If there was no news....?

[flobadob]

Say you were never informed of anything that occurred outside of your own local community(via news channels), what difference would anything that happened in the world matter to you? For example, me being from Ireland, the attack on WTC in 2001 would not have registered with me as I knew no one there and would not have heard other than the news. More recently the floods in Pakistan, 14 million affected but other than the news I would be none the wiser and my life totally unaffected. Haiti, the 2004 tsunami, the list goes on. If we were never informed of these events would they have any effect on us?

Would we be better off without this knowledge, what purpose does it serve as most people probably don't act upon it.

[cazzz1975]

I do agree, sometimes I would rather only know what happens where I live that national and international news, maybe that is why our ancestors seemed happy, they were not weighed down with the burdens of the worlds problems.

[snags]

''If there was no news....?''

There would be no Newspapers and I'd have to buy loo roll...

[poodicat]

They do flob,appeals...

[flobadob]

poodicat, half that money is eaten through admin and most of the rest through corruption.

[woofgang]

flobadob can you prove that?

[flobadob]

Can you disprove that?

[boxtops]

We would go back to how we were not so many years ago, when news took ages to filter through, and people didn't thrive on publicity. Personally, it wouldn't bother me a great deal - I do usually listen to the radio news in the mornings and we might watch TV news at night (but we might not), and we don't buy a national paper, I might pick up the odd free Metro on the train. I try not to get exercised by things I can do nothing about, and only address myself to things I can change. I'm with cazzz on this one.

[ummmm]

I remember ripping up sheets at school to send to the poor black babies in Africa as bandages. I knew nothing about what was going on in Africa...just that there was poor black babies.

[Greedyfly]

I never watch the news and have only heard the news this week due to a new job and the radio being on. I try to avoid it generally because although it is nice to know what's going on in the world it's so depressing and I can't really do anything to improve it so I avoid it as best I can.

[jno]

ignorance is bliss, then? Excuse me if I prefer not to join you there.

[jomifl]

You would know to get out of your house when it is demolished to make way for the new motorway/ interstellar thruway/airport/ space terminal/macdonalds/disneyland..

[ludwig]

This is how the news works in America. That's why they all think those pyramids in Las Vegas are the real ones.