History Main / IgnoredVitalNewsReports

* Subverted in the beginning of ''TheLastOfUs''. In the prologue, Joel's daughter Sarah wakes up in the middle of the night while Joel is out on a job. She comes across a news report in Joel's bedroom (that is [[DeadlineNews cut off by a gas explosion]]). Joel and Tommy, when they get Sarah and try to flee the outbreak, talk about news reports including how many dead, where it started, and other things. Police cars are also seen speeding past.

* A couple of examples in ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'' where people try their best to ignore the news, but are forced to pay attention: Mrs. Brody with her son ("Dinosaur!"), and a bunch of gamblers in Las Vegas with [[spoiler: an EMP blast and then the female [=MUTO=] ripping away one the walls of their casino.]]

* In one episode of ''TheSpectacularSpiderMan'', Peter is so busy getting ready for school and talking to Aunt May that he doesn't notice the (muted) news report of the escape of the Sinister Six.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonsHowISpentMyVacation'', the Pigs' car radio picks up the report about the psycho killer [[CoincidentalBroadcast they inadvertently just picked up]]. Unfortunately, before Plucky, the only one who was aware they were in danger, could get the number for the authorities, Hampton's mother turned off the radio.

* In ''WesternAnimation/HowISpentMyVacation'', the Pigs' car radio picks up the report about the psycho killer [[CoincidentalBroadcast they inadvertently just picked up]]. Unfortunately, before Plucky, the only one who was aware they were in danger, could get the number for the authorities, Hampton's mother turned off the radio.

* In ThePowerpuffGirls the Professor sets up a curfew for the girls as they have to be in bed by 9:00 PM. When he watches the news it all features Townsville being attacked by everything the girls would handle but tries to ignore all of it because of the curfew. Only when he sees a channel reporting Daylight Savings Time ending and noticing he forgot to set the clocks back does he finally get the message and let them save Townsville.

* A couple of examples in ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'' where people try their best to ignore the news, but are forced to pay attention: Mrs. Brody with her son ("Dinosaur!"), and a bunch of gamblers in Las Vagas with [[spoiler: an EMP blast and then the female [=MUTO=] ripping away one the walls of their casino.]]

--> '''Engineer''': Good, you're not dead.

* ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds2005'' has a little bit of this in the beginning before the alien invasion.
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* ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'' famously has Johnny switch off the radio in the opening scene, just as the announcer is explaining that they're "back on the air after an interruption due to [[WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties technical problems]]".
** In the [[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1990 1990 remake]], Johnny and Barbara are too busy bickering to pay attention to the radio reports.

* ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'': Shaun practically ignores every unusual event that's happening around him due to being very preoccupied by his miserable personal problems. In fact when he wakes up in the morning he changes the channel every for every news bulletin or boring show. The news bulletins, which include a nature documentary, [[NewsMonopoly finish each others' sentences]] ([[ContrivedCoincidence even when switching to and from non-news channels]]), all talking about the dead coming back from the grave.

* 2005's ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' has a little bit of this in the beginning before the alien invasion.
* ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead'' famously has Johnny switch off the radio in the opening scene, just as the announcer is explaining that they're "back on the air after an interruption due to [[WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties technical problems]]".
** In the '90s remake, Johnny and Barbra are too busy bickering to pay attention to the radio reports.

* In ''Film/FrightNight'', Charlie and his mother are busy conversing when a news report about a murder plays on the TV. While never explicitly stated as such, the victim was presumably killed by the vampire next door.

* ''{{Threads}}'' has the main characters not pay much attention to the developing crisis in Iran, even though it's covered in TV and radio news reports all the time... Until the first Soviet nukes arrive.

* In NoituLove 2 we find a man sitting on a park bench calmly reading a newspaper, in the middle of a robot apocalypse that's been happening all game. As a strange inversion it seems that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIMWLSurr6g&list=UU3Q13RAmFVfDkYOWnnqFM2A he might have been better off paying attention to his surroundings instead of reading the news]]

* ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'': Shaun practically ignores every unusual event that's happening around him due to being very preoccupied by his miserable personal problems. In fact when he wakes up in the morning he changes the channel every for every news bulletin or boring show. Said news bulletins, which include a nature documentary, [[NewsMonopoly finish each others' sentences]] ([[ContrivedCoincidence even when switching to and from non-news channels]]), all talking about the dead coming back from the grave.

* Minor example in ''{{Cheers}}'': when Lilith announces she's leaving Frasier, the latter threatens to jump off the building above the bar. Meanwhile in said bar, the gang is obliviously watching TV with Norm channel surfing and happening to glance a report about "some guy threatening to jump off a building". An extremely agitated Cliff then shouts at Norm to go back...to an episode of ''{{Quincy}}''. Only ''then'' does Sam ask to change to the "jumper" and they realize who it is.
* In a parody, the lads on ''TheYoungOnes'' actually ''did'' watch a news flash about a police siege, but they never noticed that it was happening at their own house. Even when it concludes ''inside'' their house.

* ''{{Threads}}'' has the main characters not pay much attention to the developing crisis in Iran, even though it's covered in the TV news reports all the time... Until the first soviet nukes arrive.

--> '''Engineer''': "Good, you're not dead."

** He also takes the phone off the hook when going to bed, forcing someone from NASA to break into his apartment to get his help.

In the world of TwentyFourHourNewsNetworks it's hard not to stay up to date with all the world's problems and issues. Well, that's if you're actually paying attention to the news, that is. This trope is when a lot of the impending doom and gloom has been ignored because the characters were going about their lives in a mundane, nonchalant way while ignoring all of the breaking news on the radio and TV. Usually missing out on the early reports of the incoming AlienInvasion, [[RobotWar the rise of the machines]], the coming ZombieApocalypse, or just bad crappy severe weather. Which of course would have saved them a lot of trouble later. [[TruthInTelevision But hey, this happens to us all in real life, right?]]

* ''{{xkcd}}'' [[http://xkcd.com/1387/ suggests]] "To make news stories way more ominous, imagine you're heading them from a background TV in a movie as the main character leaves."

''{{xkcd}}'' [[http://xkcd.com/1387/ suggests]] "To make news stories way more ominous, imagine you're heading them from a background TV in a movie as the main character leaves."