I recently completed my first month of no TV news. And I’m still feeling great.
My first post on this topic was March 9, 2009 and you can read that one here. What a difference a month with no TV network or cable news can make. The media induced drama was getting me down. And there’s no need for that. Very little of what’s broadcast on TV news actually affects my life; and the things that do affect my life are mostly business related. So, I do watch the business news on TV. CNBC and Bloomberg, my cable provider doesn’t make it easy to get Fox Business News, but CNBC and Bloomberg are enough.
Although I must say that I’m growing cautious of CNBC. Recently on the early morning show they had Howard Dean as a guest host. Howard Dean. A political physician telling me about business. When I saw him on the screen I quickly flipped over to another station. Okay, I thought. I’ll give CNBC a pass on this one. Maybe they just temporarily had a problem finding guests, although if they did they could have called me. I would have made myself available. But then on the morning of March 30, 2009 I turned on that same early morning program and saw Ariana Huffington’s face staring back at me. I checked the channel. Did I have on MSNBC on instead of CNBC? I thought. Nope. It was CNBC. So, I switched it off before she could babble-pollute my mind.
I don’t want the media induced psycho-drama sprinkled into my business news, the last bastion of “reason.” I don’t need my business news sprinkled with politics. If CNBC greets me again with another political wonk, then I’ll stop watching them as well. And I’ll only be left with Bloomberg.
I’ll let you know how I make out.
