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lonemagpie) wrote2013-04-16 04:26 pm
lonemagpie) wrote2013-04-16 04:26 pm
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Not "Bad News", but "News Bad."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli
Yep, I've found that watching the news tends to make want to to do nasty things to people... Thank fuck for videogames...
Oh, also, Charles Stross points out here - http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/04/psa-ignore-the-news.html (which also includes a link to this Guardian piece) that national/international news now is *actually* all geared towards bringing money into advertisers, hence the playing to the lowest common denominator
Yep, I've found that watching the news tends to make want to to do nasty things to people... Thank fuck for videogames...
Oh, also, Charles Stross points out here - http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/04/psa-ignore-the-news.html (which also includes a link to this Guardian piece) that national/international news now is *actually* all geared towards bringing money into advertisers, hence the playing to the lowest common denominator