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How do you usually get your news? I have not watched the news in years.

I watch our local news affiliates (ABC, CBS, and NBC) and then National Nightly News on NBC. I also hang out on cable news. CNN is dreadful for this kind of stuff.

I like having cable news on in the background for most of the night. And, you have to check out local news for the weather here to figure out how to dress and whether your car will start or not.

I used to watch news programs like 20/20, Dateline, 48 Hours and 60 Minutes. I liked them better when there was variety and they weren't just the murder mystery of the week (that could be told in 30 minutes but is dragged out for 2 hours). You can still get that with 20/20 sometimes and 60 Minutes isn't quite so bad for melodrama (but it's inching its way there). Most of the murder mysteries are on ID and those networks so it seems redundant to watch them on prime time.

I've found that it's not just news though. Even stuff on History Channel or Discovery or any of the more "documentary" or educational type stuff is so rife with melodramatic or hyperbolic narration that it feels like fingernails on a chalkboard to listen to them. I guess I just like stuff dry.

I'm not American, but IA. I recently watched that doco "Life After People" - and while I'm sure it had some pretty interesting stuff in there, I just COULDN'T get past the style of it.

It was ridiculous! The overblown narration. Repeating obvious things every five seconds (because the audience must be stupid or have the memory of a goldfish). Stupid filters and effects.

If that's a reflection of what the rest of your television is like, I can understand why you're sick of it.

We have... probably ONE news channel in Australia that reports the news in an unbiased fashion (ABC). SBS and Al Jazeera are pretty good, too. The other news stations? Terrible. Everything's always a disaster or amazing. It's always pushed up to 11 and it's exhausting.

Part of the reason I don't watch the news much anymore.

I've seen that show. Sad thing, it's not even the worst. That one's actually pretty tame compared to some of the "serious" narration bullshit they're doing now. It's just so exhausting and in-your-face.

Our news is like that too. Local news isn't so bad with the hyperbole (though it's cutesy more than I like) but cable news and nightly news programs are rife with the overblown drama. It does feel like disaster porn. Like, when Katrina hit, it felt like the newspeople were wetting themselves with glee over having so much DRAMA to report.

I believe it was ABC that my parents used to refer to as "The Deadly Serious Cannel" so I can see that a lot would seem hyperbolic in comparison. :P

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