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Old 09-21-2009, 06:16 AM   #65
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Originally Posted by PennyPie View Post
A politically active friend of mine berates me because I choose to avoid all current events. (Everything from reality TV to local news to national/world politics)
Getting thru my daily life is hard enough without having to worry about the goings ons of our city, region & world.
Reading, whether learning something or joining the world of a fiction writer is pleasure. It's getting away from the daily existence we find ourselves in. (whatever that daily existence entails)

The only thing I've ever learned from the news, be it paper, TV, radio, etc., is that the sky is falling!

I can die from Swine Flu, Avian Flu, SARS, etc., should I venture outside without a mask. If I dare to travel, they insist I must learn about the latest bombings, terrorist attacks, et al, as if my knowing about them will somehow keep me safe.

Does the media want me safe, or does it just want me frightened? If they really wanted to do something positive, how about a year-long media blitz, every paper, every news case, every reality show, every day... about drunk driving? More people die from that in just one weekend in one metropolitan city than from all the combined diseases in the news over the last 5 years!

I'll get off my soapbox now... think I'll read a good book! Maybe even a bad book! No mater. I'll enjoy it!

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