{"id":996,"date":"2009-12-05T17:25:22","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T17:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=996"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:00:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:00:19","slug":"try-a-world-and-local-news-media-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/try-a-world-and-local-news-media-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Try a world and local news media fast!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love sports radio- as many of you know. I stopped listening to and reading all local and world news about six months ago and moved into sports.<\/p>\n

Sports radio is a lot of fun and man on man do those guys gossip! They gossip more than any tabloid magazine. I find it very funny and relaxing. Sports are big business and there\u00a0are a lot of negative behaviors, lying, cheating, backstabbing, trash talking and throwing too many interceptions – especially if you are my favorite player- Jay Cutler!<\/p>\n

And yet, it’s all done in a rather positive way with a lot of laughter and playfulness.\u00a0 Even the recent story of Tiger Woods and his ‘transgretions’ was handled differently in the sports radio world than in the tabloids.\u00a0 It’s refreshing.<\/p>\n

What is my point in all of this?\u00a0 When I watched the news, listened to NPR (National Public Radio) all day and read the Internet and even the newspaper headlines, I became upset. The stories rarely changed and there was so much murder, abuse and war that it simply overwhelmed me- especially when I was depressed.\u00a0 About four months after my media fast, I missed listening to NPR so I turned it on. The stories were exactly the same as when I stopped listening. In fact, they were the same stories from last year and the year before.<\/p>\n

So I 100% stopped.\u00a0 Interestingly, there is little that goes on that I don’t hear about through a glace at the Yahoo home page or through my very politically savvy friends. If I want to know, I can ask.<\/p>\n

This has changed my life.\u00a0 I now have a truly enjoyable entertainment outlet in sports radio- I can even listen to it before I go to bed.<\/p>\n

If you have a lot of depression, anxiety, money worries or just plain old stress, consider a media fast of at least a month. You may find it will turn into a lot more!<\/p>\n

And if you’re a sports lover and want to have a\u00a0 few hours with a lot of\u00a0 well known guests and a lot of great laughs, visit www.danpatrick.com<\/a><\/p>\n

I do have to say sports is not all fun and games- especially when your favorite player leads the league in interceptions!\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Julie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love sports radio- as many of you know. I stopped listening to and reading all local and world news about six months ago and moved into sports.<\/p>\n

Sports radio is a lot of fun and man on man do those guys gossip! They gossip more than any tabloid magazine. I find it very funny and relaxing. Sports are big business and there are a lot of negative behaviors, lying, cheating, backstabbing, trash talking and throwing too many interceptions – especially if you are my favorite player- Jay Cutler!<\/p>\n

And yet, it’s all done in a rather positive way with a lot of laughter and playfulness. Even the recent story of Tiger Woods and his ‘transgretions’ was handled differently in the sports radio world than in the tabloids. It’s refreshing.<\/p>\n

What is my point in all of this? When I watched the news, listened to NPR (National Public Radio) all day and read the Internet [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11927,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/11927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}