News Saturation

I would love to turn on the radio or look at a news site just once and not have the Primaries thrown in my ear or face. I mean, it’s gotten to where (and had been for a while) I don’t even look at American news sites anymore. I just go to the BBC to get my news. The radio, well I don’t listen to it much other than to catch some music here and there to see if I plan on downloading it or not. Sometimes I download music I don’t even like just on principle.

This isn’t about my downloading habits though, I have a friend in Canada by the name of errr, actually I don’t know his name. I call him Graham. Anyhow, Graham said to me the other day, “So, how do you feel about the Primaries? I don’t even live there and I’m sick of that shit already.” Well, I feel pretty much the same way. The constant news coverage (I wouldn’t mind an update once in a while) is just mind numbing. I noticed that the news does this a lot. We’re completely saturated by some event and then it blinks out of existence for eternity. That’s not my personal preference (and who asked me anyway) as far as news goes. What I’d like to see is a slightly more wide spread coverage of “important” events, and no that doesn’t include what star is sleeping with whom and who has made it into rehab for the 24th time. Then, periodic updates on the things that got covered in headlines.

I understand that both of these issues are thus far two of the largest and most important issues to grace our country in this era; however, I don’t think it warrants this kind of media frenzy as it were. I’d much rather get it in small doses I think.