Sadly, I know too many people that don't watch the news and really don't know what's going on in their own backyard, let alone what's going on in the world today. I'm not the most informed person on the planet, and I certainly don't watch the news everyday, but I at least keep up to date on things as much as possible.

Yes, my mom does every morning. I refuse to watch the news. I don't want to hear about the deaths & rapes & thefts

I don't watch the news and I don't scare me. I READ the news. It is much more in-depth and detailed than the sound bites on TV.

yes, no

I never watch the news or listen to it and rarely, if ever, read the paper.

I don't watch the news and no it doesn't scare me

No, I don't watch the news but READ the news. Even that is suspect. After all, depending on the OWNER of the news station and the owner of the newspaper, it is slanted toward their preferences. So, I/we in our own household get a cross section of newspapers AND magazines, like 'Weekly World News' which are compilations of various newspaper reports and/or columns from around the globe, give a wider and global perspective. We also subscribe to various magazines ... like 'REASON' that frankly hold our particular 'slant,' which probably in the end is what everyone does and reads. However, I don't know why you would 'be scared' of someone who doesn't read the news! Frankly and for the most part, IT is 'just' repetition of the ways of human nature as we know it, so far: War, yet again or continuing ... our soldieers ... their soldiers lives lost ... oh yeah, 'that's right' to THAT righteous cause ... someone got killed ... some country is invading another ... prices are up ... prices are down ... someone got raped ... the father did it ... no, it was the mother because of post-partum depression ... there was an earthquake in {---] ... some politician got rousted for a misdeed ... there was corruption ... some religionist was found in the room with a 'working woman' ... house prices are up ... no, house prices are down ... global warming IS ... no global warming 'isn't ... 'they' said' ... no, 'those' said ... in other words ... same ole same old. AND, we call this 'being informed???!!!!" When ever will we as the human race do it 'better,' especially since we have the plethora of ancient history, old history and current history that informs us we have or haven't done nearly as well as 'we could?' I would ask the newspapers and specially their political published 'slant' of news, national or global or even universal ... WHAT IS YOU JOB? Your upset at those who don't read the news is a gross misunderstanding perhaps of those who have grown 'sick and tired' of feeling frustrated with it all , regardless of status, education or income!

Because I don't watch the news, but instead read from a lot of different sources, I am well informed... and my AB answers show it. TV news is shallow. It's entertainment, not information. And it's slanted and biased. Many of the most important stories don't make it on at all, and you don't remember it for very long. We only see what can be easily photographed and what looks interesting on video. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the genocide in Rwanda were almost completely ignored.

are you speaking of mainstream news??? then no, i don't watch it and consider it to be garbage. i prefer alternative press if anything and in that case yes, i do keep very up to date. its important to stay informed and NOT brainwashed. i feel like in the states misinformation is predominant in CBS, FOX, NBC, CNN and any others who emit on the airwaves.

Am I scared that there are people who are either misinformed or not informed at all? No. I just described the average person right there. Plenty of people don't watch the news. Who would want to watch Fox & Friends anyway?

Not specifically, but it scares me the number of totally ill informed people that function in our society and even worse, vote! People who have no insight at all about history, how politics or government works, how the judicial system functions, what makes things work economically, etc. While I don't expect everyone to be experts, they should have a basic idea of how these things work just to be a responsible citizen.

i try not to watch the news or listen to the radio if i can help it. it's just so depressing. all the deaths, all the shootings, murders, accidents, i know they happen but it's better for me to not hear them happening repetitively day after day.

What scares me more are the number of people that watch the news.

My sister is a military wife. She doesn't watch, shes afraid of the news. No it doesn't scare me.

My Mum deosnt watch the news or read a paper. She finds stuff out from me or her friends. She says that its bcause itupsets her as there is never any good news anymore. I see her point, but I'd still rather know what was going on.

I neither watch the news nor read newspapers. They are both sensationalistic, their primary goal is not to report the news it's to sell news stories for ratings and circulation. I get informed by talking with people and researching what I deem necessary or interesting. I do watch comedic news shows such as the Daily Show and Colbert Report as that is more likely to catch my interest and helps me keep a healthy skepticism. If I believed everything in the news, there is a child molester in every other house, a terrorist on every street corner, and all big businesses don't care if every child is poisoned with waste from factories.

I don't watch the news... scared?

i know some who are too busy to watch the news - they dont know what is going on and they miss out on conversations - i make it a point to watch - i feel like i am missing something if i dont

I dont watch the news. I find that alot of people that do tend to have a warped sense of whats really going on in the world due to having propaganda shoved down their throats.

no not really. i don't really watch the news myself.