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I watch the news every morning before work, and whatever I want more information on, I read during my commute.

There was another school shooting

A tractor trailer cut off a car on 270 and caused an 18 car pile up

A woman in FL gouged out her mother's eyes with glass shards

Not to mention yet another Nor'easter on the first day of spring

What's happening in your area?

"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton

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... more package bombs in Austin... The president and a porn star .... Florida bridges collapsing...

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A predator luring school children loitering around, a man shooting his wife and kidnapping his kids in downtown Chicago and -2 C in Spring...

It's so sad ... it's such a shock that these things keep happening, all over the nation.

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I try not to read or listen to the news. Only quick glance. Too many negative or depressing stories.

*in her very best talking head voice*

In other news, folks are collecting for charities and others in need. Volunteers are rocking infants, chatting with the homebound, and caring for shelter animals. Some kids took their first steps, an unknown number collected their first rewards from The Tooth Fairy, and a few got from slumber to school without tantrums, tribulations, or time-outs.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao-Tzu

Yep, forgot about those.

The collapse of the bridge got to me. They employed "new engineering," go figure.

@MFJohnston wrote:

... more package bombs in Austin... The president and a porn star .... Florida bridges collapsing...

"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton

I used to do this before I started watching it in the morning. I think I'm going back to that.

@7star wrote:

I try not to read or listen to the news. Only quick glance. Too many negative or depressing stories.

"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton

I listen to All Things Considered on NPR every evening. Getting balanced analysis and extended coverage of each story, with time for uplifting news, makes my day complete. No sensationalism there, but plenty of coverage of all of the stories, good and bad, that have been cited here.

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Try to look on the bright side. Death by guns has been going down for the past 2 decades. We can only hope that the trend continues.

I watch the news every morning and we are having school threats daily, many car accidents due to falling trees and mudslides which we get after fires, and more crapola with the President and his firings, his son getting divorced, small planes going down. The NRA fighting changing the age of 18 to 21 for purchasing of guns.
The bad news always makes the headlines, the good news goes unheard.

Live consciously....

Kind of reminds me of an old song from the 80's sung by Anne Murray called "A Little Good News". I'm not going to put all the lyrics here but I think the first 4 stanzas should suffice:

I rolled out this morning
Kids had the mornin' news show on
Bryant Gumbel was talkin' 'bout the fighting in Lebanon
Some senator was squawkin' 'bout the bad economy
It's gonna get worse you see, we need a change in policy

There's a local paper rolled up in a rubber band
One more sad story's one more than I can stand
Just once how I'd like to see the headline say
"Not much to print today, can't find nothin' bad to say", because

Nobody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town
Nobody OD'ed, nobody burned a single buildin' down
Nobody fired a shot in anger, nobody had to die in vain
We sure could use a little good news today

I'll come home this evenin'
I'll bet that the news will be the same
Somebody takes a hostage, somebody steals a plane
How I want to hear the anchor man talk about a county fair
And how we cleaned up the air, how everybody learned to care
Whoa, tell me

What's done is done. An egg cracked cannot be cured.
There are 3 kinds of lies. Lies, Damn lies, and statistics.

NPR is always good! Their news, like you said is very objective and unbiased.

@walesmaven wrote:

I listen to All Things Considered on NPR every evening. Getting balanced analysis and extended coverage of each story, with time for uplifting news, makes my day complete. No sensationalism there, but plenty of coverage of all of the stories, good and bad, that have been cited here.

"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton

Hi Dave, how's the breakfast wine?

@DavePi wrote:

Try to look on the bright side. Death by guns has been going down for the past 2 decades. We can only hope that the trend continues.

"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton

LA can hold its own when it comes to bad news. Even rain made the news!

@Irene_L.A. wrote:

I watch the news every morning and we are having school threats daily, many car accidents due to falling trees and mudslides which we get after fires, and more crapola with the President and his firings, his son getting divorced, small planes going down. The NRA fighting changing the age of 18 to 21 for purchasing of guns.
The bad news always makes the headlines, the good news goes unheard.

"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton

Good news....our famous Kardashians donated $100,000 to save closing programs at the inner city schools in So. Central..keeping program open gives hope and a place for underprivliged kids and definitely a good thing.
Like them or not, using their money for this is a kudo to the family.
edited to add: Seems L.A. isn't the only place with violence, another shooting in Maryland,. CA guns laws are the strictest in the country.

Live consciously....

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/20/2018 06:03PM by Irene_L.A..

The news that reaches us peons must be 'newsworthy'. It never has to be accurate, true, fair, unbiased, or explanatory. It does not need to have an appropriate context. It only has to be 'newsworthy'. Kid takes out kids and adults during a school shooting? Perfect! Page one of the rag. Daily in blogs. Fodder for lobbyists. Interviews and a few lectures keep this one alive in the public's mind. Kid rescues twelve people and a pet from a fire? Meh... buried under the the filler, if included at all.

@DavePi: What information are you referencing? A too-quick search of US data from the CDC showed that as of 2015, gunshot deaths were not the greatest killer and that in 2016, gun deaths in the US rose from their 2015 levels. I did not find long-arc information for US or global data. I did find a comparison of London and L.A. This is not enough information. Please direct me to more information.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao-Tzu

Look at long term trends.

Whether the trend is on the decline or on the rise, what difference would it make to a grieving parent who lost their child in a senseless shooting? Hundreds of kids become statistics or a part of a trend analysis but to that one parent, their child was their whole world. Apologize for being over dramatic but I had the life scared out of me a few months ago when I heard there had been a shooting in our school district. My daughter was at school and for about half an hour, I went numb not knowing what to do and imagining the worst. Choppers flying all over and parents running to schools. It wasn't us but it was someone's child. Luckily, all the kids survived.

Mum...Well said, i couldn't agree more.

Live consciously....

It makes no difference to them, but to gun owners it makes a difference. How dare you take away my guns and the criminals will still have ways to get them. My family comes first.

Missed the point, we are talking about rifles like the ones used recently, no one needs them...a gun for protection or for hunters, not the problem.

Live consciously....

Even though assault rifles account for 1-2 percentage of gun deaths?

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/21/2018 04:20PM by DavePi.

Disagree....what else is new?

Live consciously....

In the last incident, the School Resource Officer did his job and took down the shooter.

As far as no one needing them, who are you to say what I need? I don't live in a comfy L.A. suburb. I "need" different things than someone who lives in rural Alabama, Lake Worth FL, or Manhattan. I personally don't "need" an AK-47 (they jam too easily), but I'm not arrogant enough to think I can decide that for everyone else.

As for gun violence going down, it's an easy search, but here's a CNN article for you: [www.cnn.com]

Everyone other than the felons in my neighborhood is armed, which means there's very little crime. Nothing in my house (other than people) is worth someone's life.

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Shocking that it's from CNN.

@Shop-et-al wrote:

It never has to be accurate, true, fair, unbiased, or explanatory. It does not need to have an appropriate context.

This is a good point. Do a search on the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and its repeal in 2012/13. It's no longer against the law for government officials to be untruthful to the public in the name of "public diplomacy information." Trust, but verify. Just because something comes from an official source does not mean it's necessarily true.

@DavePi wrote:

Shocking that it's from CNN.

I used CNN because quoting from zerohedge, though likely much more accurate, might have given rise to cries of bias ;-).

@shop-et-al....are you calling me a peon?

Live consciously....

Yes. If we do not control the 'news' machine that determine the 'news' that is presented to us, we are peons.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao-Tzu

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