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In reply to the discussion: Very interesting data, HUGE decline in right-wing media consumption and traffic. [View all]Torchlight
(3,384 posts)A major reason we've just never gotten into cable news (besides the weird personality cults that have developed) is that we're both kids of watching rational, even-keeled, boring even, news for 30 minutes after dinner growing up. Grown-up news. News as adults do it. Cable news thee days comes across as channel after channel of tantrums, displays of emotion, hosts sanctimoniously and consistently moralizing about someone else's kids, etc. Drama. Soap operas. Yelling. Name-calling. Same form and function as the Banana Splits show I used to watch growing up as kid.,
Near the end of life, Cronkite said his most embarrassing professional moment was losing it when Apollo 11 touched down on the moon. Though he also said he had every right as a human to express himself as such, he reiterated that he had a larger obligation as a journalist to maintain as much objectivity as he possibly could, and he said he failed to do that. I'd be preyty happy if the Personality Cults of Cable News get replaced with something boring. Adult even.