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[Deleted member 28740]

Highly recommend listening to Democracy Now show, today. "Fiddler on the roof"

 

[ground crew]

Highly recommend listening to Democracy Now show, today. "Fiddler on the roof"

I do listento them too, but to say it is unbiased would be a mistake. We only see from one perspective and can only tell the story from our perspective.

 

[Ronin]

@Mallaky, yep. I wasn't permitted to express anger for quuite a long in my life, unless it served someone's purpose, or I was just that fed up I just couldn't give a damn one way or the other, so things I can just happily be mad about? Make me feel free, and realize I've been supposed to be there like whole my life. Which is healing. Empowering where not healing.

 

[Deleted member 28740]

to say it is unbiased would be a mistake

Did I say that? Your mistake.

 

[ground crew]

so, i apologize, the thread has wandered off course. I was wondering what others experienced when they watched the news. I get agitation and depression and apathy at some point. Then we were comparing philosophies, and at that point it seemed to be getting partisan. I am not interested in partisan news or blaming. I am sure it concerns both sides of the argument weather we do or don't invade or pay teachers more or less or what ever. That is why they bicker about it. But meanwhile, while we are fighting about pot hole repair and social justice, the news is shaped to control us such that we don't notice the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer and it is the same two parties bouncing the ball back and forth not pushing forward to make our lives better. So, I don't care which side anybody is on. Do others all PTSD'ed out have the same experience with the news, namely, frustration, depression and re trigger events. Both sides weep at the sight of war dead babies and abused puppies, but I experience it deeply and in a troubling way. I avoid it but still hear about it. And it is seldom good.

 

[Deleted member 28740]

Meant to put a wry smilie with that. :banghead::x3::sorry: The world of ugliness and abuse does trigger me. But, I have to be a part of the world, an animal that has capacity to change the world must partake in the changing of the world. IMHO. DN! I can listen to and the topics are discussed in-depth not salacious soundbites. The War and Peace report. I danced a lot on the 20th about Cuba, listening to Cuban music. The saving one whale (that probably could not survive in it's natural world after captivity), not so much of interest. Today's show on DM was about a remarkable man who addresses many of your thoughts.

 

[ground crew]

So my big ah-ha moment with news came after the Aurora theater masacer in colorado a couple of years ago. I had a sleep disturbance, not unusual for me, a d turned on the tv. Graphic coverage for hours and i couldnt look away. I was a babling idiot when a dear friend let me rant for an hour or so about things i could not change and then at a moment of calm, made the most sensible observation ever. You must not watch the news! It helps. But the news still finds me. And i still worry about it, just not as much.

 

[ground crew]

Somebody shot up a theater agin.....