I've moved beyond the talking heads on TV. I don't need their analysis anymore.

[Cant trust em]

MTP, State of the Union and the like don't do it for me. I used to like to tune into these shows for a new point of view or analysis of a topic that I hadn't thought about. Now I feel like they aren't giving me anything that I couldn't have come up with myself. Maybe I'm a little bit more politically sophisticated than I used to be, but more likely it's just that these shows just wind up being about petty partisan junk. They never really talk about the issues, just about the spin. I guess I'll just have to stick to public television or NPR. I'm sure that many of you are in the same boat as I am.

[Fumesucker]

1. You can get more and better perspectives on politics in ten minutes on DU

Than you can watching all of the Sabbath Gasbag shows combined..

They have triple distilled "conventional wisdom" to remove any trace of original thinking..

Think of a concerto for dog whistle and orchestra..

[ThomWV]

2. I gotta have my Rachel

[Raven]

3. Me too, but I always learn something I didn't know from her, unlike

most of the others.

[a kennedy]

4. I haven't watched those talking head shows for years.....

I do like that CBS "Sunday Morning" show though.....

[Mugweed]

5. Welcome to reality.

I can put a bullshit spin on the events of the day all by myself. I haven't watched news for informative viewpoints for almost two decades. I watch it every so often to point out the bias or the outright paid advertisements masquerading as news.

[conscious evolution]

6. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."<1>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community

[Ikonoklast]

8. I always love reading that statement, and want to meet the enormous ego that spouted it.

Delusional, irrational, and completely ignorant of history and the role hubris plays in it.

[DisgustedInMN]

7. Welcome to a more realistic view of the world.

There are liars, damn liars, and political spokespeople. (<<< In decreasing order of truthfulness.)

[meeshrox]

9. 100% agree...

although I do adore Rachel, a recent article from thenation.com opened my eyes to corporate-lobbying-of-public-opinion in the media...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x520606

:shrug:

[Barack_America]

10. Stopped watching MTP once Gregory was given the seat...

...and stopped watching 'This Week' long before that.

Zakaria's show is good and I will watch that on occasion.

But I'm basically done with political shows.

[Cant trust em]

13. I do like Fareed.

It's one of the shows left that actually has experts, and not just blowhards.

[closeupready]

11. Many of them are lying anyway, or pushing their own agenda or view of events.

Pointless.

[robdogbucky]

12. I think the last time I took any of the dog and pony shows

on Sundays for example, was back in 89 or so when the Tienanmen Square incident received 24/7 coverage on CNN et al. Not that that particular incident's coverage contained any demoralizing behavior on the part of pundits, but that was about the time I stopped watching TV for any reliable political messages.

TV is good for disaster coverage for about a day, then even that devolves into infotainment, etc., and some sports and weather. The rest is just an ifomercial for whatever vested interests are paying the tab for that message content that particular day.

Hidden Persuaders, Valley of the Dolls, whatever the change, it crossed the Rubicon for me at about that point in time.


Just my dos centavos


robdogbucky

[Jennicut]

14. These shows are for the stupidest, least informed people. We know way too much

to sit through this crap. I swear, all of us on DU could school these so called reporters or pundits or whatever they call themselves. Rachel and maybe KO are about the only ones who know what they are talking about after big political events.

[Initech]

15. It's like everyone gets their talking points from the same place. I cant stand it.