What will it take to get YOU to unplug from corporate media's cable news channels?

[mhatrw]

If corporate media's 24/7 breathless reporting on Sanders' supporters "violence" and "chair throwing" and "people fearing for their safety" since Saturday night has not gotten you to cut the cord, what will it take?

If being treated to almost a full week of blatant, indisputable boldfaced lies is not enough to get you to cut the cord for good, what will it take?

The establishment still thinks it can do whatever the fuck it wants simply because it has the power to get corporate media to report whatever blatant lies it wants.

Unplug your cable cord, or at least block their channels on your remote. You can read about their lies online. But please stop feeding the beast, if only to protect your own sanity from their constant lies and consistent inanity.

[TheBlackAdder]

1. Already unpluged.

[840high]

14. I unplugged months ago.

[RufusTFirefly]

31. Me too.

Years ago.

In general, I find that I am far better informed, although I must confess that I'm rarely up to date when it comes to news about Justin Bieber or the extended Kardashian clan.

https://m.

[Snotcicles]

44. I cut the cord on 12/31/15 to start the new year right. nt

[tularetom]

2. Been there done that

As of April 2015 before Bernie Sanders really got started.

[hlthe2b]

3. ON my fourth year now... I only occasionally see linked video from cable "news"

but generally read about the "low lights" and move on...

[allan01]

4. i havent watched much of tv news in general for the last five years or really watched tv at ll.

i also dumped our local newspaper as well. my right to know has been supersceeded by my right to stay sane .muhahehahahaha.

[casperthegm]

5. The only way to get their attention is to cost them $$$

Less viewership = less advertising revenue. Money and power trumps everything with msm these days. If we stop watching the crap they put out there things might change.

Problem is, where am I going to get unbiased news? I never could have imagined it would be so challenging.

[yeoman6987]

60. Only Nielsen families hold the key to ratings

About 100,000 American families make our viewing choices for the other 300 million. I hate the system.

[underthematrix]

6. I don't watch ANY cable news

NONE. On extremely rare occasions I will post a segment link that I've watched at The Obama Diary. For the past four years, I have consistently called for people to STOP watching cable news. Most of the stories whether are designed to manipulate perceptions rather than to inform. The best way to find out what is really going on is to READ print media and READ multiple stories on the same issue from multiple perspectives. Yes this includes conservative perspectives. Finally, people should read history books, old history books published before 1990, especially about former presidents in the early 20th century. You can learn from these texts both the context of our current condition and also how people responded to it which was not much different from today.

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

7. I have long cut the cord...

I use Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon to view the movies and tv shows I want to watch and avoid having to subject myself to the mental torture that is MSM news.

The Young Turks, Secular Talk, and Humanist Report are fabulous progressive news mediums on youtube.

[pdsimdars]

8. I'm out already. . . my last addiction was Maddow but she's dead to me now.

[Quixote1818]

9. It's amazing how much Time Warner (Hillary's 7th biggest doner) owns

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Time_Warner

[840high]

33. wow

[antigop]

10. I don't have cable. nt

[StarTrombone]

11. Pulled the plug when they switched from analogue to digital

And my cable decoder boxes quit working

That was 15 years ago in Phoenix

And 8 or 9 years ago up nort at the cabin in Minnesota

Isn't that what torrents are for

[Melissa G]

52. Same here, but just slightly before.

About 9 years now. Just after the West Wing ended.

[redwitch]

12. I did it several months ago.

I had been watching less and less of it anyway. I tuned in for the debates. Well, most of them. I didn't stick around to see what Wolf or Rachel or whoever had to say.

[Old Codger]

13. Already

Cut that cord 2 years ago..

[procon]

15. If everyone is out to get you, and all the news media have conspired together

to report uncomplimentary stories on Sanders campaign, and everyone is lying, what is left? You're saying "cutting the cord' is the answer to ducking those unfriendly articles, so that only leaves pleasant, feel good essays to stroke your ego, but what the point of hiding from the existing problems and surrounded yourself with yes-men and ass-kissers?

Who are the acceptable news sources, the trust political pundits, and the proved journalists with real bonafides who've earned their chops? Where are they, the bootlickers who only pen glowing testimonials for Sanders and offer up, encouraging -- but fuzzy -- math, and soft, but believable deceptions about delegates and convention rules? Quick, tell me who is safe so I can see for myself the excellent CVs of these worthies.

