How much time are you spending watching the war?

[Jennie@ifish]

How much of your free time do you spend watching the war on television, the internet, or the radio?

[Snapset]

Too much and it is making me sick. When I don't stay up to the minute, I feel guilty because our people are over there dying and the least I could do is to at least know what is goin on, right? That sounds pathetic, I know.

I am road tripping tomorrow and if the weather holds, for the rest of the week. It will be good to take a break from the news.

[1pump]

I wasn't planning on watching much of it, but some of the live coverage is unprecedented and definitely worth watching, if you have the stomach for it.
Lately the talking heads on Fox and CNN are more than I can stomach sometimes. :depressed:

[Smj]

I am interested and I tried watching it but it's so much of the same thing over and over. I would have to watch for too long to catch any thing new, like 1pump says about the talking heads also. I read every thing the Oregonian had to say about the war, that is working for me.

Against Bush and his war--Support the troops!

Smj

[ryleysmom]

I see and hear to much of it but I try to get away from it in the evening a bit. It is hard because a part of me wants to watch so I can know what is going on (as I have a couple of friends over there) but a part of me cant stand to watch it because it is war and nobody likes war.Then the gal that sits next to me at work checks the web all the time to see what is going on(Both her cousins are over there) and she fills me in and then the radio highlights it during the day every hour. So I guess I can say that I have been watching to much of it.

Dont support Bush and this war~~ But support our Troops!

[GutshotApe]

fisherlady76 - I can't recite the quote exactly, but I think it was Robt.E. Lee? who said something like: "It is good that war is so terrible otherwise we would come to like it too much".

War is terrible...but, like another ifisher posted on another thread, there are things worse than war.

I support President Bush...I think this war is necessary...and, or course, I support our troops. I think a case could be made that public opposition to our government and the war to oust Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein & his cronies is counter-productive...and ultimately hurts our troops because CNN still reaches Iraq and the Iraqi leadership's perception of US public opinion could influence events in Iraq.

[Fishplay]

Too much...... WAY too much!

[Hoosier Daddy]

Everyone should spend enough time to know what's going on. I try to limit it to that though.

Just seems that watching more is playing right into big media's OJ/All-war-all-the-time mentality, and that drives me nuts, so I won't watch it that much.

To each his own though. But if it's starting to make you sick maybe you should turn it off. War seems to get more terrible in direct proportion to the media's access to pictures of it. War is ALWAYS awful (and always has and will be), ESPECIALLY what we can't see on TV.

[Silver Hilton]

Kind of an interesting effect - I keep the TV off, but when the stock market starts to move, I turn it on. The market is moving up and down when the interesting stories break. When it's just more footage of driving across the deert, it stays flat.

I follow the NPR feed as much as anything.

[edsr]

It is impossile to escape the the constant barage of war news, and I do mean barage. News is supposed to be, well, NEW, as in something that has just happened, or there is an urgent up-date. In the U.S. we are subjected to everyone and their dog re-hashing the same events, over and over, nothing "new" and giving it their "personal" spin.

Enough already!

Report the NEWS, I'll do my own comentary thank you.

Remember the Sat. Night Live show "Buckwheat Is Dead", complete with many talking heads? Only this is not a spoof.

Let's just go fishin!
edsr