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Comment by JKCalhoun | Hacker News Reader

Pretty much all of cable news...

After cutting the cord when our first daughter was born, we were often surprised to come down from a hotel room to get breakfast in the lobby to find that some horrific things were happening, cities were burning, people being murdered, a world spinning out of control.

Oh yeah, I had to remind myself, cable news was like that. So we grabbed coffee to go and headed out to the National Park to hike with the kids.

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Similarly, it's terrible that the default thing on TV at airports and gyms is cable news. It's especially absurd at the gym - going to be healthy and feel some nice endorphins, and then you're subjected to the worst things happening in the world. Comical, really.

Cable news being the choice entertainment of airports is especially funny when all the TVs are showing the plane with stuck landing gear trying to come down just outside the window. A plane with stuck gear is a minor issue that happens periodically and has very little chance of causing problems, but from the news coverage you'd think it was an unthinkable disaster.

This is the main reason I cancelled my gym membership. I got tired of going to the gym to clear my head, only to leave angrier than when I got there.

I don't know why more gyms don't show sports on the TVs. It seems like a much more natural fit.

I would rather gyms simply not have TVs. Anyone who wants to watch something is always carrying a device that can let them.

At least at the airports I've been to recently, it seems CNN lost that contract. The TVs are off or showing some nature scene.

Yep

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