The News

The news sucks. Not the actual news. Yes, its always bad news, but that's fine. If something good happens and its newsworthy, that would mean good stuff doesn't happen very often. Good stuff happens all the time. "Man on subway is polite and let others board first, film at 11". Good stuff is common. Planes that crash make the news, not planes that make it safely to their destination. A terrorist attack at a mall is news. Not a regular day of shopping.

So I'm OK with bad news. But I think I'm done with internet news and 24-hour TV news.

The internet news is just all about getting you to click on their links so they can show you a bunch of ads. So they have these enticing headlines to get you to click that end up being nothing nearly as bad as they made it out to be. I saw one that implied an anchorwoman that got really upset and cut off her interview before the person could answer. It turned out she wasn't upset and she cut the person off because she had to go to commercial. Lame. Some are worse than others. I still might watch cbsnews.com. They don't seem to do it that much.

OK - 24 hour TV news. There isn't 24 hours worth of news going on. So it really isn't news. It's giving you some news and then telling you what they think about it. Or worse than that - tell you what you should think about it. They seem to just go nuts about comparisons. Trumps press secretary compared something to Hitler and he got blasted for it in the media.

Then someone compared Trump to Martin Luther King. He got blasted. In fact he got cussed at and actually cut off by the moderator. The guy who said that probably did make a poor comparison, but I can be the judge of that. Tell me what happened and let me come to my own conclusion.

Late night "comedians" do a lot of that, too. Don't try to enlighten me. I'm as enlightened as I'm going to be / want to be.

They say the print media is dying, but I might go back to that exclusively. No tricky things to click on. If there is opinion, its on the editorial page. Or I might start taping the evening news. I can watch that after its over. Then I can skip over the commercials and the fluff piece at the end of the broadcast - I figure 12 minutes tops and I've got all the info I need.

The rest of you wise news people, keep giving the world your opinions if you want. I'll be watching my 12 minutes of news.