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Originally Posted by AlexB
QFT - I find reading news stories is a lot less stressful than watching news programmes now: while websites/papers have their angles, they generally don’t come across as polemic somehow, and the trend over here for ‘gotcha’ political questioning drives me nuts
Who knew 24-hour news programming could be so toxic? Ron Burgundy was right all along
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I third this. I haven't watched the news in months.
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