while i claim no divine right to be the first to understand this;
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/09/overcoming-news-addiction/
it has been a mainstay of my attitude and teaching for as long as i can remember.
what you focus on you attract. stop consuming the negative-biased media.
now.
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I found the article presumptuous. Everyone has their own reasons for listening to news and many will have a very critical approach to it, which may include stripping out the propaganda elements, or using it for their own purposes. Apart from murders & rapes, news is not negative for everyone, because people support different causes.
I just heard President Bush's announcement that he will "not abandon Iraq". He's expressing this in terms which are supposed to be accepted by everyone as good news! On the BBC, this was immediately subverted by the next news item: "American and Iraqi public health experts have calculated that about 655,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion and subsequent violence, far above previous estimates."
Both items are "spin" and when sen as such cannot feed the fear which Steve Pavlina identifies as the harmful effect of news.
I accept that some people may be addicted to news. On the other hand we have a proverbial saying, "Don't believe what you read in the newspapers" and most people I come across, even if they are addicts, treat it as provocative fiction.
yes, it certainly is provocative. and if we take provocative and add it to addictive, then there is a problem for the resolution of the equation.
i just tell people to stop imputting unnecessary stuff into the system........
gi/go.
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