phdepressed comments on Yes, the 24 hour news cycle use to be boring and you would have to hype up a bunch of bullshit to get people to watch. Times have changed. Focus on the world burning in front of our eyes you assholes.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Of course it isn't but watching and reading news 24/7 is not the solution and can be more detrimental than helpful in actually doing stuff about it.

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[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago

certainly not standard US/UK "news" of talking head/pundits reading off their daily/weekly list of propaganized talking points.

as the saying goes...if it's free, your the product. you got to utilize some kind of filter otherwise you'll be blastered by a bunch of bullshit

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[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 6 months ago

Thats orthogonal to the point of OP or what i said.

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