I am going to watch less.
"The news" has become so formulaic:
Tragic event....Mass shooting, bombing blasts, terror attacks etc.
Video of people running, screaming, and blurry replays of phone videos.
A newly creating "Tragedy-Du-Jour" Logo for each event, accompanied by maudlin, somber music.
Candidates issuing tough, foot stomping declarations, with appropriate stern expressions.
Local officials issuing "Thoughts and prayers" and blah blah blah at podiums and press conferences....
Shots of flowers, candles and teddy bear "memorials".
Public buildings illuminated with colored lights, sometimes flags lowered on "orders from the President".....
"Panels of experts" giving the same old blah blah blah on who, where, what, why....not news, just opinions.
Funerals attended by politicians.
Private meetings with the families, covered widely in the news to indicate concern.
Then......BREAKING NEWS!!!!!
It starts all over again.
I was recently going to purchase a new TeeVee ( I watch so little I still have a projection TeeVee and***gasp***a 25 year old TeeVee!!!!!) but why bother....I've begun to realize I HATE TeeVee.
Ridiculous programming, vulgar programming, infantile programming and that's just "the news"!!!!