political pornography

[ginnyinWI]

Just an idea I picked up while reading yesterday: Trump news is political porn: addictive and ultimately bad for you. At least in my case--if I spend too much time reading it, I get really down.

Something to consider if you find yourself personally affected after reading/watching a lot of Trump news and videos. Time to do something about it.

I am not going to turn off all news, but am going to try to trim it down to major news outlets (WaPo, PBS, NPR) and see if it helps! And not rag on and on to people about him. Playing the media is his game and I'm sick of it.

After a certain point, it can become rather toxic. Right?

[judesedit]

1. I personally have stopped with tv news entirely. I am an avid sirius radio listener though.

Just not those channels anymore. I change the station as soon as the sound of Drumpf comes through. It's like chalk on a blackboard for me. And to have to look at him....not even for a second. It makes me feel sick.

[ginnyinWI]

4. agree!

And the same stories are carried everywhere, so what is the point of seeing the same clip over and over and over just to get each individual take.

Just let me know when the indictments are coming down!

[RazzleCat]

2. I have to do that

if not I just go crazy

[judesedit]

3. There are many good sites online and many good publications also to get your information from

Democratic Underground is the first site of choice for me. With the American tragedy we're facing, I'm on here many times a day. I want to know what's going on that will effect the majority in this country.

[ginnyinWI]

5. and if you want a very good one for news other than Trump--

BBC is a good one. They cover only a bare minimum on Donnie, and focus on things like Syria, other world leaders, and other events around the world. I have it on my local public radio station and also local PBS TV station. Refreshing to not have to wallow in Trump and his Twitter feed.

[unblock]

6. It is indeed an addiction and psychologists are treating it as such

Fakesnews is the biggest pusher of this and their particular delivery mechanism very much feeds the addiction. Rather than simply inform, they generate outrage and indignation but then reward the viewer with confirmation that they're right, e.g., with scripted debates with weak "liberals" where the right-winger always gets the last word and the viewer gets a dopamine reward because their side "won".

How else would you explain why fakesnews viewers want to watch constantly and can't stomach watching any other form of news?

[ginnyinWI]

7. that may be true on the left as well.

Both sides want viewers. It may not be fake, but it may be slanted in such a way that it stirs people up more than some other outlets.

[boston bean]

8. most of the time porn gets things up, not down.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. I pretty much stopped watching cable "Newz" during the 2004 election. For good.

I'm certainly as well informed as ever. I just don't waste a lot of time on talking head bullshit.