Extremes
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- MrOneHundred0
Yes, the morbid curiosity is the thing. Are they feeding it, or did they create it? Is it human nature? If so, up to what point?
As mentioned, I have discovered up to what point I will be fed. I wonder what would happen if they stopped at the point which I believe they should.
During the first world war, news from the warfront would be despatched weekly. Deaths were presented as numbers, and “heroic” acts were reported to boost morale and present a positive angle. Tales of individual horror were left to the individual and their oral history, to be shared by family members/friends as needed. Imagine if the network news teams had only an hour a week to report the news.
Oddly, that is now about the amount of news I subject myself to per week and I feel better for it. The important stuff filters through – economic downturn, economic stimulus package, fatal bushfires in Melbourne – and I don’t feel weighed down by the “doom and gloom”.
Just my opinion.