NOT NEWS

As I starting to get more into the swing of things these days I am starting to remember how much the news pisses me off.

It is common for me at multiple times of the day to stop and take a couple of minutes to peruse the headlines to see what is going on in the world.

When and how often I do this all depends on the flow and craziness of my day and when the extra few minutes come to me. It gives me a minute to escape from the task at hand, decompressed from whatever meeting or discussion I have just had, or to distract me while having my morning start up coffee and sometimes when I end up eating my lunch in front of the computer.

But, it's not really fucking news anymore. Not in the purist sense of the word anyway. Its fucking opinion.

If I wanted to know what random people thought about Obama's tie, the Mass. Special Election, or the stimulus package, etc. I would walk out into the fucking street and start asking random people... But you know what? I don't. Why? Cause its not fucking news.

Not fucking news is the majority of news.

Mel Gibson on Tiger: "I feel bad for the guy" - Oh good. The bigot has sympathy for the sex addict.. good deal. Glad I know that, that's important to my fucking life...

I don't need someone to take a far fetched possibility and fucking run with it for entertainment.. Can the additives in your sports drink cause your daughters to be abstinence-avoiding sluts and your sons to sprout DD breasts?

STFU.

Every story has a comment section or some poll associated with it. I guess being anonymous is empowering to people to voice their opinion whether or not it is based on sound judgement or regurgitated bullshit..

I am thinking I might do another 30-day experiment related to this. I did a 30-day boycott of the TV a year or so ago.. it was a pretty positive experience.

I think maybe I might do a month long boycott of the news. TV news, Internet news, anything related to what is considered news... I guess even the Daily Show and Colbert would be included. I am thinking it will end up being easier said than done.

Instead I might actually read opinions.. opinions that are actually stated as opinions, not trying to pass themselves off as news.. i.e. blogs.

I did that whole call it what it is idea..