Is anybody else a tad bit afraid of the crazies?

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53. I agree that the media is blowing incidents of violence out of proportion.

I do not have cable at home, so rarely do I watch cable news. I was at a family member's house yesterday for a party they had cnn on. Holy cow, on and on and on about the 3 police officers killed in LA, as if nothing else was happening on this planet. They never cut to talk about anything else and we had it on for 30 minutes to a hour. Same pictures of cop cars over and over. I found it totally boring... I understood that 3 officers were killed in like the first few minutes of the broad cast, now where are the rest of your news stories? For a channel devoted to news, that pretty lazy journalism. Same shit over and over. I remember the news being different in the 80's/90's. They'd at least do a rotation of several important news stories on cable news. Now they cling to the most outrageous current story they have, usually something about violence or people behaving badly. I could see how someone could get the impression that the world is a terrible place by watching this stuff. That is the story the cable news channels are crafting. I guess it gets people to tune in. Doesn't work for me though.