Thursday, April 16, 2015

N is for...

Nightly News

Shows I was watching in the seventies is my theme for the A-Z challenge this April.


It was thirty minutes of local news followed by thirty minutes of national news. Once commercials were accounted for it was really more like forty-four minutes. Those were the days. Don't get me wrong, fires, airplane crashes and kidnappings terrified me, but I wasn't saturated with information like we are now. Obviously a certain amount of my blissful ignorance had to do with the fact that I was six years old in the mid-seventies; however, when I was hanging around at my grandparents' house, they had no option for twenty-four hour news. That television was going to be showing Family Feud and Wheel of Fortune sooner than later.

I just saw some clips on the Daily Show of news stations dissecting Hilary Clinton's recent visit to a Chipotle. The notion of this being news might frighten me as much the stuff of childhood nightmares.

12 comments:

  1. Are you too young to remember the Saturday morning "In the News" breaks on CBS where a current event was easily explained for kids in about a 2 minute segment?

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  2. So true. I remember when I used to sit down to the nightly news. Now when I want it, I just turn on my phone.

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  3. I believe my grandparents thought the world might actually end if they missed the nightly news. Lol

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  4. Today information is instantaneous and the channels are saturated with news. I often think that while it can be a good thing, there is too much wasted time on some of these 'big' stories with commentary and speculation and by the time the details are finally disclosed, everyone has made up their minds regardless of the facts that come out.

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  5. I'm with you. One used to believe that what you saw on the news was pretty close at least to the truth. Now I'm skeptical of everything I hear, and fearful of what might be the truth!

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  6. Pretty much every night my parents can be found watching Wheel of Fortune followed by Jeopardy. I love Jeopardy!

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  7. My grandparents used to watch the nightly news too. I try to avoid it these days, but can't because it's always on the internet and my husband is always tuned in to Fox news daily. You can't believe anything you hear concerning politics. Everyone has their take on it. Isn't it too early to start hearing all that business anyway? The rest of the news is full of one bad thing after another. I think our society has really gone downhill from what it used to be.

    I love to watch Wheel and Jeopardy, much more entertaining than the news.

    Sunni

    http://sunni-survivinglife.blogspot.com/

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  8. I watch news almost every night, it annoys me though to watch the same news from national to local. It becomes repetitive. And where I'm at, we have an hour local news and maybe half of that time the news is from National News. Funny, but I still watch news on TV.

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  9. I watched the news on and off until I became a mother. Then I started watching regularly. After 9/11 I became obsessed with watching the news. Then finally, suddenly, I just quit. I cannot stand to hear of some young person dying in some tragic accident. Or some family losing a father. It has become that I feel like I know them and I feel the loss so deeply that I carry it for days. So, I don't watch the news. And I HATE it when someone wants to be a big shot and start to tell me all about something they saw on the news!! I cut them off as quickly as I can (without being completely rude) and tell them, "That's why I don't watch the news any more."
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  10. OMG Right?? I heard the "news" about Hillary at Chipolte too... gah... I hate the news. :)

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  11. I love how you describe your grandparents TV. Mine was the same way, but it was Bonanza and Gunsmoke. I do find the lack of depth in our "news" troubling.

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  12. Anything Hillary Clinton frightens me.....

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