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In reply to the discussion: Checking in from Surfside Rescue [View all]Hulk
(6,699 posts)33. I give up TV and all news outlets.
It's a choice I've made. I feel as though all the cable networks are profiting off this tragedy, as they do with EVERY tragedy. I can't take it anymore. Parasites.
I'll watch NPR Newshour on YouTube, and do some internet reading...but I am just sick and very tired of a steady dose of misinformation - mixed with actual fact, laden with feigned sympathy, rehashed 24/7 to keep viewers licking at the trough for ratings. Enough.
I've decided to return to reading. Mostly for pleasure, often for self fulfillment, and occasionally biographical and historical. Life is too short to spend time swirling in the sewage of corporate manipulation any longer.
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"I wouldn't lose any sleep over living in a high rise building." - not even in the other high rise..
PoliticAverse
Jul 2021
#6
Good one. I edited it and changed the foxnews story link to one at abcnews. n/t
PoliticAverse
Jul 2021
#15
Thank you for helping us all out with much needed judgment, concern, and expert explanations.
ancianita
Jul 2021
#8
You are one of the many quiet heroes using your skills to help people - thank you!!
waterwatcher123
Jul 2021
#18