Watching Tv

As some of you know, we got rid of TV in our house.  Well, let me clarify, we got rid of cable, or dish, or whatever else there is to pay for.

We are no longer a slave to 8 million channels with nothing on, or  worse yet, crap on that the kids were watching.  So, we killed it.  Yes it is very painful when the Bears are playing, but we cope, we go to the G's house or hubby goes and visits his dad in Ass't living and takes the kids and they watch it there. 

Well, in order for us to watch the bears game, my hubby hooked up the equivalent of rabbit ears to our tv.  We now get a couple of channels.  So last night, I wanted to watch the local news to catch the weather.  I am a big weather Fanatic! 

Now I remember why I hate TV and the news, if you can call what they are reporting, news.  19 minutes into the 'news' and they had not reported one bit of news.  Unless you count someone at some high school getting suspended for posting something on FB they shouldn't have.  HOW IS THAT NEWS????  And I am horribly horribly sorry that a child was killed, but why is that news.  Shouldn't news be something more tangible? 

How bout this, rather than reporting on all of the hell going on every day, how about reporting on the good things that happen.  The good things the people do? 

Could one of the problems be the amount and length of news broadcasts?

  1 hour in the evening.  A lot of stations do a noon news hour and 2 hours in the morning.  Back when we had tv, I would watch the news at bed, then watch it again in the morning, and it would be word for word.  I could almost tell you what story was going to be talked about next. 

Perhaps the problem isn't the news itself, but the amount of time devoted to it.  There simply isn't that much news to report on, so the begin reporting on items that are not news.

So after 30 minutes of 'news' I reported to my husband that the Country of Tunisia was in shambles as the people had revolted against their govt and that 'Baby Doc' had returned to Haiti..A possibly scare move.  None of this was reported on the 'news'.

But we do know that a man accused of killing off his wives is being fully supported by his son and that the city is up in arms because a mayoral candidate left one event to go to another.


I guess one persons news is anothers??  not sure?