It seems like any news article or anything I watch just depresses me. I think maybe I need to change my sources. I watch on a news program where the trend is to interview the most loathsome, nasty people who hurl expletives and make remarks that I would expect from maybe a three year old.
News articles that are printed that have nothing to do with anything really other than exploiting trashy tawdry lives of other people, supposedly to titillate their audience.
It used to be you had to read the Enquirer or watch Jerry Springer to see this kind of behavior, but it has made it into the mainstream news. On MSNBC, they interviewed a woman supposedly involved with a politician, with the anchor describing her as crazy with a curse word he later had to apologize for.
I read an article in the local paper where poor women trying to get free supplies for their kids for school referred to as "Big Mammas" and other slanders that appeared to me to be making fun of the underprivileged and people with a weight problem.
It is not like I am picking up or watching from sources known for this kind of trash, things I avoid that I know will bring me down.
Whatever happened to the mindset of reading and writing things that are true, honorable, right, pure, lovely - of good repute, the things our minds and hearts should be dwelling on? - to paraphrase Philippians 4:8.
The sad part of this is that we all make a choice on what we read and see, and we the people have let our standards down so low - either we just don't care or we are now all so worn down with our own problems and drama in our lives that we can't deal with one more thing.
If we stop watching it, the ratings will go down and it will be pulled off. If we stop reading it, then it will no longer be published - maybe??
I am very doubtful when grown adults can be entertained by other's ignorance, misery, and misfortune.
I refuse to digest this garbage and let it invade my mind and lower my standards.
Will you join me?
Thursday, August 01, 2013
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