Do I Have Any Hair Left?

Honestly, this blog was the one I was least looking forward to. The news is so bias and so utterly boring that I can’t even concentrate on what’s going on before I start daydreaming. Personally, for my news I just hit up Yahoo and get the headlines. I guess that supports the fact that the news is migrating to the internet.

            As I was writing this blog, I turned the O’Reilly factor on. As I was trying to write, I found myself tensing up. I didn’t even know which topic was being discussed, but the arguing was making me start to wonder where I left the remote so I could mute it. They pulled a lot of people who are supposed to be experts to tell the viewers why their ideas were right. Because they want you to see only there side, they make anyone who disagrees with them seem like an uneducated idiot and patronized them. They also tended to cut off the person if they started saying things they didn’t agree with. My opinion is let the person talk and let the viewer make up their own opinion. Besides some belligerence and immature arguing, the only positive thing I can say is that these people aren’t tiptoeing around each other. They are blatantly trading insults without a bit of hesitation. Does that make me want to tune in, though? Nope. Again I’m wondering if it would count if I simply mute the TV. Let’s see how long we can talk one topic to death.

            So instead of watching one full show for the second news commentator I watched an hour worth of YouTube videos on Anderson Cooper covering the tsunami in Japan. Again, this is definitely not the more interesting thing to watch on YouTube. I had to keep myself focused because I was quite tempted to click on some interesting spoof videos. Anyway, one video I watched on Anderson Cooper, he was trying to figure out if he was standing too close to the nuclear plant. I think he should have figured that out before he started rolling, but what do I know? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cu5kLQpSA4) At first, I was listening to what he was reporting and learned a little bit about nuclear reactors and how they work.

            All in all, broadcast news is not something I’ll be turning on my TV. It’s all bias, it’s all annoying and it’s all stressful. The longer I watch it, the tighter my chest gets. Thankfully, I am finished this blog because I want to rip my hair out.