Mar
30

Roundtable Poll Question – Inundated with News?

Written by: Sarah LaDuke    Filed under: Poll Question, The Roundtable     Comments: 5    Tags

Too Much News

The first quarter of this year has been filled with troubling news. The mass shooting in Arizona, the unrest in Egypt, the Japanese tsunami, earthquake, and nuclear fallout…and now Libya – War! We’ll extend our poll question this morning to discuss: How do we cope when we are inundated with news?

Sarah LaDuke

Sarah LaDuke

Sarah grew up in Saranac Lake, NY where she worked part time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from SUNY Albany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the producer of The Roundtable.

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5 Comments to “Roundtable Poll Question – Inundated with News?”

  • Susan Leach March 30, 2011 at 8:42 am

    I reach a point where my mind is full…So, I turn everything off and take a mental vacation..Walk my dog , read a good book.listen to music.
    I don’t have the power to fix it so I do something that I can fix.
    The “news” will wait. I can always find it again. I love news papers.

  • Anne March 30, 2011 at 8:46 am

    I’m twenty-four years old, so I’ve had the distinction of growing up in a post-Columbine, post-9/11 world. Whenever I discuss current events with my parents and their baby boomer friends, they seem melodramatic, even fatalistic. They probably think I’m too narcissistic, but I would argue that my friends and I are particularly well-equipped to compartmentalize distressing news. It’s not that we don’t care — we just know from experience that there is more news – both good and bad – to come, so we tend not to get bogged down by the majority of it.

  • Mary Beth Frezon March 30, 2011 at 9:50 am

    More like inundated with stray bits of “facts” about news, over and over again. Often there’s no developing story, just a mishmash of iffy bits. That’s hardly news but it’s still worth turning off. Like the local weather, news is becoming more about the hype than about the real stories.

  • Cathy Dawkins March 30, 2011 at 8:05 pm

    It is important to remember that just because we have the AVAILABILITY of 24 hour news doesn’t mean that we need to consume the news 24 hours per day. It just offers the convenience of listening, viewing or reading when it is convenient. Once I focus on this, I am able to plan 2 or 3 times during my day to catch up and be aware, without allowing the news to rule my life.

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