Who else is Cable News Free?

[Search Party]

I am "sober" 15 days now, life could not be better!

If you are still "using" you are doing yourself a great disservice.

boycott the bastards

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. I am!!! I read the internet newspapers for the news now!

:kick:

[BlueEyedSon]

2. 3 years

[quiet.american]

7. Me, too

[DireStrike]

3. Done since the election.

Except for Olberman and Dobbs, but I forget to watch even them very often.

[budkin]

4. Me me me!

I won't watch the shit anymore. All of them might as well rename themselves as Bush News Network.

[Patiod]

5. Easy to do when you don't have cable

We get all the broadcast stations clearly, so no need yet.

I try not to look at it when I'm in the gym.

[AspenRose]

15. We don't have it either

I only watch cable when we're in hotels or visiting family. And even then I limit what I watch.

[Patiod]

57. Not me - when I get a chance to watch it I gorge

Not on news, ever, but on stuff like Comedy Central, BBC America, History Channel, HBO, "Animal Planet" and even QVC.

[mhr]

6. TV Free For Three Years Now - It Is Quite Liberating

eom

[el_gato]

17. me too, even the network "news" is propaganda

[hatrack]

48. TV Free Since 1996 - of course, now there's DU . . .

. . . but at least I can learn something new every day here, as opposed to the bad old days of telegoo.

[LynzM]

8. Haven't had cable TV in years

I do watch some TV (not news...) at other peoples' houses, but other than that, I'm not buying it (literally and figuratively). I sure miss Jon Stewart, though. The only news that's fit to watch!

[mindfulNJ]

I have been TV news sober since

11/2 :) I read The Guardian for news now.

[jayfish]

39. Same Here Except...

I come to DU for news 1st and use an RSS reader for the scraps. TV news sux.

Jay

[Florida_Geek]

9. Free since Nov 3

:) :)

[barbaraann]

10. I cancelled mine.

One of the best decisions I ever made. :-)

[catmandu57]

11. I am

First I gave up npr in 02, then this year I've given up all cable news. I find much better sources on the net.

[Shadowen]

12. I'm not free of it.

For good reason.

Know thine enemy.

[htuttle]

13. My name is Harry, and I'm a cable news addict

I've been clean for 2 years.

I used to watch everyday for hours. I'd watch while cooking, while eating, and while browsing the web. I was shameless.

Then I discovered Democracy Now, and made the long trip out of that cable news propaganda nightmare world, one day at a time.

Now where's the coffee?

[movie_girl99]

14. me either

I haven't watched since election night and really I feel a million times better. I get all that I need here.

[Robroy]

16. Cable-Free

Since Bush was first annointed I have happily been without cable, period. Rabbit ears with very little TV at all, although I do try to catch American Dream on Sunday night. Great family viewing with real actors (yeah, I know, what a novel idea).

[AP]

18. 2 years 2 months. The last few months of cable news I would get up...

...in the morning and say to myself before turning on to CNN, "and now for my daily dose of lies." Then I realized that not only did I not have to turn it on, I didn't even have to pay for it if I didn't want to.

[RebelYell]

19. We break out the TV for

the World Series and the Superbowl. Otherwise, it's on a top shelf in the hall closet.

[tanyev]

20. Haven't had cable in years.

Stopped watching all broadcast news on Nov. 3. Feeling much better now.

[SOS]

21. Cable free since July

All channels blocked. Don't even see their mugs while surfing.
Just an empty screen.

[tbuddha]

22. Just Keith Olberman...

Everyone else gives me violent thoughts...sadly, even Chris Matthews has sold out.

[Miami Liberal]

53. Keith is the man

I also check out C-Span and C-Span 2.

[Sputnik]

59. Same here

Countdown is the only newscast that I watch anymore and not even that this week since Keith is on vacation. It's liberating.

[Miami Liberal]

71. You can read his blog

if you need your Keith fix. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

[bill]

69. Keith's the only cable news I watch

I get my real news from TDS :P

[fujiyama]

23. TV free

since the election.

I haven't even been able to watch the "fake" news with Jon Stewart. I don't think I can get myself to laugh at the current siruation just yet.

[dennis4868]

47. Me too....

no cable TV news/political shows for me since the election. And you are so right about Jon Stewart....I love that guy but I am in no mood to laugh anymore, especially about the news today.

[Lorien]

24. Me too

cancelled standard cable three tears ago, cancelled basic Nov. 3!

[DuaneBidoux]

25. I'm almost television free now..

Other than C-Span on occasion.

[SammyWinstonJack]

26. Free at last

Since Black Tuesday. My parents have stopped watching and they were cable news junkies.

[Minimus]

27. I called time warner to cancel and go to basic service and

they were supposed to come between 7:30 and 10:00 to pick up my digital boxes. I took the morning off to wait and of course they did not show up! Boy was I pissed. I called and told them to make sure they notated my account that effective that day I was only paying for basic service.

When I originally called to cancel my service they tried to talk me into keeping it by offering me a special price. I said No, it isnt' the price, it's the media I'm boycotting. The CSR did not know how to respond.

I'm sure gonna miss The Daily Show.

[IrateCitizen]

28. If you don't count The Daily Show...

... or occasional C-SPAN viewing, then I've been cable news free for the past 4 years or so.

It's pure garbage. I have much better things to do with my time than watch a RW harpy and a milquetoast Democratic centrist beating each other over the head.

[Township75]

29. Almost 1 year now...got rid of cable, and pretty much don't watch TV

The last time I had on the TV was election day, and before that was the conventions.

Good Riddance, I don't miss that garbage.

