“If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.” – Mark Twain

It doesn’t matter where you look anymore…
On every news website, 75% is about war, riots, disease, guns (and control of them) and other bad stuff.
Opposed to the 25% of items that I myself care about.
Which is why I hardly read or watch any news at all.

Then how do you stay informed about what happens around you?

By going out there!
Rather than taking stories from diffent kinds of media on both the internet, as well as in real life.
I prefer to get out there and find the stories myself.
I don’t have to know what happens with IS, ISIS, SISI or however they like to call themselves now.
I don’t care about what the US thinks of Obama and if he does good or not during his time in office.
I don’t even care about what kind of crap the EU is dragging themselves in to with the money they get from my taxes or whatever!

The last one should be of your concern though…

I know, but I am one of those who do not want to be bothered with media which I can do nothing about!
If I truly care about any of the examples above, I will look for the news items and read them.
But the thing is… I don’t… And therefore I do not wish to be loaded by different kinds of media outlets with all their stories.

That sounds illogical at least.
You do not wish to be confronted with the news, yet you do want to stay updated on the things you want to read about?
How do you do that?

Well… thinking back now…
A lot of media outlets I visit, have stories about everything I do not care about.
As well as stories I do care about and would like to read.
What I dislike is the fact that the wish of many outweigh the few to that point that some outlets decide that they should NOT show the small ‘unimportant’ stories.

Meaning?

Meaning that I dislike the fact that the chance for a next cold war seems to be a bigger news topic these days than the next big thing in medical improvements!
I’d rather read that playing action video games is good for improving my learning abilities than a story about the next big TV show where judges boast their own opinions towards the participants in an overacted way.
Giving me only more examples on the items that we throw around.
Because, not only are we reading the nonsense everywhere we go, we also feel the urge to stread it around in different kinds of social media to everyone we know.

But isn’t it only fair that you get the change to share what you are interested in?

Yes, but for that matter, should it also not be fair that you can opt out of those kind of items?
I myself do enjoy most of the stuff I read on facebook.
But when 1 person I am fond of, posts something that is way beyond my point of interest.
It should be posible for me to NOT see that post without having to remove that user from my friends list or reporting the post.
And sure… I know this is turning into a one sided conversation.
But that is my opinion on the subject.

As much as I dislike these ‘conversations’, you do have some points here and there.
Though… I do advise you to think, the next time you want to write something!