The Media is Nothing More Than a Bad News Whore!

Once upon a time the media was considered a “friend” that would inform and educate us about what was going on in the world. It used to consist of a balance between good and bad news. But not any more!

Now the media is completely obsessed with scaring and frightening and warning us, mostly about things that are NOWHERE near as bad as what it portrays or are NEVER going to happen anyway.

Remember the Y2K bug that was going to spell the end of the use of computers on this planet? What about bird flu? What about this latest FEAR it is spreading on swine flu?

In its absolutely DESPERATE and mad scramble for ratings against all other rivals, almost every media outlet – principally the electronic media of television and radio, but also newspapers - is sensationalising the so-called economic disaster-meltdown-crash-whatever and ramming it right down everybody’s throat at every available opportunity. I swear, if I hear that jingoistic claptrap “these harsh economic times” one more time – which I invariably will some time today, then I will switch off that media outlet for a week!

In my opinion, the media is DRIVING the economic collapse. Now why do I say that? Well, put simply, if you tell enough people often enough that things are REALLY, REALLY bad, then guess what? Things become REALLY, REALLY bad! A perception is created and the prophesy becomes fulfilling.

I have reached the stage now where I watch only the first three items of “news” on TV of an evening. If three out of three are bad news, negative news or endless warnings about bird-flu, terrorism, swine-flu, the MELTING global economy, disasters of flood, famine, drought or the usual raft of plane crashes, train smashes or road crashes, then I just switch off.

Like so many other people I am shunning this sort of news. Who bloody needs it? I certainly DON’T!

If they could only understand it, the idiot editors of these forms of media are really destroying their own livelihoods by endlessly feeding us this NEGATIVE end-of-the-world tripe that they just won’t let up about.

Apart from all the above my least favourite so-called “news” item is when an elderly person gets bashed (a fairly regular occurence in the lawless city of Perth, Western Australia in which I live) or an innocent person minding their own business is “glassed” or beset upon by a gang of thugs and we have to be confronted by gory pictures of broken faces with eyes blackened, noses broken, heads gashed and stitched back together – all done at the hands of some mindless moron whose pea-brain has been addled by drugs.

Then, of course, the news media absolutely LOVES and gets right into the faces of those people who are weeping openly at the loss of a loved one or a home burnt down or destroyed in some other way. The news cameras just LOVE to zoom in on this and get right in these people’s faces to portray REAL human grief. For Christ-sake give these people some PRIVACY in their periods of grief!

The media has become a WHORE!

So many people are now switching this media RUBBISH off. And why wouldn’t you? It is too predictable, forced on to us far too often and it is way too graphic. Negative, negative and more NEGATIVE!

Nobody needs a dose of this every hour, on the hour, or splattered all over the first 10 pages of the newspaper. Why are we being subjected to it? And why is it being ramped up the way that it is? Do we need to be held in a state of perpetual fear? No wonder so many people are suffering DEPRESSION! What is the point?

Warning – media! You are flirting with your own inevitable deaths.

Enter the internet, where YOU can decide what YOU want to watch or read or listen to. If it’s too bad then at the click of a mouse you can go somewhere else – places like websites or social media sites like Twitter.

Zap - teleportation to a better place! Yes, I KNOW that you can switch off a TV or radio but…

… you must realise that we have all been “conditioned” to watch and listen to these things without discernment. We just watch and we listen. And in comes the NEGATIVE - like a steam-roller to squash you into submission.

There is no way in the world that I am going to put up with the utter garbage that these traditional news media outlets are foisting upon us all. NO WAY! Like so many others I’m tuning O-U-T!

Being subjected with endless negativism all the time does nothing to help anyone. I figure that if things get THAT bad, somebody is going to tell me anyway, so why should I take any notice of any of it and ruin my day? All it will do is harm my mind. I don’t need that and neither do YOU!

You can fight back against these media whores who will offer up any sensationalistic GARBAGE just to get headlines. MOST of what they say and write is utter dribble anyway. Switch off, filter, tune out. You don’t need the negativity, the scare-mongering, the fear, the trauma, the drama - it’s all so unneccesary and damaging to your mind. Your life will be so much better without it all.

Dump it. You don’t need it. These days, unfortunately, the media is nothing more than a bad news whore!

Do you agree with me or disagree? Tell me what you think. Don’t hold back - let it rip!

Filed under: Gary Simpson • Motivation & Inspiration • TV • bad news • bird flu • internet marketing • media • negative • newspapers • positive • radio • swine flu • television • terrorism • whore

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