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Did the news ever provide solutions to our problem?

If a problem was so easy that some person with no expertise in the field could solve it on the same day that it becomes a problem, then I’d say that problem is too insignificant to make the news

Real news I supposed to just give you the facts on an issue and let people decide how they want to deal with it. The only news stations who think they “provide solutions” are most likely stations like Fox News that try to shove their opinions down everyone’s throats

Mr. Robot did a really good job: it used real world techniques and managed to make them work well in the context of a tv show.

No one watches necause it's centralized bias and fake. Even the financial news is pushing stocks. Forget about memestock analysts are secretly buying pumpanddumpstock.

Well yeah, you might stretch a million dollars to last a lifetime, but that doesn't make you rich. It just makes you less poor.

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Everything is politics. When something seems "apolitical" it just means that it's biases conform to your own. Even the choice of what objective facts to present and which to not present is a political question. By political I don't mean "Republican or Democrat" but rather anything that deals with human society is political. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with lettuce and tomato in the middle isn't objectively wrong, it just feels weird because all of us have agreed that this isn't how we build those sandwiches.

The problem happens when you see news that presents facts that challenge your biases, such as pro or anti-cop stories. Both of those things happened but only one of them feels political and the other is just news we need to know.

A better option is to look at multiple sources, focus on places that have a reputation for presenting actual facts and not made up ones, and always think about why they are saying the things they are saying.

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The alcohol industry survives by me hating everything about myself.

It's pretty similar with humans as well. When you smile you only show a tiny bit of teeth maybe sometimes a little more. But go up to a mirror, rise your upper lip to expose you teeth and you'll look vicious af.

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Ha so true

It's the NEWS. Not SOLUTIONS. The news these days provides way too many opinions anyway and should provide fewer.

Eye surgery, cosmetic surgery, dental implants, leg and arm lengthening/ shortening, genital surgery, plastic surgery

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I like the way I look. I also like the way makeup looks, no hate around here.

All about balance and building virtuous cycles or setting healthy levels overall, rather than ones that lead further down the rabbit hole of apathy.

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It never should’ve been made about race…but it was. Even the Tyre Nichols story is quieter than it would be if the cops were white.

Nope, Canada... We have the same problem as the other 2 though... And a lot of US media exposure.

Repeal ONE law and it will keep cops in check. Get rid of Qualified Immunity and make cops pay for lawsuits out of their own pockets. Not paid from ANY other source besides the cop's personal funds. Not city funds, not unions, not insurance.

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The majority of news is absolutely not. Let me guess, you live in the U.S/UK?