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Newsjock

(11,733 posts) Sat Dec 15, 2012, 12:07 PM Dec 2012

From 2009: Charlie Brooker on TV coverage of mass shootings

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From 2009: Charlie Brooker on TV coverage of mass shootings (Original Post) Newsjock Dec 2012 OP

Stop Watching TV: It Deadens the Soul marias23 Dec 2012 #1

kick and rec barbtries Dec 2012 #2

But we never listen to him zeemike Dec 2012 #3

marias23

(379 posts)

1. Stop Watching TV: It Deadens the Soul

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Sat Dec 15, 2012, 12:12 PM

Dec 2012

Please consider this: Turn your TV off. You don't need to know every detail as it unfolds. The repetition is deadening to the soul.

barbtries

(28,799 posts)

2. kick and rec

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Sat Dec 15, 2012, 12:16 PM

Dec 2012

i haven't been able to turn away yet but everything that the media is doing right now is pretty much on the don't list here.

zeemike

(18,998 posts)

3. But we never listen to him

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:04 PM

Dec 2012

And they never implement this obvious suggestion....it makes me thing they want to create more of this not less.
TV has become an industry of sick fucks who's interist are ratings and money...and they don't care for anything else.

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