Do you keep up with current news?

[cme-dme]

As somebody that lives in the US, avoiding current news is required to keep myself sane. With the sorry state of this country I would want to CTB even more if I kept up with anything happening in the news so I just avoid what I can but that's not always possible with things like my friends telling me about news topics.

 

[DivineSpark]

Yup, I love keeping up with latest news. I am very interested of whats going on around the world.

 

[barely_afloat]

Unfortunately, yes. There are parts of the world that I deeply care about and so I'd like to be informed of what's going on. And with Trump's threats against Canada... I would hate to be left in the dark if something big happens against my country. Besides, like it or not, we hear news from some source or another. I'd rather be able to filter through disinformation and read between the lines rather than blindly believe anything I hear

 

[LivingDeadTGirl]

It's extremely hard to find news you can trust without narrative.

 

[cme-dme]

It's extremely hard to find news you can trust without narrative.

This is a struggle for me. Frankly I don't have the energy to constantly be looking between the lines in everything I read and look past the bias. Plus, if you read enough bias media I think no matter how much you try to look past the it you'll start believing it. I'd rather just organically form my own thoughts and opinions without somebody trying to push a narrative.

 

[avoid]

Yes. I don't care much for what happens outside my bubble but I do enjoy reading about events that interest me. News is more a source of entertainment to me than it is knowledge for me to remember or apply in my life.

My main source of news is the government funded news outlet of my country—they tend to report facts with little to no personal opinions. I'm also subscribed to the TLDR news channels on Youtube that reports news events daily, and several channels that talk about recent technological advances. Sometimes memes also inform me about happenings and I'm like "wtf is this true?" and hastely browse the internet to check out the validity of the meme.

 

[Kalista]

no, as the news is a form of entertainment. it's rare to find unbiased information. fox news is one of the worst ones out there and it's absolutely sad for so many to completely believe what they're saying. they have manipulated/cropped a video and lied about a situation in another country before to serve their purposes, to continue usa propaganda and it was believed to be true without question.

try c-span for non-biased news.
this goes for everyone, make sure to always double/triple/quadruple check information and remember to critically think regardless of how neutral-based a news site is.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

A clear NO here.

I stopped following any kind of news and related stuff around the time I made my account here. That was when I hit rock bottom and was read to kms with my chosen method.

I'Ve not opened a news website or watched any kind of news on TV (and other sources) intentionally. I'm not that much interested in it anyway.

The "biggest" news I only received them indirectly via close relatives and also here. Although I wasn't interested in that stuff at all.

Honestly whether I knew about them or not - none of them had any influence on my personal life whether I would've known about them or not.

My life is much better not being informed about stuff I have absolutely no influence on anyway.

All I want is just a peaceful life - that's it.

 

[Pluto]

 

[NonEssential]

No, I don't need a constant reminder on how crap the world is.

 

[Forveleth]

I do not check the news and assume everything is shit. The few times I do check, everything is indeed, shit, so I do not bother checking often.

 

[OptingOutSmiling]

I probably should, but don't and never have. Sometimes I'm shocked by the bits of information I hear.

 

[roommate]

I know some people who avoid the news for mental benefits.
Personally I don't mind it, even though the news is almost always negative.

 

[Forever Sleep]

More 'no' than 'yes'. I don't watch the news as such although, a brief synopsis is kind of unavoidable on plaforms like YouTube. Overall though, I find it so depressing that I try to avoid it.

 

[Crash_Bash_Dash]

I have tried to avoid them mostly because of said mental benefits but still I hear about them via relatives and friends and see all shitty yellow tabloid headlines when I visit bigger supermarkets. So you can avoid it but still you hear about them. Only way to avoid them entirely could be if you lived as a hermit in middle of the woods or live totally isolated life somehow else.

 

[NoPoint2Life]

I completely understand if someone chooses to avoid the news. It can mess with anyone's head at this point.

But I doomscroll and watch the news anyway. It's like I can't help myself. I want to know if something important happens and it's almost like being that I live in the US and it's completely insane over here like I want to get even more angry, so I can be more angry about life in general

If anything, I am actually over inundated with news because I also love to laugh. I watch late night talk shows for the laughs and at this point half the show is them showing news clips so that they can then make fun of it.

 

[noname223]

It is a strategy of the US administration to overwhelm the people, the institutions and the press so that they have no chance to grasp of what is currently happening.

 

[Namelesa]

I avoid it cus I am just not interested in it and that I don't wanna hear about horrible stuff happening in the world as I already have enough problems to deal with myself and as I can't really do anything, I might as well not hear it.

