# "News" stories we don't need to know. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 3, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-stories-we-dont-need-to-know/716734 "2015-04-03T19:22:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-stories-we-dont-need-to-know/716734/1 "2015-04-03T19:22:38Z")
[I do not need to know that Randy Quaid and his wife are posting selfie porn on the internet](http://www.salon.com/2015/03/18/i_watched_the_randy_quaid_porno_so_you_dont_have_to/). But in case YOU do … ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-stories-we-dont-need-to-know/716734/2 "2015-04-03T21:26:27Z")
This is one time I will happily waive the “pix or it didn’t happen” rule. ---
**Author:** ![get\_lives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@get\_lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/get_lives)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-stories-we-dont-need-to-know/716734/3 "2015-04-03T22:09:17Z")
Ahh. NOT going to watch this. ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-stories-we-dont-need-to-know/716734/4 "2015-04-03T22:38:47Z")
Yup, you’re right. We don’t need to know this, or watch it, either. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-stories-we-dont-need-to-know/716734/5 "2015-04-03T22:49:57Z")
FYI, the link is not to the video, but a story about the video. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-stories-we-dont-need-to-know/716734/6 "2015-04-04T00:54:56Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > FYI, the link is not to the video, but a story about the video. I don’t want to see even _that_ very much. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-stories-we-dont-need-to-know/716734/7 "2015-04-04T01:17:16Z")
I heard about this. I did not click on the link. I clicked AWAY from a news story that had pictures. And I clicked the HELL away from a site that had a self starting video. That’s how the zombie apocalypse starts: a lethal meme on the Internet that can be delivered directly into the cerebral cortex via a self starting video… ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-stories-we-dont-need-to-know/716734/8 "2015-04-04T03:54:00Z")
> [@Master\_Wang-Ka](#): > > That’s how the zombie apocalypse starts: a lethal meme on the Internet that can be delivered directly into the cerebral cortex via a self starting video… So that’s why the zombies require brains; they burned their own out with bleach. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-stories-we-dont-need-to-know/716734/9 "2015-04-04T04:07:43Z")
Most of the news is things I don’t need to know. [ul] [li]It affects me not one whit if Bruce Jenner is transitioning to the female gender; [/li][li]I don’t care what Kanye did or said; [/li][li]I don’t need to know that a woman gave birth while stuck in a presidential traffic jam;[/li][li]I don’t need to hear about people’s “reactions” to a famous person’s new hairdo;[/li][li]I don’t need to know anything about any reality tv star, ever.[/li][/ul] There’s more, but I’m tired. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-stories-we-dont-need-to-know/716734/10 "2015-04-04T12:12:19Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > Most of the news is things I don’t need to know. > > [ul] > [li]It affects me not one whit if Bruce Jenner is transitioning to the female gender;[/li][li]I don’t care what Kanye did or said;[/li][li]I don’t need to know that a woman gave birth while stuck in a presidential traffic jam;[/li][li]I don’t need to hear about people’s “reactions” to a famous person’s new hairdo;[/li][li]I don’t need to know anything about any reality tv star, ever.[/li][/ul] > > There’s more, but I’m tired. Over on one of the gawker blogs someone is doing some sort of “500 Days Of \ \” daily postings. I have no idea who she is, nor why she is famous, nor why you need to post 500 days of daily shit she is involved with. Hell, I am a major Rammstein fan, and unless I actively search for what they are up to I have no idea about what the hell they are doing. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-stories-we-dont-need-to-know/716734/11 "2015-04-04T12:40:04Z")
What most surprises me with modern media coverage is how they just keep milking stories with no apparent end in sight. Political scandals, celebrity shenanigans, sporting triumphs or disasters, plane crashes, mass shootings; all get an immediate barrage of coverage and you actually hear people talk about them, but then they just hang around getting gradually more peripheral coverage that no-one is interested in any more. Within months no-one can recall many of the most obvious details about something that was front page news for weeks. ---
**Author:** ![kbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kbear)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-stories-we-dont-need-to-know/716734/12 "2015-04-04T13:22:31Z")
Pretty much anything published by The Daily Mail