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* In ''Film/{{Apollo 13}}'', Ken Mattingly turns off his television just as the "Special Report" graphic appears. He goes to bed and misses the report on how the space mission is in danger.

%%* ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds'' has a little bit of this in the beginning before the alien invasion.

* ''Film/TheSilence2019''. Jude is playing a computer game on the TV when her mother switches it off, saying he has to do his homework. After she's left he switches the game back on again, turning off a news report about a "fourth plane crash" presumably brought down by TheSwarm of flying monsters. That night though the children are woken at three in the morning by their parents who have been following news reports on the crisis.

* ''Film/TheSilence2019''. Jude is playing a computer game on the TV when her mother switches it off, saying he has to do his homework. After she's left he switches the game back on again, turning off a news report about a "fourth plane crash" presumably brought down by TheSwarm of flying monsters [[TheyDugTooDeep who've been released]]. That night though the children are woken at three in the morning by their parents who have been following news reports on the crisis.

* 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 of the walls of their casino.]]

* In a season 3 episode of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', Hiro and Ando are trying to figure out why they have been sent to protect a baby, rather than the adult with the same name that they thought they were sent to protect. While they argue over possible explanations, the baby keeps turning on the TV...which is showing news reports of the adult they thought they were being sent to protect, wearing a suicide-bomber vest, being arrested outside the U.S. Capitol building. Hiro and Ando ignore the TV except to turn it off in annoyance every time the baby turns it on until they finally unplug the TV in frustration. [[spoiler: Then the baby turns the TV on yet again with his powers, and Hiro and Ando switch to enthusing about the baby having a mutant power, still ignoring the news reports on the TV until the baby's mother comes home and tells them about it]].

* In ''VideoGame/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]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' the Professor sets up a curfew for the girls as they have to be in bed by 7:30 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.

* ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'': Shaun practically ignores every unusual event that's happening around him due to being very preoccupied with 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, [[TwoScenesOneDialogue finish each others' sentences]] ([[AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption even when switching to and from non-news channels]]), all talking about the dead coming back from the grave.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE22JokersFavor "Joker's Favor"]]: {{Everyman}} Charlie Collin's car's radio broadcast the last part of the bulletin announcing ''someone'' has escaped and is considered armed and dangerous. Charlie, not being a {{superhero}}, only cares that this would aggravate the traffic jam he's in and goes in a RantInducingSlight [[TemptingFate on how his life sucks]]. Some minutes later, he will be [[MuggingTheMonster Mugging the Joker]]…

* {{Justified}} in ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut,'' which opens with a report about UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein having died. The thing is, that doesn't preclude him from being the BigBad once his lover, [[TheDevilIsALoser Satan]], brings about [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the Apocalypse]].

* In ''Film/TheClearing'', the protagonist ignores the news reports on the radio about [[ZombieApocalypse random violent attacks]] while driving himself and his daughter to a camp sight.

* In ''Film/TheClearing'', the protagonist ignores the news reports on the radio about random violent attacks while driving himself and his daughter to a camp sight.