Here's a surprise. I am getting upset at the news lately. ALL the news. Both sides. Guess why?
Because I am getting very tired of news anchors or opinion hosts telling me what I should FEEL!!!
Example: If you don't feel THIS way, you aren't paying attention. If you don't feel THAT way you must be nuts. If you feel any other way than this, you are stupid.
It's making me angry...ALL of it.
NO ONE gets to tell me how to feel. I don't have much in this world anymore, but I do own my own feelings.
I know it's a rant. But I am not going to be told HOW TO FEEL.
I already KNOW how to feel. I feel with my hands...🤪🤣
@cherokeepatti I think 80% of us are smarter than to be influenced by bias. In fact, we listen to the biased people with whom we agree, and the other biases are just filtered out.
@RogueLoner The media did not control this particular segment. It was on Fox, a young blonde woman who was ranting about her conservative ire when she announced that if we DON'T FEEL outraged bout this or that, then something or other. That was when I mentally tuned her out.
I am SO tired of the threats...if you don't feel a certain way, then...whatever. We don't have to take that...from ANYONE.
@Miklee02 I listen to it if there is no ranting. I can listen on my headphones without making a bit of noise to bother my neighbors, and I really do want to know what is going on in the world. But I turn it off the second someone really stupid appears and then drones on and on, or when someone wants to tell me how to FEEL.
@Miklee02 You are probably happier that way. I regard the news on my headphones as background noise...sort of like I regarded the constant yammering from my mother when I was a young teenager...🤣. I can tune it out, but I can absorb what I need or want. This unfortunate new trend is so amped up you know the opinion person had three espressos before hoping up and down in rage before the nation...
I miss the days when the news was read and not dissected. All day long it’s a different host every hour telling you their opinion. I think with everything that has gone this past year I have some kind of stress disorder from the simple fact that I can give 2 shits about most of the top stories aside from the pandemic and now I have a Swiss cheese brained president making decisions that affect my life.