Have you kicked the cable news habit?

[cheezus]

Poll question: Have you kicked the cable news habit?

Pissed off at the state of cable news? Turn it off!!!
Just because they're on the teevee doesn't mean that anyone is actually watching or cares.


I personally have been a junkie since 9/11 (feeling compelled to check CNN all the time in case the world came to an end and I missed it). Now I've been clean for over a week and it feels great.

[RubyDuby in GA]

1. I'd given up completely on morning cable "news"

so I started watching the Weather Channel just to get the weather, but they're biased too. It's ridiculous. I don't care that it's a beautiful sunny day where "President" Bush is today. How come it's never a beautiful sunny day where Senator Kerry is today???

Whores. The whole damn lot of them.

[htuttle]

2. I used to have a cable news channel on 4-5 hours per day

Now, I NEVER, EVER turn on cable news. Even when someone posts an 'ON NOW! GO SEE!' post about it.

1/2 hour of BBC World News, 1/2 hour of CBS, then an hour of Democracy Now is plenty enough television news each day.

[rawtribe]

3. I'm a Democracy Now junkie

http://www.democracynow.org/

[cheezus]

7. dammit, another reason to get a dish

[DenverDem]

12. Me, too. Democracy Now rox.

God Bless Amy Goodman.

[kerryin2004]

4. I no longer have cable because of them..

Fuck em all, the internet can give me all the news I need and I don't have to watch them sing the praises of the boy king!

[UdoKier]

5. Not hooked at all, but I still check up on it...

I need to know what the latest GOP talking points are so I can be ready to refute them.

[liveoaktx]

6. You're missing one choice-kicked except for Olbermann

[NinetySix]

8. I don't even watch PBS's Newshour anymore

I find the stories I read online more compelling and more pertinent.

[theorist]

9. I kicked the CABLE habit.

I still watch CNN, MSNBC, CSPAN, etc. when I visit my parents' place.

[cheezus]

11. if it weren't included at my apartment, I wouldn't have cable

I'd have to bittorrent the daily show every night. Other than that, I don't know what I'd miss.

[tech3149]

10. easy

no cable, no cable news

[IrateCitizen]

13. Never really started on cable nuze

When I watch TV for news, it's usually either NOW with Bill Moyers or CSPAN.

For the most part, I rely on the internet to keep me informed of what's going on -- both alternative and mainstream print media.