I don’t watch network news or television outside of an occasional sports broadcast at all, haven’t for about 20 years now.
I think it is completely unhealthy to have that crap on all day long. When I go to somewhere to eat, and they ask me where I want to sit, and I say “As far away from any television as possible.”
You are definitely more ahead than me, ha. Although I haven’t given in to the smartphone/social media thing yet.
I think the rise of the 24 hour news cycle, smartphones/portable unlimited internet, social media and the visual-screen entertainment glut we are now in is big time bad ju-ju for the culture. Many folks are looking at screens far more than the faces of actual people, even friends and loved ones. It was bad enough with TV at home now we take our dumb screens with us wherever we go.
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