 

[LivingDeadTGirl]

If I hear about something wild on Real Time with Bill Maher, I'll got do some internet investigating, but I cannot stand to watch any news. Agendas aside, I hate the fake way anchors talk and alter their voice and constantly try to maintain some very unnatural facial expression or smile like an idiot or nod or any other forced, fake, facial expression.

I miss The Colbert Report. That show was genius. Eleventy-billion times smarter than The Daily Show. I mean, I'll take Jon Stewart once a week these days because literally everybody else they've had on there hosting is terrible. At least John can interview well and monolog in a mildly entertaining fashion.

I definitely prefer to read my news though.

 

[Rymrgand]

Yes, I do, for several reasons:

First, I try to keep my routine to keep myself sane. I don't want to lose one of the last elements of a normal life I still have.

Second, I'm going to hear about the news anyway, so I prefer to hear them from the best POV possible. If something happens, I prefer to hear an analysis of a journalist I trust than one from a bigot who thinks I'm trash. The world is horrible, but I like to know that there are still decent people.

Third, I'm still trying to be a decent person myself, and for that I need the best information possible. I don't like the "all the politicians are the same" mentality, I think it's harmful for everyone.

Still, I understand why people don't like to be connected every moment of the day. News are usually depressing, so it makes sense if you disconnect until you recover (or CTB).

 

[Scythe]

I don't keep up. Most of it doesn't concern me, the ones that do, someone else in my vacinity will speak about and I'll know about it.

 

[sadalways]

Against my will. My parents love to put on the news on TV and i'm forced to listen

 

[Grav]

I usually only follow defense or geopoliitical news if I'm up for it.

 

[PeacefulJourney]

Yes, I find it important to understand what's happening in the world, as it helps me engage in conversations.

 

[Prism]

I like to stay informed, but current events are really distressing to me. Maybe I should just try avoiding the news since it's not like I can do anything about all this anyway...

 

[citrusrope]

It doesn't matter either way for me. It's either I get panic from reading and doom-scrolling through the reports of what other nugget of shit has hit the fan so far, or I get panic from not being up to date and engaged with whatever is going on because I hate feeling even more incompetent and useless than I already am and also hate being in the dark about things that will affect me.

Just brings the question of, when is it ever a good time to be alive? Fucking hate the instability of all the politics, state of the world, climate change, etc. etc.

 

[cme-dme]

It doesn't matter either way for me. It's either I get panic from reading and doom-scrolling through the reports of what other nugget of shit has hit the fan so far, or I get panic from not being up to date and engaged with whatever is going on because I hate feeling even more incompetent and useless than I already am and also hate being in the dark about things that will affect me.

Just brings the question of, when is it ever a good time to be alive? Fucking hate the instability of all the politics, state of the world, climate change, etc. etc.

I mean like 50-100 years ago I feel like the world was less busy. Think about how much humanity has changed in the past 100 years. Humans minds were never designed to take in all this information. We have monkey brains that were designed to only have to think about their tribe of people rather than these huge world changing events happening all the time.

 

[citrusrope]

I mean like 50-100 years ago I feel like the world was less busy. Think about how much humanity has changed in the past 100 years. Humans minds were never designed to take in all this information. We have monkey brains that were designed to only have to think about their tribe of people rather than these huge world changing events happening all the time.

That's true, technology isn't "natural" if you think about it... Constantly getting bombarded with negative stimuli probably does something to one's psyche since it's unnatural. But I was more so speaking on the fact that terrible world events have always been a thing so it begs the question of when is it really ever a good time to be alive? News or no news, ultimately I think politics is unavoidable. Even if someone says they do not care for it nor engage in it, it will make its presence known inevitably in some way... So to me I suffer all the same. (I hopeI'm making sense here. But I agree with you, we were never meant to be in-taking this much info at once!)

 

[ForgottenAgain]

I don't watch/read world news. Obviously I feel bad for the horrible things happening in other countries, but if I care about every person and every country, then I'll never have a chance of having a decent life.

I watch TLDR news about the UK since that's where I live and those news can affect my life. I also follow some financial channels so I'm in the loop with news on that regard since I like finances. Other times I manually search for progress on things I care about, like the Renter's Rights legislation.

I don't even watch news of my own home country as it would make me sad, no matter if the news are good or bad. I miss my country. In a lot of ways, it is superior to where I live now but I can't go back since my job doesn't exist there. I hope one day I'll be back, somehow.

 

[Crash_Bash_Dash]

Against my will. My parents love to put on the news on TV and i'm forced to listen

Yeah, almost every time I visit my parents they have the telly on and watch the news and I am very annoyed about it. Sometimes they have to do it twice or even thrice the day... And that's something I honestly don't understand because they report the exact same things of which they already are aware of. They also share some news articles with me very often that I am not interested about but think I care and read.