At times if I haven't checked the news in days I will wake up in the morning with a bad feeling. I'm anxious that something is going on in the world that I am unaware of. Even if I watched the news at night who knows what has been going on the other side of the planet while I'm sleeping.
This condition was only made worse when I lived in constant fear of the news quizzes in certain mass communication classes. I'm usually pretty on top of the news due to my aforementioned issues but those quizzes were something else. I swear that the most obscure facts would pop up on those things. Not the top stories but the oddities you really had to dig for.
But honestly, is this kind of anxiety such a bad thing? I think its better than the alternative.
The majority of the population walks around in ignorance and could care less about what is happening outside their own little bubble. It is embarrassing to me that t.v. crews are able to find citizens walking around that don't know the name of our vice president or what country borders us to the south.
I'm most definitely not the most cultured or informed individual by any means. But I think we all suffer from too much ethnocentrisim and nationalism. I love America but I am not surprised by other countries negative opinions of us.
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"But I think we all suffer from too much ethnocentrisim and nationalism."
Not knowing who our VP is or who borders our country isn't necessarily a result of either of those. It comes more from a combination of apathy, willful ignorance and poor schooling.
I think part of the problem is also that people in our country (usually) are so bombarded by the entertainment/commercialism/materialistic side of the media that they quickly lose interest in the things that should really matter to them because "real" news ,or general knowledge to some, more than likely doesn't have any of the bells or bellybuttons that E!News does.
(Thank goodness)
Sometimes I feel like I just don't want to know the depressing happenings in this world, but ultimately, it's life and I've got to take a look. I think it's sad when I talk to people and they tell me they never read the newspaper because they have the television for news or when I heard someone else say in the Reporter that they get all their news from "The Daily Show" and the Reporter. It's sad that there are people who consider "The Daily Show" actual news...
"...or when I heard someone else say in the Reporter that they get all their news from 'The Daily Show' and the Reporter."
I hope it wasn't anyone from the variety section!
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