News Consuming In A Healthy Way

There is a great piece on national review about the media and the Trump hysteria.

It is on March 30, 2017 by Heather Wilhelm.  It is titled, It’s the End of the World Again.  Here is the link: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/446245/donald-trump-media-apocalyptic-rhetoric-unhealthy-unsustainable

If you read a lot of the headlines, you might think the world is coming to an end. If you watch enough cable news we will think conspiracies abound.

I’m not saying there aren’t serious problems.  But the media’s response reiterates my theme of the more dominant media bias which is an entertainment and sports bias – not the left and right bias. 

So here are some rules on healthy news consuming.

First only watch television news for breaking news. That is what TV news excels at.  They can warn you about danger and what is happening.

Second, if you were watching more than three hours of cable news than you are probably watching too much.

If you were watching the same channel 3 hours a day, then there might be something wrong with you. It could mean that you are so shakable in your beliefs that you need them to be confirmed by the entertainers on TV.

Not only is that unhealthy, but you ook silly to half of your friends.

And since news is more about entertainment and ratings, you don't get any solutions.

I listen too many times to cable news and I am amazed at how the interviewer has an opinion that interrupts whatever the interviewee is saying.

Granted, there are politicians out there and spokespersons who are trained to steer their message their way. If that message is flawed, then why have them on?