I hardly ever watch the news on TV anymore
“I hardly ever watch the news on TV anymore,” my colleague said the other day. “All you hear about is killings, wars, crimes … I’m tired of sad and depressing news.” It may be a general trend, because the same phenomenon has been observed in France, where one of the comedy shows, Scenes de ménage, on the TV channel M6 has higher audience ratings than the 8 o’clock evening news. My colleague continues : “Every day I get hundreds of…