Russell Brand
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Has The News Made Us NUMB To War?
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August 11, 2026
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1:09Now PlayingRussell argues that centralized mass media has become so clumsy and irrelevant compared to unfiltered content that even his daughters' YouTube feeds feel more substantial than traditional news, while actual war coverage has been reduced to something that feels like children's programming. He admits a genuinely unsettling reaction to hearing about a possible ceasefire breaking down and the risk of nuclear war, a strange flicker of relief simply because it represented change, before catching himself and remembering these are real people. The conversation turns philosophical, asking whether it matters how you die, peacefully surrounded by family or suddenly in an explosion, landing on a striking Christian reframe of what death actually means. A sobering reflection on how numb constant crisis coverage may have made us.
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