Why are we still watching Fox, CNN, etc?

[DireStrike]

Shouldn't we um... STOP WATCHING THAT BIASED TRASH?

Maybe we can appoint like 1 person to watch each channel, to catch it if anything important happens. There's no reason to boost their ratings.

[flowomo]

1. Nope.... I like the news and can make my own decisions....

and they trashed Bushco tonight.... at least CNN did.

[Mojambo]

2. Some of us haven't watched for months

We're the ones who are not depressed all the time.

[Carolina]

4. touche

banishing CNN, NBC and all its iterations brings such equanimity!

[ranosgol]

3. I agree...

I have deleted Fox 'News' all together from my linup. I stil have MSNBC only because i liek their crime documentaries. CNN is turning more and more like Fox I do not watch the poilitcal shows I watch Lou Dobbs and Aaron brown somtimes but once they start freeping out I turn it off.

[meisje]

5. Some of us never started

[mom cat]

6. We need it so we can have a reason for bulimic purging

:puke:

[flowomo]

21. is that jp Jamaica Plain by any chance?

[mom cat]

27. Bet your sweet bippy it is..Do you know the place? It rocks!

[flowomo]

30. I'm from Everett... but my best friend....

grew up in the JP projects. We both went to BC High.

[NMDemDist2]

7. i quit watching everybody but Olberman a few months ago

we even signed up for Sundance and we tape the Franken show to watch in the morning

[Career Prole]

8. Bob Schieffer's on Larry King and he just said

there weren't enough troops and everyone knew it, and that there's video showing at least some of the explosives were still there after we got there, that's why.
The occasional gem which sparkles in the dust.

[mandyky]

9. I NEVER watch fox and

I've cut way back on CNN. I watch CSpan's Washington Journal, maybe 3 hours of Cnn and Hardball and sometimes Countdown. I also watch Daily Show and weekly Bill Maher's Real Time. If 60 Minutes is good I watch that. Most of my news comes from online - DU LBN and Smirking Chimp.

OH! And don't forget AAR! They have saved my sanity!

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[seraph]

11. Hey!

I have an idea!!

Send her a kind and thoughtful email! :puke:

[mandyky]

12. I NEVER watch Paula, either

She is such a witch! I watched a few times during the primaries, when she had the "good doctor" on, and she was pure hell!

[cubsfan forever]

16. "good doctor?"

Certainly not Ms Rice. Her doctorate is as false as everything else about her.

Professor 2

[mandyky]

20. Howard Dean

The spine implant of our party!!

[cubsfan forever]

25. Yes indeed, the Good Doctor!

Thank you. Dr. Dean ROCKS!

Professor 2

[cubsfan forever]

14. Hear hear! Yes, she is a whore! n/t

Professor 2

[Robeson]

28. Don't you mean, Paula Von Zahn?

[Jack Rabbit]

13. Kill your television

Graphic from TurnOffYourTV.com

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[Kathy in Cambridge]

24. *YAWN*

:eyes: :boring:

You think you're clever, don't you?

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[txindy]

29. Oh, I hope that doesn't happen!

I can't wait for her to report about all the freepers and the other BushCo thugs going off to the camps for de-programming and some reality-based education. :eyes:

[DireStrike]

33. See, this is why they call liberals condescending.

I see your point of view and don't agree. Thanks have a nice day.

We get plenty of news and opposing viewpoints from other sources. The cable news networks are simply trash.

[txindy]

35. I think the tombstone he just received means he isn't a liberal.

He only played one on his Master's Internets. ;)

[flowomo]

31. you may be a newbie.... but I'm with you on that one.....

I say stay in touch with the world.... don't run from it.

[LittleClarkie]

17. How ever will we see the meltdown though

I'm looking forward to that.

[txindy]

36. Oh, me, too. I can't wait to see the looks on their faces.

Not to mention all of the exploding, imploding, and spontaneous combusting that will be going on with those talking heads. ;) It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of folks, either.

One thing, though, while I will be channel-surfing to catch the cable news meltdown, I intend to record CBS. I honestly want to see the look on Dan Rather's face as he realizes that Junior is going back to Crawford in January without Air Force One. I think Dan deserves his moment (or many) of sheer joy on that one. He got played by Junior's thugs. This will definitely help. :toast:

[LSdemocrat]

18. I'm not watching

[d_b]

19. I prefer Amy Goodman

[autorank]

22. Not watching except in brief spurts...keep an eye on the whores

CNN was my primary source of television news until AOL Time Warner. Faux has always been a joke. It's worth watching a snippet every few days to remind me how vile and corrupt our public discourse is. The only full length show I'll watch on cable news is Kieth O. He is a rare find.

CNN makes NO money. Faux is wholly dependent on O'Liely for their meager profit (if they even have one). The NBC's are just Faux junior.

The internet rules the news!

Al Gores cable network will rule the air waves.

AMF Faux, CNN, and the BSNBC's (Kieth O can go with Gore).

[JennC]

23. Keeping my eye on the enemy.. and the joy of future meltdown

[msongs]

32. sorry, NO cable TV at my house.............PBS anyone? eom

[riverwalker]

34. to correct them

None of us on DU learn anything from them, but most other Americans use it for their sole source of news. We need to watch to correct all their errors and monitor what BS they are slinging. No one else will.

[Doctor_J]

37. don't watch them

at all. it is not healthy to watch lies. i don't think germany in the 1930's would've been saved if all the thinking people had watched all the propaganda so that they could "correct it".

[ScreamingMeemie]

38. We are?

:shrug:

[MattG]

39. Mainstream Media

I recently gave a speech to my speech class on why you should vote democratic, and my main source was archived stories off of cnn.com. I later checked my facts on www.factcheck.org , which is my favorite news source now. It turns out that I was completely correct :). The thing is, another thing that is definetly a good source of info for the part of my speech on why Clinton was awesome, was my US History textbook, which had really cool charts. I try to at least use sources that conservatives can believe, to an extent. After all, they think that there is a liberal media bias, we think there's a conservative bias in the media, doesn't that mean that most of the mainstream media is well, moderate??? There's so much evidence to point the media in a left or right direction, so I just go on instinct and trust them for the facts, and come to sites like these and air america just for fun.