There is a theory based on several observations and analyses that, an individual's mental state and health are adversely affected by reading and watching conflicting news every day.
Also, this is true of the effect of watching soap operas/melodramatic serials and serieses day after day; we are paying our hard-earned money, and spending valuable time, and energy; just to destroy our own mental equilibrium.
Of all these only 10% might be useful, that we could get from anywhere else.
As per one survey in a daily newspaper of India, some years ago; certain such serials have been responsibile for breaking marriages of several couples; and ironically some of such serial producers had been given Padma awards, whereas several engineers and scientists have gone unrecognized. These producers have become millionaire, and the gullible watchers remain as poor as they were, and mentally more racked.
It is a fact that the story-writers are fetched from North India, they are young, they don't have much experience of life, and they are asked to write scripts for several such channels, and for several episodes for a week; and we the highly experienced people watch these stories, and get confused and perplexed; how can there be any real sense of progress in such stories?; these writers have to do so many episodes in a week's time, and month after month they do; where would be real and useful creativity?; where would be a real sense of maturity?
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