I dont watch cable news 24/7 but I haven't heard anything

[doc03]

about Ukraine for at least a week. Yes these shootings are
an important news story but does it have to be 60 minutes of every hour. There isn't that much new information that they couldn't take a 10 minute break for other news. Another thing it seems like the subject now is
mostly on the police response to the shooting rather than
the crime it's self.
I will show my age here but back in the days of CBS news Walter Conkrite would cover world events in what 22 minutes. Today we have people glued to MSNBC or Fox 24/7 and we are less informed now than 50 years ago.

[mucifer]

1. The war is not going well in the Donbas

[doc03]

3. Exactly from what I have read, the Russians are making

some advances.

[anarch]

8. probably why it's not being mentioned I guess

gotta control the narrative after all

[hlthe2b]

2. I think the network nightly news still do a short segment, but yes, all things Ukraine have

dropped to the background. Understandable, but also unfortunate. Hopefully, we will see a bit more balance resume in reporting of these major stories.

[doc03]

4. I should have said rather than people are less

informed about world events than back then. Now we are being misinformed depending on the political agenda of the news outlet.

[Raine]

5. I haven't heard much either and I want to know about Ukraine

and keep up to date on what's going on. It's too important to be shoved into the background.

[doc03]

6. It will stay on the back burner until Russia drops a

nuke or we go a couple weeks before another shooting.
Back in the 70s the support for the Vietnam war calapsed
when Walter turned on it. Now we have no trust of what the news media feeds us. They all have their own political agenda.

[Lonestarblue]

16. Try reading The Guardian. They have an update on Ukraine every day.

And there’s no paywall.

[Raine]

21. Thanks ... 👍 nt

[HUAJIAO]

20. BBC, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, etc,, on line..

[Raine]

22. Thanks, I'll check them out. nt

[katmondoo]

7. The MSN have been covering the school shooting in Texas of 19 kids dead

and two teachers.

[hunter]

9. I quit all television news and opinion shortly after 9-11-2001

It was useless noise. Television is not a good medium for news, not now, and not in Walter Cronkite's day.

My wife and I read all our news.

There's plenty of international news on the internet.

For example, the front page of dw.com usually has all sorts of news about Ukraine.

https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097

[Alice Kramden]

18. Also good sources for news online:

Aljazeera and The Guardian UK

[Ferrets are Cool]

10. The repugs would like nothing better than for child murders on thier watch

to be shuffled back into the shadows.

[doc03]

11. I never said they shouldn't cover it. It is there are other things going on in the world it doesn't

have to be 1440 minutes of the day.

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. Is that all they are covering? I don't watch the news. I get mine from DU.

[doc03]

13. On the cable news that's about it. I get more here on DU than from the TV

myself. The cable news if just like running a 60-minute 8 track tape all day 90% is just repeating
what we heard the day before.

[niyad]

14. I just checked The Guardian, and it has some very good coverage on Ukraine.

As does Der Speigel, and other European news outlets.

[Arkansas Granny]

15. IMHO cable news and most network news programs spend too much time on on human interest stories

and not enough time on factual reporting. There is a place for the emotional, feel good stories, but world news programs should deal with current events without injecting the reporters opinions.

I get my news from PBS and online sources that I trust to be based on facts.

Your Walter Cronkite reference is spot on. His evening news was a staple in our house when I was growing up and until his retirement.

[COL Mustard]

17. We have short attention spans.

It's not surprising that Ukraine has dropped off the radar, at least for now. The Uvalde shooting hit home for many people and domestic affairs are always more newsworthy. That said, I believe the flow of weapons to Ukraine is continuing and accelerating so hopefully they can hold out. I'm sure their soldiers are exhausted.

[Dustlawyer]

19. +1!!!

Over saturation of the story wears people out about it. I have remarked about the lack of other news since the shooting. I am not insensitive to what happened, quite the opposite, but we don’t need it to be 100% of what we see and hear for days. My 85 year old mom stays in tears and cannot turn it off. She needs a break from it.

[cksmithy]

23. I have a Roku

for Britbox, Acorn, etc., they have Sky News, for free. Sky News is UK, Europe based, they cover the war in Ukraine every day. They even have a US based reporter. From what I have seen it is more fact then opinion, though, they do have opinion shows. I also watch the BBC Word News channel which is only included in a very expensive cable package, but is from the UK/BBC perspective. Sometimes is just sounds like repub talking points, but it does include news from all around the world. There is a lot going on that our main stream media doesn't report on until it is a huge (ratings) story.