RANT: People whose window to reality is the media

[GL]

Don't they just plain suck. How many times have I seen the overworked 40 something year old that never gets a chance to go out, but watches like 5 hours of CNN every day only to criticize just about everything and anything in life...like "geez the oil prices are high...stock market's gonna crash...violent crime's on the rise...all those high school kids are carrying guns to school and doing that rave drug...". It just pisses me off...maybe if they actually lived a little and walked further into their community than the beginning of their driveway to get into their car, they'd see that the world is 99.9% GREAT here in North America. It's rather pathetic how they don't see for themselves what the world is like, but instead rely on the media to tell them what it's like.

-GL

 

[cwand]

Sounds like your view may be a little distorted, GL. :Q

 

[GL]

Yeah well I don't have psychotic tow truck drivers stealing things from me...that makes all the difference baby

-GL

 

[Pretender]

It depends on your perspective...maybe where you live 99.9% of things are good, and of cource the news generally reports on drastic changes, which are usually for the worse. Depending on where you live and what you see/watch, things seem differently. There is no one "right" view of North America (or the world) which will give you the entire, overall picture.

 

[desy]

The only bigger distorter of truth than the media is the govt plain and simple. I'll read just about anything and try to watch foreign stuff just to try to make sense of it all.
Sometimes you gotta have faith though that they are trying to give you more than a sound byte.