# Is there anything more boring than Year in Review news? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 31, 2017, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-boring-than-year-in-review-news/805613 "2017-12-31T04:08:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-boring-than-year-in-review-news/805613/21 "2018-01-02T20:55:00Z")
Agree with the OP. I like how they are always flogging “The year that changed history!”. Well, no duh, doesn’t every year become historic? It’s not that history was changed, it’s just that every year makes history of it’s own. Also, Tom Brokaw and his “Greatest Generation” shtick. I love history and WWII history as much as the next guy, and can appreciate the sacrifices people of that time made, but it seems he pops-up this time of year to “remember” those who died the prior year who are related to WWII, always reminding me that my generation is not, nor will ever be, the greatest. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-boring-than-year-in-review-news/805613/22 "2018-01-02T23:19:26Z")
> [@nate](#): > > This doesn’t rise to the level of a pit thread, so I put it here. > > Does anyone else hate this week of every year when every news program decides to review the news that happened during the year? I mean, who is the audience here? People that have been in a coma for the last 51 weeks? Anyone else experienced the year, no need to rehash it. They’re not catching anyone up, and there is nothing nostalgic about events that happened so recently. What’s the point? One of the things that was most strongly impressed upon me in 2016 and 2017 is that most people have no appreciable memory. I had two or three people tell me that they post things they had done to Facebook largely as a memory aid, not to be social or anything, and there was a clear two week dip in popularity polls for Trump after every large public appearance by him (e.g., the debates), and then everyone would forget why they were so negative on him for two weeks. Just try talking to people about anything that happened in the past and I think that you will be surprised to discover that they probably will have forgotten almost everything they read or heard about during 2017. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-boring-than-year-in-review-news/805613/23 "2018-01-02T23:26:56Z")
That sounds like an interesting experiment for myself, if nothing else. Keep a small journal for a few months, and then go back and see how much of it I remember. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-boring-than-year-in-review-news/805613/24 "2018-01-03T00:58:19Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > That sounds like an interesting experiment for myself, if nothing else. Keep a small journal for a few months, and then go back and see how much of it I remember. The trick is remembering to go back and check! 🙂 I usually skip those “year in review” things, but I did tune into an NPR “the year in science” blurb that I enjoyed. It was, however, mercifully short. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-boring-than-year-in-review-news/805613/25 "2018-01-03T01:29:45Z")
If year in review shows are boring, then awards shows, like the Academy Awards, are doubling boring. Not only does it rehash things of the past year, it rehashes particularly unimportant things that happened. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-boring-than-year-in-review-news/805613/26 "2018-01-04T05:47:46Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > We don’t do Jesus in Australian sport. I’ve always knew Australia was a Godless Hell-scape. 😃 (I still want to ride my motorcycle across/around it) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-boring-than-year-in-review-news/805613.md?page=1)