Tired of ebola

[oldandhappy]

Yes it is serious
Yes we need to know what is happening
Yes we need the information on recognition and prevention
Yes we care about each other

AND

After that there still are 23 hours in the day and I wonder if the media knows that there is a world out there with other things happening! I realized I had the TV on for three hours this evening and it was on mute almost the entire time. Got some reading done. This happens more and more to me -- this is not the first time for this experience. Going to go get myself a crank radio for now and for emergencies. Have any of you given up TV? I am close.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. Nah! I watched the Giants win the pennent. No Ebola there!

Edited to add, between missing planes, Bengazi, ISIS and Ebola, you begin to understand that corporate media is bullshit. ALL corporate media! Their job is to catapult the propaganda and they are very good at it. From TV to radio to PBS and NPR, it's all bullshit to manufacture consent. Buy big Pharma's drugs and be afraid! Your chance of getting Ebola is about as likely as me winning the lottery but the corporate media would have you believe that you should not leave your house. Be afraid if you want to but I choose not to believe the bullshit.

[In_The_Wind]

3. Giants are on their way to Texas.

NY News talked about the team receiving information about Ebola.

[oldandhappy]

5. amen!

Well said.

[TorchTheWitch]

2. turn off the tv

I really don't get how people here complain all the time about what the media is saying. Do people here really spend THAT much time watching the news? One thing I love about not having tv programing is that I can pick and chose what media I pay attention to on the internet.

I own a tv, but it's just to I can watch my dvd's. Never in my life paid for tv, so I've never had cable or dish tv or anything like that. I grew up with tv's you had to use a button on the tv itself to change the channel, adjust the volume, only had a handful of channels all free and all of it went to fuzz around midnight. I was out of high school before one channel decided to stay on all night and played old movies from midnight to 6 a.m. There was no such thing as an infomercial. News was Walter Cronkite or Dan Rather that knew how to report without opinion or shouting or shouting over other people and knew how to act like an adult.

The horror I've seen of the Jerry Springer style of news in video clips makes me damn glad I haven't had regular tv for years, and even when I did I only watched the local news mostly for the weather and one or two other programs that I liked especially PBS's Masterpiece Theater or various documentaries.

I read. I do stuff. Never in my life has the tv always been on nor were any of us when we were kids allowed to flop in front of it for hours. I think we were only allowed to watch something like a couple of hours of tv a week except for special things like the Sound of Music, Romeo and Juliet, The Birds, or other classic films and the local news. None of us cared, and most of us never used up our couple of hours. Only one tv in the house, and we had family discussions to decide on what to watch if two things were on at the same time where some wanted to watch one and some wanted the watch the other (no vcr then either).

I will never understand the fascination with the boob tube. Or the cellphone. The internet? Sure, it's like having the biggest library in the world that you can browse in the middle of the night in your underwear without even having to leave the house. I do miss the "library smell" though. It's even more splendid than "lumberyard smell".

[mnhtnbb]

4. Tired of political commercials.

Good grief. We were watching college football Saturday and the Panthers on Sunday.
Unbelievable how many damn political commercials were aired (in NC). The same
damn Tillis ad over and over and over ad nauseum. At least Hagan ran a couple different ones.

[marzipanni]

9. Wouldn't it be like a breath of fresh air

if Citizens United was overturned, and the only exposure candidates would get would be equal radio, newspaper and tv statements and a debate or two. No ads, since attacking an opponent isn't usually informative. Someone suggested that each citizen 18 or over (76.7% of U.S. population according to the 2013 census) give a dollar that would be ~ $242,470,819., and that would be the only funding to broadcast candidates' platforms.

[zanana1]

10. You think that's bad?

I'm a campaign volunteer and I'm tired of political commercials.

[bigwillq]

6. Turn off the news!

Best thing I ever did!

[logosoco]

7. I gave up on TV a long time ago. The internet makes me more connected than tv ever did.

We still watch shows and movies occasionally, using Netflix, so we can make our own choices and avoid commercials.

I feel like i am almost immune to the political ads. Some flyers come in the mail but go straight to the recycle bin. I push buttons on the car radio as needed!

Listening to music and surfing the web is a much more pleasant experience than having whatever the networks want to shove in my face.

There are so many things going on, I don't understand why they can only handle one story at a time.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. It's the crisis du jour. They'll flog it until either

the only people still getting ebola are Africans, whom they don't care much about; or until some other big thing happens, like a missing airplane or a beheading or a scandal involving a politician sending photos of his junk to underage girls.

[abakan]

11. I'm tired of the....

hair on fire bunch. You know the over-reactors who run around like a bunch of chicken littles. Yes it is scary but like you said " its not the only thing going in the world. I am getting tired of all media and the internet, I notice I read less and less everyday because the song remains the same.

[rurallib]

12. fear sells diet products and reverse mortgages

I guess