Annoyed by watching News on TV

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I have always hated the news and find it worse than annoying, but now it's more terrible than ever. Basically it has someone on the screen saying "good evening" and then listing all the reasons why it isn't. I don't know how people can watch the news and not be completely suicidal at the end. And *I'm* the person who lacks empathy?

Of course people can tell me ignoring the world's problems won't make them go away, but there's nothing I can really do about it, either. So if I watch the news my flight or fight instincts will be pulsing through my veins, but I can't fight or escape what I'm seeing, so the stress stays with me long after the news is over. It's either ignore it or go insane.

What's really annoying is whenever kids are really interested in something new the (mostly American) news people start going on about how it must be evil and dangerous when they clearly know nothing about what they're reporting. Pokemon, fidget spinners, Animal Crossing, Animal Jam, Emojis, Fortnite... I've seen a whole series of these videos on ChadTronic, and it's just plain stupid the way they do things like play music that sounds like it came out of a horror movie while showing the "evil" thing the kids like.

I don't watch the news on T.V, I don't have T.V just internet so all the news I see is online. I do have a T.V hooked up to a PS3 but I use it for streaming shows/movies and playing video games...not watching channels.

TV News produced by Corporations is scientifically designed to elicit emotions in order to affect our opinions. It will always be annoying, because that is part of its job.
I used to listen to the radio, and I assumed that all the ads for golf clubs, cars, and furniture, etc. had no affect on me, because I never bought those things. Then, I realized that the first part of every ad was written to make me generally discontent, before presenting the product as a panacea. The discontent stayed, and accumulated.

I find news tend to have few effects:

Most of them are completely uninteresting and downright boring. Any topic I'm indifferent to, political debates, human interest stories, most news stories that are mentioned for the umpteenth time. Boring, boring, boring. Yawn.

Then there are the few that ticks me off: Almost always about animals; abuse, neglect, wolf hunts, dogs being put down when they attack due to trash treating them badly, turtles being killed for having the misfortune of being smuggled into this damn country. Those issues make me feel homicidal and sometimes causes me to self harm.

PO'd or bored. No thanks. I don't watch news any more than I have to.

Occasionally things like climate change, the hopeless state of the natural world, half the animals gone in 40 years while our blasted species has doubled, over population, over exploitation of Earth's resources and animals, plastics everywhere...
Of course these issues aren't as important as sports, celeb BS and the other insignificant crap they go on about in the news But reminding me of all the sh** I can't do anything about and how hopeless it is and that it's all too late, it's all going to h377, doesn't help.

I have been all too aware of the situation of animals, environment etc for decades, nothing's getting any better and I have nothing left in me to fight with, so few spoons left after caring so much about it for so long, I just wanna be in my own li'l world and in fiction.

And the real effed up thing is that it would be fairly easy to deal with some of these issues by those in power.

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It's frankly depressing most of the time, but I still watch because I don't want to be ignorant about what's going on in the world.

I'm much like most other posters here about watching the news - I don't, it would annoy me.

Reasons: There's too much scope for bias and propaganda in the mass media, and even with the best will in the world I doubt it's possible to impartially decide what events to broadcast and what events to ignore. Relying exclusively on a single source is known to be unsafe, and the TV news stations seem to have very similar content. As it's a passive experience I'm expected to sit through all the bits that bore me, and most of them do. And once you understand their methods, it gets very tedious with it trying lame hypnosis techniques on me all the time. I hate the way they inflate the importance of what they're saying with carefully-practiced voices and emotion-grabbing music.

The one good thing about social media is that it's providing an alternative way of picking up on what's happening in the world. Facebook friends share bits of information. Of course they can be faked, and I guess it's under less scrutiny than TV news when it comes to making up stories, so it's important not to necessarily believe social media either, but a combination of online news pages such as the BBC and newsfeed shares from folks of different persuasions better avoids the risk of being (mis)led.

This guy wrote a series of spoof news programmes that tend to show up the tricks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3BO6GP9NMY

I am annoyed by the news. Period. I haven't watched TV since the original Star Trek series was new. I listen to the news on NPR and frequently have to talk back to the radio. I do keep track of the news, especially now that things are so crazy in the US, but find that New York Times online gives me as much as I need to know and I have less impulse to yell back at news "in print."

Of course, after I learned about the ramming attack in Toronto last night on Wikipedia I wanted to get answers about why this horrific incident even happened. But not on TV. I'm on the computer too much anyway, and I didn't want to see videos of it on YouTube or anywhere else.

Basically what little I've learned so far is that the suspect is an "incel" and isn't very social. Those are not good things to hear about a killer when you're aspie.

I only like to read news. Can't stand getting it from television...tv is for entertainment.

I much prefer getting my news online. No need to pay for cable or a digital antenna, and I can skip the stuff that doesn't interest me.

If the TV news bothers you so much, either change the channel or turn off the TV. My TV died a few years back, and I didn't have the money to replace it at the time. A few months later I had a little bit more money coming in, but still not enough for a new TV, so I used the extra money to upgrade from $5 a month snail-paced dial-up internet service to cable internet, and ever since then I have used the internet to watch videos, TV, and movies, and see no need to buy a TV anymore. By using the internet for my media watching, I save myself the cost of cable TV, as I only pay for cable internet. If I had a TV I would need to have cable or satellite service, as the mountains surrounding me block out all but one or two TV stations, and those barely come in either. Some time after the upgrade to cable internet I did have to buy a new monitor, as the old one died, but it was worth the expense, as the new one is a little bigger, and has a better picture quality. To save money I bought it on sale.

I use the internet for all sorts of stuff. I get almost all of my news online, I listen to news radio online, as the mountains around me also interfere a lot with my local radio reception. I have headline widgets from many different news sites on my home page which I go thru every day. I look up all kinds of stuff, and have access to all kinds of reference materials. I also use the internet to email relatives both near and far, and have music links that I often listen to. I check out the weather online, and visit forums of interest to me. I also order stuff online for home delivery, which is important, as I have health issues that make it hard for me to get out, and the delivery people put the packages rignt up on my porch, so I don't have to struggle to get them up the porch stairs. There are a number of other benefits I get from the internet.

I really think you would be better off turning off the TV, and getting your news online.

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You need to listen "Spent the day in bed" it's a Morrissey song, maybe you like it (maybe not).
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I hope that's the way of the future now these things are possible at last. It seems more like mature behaviour when people find things out for themselves and select their own entertainment. I've noticed that web pages for the weather forecast usually have a video option for a "weathercast." I guess a lot of people grew up with those as the only option, and don't feel right just looking at a data table, and I expect the face-to-face experience helps NTs to take it in. Bu the fact that the tabular option exists suggests the human-experience addicts aren't eclipsing the rest of us.

What an interesting observation! That NTs need those talking heads. That has always mystified me. (I see the TVs which seem ubiquitous in medical waiting rooms these days.)

With the shocking loss of Anthony Bourdain, the news has become somewhat more difficult to view than usual.

After losing a personality so dedicated to his work, the sentiments distinguishing both quality programming, and all the news junk have become sentiments of extra disappointment lately!