https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 06 May 2026 14:51:22 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-pay-attention-to-the-news#post-2476800 Sat, 27 Feb 2016 00:33:14 +0000 2littlepumpkins 2476800@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I follow a lot of news.</p> <p>The tiny houses thing I thought was written to stir the pot, but I kept thinking, the guy who built them had to have known this could happen. I can see why they had to remove them. I tried to go through in my head ways they could relocate them without taking funds from some other equally important program. I just couldn't think of anything except maybe to have given them back to the builder, but then they weren't really property of the builder either. Homelessness is such a complicated issue, I was talking about this with a friend and I really think they were between a rock and a hard place in terms of liabilities. I take issue with a lot of things city council says &amp; does but in that one I though they were sort of vilified because what happened to the guy with the medical issues was truly so sad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-pay-attention-to-the-news#post-2476430 Fri, 26 Feb 2016 15:52:59 +0000 Mrs. Chocolate 2476430@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Torchwood: So not to do a thing with your question but I just realized your username and was wondering if it had a Dr Who connection </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-pay-attention-to-the-news#post-2476424 Fri, 26 Feb 2016 15:45:33 +0000 lamariniere 2476424@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm kind of a news junkie. I subscribe to the NYT online and The New Yorker print edition. I keep tabs on headlines so I know what's going on, but prefer to read in-depth.</p> <p>@tofuwad: that gravitational wave thing was mind-blowing (non-scientist here). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-pay-attention-to-the-news#post-2475954 Fri, 26 Feb 2016 10:38:09 +0000 tofuwad 2475954@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I like to filter it with topics I find interesting like health and science news (gravitational waves FTW). That way I can distract myself with learning about new stuff. But I definitely struggle with this. My husband is really into politics right now and it just makes me too depressed so I don't think about it. Damn writing this makes me feel super callous but I guess my answer is just ignore the terrible stuff and focus on your life???</p> <p>ETA: what I mean is that I focus on my life, not that that's what everyone should do! I'm a really sensitive person so this is a struggle for me. I can't even watch dramas because they make me too upset. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-pay-attention-to-the-news#post-2475854 Fri, 26 Feb 2016 09:48:02 +0000 yoursilverlining 2475854@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I listen to NRP on my way into work and do keep up with the news in other ways. I think, even though the news generally can be awfully depressing, it’s important to keep up on it. Most of what’s happening isn’t happening in a bubble – like that IL bill for example. Seems so crazy and bizarre and one-off, but it isn’t. In LA, there are a lot of fights over rent control and demands for city government to pass greater eviction regulations going on and the kicking out of the homeless from tiny homes will likely have an impact on those fights and the bills there before city government. </p> <p>Then of course, every week there is a new mass shooting here in the US to contend with, which of course is upsetting as hell (yesterday/today being no exception). My feeling of balance comes from my belief that the more I know, the more empowered I am. If I stick my head in the sand, the world keeps moving, only I know less about it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-pay-attention-to-the-news#post-2475830 Fri, 26 Feb 2016 09:36:20 +0000 yin 2475830@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I like listening to NPR. It filters out the news I don't want to hear about and focuses on what's important to me. I only started listening last year and I'm pretty addicted. I was not interested before because of the same reasons you listed. Now I feel better being more informed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-pay-attention-to-the-news#post-2475133 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:21:30 +0000 MaryM 2475133@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have to follow news because of my job. </p> <p>But I tend to follow it more on twitter than on facebook. Tweets live SO much of a shorter life than facebook posts. I feel like I don't dwell on the negative as much when it leaves my feed more quickly. </p> <p>And I hide the people who constantly complain or only share the bad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-pay-attention-to-the-news#post-2475105 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:06:14 +0000 Torchwood 2475105@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I stopped paying attention to the news in recent years because it's so damn depressing. But of late, with all the election nuttiness, I've started following more pages that share actual news stories (on FB). And now I feel like I'm just constantly angry! Not about the election stuff so much (at this point it's just too bizarre), but some of the stories I see. Republicans in Illinois have proposed a bill that says if an unmarried woman won't name the father to be put on the birth certificate, they have to name another family member who will provide financial assistance in raising the kid or they don't get a birth certificate and don't qualify for state assistance. The LA city council having cops evict homeless from some tiny houses that were donated and destroying them. And on and on. What is wrong with people? Even the parenting pages occasionally share upsetting news stories, like the inner city school principal who wouldn't let kids go to a school wide pajama party if they weren't wearing what he considered actual pajamas. There are happy stories, like the 106yo black woman getting to go to the White House to meet Obama (which is just incredible when you consider what she's seen to be able to meet our first black president. But with media being what it is, the bad always seems bigger.</p> <p>How do you find balance? How do you not just stick your head in the sand but also stay sane? </p>