I Repeat: Step Away From Cable TV News

[redstateblues]

Since I stopped watching the corporate news shows I am in such a better state of mind- I'm staying well informed thanks to Air America, DU, Slate Online, and Salon. If enough people stop watching the whores their ad revenues will dry up. They have a continuing interest in promoting the "permanent war agenda"- it's a very profitable thing for the defense industries- like GE, parent company of NBC and MSNBC.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. CBS and Jennings are fine with me and as is Jim Leher....

and C-Span. There are some good telivision news outlets left and with their flaws, we must support them or else they will be taken over by the hard right and your evening "news" will be run by Fox!

[redstateblues]

4. Jennings may be ok- ABC is like the rest- They even let the

Monday Night Football announcers interject their right wing politics into the show. There are a few bright spots out there but you have to wade through too much BS to get there. I will watch Olbermann. I think the hard right has already taken over the media, if not outright, they have cowed them with their relentless accusations of "media bias" Even CBS is now very timid about reporting the truth on Bush since the forged document affair. It's grim out there.

[Connie_Corleone]

2. Kick!

I haven't watched any cable news this week.

[Mojambo]

3. A fine suggestion

I would only add that it is best to refer to it as Cable TV Opinion.

[redstateblues]

7. well put

[liveoaktx]

9. Or, as the book News Flash (about CNN) calls it *Infotainment*

[vi5]

5. It's no use. Certain people are just hooked....

Which is fine. We all have our bad habits and vices. I just hate when they feel compelled to subject us to the negative effects of their addiction by posting about it on here. "Oh my god, Tweety is being such a whore!!! God I hate him. You won't believe what he said!!!"

Honestly, it would be like back when I was a smoker if I felt compelled to make posts with lots of exclamation points detailing the exact shade of green the phlegm ball I just coughed up was. Or when I drank too much if I felt compelled to post about throwing up.

We all have our bad habits, but I wish people would have the decency not to subject the people on this message board to the horrid side effects of said bad habits. Come to think of it posts about vomit and green phlegm are probably more appealing than ones about Tweety.







<note> this post was somewhat tongue in cheek.

[apnu]

6. I stopped watching on the first evening of the DNC

We only turn on cable "news" to Fox once in a while to point and laugh at O'Sexxy.

[bush equals idiot]

8. Surely you jest.

[apnu]

10. no really... I do not watch cable news.

I read all of my news now.

I do turn on the Weather Channel on the 8's of the hour to catch the weather in the mornings, but I'm not sure that it really counts as "news"

Mostly we watch DVDs and the occasional hockey game, when Gary Bettman isn't being a total jerk-off.

[Zuni]

11. I watch it when I am on the computer

and it gets me madder than a fish in a blender.

I still cannot give it up.

I do prefer C-Span, PBS, CBS, BBC, NPR to anything else.

[montana500]

12. totally agree. nm

nm

[MsTryska]

13. I love watching Cable news.

the trick is to not believe any of it.


but it's always good to know what the next guy might be believing. I'd hate to get caught in any of my freeper skirmishes with my pants down because i wasn't prepped on the days talking points.

[johnnyrocket]

14. Fantastic advise! Their filth is "hurting America".

[Cha]

15. Yes, I would say being Traitors to

your Country is "hurting them".

They are promoting LIES and LYING themselves..about war. And supressing BAD news on corporate America.

There are no bigger Traitors than the cabal news..without them there would be no bush.