Do we get too much news?

[bobmac]

We get it delivered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to our mobiles, ipads, tvs, internet, everywhere.

Do we really need all this stuff?

What is the public interest?

I saw demonstration on the streets of London a few months ago and half the people you saw were TV film crews and photographers.

Sure, some news is "real news" but isn't the rest just rubbish about "celebrities" and what they are wearing these days. Etc etc etc

Do we get too much news and do we need it?

Are the media too powerful?

 

[DCB]

We've moved on a lot since the days of the early TV news bulletins at 6pm and 10pm. I can remember the days before BBC2 when there was shut downs during the day and the good old test card was screened.

IMO the News providers do go too far nowadays. I'm not convinced they do provide impartial, clear, concise information in the way that they should. It is often 'sensationalised' to such an extent that it is almost like a soap opera.

Some of the reporting this week alone, has been of that ilk, looking for sensationalism, unfortunately this may well have led to further outbreaks of trouble elsewhere in the land.

 

[Aztecs27]

We've moved on a lot since the days of the early TV news bulletins at 6pm and 10pm. I can remember the days before BBC2 when there was shut downs during the day and the good old test card was screened.

IMO the News providers do go too far nowadays. I'm not convinced they do provide impartial, clear, concise information in the way that they should. It is often 'sensationalised' to such an extent that it is almost like a soap opera.

Some of the reporting this week alone, has been of that ilk, looking for sensationalism, unfortunately this may well have led to further outbreaks of trouble elsewhere in the land.

I tend to agree.

I can't stand to watch the news for long periods of time. A.)It's too depressing and b.) it's usually sensationalised and OTT.

 

[Region3]

Don't read newspapers and hardly watch any TV.

If it wasn't for coming on here I wouldn't even know about the riots.

 

[CliveW]

You don't need to watch it 24/7.

 

[AuburnWarrior]

You don't need to watch it 24/7.

Correct. At 10pm you turn over to babestation for some, erm, light relief.....

 

[CMAC]

You have to activate it on all these devices........

Here's a crazy idea but it just might work..... Don't activate it, don't watch the news channels, play more golf and buy golf mags not papers

 

[bobmac]

Like Gary, I dont buy newspapers or watch much tv, but it's hard to avoid it.

 

[19thagain]

If we accept that we were tribal in the dark ages, word from other tribes was slow and verbal and therefore accepted, dependent on how fertile one's imagination was.

Then came newspapers and again, always a delay and again the content of the written word was converted dependent on the imagination of the reader.

Then came TV, with images of children dying from hunger, murdered by the IRA or having their arms smashed by gun butts of soldiers in Israel (all of those sights moved me to uncontrolled tears as I could do nothing to stop it) BUT this was thrust into my living room without my imagination being allowed to dumb it down and with no time for me to reach for the off button.

I wonder if we are yet programmed to mentally accept this rape of our mind, offered as news, into our living rooms or do we just turn over/away to avoid it?

 

[Parmo]

this civil unrest was like watching a movie on the news.