Being Informed
I watch maybe about 30 minutes of TV a week. I have no TV service beyond what I'm given for free. I do not watch "News". There is simply nothing newsworthy about TV or news. It's programming, conditioning and if not that then it's simply numbing yourself.
If you are connected to others then you are informed. There is nothing beyond that which is required in order to be informed.
We are all programed our entire lifetime. I live alone and watch unlimited TV, movies, and news. In TV and movies I am able to watch a series from beginning to end and see every episode. Many that I saw as a child I have now seen again. The series took on new meaning this second time. Now I see it differently. Actors themselves have made up or assumed names just as the series does. They play act for you but maybe you do not see the real "message" until you are older. I see these programs without commercial advertising and admit that a lot of things in our world is all about selling you something.
With that said, let me move on into news. The way to watch news is to get a spin on it worldwide. Media locally is selling you something that is usually political. Get your politics and political parties OUT of your news in order to see what is going on here. No Dem or Repub views please. Weigh the news worldwide to what it is really about. Many times it is something that I do not give a damn about.Other times it is very informative.