Can anyone tell me why the evening news is so brainless? The more I watch, the more idiotic I become. They’re either reporting something atrocious, or something you already know. And if you don’t know, then you should just take a hike.
Last night, for instance, a channel did a special on the mercury levels in tuna. They were instructing pregnant women not to eat tuna because it’s dangerous to the baby. And even if you aren’t pregnant, the amount of mercury in tuna could be fatal if you eat too much of it. They must be joking. If I of all people know that, I don’t know how other people seriously did not.
Then the woman reporting goes on about how she’s going to eat a can of tuna everyday for 20 days and test the mercury level in her blood. After eating it for 10 days straight the doctor tells her to stop because the risks are not worth it. Am I the only one who thinks this is the most ludicrous thing ever? I didn’t know I was watching the fish version of Super Size Me. And since when did the reporters become the guinea pigs?
The best thing about it was that the reporter was dead serious and totally in to it. The doctor was too, and of course is some anti-fish woman. Have these people never heard of Vitamin B3 or other substitutions? I was waiting the entire story to hear something that I did not know. Good thing I wasn’t holding my breath.
Now they’re trying to get warning signs from the FDA to place in the supermarkets to caution people on their intake of tuna fish. If you are eating so much tuna that you could possibly overdose or become sick, you need help. Or maybe you should just end it yourself. Now everyone is going to be scared of eating tuna. But I guess that’s what the news does best, frightens people even more than needed. Little bit of advice for the nightly news: Get real.
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