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If there was no news....?
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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.
Would we be better off without this knowledge, what purpose does it serve as most people probably don't act upon it.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.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.
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