News that isn't

At the gym today I was exposed to what passes for news nowadays. 3 screens running...Fox and a couple of network morning shows. The Fox anchorwomen looked like models, and the main stories were Michael Jackson's homicide and some reality TV show murder. Very glad that we don't get TV signals anymore.

Meanwhile on the way home I listened to Democracy Now radio news, which talked about the high levels pesticides in our drinking water (and how that particular one makes frogs hermaphroditic).

Which is the news you could actually use? Care about? Impact your well-being and that of your loved ones?

Incredible to think that the lack of real useful information on our "news" programs serves to numb us out and misinform us, leaving us unaware of important issues that really impact our health.