Do we NEED news?
"Journalists" constantly justify their genocide and mass murder by claiming that news is necessary.
Wrong. We don't NEED news, at least in the form provided by "journalists".
At the most basic level, we need some form of
entertainment. Active and passive entertainments are universal among mammals and birds for sure, and probably other animals as well. Active: Clowning around to amuse yourself and your friends. Passive: Standing around and watching shit happen, especially
watching failure and learning from it. All mammals and birds enjoy and perform both of these tasks.
News has always been a subset of entertainment, with no firm boundary between the two. The troubadour or town crier was news set to music. The earliest newspapers were mainly devoted to gossip and rumors. 'Tabloids' and 'yellow journalism' are 200 years old.
Every new technology starts with entertainment, generally crude and pornographic, and then produces a small "serious" branch to pacify the bluenoses who are only entertained by silencing and torturing others.
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Well, what type of information do we NEED? We certainly need our own senses, preferably unmuted and unblunted by drugs, preferably undistorted by false theories and narratives.
Beyond our senses, we can use some warning of incoming
weather and
war and
crime, so we can take cover or defend ourselves as appropriate.
Weather: Broadcast TV only gives you a few seconds of radar each day, often verbally contradicted by the idiot Gaian weathergirl who knows everything about "climate change" and nothing about clouds and maps. All warming, no warning.
War: EAS has been intentionally destroyed by the Federal DE-warners. EAS didn't activate on 9/11, and (at least around here) doesn't activate for weather emergencies. EAS only activates for Custody Dispute Alerts, which are totally unnecessary as "news". The "law" enforcement authorities are already watching closely when a mother dares to repossess her own child from foster care, or a father dares to repossess his own child from a drug-infested mother. Nobody else needs to know about this. We are forced to treat this as an emergency so we will learn that natural parenting is a crime.
Crime: Broadcast and newspapers refuse to tell us about real crime. They only tell us about heresy disguised as crime, or hate hoaxes, or "terrorist" "attacks" carefully stagecrafted by FBI and CIA.
Facebook and Nextdoor.com are genuinely useful. Both serve the PROPER function of warning about local crimes and swindles, but only in cities and neighborhoods that organize and maintain the service.
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So we're really down to online radar and Nextdoor/Facebook as the only NEEDED news in the current era. Everything else is raw nonsense, intentional distortion and fakery, explicitly designed to start wars, incite riots, create crime, and ruin our minds and souls.
Labels: defensible spaces, Entertainment, Metrology