Reply #11: I turned them off in January 2001.

[monchie]

The final straw was the triple-headed media feeding frenzy over a) the phony Marc Rich pardon "scandal", b) the phony WH trashing "scandal", and c) the phony Air Force 1 trashing "scandal."

Contributing factors included a) the media's "move along, nothing to see here" attitude with regard to the theft of a presidential election", and b) the media's Soviet-style suppression of coverage of the "inauguration" protests, including use of close-ups in order to avoid showing the angry crowd lining the parade route, and the mindless banter of the commentators who went out of their way to ignore the very visible fact that roughly 50-70% of the spectators were anti-election theft protesters. (C-Span was an exception to the rule--their cameras portrayed the event honestly and without commentators.)

The only honest cable news show is The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.