I Hate Watching the News

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Watching, reading, or sometimes even hearing about the news. Some stories can send me into a funk for days. I had a boyfriend that wanted to talk about current events all the time, so I started reading the news a lot. I was WAY happier...

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Written on July 9th, 2009
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I Stopped Watching It Years Ago...

...what I need to know my sister tells me days in advance before it hits the papers or TV.
I find it the most depressing thing to watch. It actually makes me cry most of the time. I dont care that I don't know about certain political...

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Written on January 5th, 2009
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FunnyLookingCorpse

Desensitize Us And Its Still Scary

THE NEWS ON TV THESE DAYS is like reading a bad article while being tricked into seeing a scary movie. The news just keeps scaring us, but I know that it is not worth it to get depressed over these things. Of course, the news shares...

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Written on January 31st, 2013
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How I Get The "news"

The way I keep current is through the Yahoo! homepage and the "In the news" section on Wikipedia. Aside from that, I only watch one TV news program, a local channel that does, for lack of a better word, pop-culture news...

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Written on December 1st, 2009
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QueenOfHearts

Oh, I Guess I Already Joined This Group..

but I never wrote my story... I was just reminded how much I hate the news again, tonight. It's just all way too overwhelming... My state is getting worse and worse. It's all just too depressing.. I'm just too sensitive to watch anymore...

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Written on November 5th, 2009
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"Even working in the studio I couldn't tell you what was in the news because you learn too block it out or become thick skined towards human suffering..."
"However, we should not know about these mass murders in schools because they have only proven to promote more of those kinds of events and kids will still be shaped to single people out for as long as they watch TV and are taught wrongly by their parents meaning that it does not carry strong anti - bullying influence ...."

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