Do You Suffer News Fatigue?

[chiburb]

Maybe it was the deluge of deeply nauseating election stories. Maybe it was the horrifying election results.

Maybe it was the staggering news of the tsunami devastation or the continued uptick of the number of U.S. dead in Iraq. Maybe it was Abu Ghraib or the brutal Fallujah carnage or the obvious and bitter stories of the foregone failure of the search for WMD.

Was it continued tales of America's staggering deficit? Our humiliatingly weakened dollar? Our nation's current miserable standing in the international community? Shots of Bush's motorcade cruising down Pennsylvania Avenue, heading for Nightmare Term II, as people booed and threw eggs and turned their backs in disgust?

Or maybe it was merely the standard postcoital tryst following the holiday consumerist orgy wherein you just want to bury your head in a pile of recycled Pottery Barn catalogs and wait for spring. You think?

Whatever the reason, news fatigue is rampant right now. Do you feel it? Have you succumbed? My media colleagues complain of it and regular readers lament it almost every day: people are, apparently and quite understandably, deathly sick of the media and sick of the news.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/01/21/notes012105.DTL&nl=fix

[mirror wall]

1. I've suffered [been blessed with?] bouts of this in the past.

Say, oh, from about 2000-2003.

Anyway you look at it, the news is horrible.

Although, these days I find myself almost morbidly fixated on knowing as much about what miserable things are happening as I can. I wonder if I'll start slowing down to gawk at car accidents next? Or perhaps develop a taste for horror moives? Beating my own skull in with a brick studded with shards of glass? Hm.

In anycase, I'd say a majority of people I know in real life don't follow the news more closely because it's ****ing depressing and instills feelings of powerlessness. From my observations, I'd say that the article is correct in identifying an uptick of this mindset amoung progressives/democrats directly following the recent election.

[newyawker99]

6. Hi mirror wall!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Hoping4Change]

7. Hi there Mirror Wall

Welcome to DU. Glad you're here. :bounce:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

2. Yes, to an extent.

However, I'd rather see and know the truth than have artificial sunshine beamed up my butt.

[Dez]

3. I'm sick of it all

sick when I hear that the dems confirm Condi Rice, only 2 dems vote against her. Sick of this sick political system which continues to lead us down evil roads, and nobody can do squat about it. The dollar keeps dropping, and it will just get worse. I will not even be able to go to Canada this Summer at this rate, the way the dollar keeps dropping.. And this is just the beginning of shrub's next 4 years. We wont have one ally left at the end of his term, at this rate.

[orpupilofnature57]

4. Nope ,stopped watching during the election's. DU more raw information

[TalkingDog]

5. No, I'm suffering from Liberal Outrage Fatigue (see The Onion) n/t

[umass1993]

8. this is a good thing

we are learning that talk is cheap. Talk means nothing right now.

Why chew out Condi if you are going to vote for her?

At some point, people will actually what to DO something.