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Why bother?

21/4/2014

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After a long walk downtown, I was tired and took the bus home. Sitting behind two young women I overheard this snippet of conversation:
"I find the news so depressing. I don't read it anymore." 
"Me too, it's always the same bad news over and over. It just stresses me out."
News stories are overwhelmingly about things we have no influence over and more often than not, have little to do with our personal reality. No one is waiting for our opinion about this or that problem or is counting on us to solve anything.

When we are preoccupied with our own personal worries or over-busy with our family, friends and work, staying on top of the news feels like one more obligation.

Even trying to understand the many points of view on a particular topic can be daunting.


From global economic, environmental and geopolitical problems such as:
  • Fiscal, food and water crisis
  • Climate change and extreme weather
  • Profound political and social instability

To problems that might feel closer to home such as:
  • Unemployment
  • Precarious job situations and mounting debt
  • Chronic physical and mental health problems

The news does seem catastrophic and depressing. 


So why bother?
In our home, news reigned supreme. My father had been a journalist for six years with The Winnipeg Tribune. It was a personal responsibility to be informed, to get the facts and to learn about the world.  But at a deeper level, the value of the news was to be aware of the pain and suffering of others.

The news offer these additional benefits:
  • Strengthens our own sense of gratitude for what we have 
  • Provides perspective on our own difficult circumstances
  • Lets those who suffer know they are not alone
  • Develops our capacity for empathy

What is your opinion about the news? 


Read on,
Coach Minda
6 Comments
Cheryl Poulin
21/4/2014 07:00:00 am

Opinion about the news... journalism isn't what it used to be.

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Minda
21/4/2014 07:22:50 am

I assume that you appreciated a different kind of journalism in the past. Has this influenced the degree to which you are interested in the news now? Thanks Cheryl

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Cliff
21/4/2014 07:09:21 am

Well said.

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Coach Minda link
21/4/2014 07:24:15 am

Thanks Cliff! It is hard though to stay on top..

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miriam cherniak
21/4/2014 10:59:41 am

In one of the I.Q. tests, one of the questions is: Why is a free press important in a Democracy? The answer, more or less, is that we need to be able to look at different opinions in order to make informed decisions about how we want our society. I'm not sure how free the press ever really was/is, and whether internet news makes it more or less so. Always having been a news junkie, I think I have to remind myself to not take everything I read or hear as the gospel truth, (especially when I don't agree with it!) but to recognize the importance of being informed as much as possible, and, yes, to read/hear things I don't agree with.

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Coach Minda link
22/4/2014 01:58:05 am

I like what you say here, thanks Miriam

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