[snacker]

30. count me in...

never had cable, never will.

[Kahuna]

31. I am. It's so nice not to see their smirking, lying faces.

nt

[Demit]

32. Never had it. My recent liberation was cancelling the NYT after that

wretched, condescending, intellectually bankrupt story on vote fraud "rumors".

[BigMcLargehuge]

33. I stopped watching that shit years ago

[Zorra]

34. Never had it, never will. n/t

[Warpy]

35. I never bothered with cable

and have only been exposed to the drivel during visits to my father in Florida.

I'm now network news free for 2 weeks, and yes, that includes the BBC World broadcasts on PBS. That frosty blonde traveling with Bush and gushing all over him every night before the election did it for me.

I don't kid myself that it's useful to know what trash the morons in this country are asked to digest every night on the news. It's right wing, corporatist poison, and I don't need it in my life.

I'll get my news online, thanks. That includes the weather forecast.

The Simpsons comes on opposite the news here, and I find them much more informative than the drool coming out of the blow dried bobbleheads on the television.

[Francine Frensky]

36. No cable news here.

[rniel]

37. You can get the most important news

Right here on this board.

I'm free for over a year now but I still watch the Daily Show.

[Metatron]

38. I haven't watched any news since the election.

I don't miss it at all.

[FlaGranny]

40. I haven't watched cable news

OR national news for over six months. I gave up on political talk shows about a year ago. I can't stand the republicans and their White House talking point of the day OR the democrats who don't seem to be as informed as I am on the issues.

[jasmeel]

41. Since November 3rd

[donkeyotay]

42. I used to watch a little in order to know the enemy

But stopped watching after the alleged election.

The surprise is how much better I feel. Political junkies (recovering) think they can't get by without it, but try it. You might be surprised. I get all the news I need from the internet.

[cmf]

43. I've been off of all Cable and Big 3 news for several years

Soon after 9/11. I still sometimes catch the News Hour or BBC World News on PBS, but that's it. We don't even have cable.

[doubleplusgood]

44. screaming-heads-news-free, here

Would cancel cable altogether, but wife wants HBO, "reality" shows, etc. (She pays the cable bill, too)

[ObaMania]

45. Not me!

How else am I gonna get to cheer on Olbermann, get pissed at O'Reilly, and flip-flop on Tweety?

I need to get the story from all angles, not just the watered down local news.

[jpak]

46. Nearly a year now

and my blood pressure is now 124/83

:)

[Eric J in MN]

49. Me. Cancelled cable months ago (nt)

nt

[leftchick]

50. I fell off the wagon for less than a minute....

It was completely unintentional! I was just flipping channels and landed on MSRNC for a nano-second. Just in time to hear that idiot bushbot announcer narrating over Yasser Arafat's funeral video and say "It looks like the end of a rock concert"... :puke:

[New Earth]

51. for me

all i can stomach anymore is Keith Olbermann.

the rest is BULLSHIT, 1984 style

[GreenPartyVoter]

52. I watch DISH news very rarely. However, I sitll subscribe so my kids

can watch the shows they enjoy. (Ok. I admit it, I like Tom n Jerry too!)

[rndmprsn]

54. right here...no cabal news since nov 3rd!

[AgadorSparticus]

55. my name is Bebe and i've been cable news free since the end of spring.

totally with you on the news boycott. it is UNHEALTHY!

[Zorra]

56. Kick

[pauliedangerously]

58. Cancelled my Cable service and sold my TV a month ago.

FEELS GREAT!!! I listen to NPR (a little), get my news from the WWW, and spend more time reading.

I will also have more time for activism now!!

[mcar]

60. I gave up cable news 4 years ago

and haven't missed it a bit.

[Shopaholic]

61. I only watch Keith Olbermann

no one else.

[tibbiit]

62. Total cable news free since

April 2003-- the day saddams statue was pulled down.
that was it for me, and i have not missed it one moment.
turn that shit off!
tib

[NervousRex]

63. TV-free since 1998

The Bill-Monica crap put me over the edge...as was the total lack of interesting content on the other cable channels. I caught some cable in a hotel room last weekend, and had to pick my jaw up off the floor...absolute crap spewed by some of the wierdest looking people I have ever seen...and that was on the Weather Channel.

[bhairava]

64. No cable news since Dec 2000, no network since 96

The theft of 2000 did it for me for cable. I looked briefly around 9/11/01. But as it became a Bush love fest afterwards I couldn't stomach it. I left the networks during Clinton's 2nd term as they chased every rumour and lie about him. I can sometimes stomach the NYT and the WSJ for general news but prefer the Guardian, the Financial Times, Le Monde, and the Economist now.

[Justpat]

65. I shut off the TV in '87 eom

[LizW]

66. Me. n/t

[seafey]

67. I am- have been since two years ago. nt

[Proud2BAmurkin]

68. Congratulations. If you pay for cable, you're PART OF THE PROBLEM.

you might as well donate to the RNC. Congratulations on your 15 day anniversary

[Search Party]

70. guess I should shut off all utilities, sell the car, weave my own clothes

lest i am donating to the rnc.

uhhhhh, self-rightousness called...

[Samurai_Writer]

72. almost 3 years with no TV...

and I could not be happier. I only watch movies on DVD. Life is much more pleasant. Nothing could make me go back to watching that brainless drivel on TV.

[neverforget]

73. Cable free! Canceled it last Friday. I read in the paper today

I see where Comcast is asking for another rate increase. :eyes:

[natrat]

74. i wish you could choose the channels rather than packages

[Zorra]

75. Kick