Stephen O’Grady explains why he doesn’t watch the news.

As a child that was raised on the nightly news, it surprises some people - and definitely my parents - that I have no inclination to watch the news any more. Zero. I’ve had a couple of conversations about this in recent weeks with different friends, and the general consensus seems to be that I’m not alone.

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A little cynical, perhaps, but I really am that tired of the news. Relentless dissection of the inevitable negativity, with the only respite saccharine human interest stories, punctuated by hosts that seemingly can’t control the volume of their own voice. Spare me. I’ll take blogs over that any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Phew! For a second I was afraid that “Relentless dissection of the inevitable negativity, with the only respite saccharine human interest stories, punctuated by hosts that seemingly can’t control the volume of their own voice” meant EphBlog! Glad we cleared that up.