the news.

i've officially decided to stay away from the news. watching it, reading it, seeing what's on my yahoo homepage. all of it.

now, i know this may sound like i'm choosing to be an ignorant, uninformed young person (like so many of us are). but i don't see it that way. i'm not boycotting information, i'm boycotting the way the media presents information.

i'm tired of clicking on a seemingly happy story about a child who is cured from an illness only to see a link at the bottom of the page suggesting i would be 'interested' in a story about an abused child or a murder victim. i watch 45 minutes of gang violence, animal abuse and arson before i get to the one happy story the anchor promised me at the top of the hour.

and you know what, it doesn't make me feel more informed. it doesn't make me feel like a more responsible adult. i know that there are crappy people in this world who do crappy things. i know that. i know to be safe in my surroundings and  use common sense. and i guess that's about as informed as i need to be. but all the news does is bad-mouth the world we live in. and we can't move to another one, so what are we supposed to do about it? if i had a friend that spent all day pointing out hubby's faults, i wouldn't continue to hang out with that (presumably bitter) friend. so i'm off to make breakfast and prepare for filling my now empty noon hour (which will no longer be used to watch tragedy) with thrifting and cartoons.