I enjoy reading the news and knowing what is going on in the world, but how much is too much??

All of the absolute depressing things that go on are just mind boggling to me. Do we really need to know everything??

I feel that so many events, bad events, happen because someone is trying to top the last one who did it. Is this really healthy, to know everything??

The story about the teen shooting at the mall just upsets me so much. How many other teens are going to have to top this one now?? Do you think this is a one and only occurance?? I think, NOT NOW.

I really think there has to be a limit. But how would you do that without everyone screaming "we have a right to know what is going on".

Enough is enough already. And I don't mean that for the posters in this forum. That is directed at the media!!

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After reading your post, I realized something. I rarely watch the news on TV, so most of the news I get right now, I get from Mommysavers! That's where I learned about Anna Nicole Smith's death and Saddam Hussein's assassition, among other things. I just don't watch the news. When I'm in the car, I'm either listening to a music station or talking on a cell phone.

I don't mean to sound ignorant to the world around me. My dh is a news junkie, and he does share things with me. It's just not my thing.

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The news is so depressing, I try not to watch it, except for some times I watch the Morning Show on our local channel. They do the weather and traffic and do a lot of stories that are more "feel good". I don't want the kids to see all the horrible things that are happening, not that they shouldn't know what's going on in the world, but they are all younger than 5.

When I just feel like crying the entire news broadcast, it's time to turn the channel. Plus, most news is just sensationalized and it's their opinion, not necessarily facts. They twist things and hardly ever get it right. I know this from personal experience, when my sister was killed, it was all over the news because her husband killed her and he had just gotten home from Iraq. I had seen a couple of news stories on it and saw it in the papers and they all got everything wrong. There were little pieces of truth, but if all you did was watch the news, you didn't know the real story at all.

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I dont watch the national broadcasters. I watch the local news in the morning for about 10 mintues. I get a CNN daily update on world news at work through email and then I listen to the local news/traffic/weather on the way home in the car.
I cant watcht the way they get things out of propotion and really sensationalize things!

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For the most part I only watch the local news unless something major like Katrina is going on then I'll watch CNN.

I think the media went too far with the Amish schoolhouse shooting. The media had no right to put the cameras on them. I don't know if this is false but I once read that the Amish do not want their pictures being taken and in the time of crisis there was a helicopter circling around them.

I think they need to put things like the mall shooting in the news so people realize how unsafe you can be. For the most part people are naive and don't think about these things until something like this happens.

I've actually gotten so that I can't watch the news for the last few months. I get a bit of news from you ladies and from my husband or mother. I just think that I'm on tragedy overload.

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