It’s 6pm, shouldn’t you be watching the evening news? I mean, nothing like a heavy dose of murder, rape, drug raids, unemployment, and recession talk to finish your day. It’s hard to imagine a more depressing 60 minutes on television. Yet millions of us subject ourselves to this nonsense.
I listened to a great interview with Rabbi Schmuley “America’s Rabbi” on last month’s Success CD recently. Here is one of the takeaways:
“We’re surrounded in a culture that is just obsessed with death. Watch the evening news any given night, whether it’s NBC, CBS, ABC. Every one of those broadcasts starts with the end of the world. ’The Mississippi River is overflowing everyone is going to drown. Tornadoes, oil leaks, hurricanes, we’re all Gonna die! The economy is collapsing, no one owns a home anymore. I mean God Almighty, I’m sick and tired of these prophets of doom.
These aren’t the right values. The right values are these are challenges, but we believe in life and we’re a culture of life and we’re going to overcome them.”
It is critical to stay informed and abreast of the serious challenges our country is facing, but it’s time to focus on the positive and find solutions. Instead of watching the local evening news, pickup a magazine or book and learn something constructive. Read the newspaper where you can skip those murder articles. Stay informed, but save the hyperbole for someone else.
-JM
-JM
#1 by Matt VanSlyke on September 14, 2011 - 10:16 PM
They will now and then throw in a positive story but it’s usually about someone who had something very bad happen to them and they survived to tell the story of how bad it was. I have been watching Disney cartoons with my baby son recently instead of the Today show and I have to admit it’s a pretty nice way to start the day.