[Big Poppa Smurf]

I don't watch the news because it's not even really "news" most of the time. You turn it on or open the paper and all you see is mugging this, fire that, murder/rape blah blah blah. Nothing that is actually important or monumental, just depressing and scary.

However I must admit that the other big reason I don't care about the news is simply because I don't care. For the most part, national politics or world politics or going-ons really don't affect my life at all on a daily basis. The situations that do (UIGEA bill for example) I will pay attention to briefly, but since in general I don't think these things really affect my life and I have zero control over them, I just don't bother paying attention.

This is almost certainly a really bad attitude to have.