Is it just me...

or does watching the news make anyone else want to slit their throats? Seriously, I have never seen so much negativity spewed forth by an uncaring, seemingly unscathed or unaffected group of people so smartly dubbed, the Newscaster...

Now it's not as though I require these people to sob and weep at every headline or gruesome story, but a little emotion on their otherwise cold and sculpture like faces would be somewhat helpful. Why is it that this kind of unadulterated violence is so displayed not once a day but four, five, and on some stations, even more than that. You wouldn't let your children watch a two hour movie with sex, drugs, and bloody gore, so why is the news allowed to portray the world in all of its negative splendor eighty five times a day? You may be saying, well don't watch it if it bothers you...well, I don't need to watch it to be overwhelmed by it. Those at work, on the street, at the damn bus station remark for lack of anything productive to spew about, "Have you heard about...?" or "Did you hear...?" It's everywhere. I am not naive. I understand there are a lot of whackos, sickos, fuckos, that should have done to them what they've done to others, but why must we be inundated with this kind of nonproductive and futile knowledge. Yeah, I understand the world is fucked...I would like to keep my piece of it less so...that includes no news. I was in Europe when Michael Jackson died. I didn't find out until three weeks later that he had kicked it...and I believe I am a better person for it. I won't even begin on the entertainment news which laughably calls itself so...another entry, another time. I get that perhaps the demographic(the elderly who don't get out, some are scared to go out and why? They watch the news and in their sheltered life, become scared of the world in which they've grown up in.) with which the news pertains to, appreciates watching the horror unfold, but personally i would prefer to escape from reality in a non-fiction book, or plunking away on my guitar...you know living my life not fearing death by gang or falling plane. Than again, I suppose it's just me.