You Cannot Turn it Off: News Addiction

BizangoBob writes: "In this time of madness, I find myself staying up later than usual, watching more tv than ever before, tracking more channels, with more open browser windows than even I did before. As though KNOWING more will somehow help. There's a great piece about news addiction in the Washington Post. It made me feel I'm not the only one."

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Re:Religion is to blame

[Skyshadow]

Of course, religion doesn't kill people. People kill people -- religion can just sometimes serve as a suitable excuse. Nationalism works pretty interchangibly well for this, as do items like feelings of racial superiority, etc.

We could go into all of this now, and I could explain why your "insights" are sadly shallow, but I suspect you're just trolling. Shame on you for doing so on the backs of 5000 innocent people.

However, on the off chance that your viewpoint actually is that shallow, may I suggest some basic reading: "The Battle for God" by Karen Armstrong. It's an excellent primer on the role of religion and root causes of fundementalism.

'Net better than TV

[fleener]

This event has made me realize that web-based news is more extensive and informative than anything coming from corporate media. There is a ton of information that escapes mention or gets scarce coverage on TV news, including tidbits such as:

• the CIA's training of Osama Bin Laden,
  
• the USA's funding of Afghanistan ($43 million this year),
  
• how oppressed Afghanistan's citizens are,
  
• the nature of Isreal's 30+ year military occupation of Palestine,
  
• the many incidents of hate being directed toward Arab-Americans by their hate-filled neighbors,
  
• the false alarms and racial profiling since the security crack-down,
  
• the inaccurate jumping-the-gun reporting of the TV networks,
  
• and that not all of America is blood-thirsty and calling for war.
  

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[dgroskind]

A Terrorist Profile Emerges That Confounds the Experts.