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07-11-2007, 11:39 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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Alarming studies show that...
Today, Scientists in New York and California finished a 2-month study and found out that watching the news is bad for your health! It can create nausea, stress, needless worrying, bloodlust, inspiration for crime, racism towards Middle-Easterners or goths, and can also make you believe that anything you eat or drink or do or say can be bad for your health. It can especially harm the elderly, who are already very susceptible to paranoia, and don't need to think just breathing air can give them a flesh eating virus. The news also has a habit of exaggerating and flat-out just lying.
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07-11-2007, 11:47 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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I kind of figured watching the news was bad for me.
But I only figured so because I do suffer from paranoia and I don't like to think of all the bad they put on the news.
I've avoided reading the bad stuff though when I do read stuff on Yahoo! and I just don't watch news channels at all.
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07-11-2007, 12:19 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: GA
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I haven't watched that crap for a while now and I am less depressed! I am subjected to it when my husband goes to his folks house otherwise I stay away from it, gleaning news from the internet and such...
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07-11-2007, 12:21 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: GA
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Can you post a link to the article...?
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07-11-2007, 12:30 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
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haha so true! That's why I never watch the news!! >_<
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07-11-2007, 11:38 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Hick Town, Oklahoma
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It wouldn't be so bad if they just threw some upbeat stories into the TV news mix every now and then.
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07-11-2007, 11:59 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: GA
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well, their motto is "if it bleeds, it leads," taking peoples personal trauma's and capitalizing on them -- sick bastards...
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07-12-2007, 01:19 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Washington
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This is news... isn't it?
*irony*
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07-12-2007, 05:29 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: That little dot in the Middle East , Lebanon
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Try living in the Middle East! Bad news reaches you without watching television. I live in Lebanon. We always have bombings, car bombs, political assassinations. Muslim versus Christian riots. The whole Nine Yards. It's a fuckin circus here! On the other hand, try being Goth, American and Catholic. Now, you're just looking at a long string of an eternal dose of daily bullshit.
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07-12-2007, 06:07 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: A doll house
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this is why one should refer to the internet, the BBC doesnt make me paranoid
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07-12-2007, 06:12 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Down the Rabbit Hole
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I hate news channels. I refuse to watch anything that makes any sense now! Except all my movies....like The Boondock Saints! Now they fucking cheer me up!
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07-12-2007, 06:57 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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07-12-2007, 07:02 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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I watch the news on mute for the pretty ladies.
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07-13-2007, 11:12 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: a russian, vienna-educated, living in the Netherlands. beat that.
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It's not only the news as phenomenon it's more TV in general that's bad for you. It feeds you shit and you believe it becuase you have nice pictures to look at and can just relax, not think and still have something put in your brain.
You then have half chewn information that you don't question. Hopefully you do of course, but many don't...which makes ignorant and full of prejuidices.
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07-13-2007, 01:28 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Earth.
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I'd still like a link to the article.
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07-15-2007, 02:48 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Where anarchy reigns
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I think it depends on "how" you watch the news. I work in a place where I hear the on-hour news from the radio; there's always news about bombings in Middle-East, murders and assaults here and there... I just can't be bothered about them anymore. It's become too constant. But shouldn't that, if something, truly be an alarming sign? When you no longer are interested in how many people have died and where?
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07-18-2007, 05:41 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Canada
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I agree 100% with Draconysius, hence the reson why I do not watch the news. I also avoid watching television, commercials really piss me off and aggravate me. I also cannot find many entertaining programs to watch, except for anime and CSI.
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07-18-2007, 05:50 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Flushing, NY
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Funny; I always thought that there was a disconnect between the common citizen, and current events. But, then again, it is within the human condition to empathize, and sensationalism is a powerful tool.
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