Thursday Two Questions Meme - Newsworthy
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Since I have been without a television for months, I get my news by way of the internet. My home page is Yahoo. When I open my browser the news is staring me in the face which I enjoy because I like to know what's going on in the world.
I think for the past week or so when I've opened my browser I've been inundated with celebrity news. One day the headlines showed two actresses wearing the same dress at a Hollywood premier, another day showed Lindsay Lohan doing something or other and yet another day showed Britney Spears with a new career. Today, I found out that Jennifer Anniston is moving in with her beau. My reaction to all of this - who gives a crap! Sorry for the language but I really am baffled as to why Yahoo would think that all this celebrity "news" is really newsworthy.
In the grand scheme of things with all the important issues going on around the world do we really care about what Jennifer Anniston does? Nothing against her but her life is really not that important to me. Give me real news, something that concerns all of us.
My two questions this week are:
1. Do you get your news online or on TV?
2. What is newsworthy to you?
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Comments
Worth to become news - well, nowadays that's a difficult question. Just saw the interview with a burned woman. Important, probably worth as well.
However, made me feel better to know that I will continue not to watch TV.
2)Newsworthy, like you, is something to re-unite people and things that effect us, our future, our next generations..
2. I cannot stand the frivolous news and views either...today I heard of some stupid people over in Europe having a food fight...and people starving everywhere...shook my head over that one...seems they've been doing it since the 1940's! Its a yearly food wastage event...IMHO!!
2- The things that are newsworthy to me are people helping others, building a community, and heroes. I know there are so many sad things (I don't mind amber alerts.)
2. newsworthy to me are better role modeling in so many aspects of life.
I want to know what's going on in the world and read about real people (as opposed to the celebrities).
1) I seldom get to watch tv. I listen to the radio NEWS while driving - the only time I can't do anything else but listen, look and drive.
2) You said it.
newsworthy to me are efforts being done to alleviate human suffering, alerts on coming weather disturbances, heroic deeds by ordinary people.
Even though it sometimes makes me want to scream, I follow politics pretty closely. I have about a 30-minute commute, so I always use the time to listen to news radio on Sirius.
News worthy to me these days are people doing good in their community. Too much bad news or irrelevant news dominate the airwaves today.
Aloha!