The "News" and TV in general.........

pclancy wrote:

Great thread, nice to see not everyone gets sucked into the crap thats on all the time. I got rid of sky a few months back and have made a serious effort to cut TV out of my life alltogether. Getting a laptop and searching for other things to do have done wonders. The news disgusts me usually, Sky/CNN/FOX/BBC (not always the beeb but sometimes they're bad) focus on irrelevant stupid muck that people without any intelligence seem to thrive on. Headlines focusing on a celebrity's new haircut or a polotician found to have smoked a doob 20 years ago take precendance over worldwide issues such as disasters, coups, science, technology or other issues. Spend half an hour browisng BBC news worldwide, indymedia or google news websites and you'll be amazed at the stuff thats going on in the world that nobody gets told on tv news....who gives a flying f*** if victoria beckham is now a size -200, shouldnt we be told something usefull at 6.1?

I think people have just become sucked in over the years. Work, Dinner, TV, Bed is so many people's lives and its terrifying! You need to chose your own entertainment not be spoon fed some corporate sponsered crap that mr murdock decides you should know....dont get me started on Big Brother, watching people sleep or eat means theres something seriously missing in your own life!

Well said. There are things I have read on the internet (scientific discoveries, stuff about planets/space and politics) that I say to people "Oh! Have you heard about [so and so]!? It's amazing." and they'd just look at me like I've made this up, or it's some conspiracy theory, and since it wasn't on Sky News, it wasn't true. There's so much one can learn from the net.

But I've been wanting to seriously convince my mother & sister to get rid of our Sky Digital box, subscription, television and satellite. My mother is meant to be writing books (which she used to do....4 years ago) but has been wasting time watching America's Next Top Model, Most Haunted, "E" Channel (which is the spawn of satan). It's worrying to see her and my sis just staring at the TV set like vegetables. I'd approach her and say something like "Do you not actually realize how degrading this is to your mind?" or "Mam, this stuff will melt your mind." but she'd just say "It's my only vice." as if it's all she ****ing lives for. Ergo, she lacks any creative muse, and has given up the whole thing. How would I go about convincing her? I'm sure that paying less money per month is a good, but the drop back down to reality might be tough. Still, needs to be done at this point.

And to whoever called me a crusty hippy. We don't need ads in our face all the time to sustain the internet. End, of, argument.