[mrjh]

Yup, I have older relatives who are exactly like this and they ALL have a 24/7 news channel almost constantly playing on TV.

It’s an utterly toxic diet of fear-mongering and negativity that cripples anyone who gets addicted to it.

[brandonmenc]

I think equally if not more to blame are the gruesome crime and medical shows that seem to be the only things on network television for the past twenty years.

A steady stream of the most depraved and violent criminal human behavior with the crime shows, and with the medical shows the most horrific one-in-a-million accidents.

And continuously ratcheting up because each episode has to be more inventive than the last.