Even the 10-20 minutes of reading he suggests would be worse as TV. What a medium like video brings to the table over text with the occasional diagram is new ways to not necessarily convey purely factual information, but to convey emotion.
They hype you up, yell, state everything in a super serious energised manner that I wouldn't consider appropriate unless I was trying to convince someone to either join me in a riot or a suicide. And that's just when I hear it on when I visit my mother and the biggest news story is some dodgy trady scandal. I imagine everyone involved in the entire predatory fear mongering tv news industry is currently salivating non-stop at the thought of the distress they can cause with a genuine pandemic.
No you shouldn't watch TV coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak at all.
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Even the 10-20 minutes of reading he suggests would be worse as TV. What a medium like video brings to the table over text with the occasional diagram is new ways to not necessarily convey purely factual information, but to convey emotion.
They hype you up, yell, state everything in a super serious energised manner that I wouldn't consider appropriate unless I was trying to convince someone to either join me in a riot or a suicide. And that's just when I hear it on when I visit my mother and the biggest news story is some dodgy trady scandal. I imagine everyone involved in the entire predatory fear mongering tv news industry is currently salivating non-stop at the thought of the distress they can cause with a genuine pandemic.
No you shouldn't watch TV coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak at all.