No News Is Good News!

I used to be an avid news follower when I lived in the UK. I would listen to the news and news programmes on BBC radio several hours a day and also watch it on tv in the evenings too.

Then a few years ago I started to question what I was doing. I was spending upwards of 3 or 4 hours a day in my car traveling all over the UK and at the end of each day what did I have to show for it? Absolutely nothing other than a good general knowledge on world politics and a few meetings attended. I hadn’t learned anything of any importance, I often hadn’t laughed at anything and I rarely heard anything positive. That was when I decided to use that time more efficiently and started to buy audio cd’s from the companies that I have listed on my website:

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Now when I was alone in my car I could use the time to my benefit and actually enjoy long drives and not get stressed when stuck in traffic jams. This was fun and after all I could catch up on the news in the evenings if I wanted.

The first week I arrived in the US I had to make a 40-minute drive from where I was living to downtown Orlando. I had a hire car and was listening one of the news channels (I forget which now). During that drive I heard the following: Bird Flu was imminent, Al Queda were planning to attack mainland USA, almost 1 million Americans die each year from heart disease and a story that said if I wasn’t worried about kidney disease, then I should be! I felt terrible by the time I reached my destination.

I finally ‘got it’ when we were in the build up to what looked like becoming Hurricane Ernesto. There was blanket news coverage as you would expect but at the last moment the storm was downgraded and also took a detour and was going to miss central Florida. Fox news went to their news crews up and down the coast to get their view. In NLP we often talk about being congruent, i.e. that your words, tonality and body language are all in sync with one another. This was a classic case of lacking any congruence whatsoever as reporter after reporter said the words that it was good news but displayed the body language to suggest that they were disappointed. Ok it was a potential catastrophe but c’mon it was big news, it had people worried and glued to their TV’s, there could be journalistic prizes to be had and think of those advertising dollars!

Local TV news is worthless in my opinion. Its stock in trade is people misery and fear. It offers little of any value and serves only to bring us all down often just before we go to bed at night. It’s easy to catch up on the weather if that is important to you and the Internet allows you to search and find any important stories quickly and easily should you so wish.

I have weaned myself off the news now and I feel better for it. Maybe I am fooling myself and should really be worrying myself sick about kidney disease but I guess I’ll have to learn to live with my own naivety.

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