Why do I listen to the news?

[scaeagles]

So I get in my car a bit before 6:00 this morning to go to work. The news comes on the radio. Top three stories -

1 - Woman arrested after beating her 10 year old son bloody in a Walmart. Turns out she had a previous child abuse conviction where a child FREAKIN' DIED several years earlier, but she was out of prison with custody of this child. What the hell??????

2 - Another woman goes on trial today here in Phoenix for giving birth in a bathroom, drownnig the child, throwing it the trash, deciding she needed a better story, so she took the kid, put her in the turnk of her car, drove to the hospital, and said the baby was born no breathing. Not too hard to find the toilet water in the baby's lungs. Who cares that we have drop off laws in Phoenix where all she had to do was take the kid to a hospital, drop her off, and drive away, no questions asked.

3 - An illegal immigrant was working as a janitor in a local highschool and had placed hidden cameras in the girls locker room. He's going on trial soon, too.

Sometimes this world and the people in it make me freakin' ill.

[Snowflake]

Not that I can think of a better place, but maybe it's time to leave Phoenix? Of course, SF and the Bay Area have their own horror stories.

I rarely listen to the news, I don't watch it on TV much and I parted ways with CNN a long time ago. I look at it more like garbage in garbage out and I don't want it on my head.

[PirateMunkee]

Wow, and people wonder why I keep praying for an asteroid the size of Texas to slam into the Earth.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Sometimes this world and the people in it make me freakin' ill.

Go on a media diet.
No tv news, no radio news, nada.
Just take a break for a little while.
It helps.

[scaeagles]

Perhaps I should.

[Stan4dSteph]

I watch BBC World News. There's usually less of those kind of stories. Still a lot of depressing stuff, but it's more the kind of news we don't get as much from US outlets.

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by PirateMunkee

Wow, and people wonder why I keep praying for an asteroid the size of Texas to slam into the Earth.

I thought you wanted an asteriod to hit Texas...not the size of Texas

[BarTopDancer]

We have drop off laws too. They still find babies in dumpsters

[MouseWife]

I watch the news, I read the stories. It is sickening. It hurts my heart and it puts ugly images into my head, don't like them.

My niece always stops me from reading her things {I'll be talking with her on the phone while reading the news on the internet} and says she just can't hear it. I tell her, I don't enjoy it but I think I do need to know, it does happen.

Maybe it makes me paranoid and I hound my kids to keep their cell phones charged, to make sure eveyone has AAA, ask when they'll be home and to please call {I am not so much trying to know what they are doing just when to expect them home}. I've been ribbed about not going in to 'bad neighborhoods' but hello, I grew up in one and it is still on the news, a lot.

I think, while I don't read every single thing, that it is good to know that things happen. Helps keeps us aware and what to look out for so that as concerned people we can do something, if need be. That we learn when to help and when to run, ourselves.

Like all of the stories about people meeting people over the internet...oh, wait...

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I stopped watching and reading the news years ago. People may call me apathetic but I know my life is better for it. I don't need to know about these things. I'm trying to pay more attention to the election stuff but it's hard, since I find our broken system every bit as depressing as all the other brokenness in this world.

I've realized I'm a glass half-empty person when it comes to human nature, so I do what I can to avoid abject depression.