To not want to watch the News morning and night

[NotTheNews]

I hate the news and always have. I was a worrier as a child (still am!) and I found the news scary growing up. Obviously I'm now an adult and I still hate the news. I'm ok with the radio etc but the morning news and dinner time news just depress me. DP insists on it being on. I'd love to just have the radio on or even nothing but on it goes every morning and night.

I'm a news junkie and have the news on all the time unless I'm actually watcing/listening to something else. I'm so sad I even watch the parliament channel esp PMQ's. But even I can get that for someone who finds politics etc depressing or a source of anxiety, it's bloody awful.

Is there a possible compromise here, eg just the 3 main bulletins (morning, lunchtime and evening) and music or something else the rest of the time?

No, YANBU- it’s relentlessly bloody miserable news every day. But - he insists? What makes Mr Bossy get the final say in what you both listen to 7 days a week? How about you each get a say on alternate days.

I don’t watch the news anymore. If i want to know something i go online. It seriously bores me. Same fucking drivel day in day outz

Your husband wanting to watch the morning news and evening news really isnt unreasonable. He's an adult. He wants to be informed. It's easy to have the news on in the morning while you're getting sorted out for the day/having breakfast etc.
If you dont like it then you dont need to be in the same room as the television. Unless he has it playing one TV in every room of the house?

I would bet that your DP listens to the same news provider each time. Tell him you want to have news from a different broadcaster each day, RT one day and CNN the next. Maybe chuck in Fox News for a laugh, you can stream online easily enough.

Only just seen that someone/people has/have replied!

@themalamander our downstairs is open plan so unless I have breakfast upstairs then I'm in the same room unfortunately.

I got rid of all of my social media. I only come on here and read certain threads. I stopped reading the news. I feel much happier now. I used to read Twitter and be utterly depressed after. Now I feel much happier

I know what you mean - it can get a bit much sometimes cant it, but radio doesnt fill the space in the same way tv does.

What does he get from tv that he cant get from radio? Radio 4 usually has better analysis.

I dont think its fair he insists on having it on knowing you dont like it. I would tell him to choose either breakfast or evening news.

I was going to say the same as themalamander

I guess it's just one more reason to add to all the others why fully open plan living is such a bad idea.

Your desire to not want the news on doesn't trump his desire to want the news on. Can't you distract yourself ?
Or what if you prefer to listen to some music - how do you work round that? Can you take turns ? Eat breakfast at a slightly different time ?

@BackforGood he just turns the radio off and puts the TV on. Our downstairs is small and in fairness it isn't so bad now Piers Morgan has left GMB but I still find it a bit much. It's just depressing. I am busy in the mornings but I still catch bits.

@Paranoidandroidmarvin1350 I'm glad I'm not the only one. I did the same with social media so much better for me.

I'm the same. I haven't watched it in years. My dh knows how it affects me so won't have it on if I'm in the same room as him. It's so dramatic and doom laden.

How do you keep yourself informed if you don't watch the news?

Radio
Podcasts
Newspaper
Online newspaper subscriptions
Social media content
Special interest groups

Is how I do it.

That was to @VladmirsPoutine

I don't think either of you is necessarily being unreasonable. But I actually quite like a constant stream of news throughout the day. But I do understand news fatigue.

@VladmirsPoutine I get news updates in relation to my job at work and generally someone might say something and I'll ask or have a look on BBC news. I'm probably not a worthy person to speak to about current affairs which is fine by me

I don't think either of you ABU but you do need a compromise. Maybe try some other things like a different channel. I've never heard a radio breakfast show that didn't have bulletins every 30 minutes.

Is there no way he can get his news fix on his commute? I try to avoid rolling news type coverage myself but i do have a couple of weekly podcasts that discuss current events in an interesting way, so stay up to date without being constantly bombarded.

If you are OK with the radio then agree to that, and Radio 4 is much better than tv news in any case.

Or does he just want to gawp at Susanna Reid or Sophie Raworth, or one of the other presenters?

@newnortherner111 haha that might just be the reason! But it doesn't explain the evening news sadly.

I bloody hate watching the news. It's always so depressing.
In fact, we hadn't really watched it for months because I was fed up of watching that clown bumble and fumble his way through the updates.
Except now dh has to watch it so that he can snap out oc his conspiracy theory fug.

Solutions though - a tv in another room is probably the only way.
Growing up, my dad would insist on watching all the news programmes - in the days that you'd get:
ITN 5:45
Bbc news 6pm
Channel 4 news 7pm
Emmerdale Farm (it was the only fiction he'd watch )
Bbc news 9pm
News at 10 10pm

The only way we could survive not watching all the news was having a telly in the back room.