No more TV news for me...

[Subdivisions]

It's all corporate controlled bullshit.

About a year ago, I weaned myself from CNN and I never watched Fux. And now, since Michael Jackson's death, MSNBC has yet to remove him from their daily "news" line-up, they're Beer Summit coverage is omnipresent, their penchant for using the same talking-head experts to analyze everything from turtle rearing to quantum physics, the fact that they are owned by a company that is a major player in the MIC, Pat Buchanan, and now the chameleon Richard Wolfe sitting in for Keith is all I can take. Edited to Add: Oh yeah...and Chuck Todd and Andrea Mitchell.

From now on, I'll get my Rachel, Ed, and Keith online and the rest of the TV snooze media can kiss my fucking ass.

[City Lights]

1. Welcome to the club!

I quit daytime GE-TV during the Great Rev. Wright Hatefest of 2008 and haven't looked back. I never bothered much with CNN, and have Fux blocked via my remote. Now I find myself not even bothering to watch Ed, Keith or Rachel. It's much quicker and easier to just catch the highlights online.

[harun]

12. We should have a DU, No Corporate Media club. For those who

have left it and never looked back, happier for the change.

[Buzz Clik]

2. Perhaps if you were more selective.

MSNBC is really not a news network, so go to them only for opinions.

CNN is okay, but only in very small doses. I greatly prefer Headline News, but only watch it while waiting in an airport.

There's nothing wrong with watching 30 minutes of news from the talking heads on NBC, ABC, or CBS; but, you only get 30 minutes a day, and that isn't much.

Have you considered the PBS News Hour?

The key is small doses and balance.

[barbtries]

3. welcome

i turned it off years ago and am sure i am a healthier person for it.

eta: and better informed. i get my news online and am convinced that i am better informed than the millions of tv watchers.

[SOS]

4. There's something in the air

For the first time in many years, I am unable to look at this TV news crap anymore.

Wall Street propaganda.

[cliffordu]

5. I stopped when Wolf Blitzer started openly masturbating over

the Rev Wright affair.


I can barely stand KO or rachel anymore, but not over them or their take e on what's happening - it's the content of the discourse altogether. It's like the third grade.

[Medusa]

6. Anyone read the news this weekend (Sat NY Times)?

Olbermann and O'Reilly made a deal (or rather their corporate masters did) not to attack one another on air. They made a deal. Corporate whores the whole damn lot of them. Ballless wonders.

[City Lights]

9. I read that here and it sickened me.

[Mrs. Overall]

7. We stopped watching it all, too.

I occasionally tune into Rachel or Keith, but if I watch any news on TV, it's usually Democracy Now. I also like to listen to Thom Hartmann sometimes on the radio. Otherwise, I prefer to read my news and draw my own conclusions.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. Hah, I'm ahead of all of you

I stopped watching Nightline and MacNeill-Lehrer in the 1980s after they kept having Reaganites on to blather without any serious challenges.

I haven't watched local news since the early 1990s, when Portland TV stations tried to turn three unrelated shootings (one of which was a domestic murder) into a "crime wave," stopped regular programming for two hours one afternoon because there was a POSSIBILITY of snow, started devoting five minutes of nightly newscasts to promos for their network's programming, and began devoting ten minutes of Friday night's newscast to visits to area high school football games.

Once I stopped watching local news, I no longer had the TV on when it was time for national news.

I have not had standard cable for two years.

I very occasionally turn to the local news or CNN (which comes with my basic-basic package) if there is some story that needs pictures, such as the bridge collapse or Hurricane Katrina.

[Jkid]

14. What did you do to get local news when you stopped watching local TV?

Read a newspaper?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. Yes, low tech stuff like that

:-)

Print media.

[Echo In Light]

10. One should catch just enough to see how vested intere$ts are spinning big topics

...and even most of that can easily be detected at online, indie news sources, and by discovering what the majority opinion is at these type of forums, etc. Whatever way the majority leans, I tend to naturally support the path less traveled if for no other reason that I seriously question the psychological, social and professional motives driving any 'popular' opinion.

[CBR]

11. I stopped watching about three weeks ago and

became absorbed with the baseball season -- best decision in a long time.

[KharmaTrain]

13. I Observe...

The blogs are superior in the amount and speed of information. The teevee just regurgitates what an informed person knows...and probably knows far more. All the cables are for is to either cheerlead or ridicule...opine rather than report and keep it simple. They only deal with stories they know they can manipulate and package...simple and sensational. The only value they have are in live events and, even then, they smother it with "commentary" rather than information.

You are your own editor these days. Also you can be your own critic as well.

Cheers...

[Eric J in MN]

16. I haven't had cable or satellite for more than 2 years. NT

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