The News — Friend or Foe? - The Good Men Project

So many of us watch the news but do we actually listen to what the anchor person is saying or are we content to have the background noise accompany us as we get ready, have our morning coffee or just home doing nothing.

I am a victim to that. I put on the news, out of habit, mindlessly. Most of the time I don’t know what the news reported. I might get a glimpse of the weather and I always stare blankly when I see a dedicated segment to traffic. Doesn’t everyone have WAZE or a similar app to get them through traffic in real time ?

So many facets of the news don’t make sense. The news chosen by the network to share or doesn’t choose to share and how it is delivered to us is biased and scripted. I notice how certain anchor people change their tone or give a smirk during certain stories, that is not unbiased reporting and it saddens me.

I grew up respecting the news and the anchor people who delivered the news. I no longer believe anything I hear or see. Everything and everyone seems to have a motive or agenda. Nothing is what it seems and it makes me feel unprotected and alone. I recently cancelled my cable subscription after 23 years. There is nothing I need to see on the news that will enhance my life in any way. There is an app for that and everything else we may fancy. I have a go to app for the weather, I use WAZE when I drive and I try as little as possible to scroll on social media to see enough of what I need to see to keep myself in the loop of the news around the world. I still see and hear what I am geared to see and hear by the social media platforms so I don’t take anything I see or hear too seriously. So how should we get our news ? How will we know what’s going on ? I don’t know, I have no clear answers.

I surrender to what is. I trust in God and the process.

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This post was previously published on medium.com.