On being TV less - I'm not!! I tried. I really tried, but I missed it so

[patricia92243]

much that I had them switch back on my 120 channel package just now. What can I say. I'm weak.

Sorta seriously, I have been unable to watch the news since the election. Since I can tell from here at DU that the news is FINALLY going in our direction - at least a little - I could not resist.

I'm so ashamed (not really.)


:) :)

[supernova]

1. I limit my TV News

to Keith Olbermann every night and my local station's weather. The rest of the news I read online here at DU, BBC and The Guardian.

[NYC Liberal]

2. I have not watching Corporate News in over a year now

and not looking back! That said, I still love my HBO, Showtime, and Comedy Central! :):hi:

Then again, if something happens on CNN or Faux I'll flip to it --- if someone posts about it on DU! :P

[GOPisEvil]

3. I don't watch cable TV news at all.

I don't even know the channel numbers here. There's a local 24 hour channel that I watch from time to time, but mostly, I get my news from the online sources.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. It's so good to have you back! I am of the sort who thinks there is nothin

wrong with a little escape from reality. These days, without the Commander in Chief, and wishing it was real...I would be so depressed. Welcome back to boobdom. :hug:

[hfojvt]

5. you have not watched the news since Nov 2004?

here's what you missed:
Michael Jackson was found not guilty
Robert Blake was found not guilty
Some woman in Florida with really hugh eyes missed her wedding and made a cell phone call saying she had been kidnapped. She was found in Vegas and admitted she made the whole thing up. You will see it all in the made-for-TV-movie.
Brittney Spears got married, instantly divorced, and then married again, and now she is pregnant.
Kenny Chesney and Renee Zellweger got married and almost instantly divorced.
Paris Hilton got engaged to a guy named Paris, but they broke it off.
Janet Jackson did not get exposed this year (or expose herself) except in the video-clip of Superbowl 2004 which has gone to re-run Valhalla, but, like the video of the parent shaking her kid in the parking lot, is no longer shown three times a night.
Thomas Cruise was allotted another fifteen minutes of fame. He is engaged and his 17 year old bride is expecting.
Some other stuff I have probably forgotten about.
Actually, you can keep up with most of that stuff in GD or the lounge anyway.

[Ladyhawk]

6. Here's how you do it: Get really, really poor. :)

Worked for me. :) Hehe.

But seriously, I so sometimes miss it and if Comcast actually offered Comedy Central and Animal Planet, I'd probably be back at the TV teat right now.

[patricia92243]

8. Been there, done that - being really really poor - now that I'm older and

the children grown, I'm not quite as short of cash as I used to be. Hand on, maybe things will get better for you.

[Eric J in MN]

11. Comcast in your city doesn't have "Comedy Central?" nt

nt

[Ladyhawk]

12. Nope, it sure doesn't. :) Why pay for crap I don't want when I can't

even get the crap I do want? :)

[Eric J in MN]

14. I don't understand why Comcast would put "Comedy Central"

on basic cable in Minnesota and not in your part of California.

Have you ever asked them?

[Ladyhawk]

15. We're in the sticks.

They keep saying they are in the process of upgrading, but it's been over a year and they still won't give a timetable on adding more channels.

[Eric J in MN]

16. Do they have MTV on basic cable? (nt)

nt

[Ladyhawk]

19. I don't know...checking...yes, on "Standard Cable." n/t

[RebelOne]

7. No way I could be without TV.

How could I live without Home Shopping Network and QVC?

[patricia92243]

9. LOL!!

[Deja Q]

10. I love my dvd collection too much, but I am free of ALL broadcast crap.

[Dangerously Amused]

13. The only reason...

I like(d) the "late breaking" aspect of tv news, but hated having to sit through all the stuff that held no interest. I like(d) reading the news in the paper so I could skip all the stuff I didn't care about, but then lost that "late breaking" advantage. I also became vaguely aware in my younger days that the people who controlled the very limited news outlets controlled my thoughts to some degree. And that was a very creepy feeling. Enter online news, the perfect solution! Honestly, why does anyone get news any other way these days?

Now the only reason I own a TV is because my parents bought it "for me" almost 20 years ago, so they could watch it when they came to visit me in another state. I have turned it on probably less than a dozen times since then, primarily to watch election returns and also on New Year's Eve 1999 to see if the world was going to end with the millenia change. Oh - and also to watch the initial live coverage of Katrina.

My friends make fun of me for all the pop culture I don't have. Remember Hill Street Blues? I don't. Never saw it. Nor The Cosby Show, or Sex in the City, or Desperate Housewives, or any of it. I don't miss it though, not one bit. What I would miss more are the hours I would spend in front of the tube watching other people live their lives instead of living my own. (Sorry if that sounded snobby, it wasn't intended so, what I mean is I can't sit still that long.)

(Caveat: I admit to having seen two or three episodes of Cheers, Friends and Seinfeld, but only because I was at someone else's home and they were watching it.)

[DanCa]

17. 57 channels and theres nothing on

so in the blessed name of Elvis I started to blast.

Okay that's outta my system. Serious here's what I watch.
Will and Grace reruns. - without leo.
Married with Children Rerun
Angel DVD
Than prime time
Battlestar Galactica
Desperate Housewives
Smallville
House
Commander In Chief
Real Time with Maher - Depending on Panel
Daily Show
Two and a Half Men
War at Home
Monk
Is that alot of tv?

[ghostsofgiants]

18. If it wasn't for my roommates, I wouldn't even bother with having cable

There aren't many shows I watch, and what I do watch I can just download. I spent 4 or 5 months tv-less, until about two or three weeks ago.