Ever feel like escaping into ignorance? I gotta stop reading the BBC news site

[YankeyMCC]

Story and pix of starvation in India: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7445570.stm

The victims of the recent earthquake in China watch as what's left of their homes is inundated by water from the quake formed lake that was drained: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7445789.stm

And here I sit struggling with someone at work to get a meeting scheduled. :eyes:

[bertha katzenengel]

1. YES. Yes, I do.

We don't usually hear about this stuff because our media doesn't cover it. We're isolationist, except when it comes to invading other countries. We don't care about others' suffering.

If you didn't read BBC, would you know about this? I wouldn't.

[YankeyMCC]

2. Usually it takes a day or two before I see the same stories in US News sites

[succubus.blues]

3. I do.

I struggle whether I want to know and see everything, but then, I think, if I know maybe I can do something, or if not do something, I can inform someone who can. If that makes sense. I guess in the end I'd rather know then not know.