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I stopped watching the news about 6 months after the 2004 elections. Since then I get all of my news and information from either online sources, The Economist (when I can afford it), other magazines and books. Now whenever I catch snippets of the news, it looks flimsy and foreign to me. You are absolutely right, roachboy, it is nothing but entertainment...and a decidedly insidious entertainment at that.
The BBC and PBS' NewsHour being notable exceptions.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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