I’m not the first person to suggest that we stop reading the mass media news stories each day. In fact, I personally got the idea from Mr. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan. Current events on mass media websites, tv stations, and print publications are filth. Their only purpose in the world is to perpetuate the already wildly enormous amount of hate in the world. The stories are developed with profit in mind; the most terrible events draw the most eyes.
But it was not until this morning, when I saw a video on CNN.com so heinous that I refuse to put a link to it in this blog (if you are so inclined to search for it on CNN, be my guest). The video was about Yale student Anne Le’s murder, which we’ve heard about for weeks now…but this video was the last straw. I am by no means saying that this story is not an enormous tragedy in the utmost sense of the word, in fact it is one of the more brutal and senseless acts of violence I’ve personally ever heard of. Rather, I am saying that posting a 6 minute video about the gory details of how the suspect managed to fit a human body in a space no larger than a desktop computer screen, is beyond unnecessary. Not only is this video unnecessary, but I can’t imagine there are many parents of young children out there that would like their sons and daughters seeing this insanity on CNN.com’s homepage.
Thus, I am done watching, reading, or listening to any major news publication. Now I am not talking about legitimate, interesting, well-written articles about good things in this world, but just the filth found on major networks and media outlets. I like to cook, so I will continue reading food & wine articles. I like technology, so I will continue reading articles on sites by the likes of engadget.com. But that’s pretty much it.
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