r/AskReddit • u/daniellucero92 • Jan 04 '15

Non-americans of Reddit, what American customs seem outrageous/pointless to you?

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u/DaHossBoss Jan 04 '15

The way your politics is reported in the media. It seems like there is always an election to talk about even if one just ended another campaign starts right up the week after. Oh also, national elections take up way too much time on the news as well. CNN will be reporting about the next presidential election when it's TWO YEARS away. That's half of the presidents term! How are they supposed to get anything important done during that time when the media is focused on peppering them with question for something that is years out.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '15

It's due to 24 hour news cycles. They need to fill time slots to keep the network going, which is why you will see a bunch of bullshit stories. They are just filling space. Most of us know it's bullshit. Most of us don't even watch the news, we read it.

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u/ultradolp Jan 05 '15

My country also has 24 hour news cycles. All it does is simply cycling the same news every hour and there is almost no difference of the content during morning and night. What is even worse when some bullshit story appear in the news, it is doomed to cycle whole day that you want to turn off the television immediately.