and the last election, I'm just too exhausted and wiped out to care.

And then, it just seems like the political bias is so obvious now, and the tone of debate has been nothing but hysterical shouting and posing for some years now. The White House has done a fantastic job of controlling the press and keeping them in their pockets, and so all you get is what they want you to hear anyhow.

I check the headlines on Yahoo when I log on, and I still get the paper, but it just all seems like bullshit to me now.

 

[Op_Cit]

The funny thing is I stopped getting the paper more than ten years ago before the politics and all started getting really whacky. I stopped because the writing was crap: constant stream of front page stories without all the "W"s that journalism is supposed to be about, plus the gramatical/spelling errors that were inexcusable...

You are in a good place. Better to not watch the news and know that you don't know what's going on in the world than watch it and think you do.

You really don't want to know though. Seriously. These aren't the droids you're after... he can go about his business... move along.

 

[carsonshepherd]

What! Fear Factor isn't indicitive of how the world really is?

That show singlehandedly made me stop watching TV.

 

[NoJo]

I bet your b/f was pleased.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I bet your b/f was pleased.

yes, now he can watch Law and Order to his heart's content without battling me for the remote.