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Anybody that watches any news on tv cannot be saved. They will never understand anything that happens on this planet.

I was an avid news watcher. Glad I got over that phase

I’m surrounded by people who watch local news, which is 99% “a criminal did something bad…but then our plucky boys in blue CAUGHT HIM!” It’s not enough that every other movie or TV show is about cops (or superheroes or cowboys or people in the space navy, who are all also cops). CNN / MSNBC / Fox News would honestly be an upgrade for people who still consume local news.

More often its, ‘a criminal did something bad… we haven’t caught him yet, so stay extremely vigilant, 100% of the time; you could be the one that finds him!’ So people create the fantasy of being a vigilante and install security cameras all around their house in the suburbs.

I signed up for nextdoor because I’d heard it was a good place for fashwatching, and I left it after like a month because I couldn’t handle how bad it really was. There would be videos of petty theft by kids, and the comments would be about how those children and their parents need to be put in a cage

I signed up for nextdoor because I’d heard it was a good place for fashwatching, and I left it after like a month because I couldn’t handle how bad it really was.

yeah, you can watch the fash – but who wants to know that everyone in their neighborhood is a fashy shitter?

or cowboys… who are all also cops

This is slander against RDR & Django.

A few months ago I tried watching NRK news on the TV. There was some interesting stuff, but there was also a lot of stuff where I said, “…Why exactly are you showing me this? I don’t think you’re telling the whole story here, anyways.”

TV news can be a good way to hear about recent events, but it isn’t always a good way to be informed about them. This is true anywhere, but especially in the United Occupation Zones of America — where the TV news is among the world’s most laughably bad, and most of the residents don’t even realize its quality.

I have moved several times in my life. Local news is a good way to understand the dominant mindset and priorities of an area; annual festivals, long-standing family restaurants, concerts happening. Stuff like that is what the local news should be for. Too bad it’s sprinkled in with the crime and politics segments which keep people “excited” to watch the news.

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