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From: Tina Manley <tmanley@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:36:34 -0400
I'm afraid I'm addicted.  I listed to NPR all day and BBC all night.  I
NEVER watch TV news except for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

Tina


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Yes, and they all suck!
>
> News organizations today exist essentially to scare you, or at least to
> keep you worried and on edge. Try a week without news. It will improve your
> life. Don’t give me that rubbish about needing to be informed, etc. About
> 99.999 percent of news content concerns sabertooth tigers outside caves
> that are nowhere near where you live, work or vacation. They are not going
> to eat you. They are not going to threaten you. You cannot hear them roar
> if you walk out into your dooryard. Their threat is brought to you by news
> organizations. Newspapers are bad enough because they are being beaten down
> by the internet and they are desperate. Television news is nattily dressed
> excrement. Yes, even the BBC.
>
> A week.
>
> Try it.
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> Certified Neanderthal
>
> On Aug 26, 2014, at 1:34 AM, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Amen!
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > On 26 Aug 14, at 00:43, Tina Manley <tmanley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> BBC does a much better job with the world news than any USA news outlet.
> >
>
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