Hey guys, this is not hate against MSN specifically, but news organizations in general. I have noticed that there has been a significant uptick in
really bad news in general, not just politically. I come in to my office everyday and usually read MSN's web page like my daily newspaper to catch-up on events. I'm now aware of my mood change after finishing it. Downward, angry, some depression.
In general, I'm a very up-beat kind of guy, I always see the glass as 'half-full' regardless of the circumstances. In short, I always have hope for better days largely because I'm Christian.
I've been thinking about this over the weekend and today first thing, deleted the short-cuts on all my devices to MSN. In addition, I'm no longer looking at serial news casts on U-tube on the latest crisis political or otherwise. I am
not sticking my head in the sand, or am willfully becoming ignorant of what's going on in the world, I'm choosing not to look at it everyday, to start my day off negatively. One thing I'm not ashamed of sharing with the PPOT Brain-trust is while having thick skin, I have a very sensitive heart. And when reading these things; mostly really terrible, I carry it like a heavy weight throughout the day.
Friday for instance there were two main stories where in 1, two men took a guide dog away from a child, tortured and killed it. The other story was about 'parents' who starved their daughter to the brink of death.
That was the breaking point, I only saw the headlines and my day was ruined.
I know these things go on in the world, my strong belief is that they are evil, driven by evil. I don't think that has changed much since the beginning of time. I don't think people today are any worse than people say.......... 75 years ago. It's the
amount of reporting and instant 'feed' to the interwebs supported by advertising dollars where every line is another bait-click to see the the rest of the story. OR when something remotely positive is reported, showing a video - good luck with actually getting that to load with 200 ads popping up and video freezing so another commercial
IN the video can show.
The old saying remains that: "If it bleeds, it leads". Great, but how 'bout something positive? Not gonna happen. We're so conditioned to awful news, never mind if it has any basis in truth, I believe a large part of the population is disappointed when there isn't something awful reported, like they got 'gipped'
TV programming is no better. I have DirecTV and I ran down the list of possible shows to watch: My 600Lb Life, Jeffrey Dalmer killer revealed, I buried him in the backyard, 20/20 investigates killing of parents, I almost got away with it, That D**n dog!, and on and on. Whatever happened to sitcoms? Silly or not, they at least made you laugh.
Just a summary of my thoughts, and how I'm changing my habits for the better.....