We don’t purposely avoid it, but many of our vacations are cruises and we don’t buy the wifi packages. It’s weird how totally “out of the loop” of current events you can feel in just a single week. In recent years we’ve missed a local election (and the results totally shocked us), the Brexit vote and the Humbolt bus crash.I often avoid it. While on vacation I don't turn on the TV news (and usually don't turn on the TV) or log into any news sites. Last year I was on vacation while all the Charlottesville rioting was going on and I didn't know anything about it for 3 or 4 days. It was heavenly.
News knows how to get the viewers they are not going to stop with the bad news. Going to get 6 inches of snow they will report you are going to get 8-12 if they had a news station that only reports good news it wouldn’t last long.
Yet MSNBC is a news source??? Your bias is showing.I did it years ago and still do. I don't actively watch the news...at all, from any source. My gym has a bunch of TVs with no sound, one is on MSNBC and one on Fox News. I'll "see" bits and pieces if I look up at it, but I really don't pay attention to them. I wouldn't even call Fox a news channel anyway, from the very few bits I've seen.
That's why I go to look up any given news source's media bias. I've learned over time to look at things in terms of that. Doesn't mean the information they give is inaccurate (though some sources do) but there are times where a clear bias by usage of words, fonts, images, even format of the webpage are used.The media is so one sided... they need to report all the news in a unbiased platform... We need real news... of national and world news of importance... not this garbage that they call new now....
I stick to CBS Sunday Morning. Yes it's fluff unicorn and rainbow pieces, yet it's something I need. I've cut way back on national news and tune into local news after the first 15 minutes for weather & fluff. Some stories lately I didn't find out until my phone alerted me.
Yet MSNBC is a news source??? Your bias is showing.
So, then what, in your limited viewing of FOX, made up your mind that it is not a news organization?You're reading far too much into what I said. I never said anything about MSNBC one way or the other. I don't know if they are or aren't a new source, and don't really care. The only thing I look at is the bottom scroll which has sports scores, so I can see who won the games I'm interested in. I'm not interested in news from Fox, MSNBC, CBS, PBS, Twitter, yesterdays' newspaper or the National Enquirer. I don't watch or listen to any of it.