[mhatrw]

17. If you trust the pundolts and other talking heads that corporate media provides for your propaganda

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consumption, you should really try to exercise some critical reasoning skills.

Do you really need groomed personalities to make your opinions for you in scheduled 30 minutes increments of propaganda surrounded by even more blatant corporate advertisements? Can't you find the information you need on demand on the internet?

Corporate media's parade of lies about what happened in Nevada in just the latest example of something that has been going on for eons. Or do you not remember the run up to the last two Gulf Wars?

[procon]

21. So you got nothing either?

No source, no names, no news service... maybe an unknown blogger? Sorry, but I'm just not into lists of conspiracy theories, paranoid panics or all this emotional angst that everyone is in some mysterious mass collusion. If that appeals to you devout Sanders followers, get on with it.

[mhatrw]

36. Thanks, Judith Miller! Go Team Halliburton! Find those WMDs!

Corporate media lies daily. If you choose to swallow those lies, go right ahead.

Most "news" reported by corporate media is either pro-establishment propaganda or inane drivel. Being too dense to realize this obvious fact doesn't make you skeptical or informed or circumspect or reasoned. It just makes you yet another gullible pawn.

The first thing any honest and trustworthy corporate reporter would report on is the obvious and blatant pro-corporate, pro-war, pro-establishment bias of the huge media conglomerate he or she works for. Only those with the courage to do so have my trust. How about you, gullible Gomer? Which corporate media sellouts do you trust? Care to supply all of us with your list of trusted corporate news sources?

[bjo59]

56. The thing that's depressing is that the majority of the country still perceives reality through the

lens of the corporate owned media. Depressing as hell.

[reformist2]

20. There's a whole world wide web of opinion out there! And much of it is much better than what you get

on NBC ABC CBS CNN MSNBC FOX etc..

[bvf]

16. Cut the cord last year.

The only thing I miss is TMC.

[jillan]

18. Mostly done. I'll turn on CNN from time to time. There are too many other options.

FSTV, RTAmerica, TYTnetwork is expanding - just to name a few.

Corporate news has been worthless for years.
CNN and their toy airplanes; Rachel Maddow and her finger puppets....
it's all been a joke.

[derpderpderp]

19. If the Ms. Corporate Leader is elected I will cut the cords.

[neverforget]

22. I checked out a couple months ago and don't miss it one bit

I'm enjoying watching the NHL playoffs now.

[LWolf]

23. I unplugged 16 years ago. nt

[BootinUp]

24. Don't believe everything you read on the series of tubes either. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. Right now they are still chasing a downed airplane

They broke for a shooting at the WH for about 2 seconds. (ok in the perimeter, but it did go on lockdown)

[brooklynite]

26. Nothing like holier than thou posts...

...Personally, I'm not afraid of media that disagrees with me.

[mhatrw]

37. And that's why you always make sure to watch Fox News. Right?

Now I understand where you picked up your reasoned argumentative style.

[vintx]

39. No - you are not disgusted by media that LIES to you. You choose to spin it instead of facing it.

Wonder why that is...

[juxtaposed]

54. they know your mind is wired to accept their b/s and you will never look beyond.

[brooklynite]

63. I course I will...think of all the time I spend here...

[moriah]

27. I already have. I have the CNN mobile app for breaking news, and weather radio for tornadoes.

From broadcast TV altogether. And if I want to watch TV shows, I stream them. It's lovely not seeing commercials!

[Carolina]

29. Been off since coup 2000

and not long afterward, I joined DU.

[azurnoir]

30. stopped watching cable nooz shortly after 9-11 - figured out where things were going

moreover when you have the net you have the world at your keyboard- you can read any story from multiple sources both US and international the spin and counter spin can be really quite interesting

[passiveporcupine]

32. Never had cable

haven't had TV for 15 years. On-line is my only resource for news, information, entertainment and socializing.

[seabeyond]

34. I unplugged Oct 2004 with Kerry.

[oasis]

35. I'll also tune out Cenk and the Sane Progressive for balance. nt

[mhatrw]

38. very fair and balanced of you

[snowy owl]

42. Why tune him out? Just don't tune in. Love Cenk but computer all day is hard. TV should do it.

TV under FCC and is public. TV should give us truth or a semblance of it. It has become Radio Russia.

[snowy owl]

40. I agree although the best I could do so far is default to CNN where I am seeing attempts at fairnes

I keep recommending Dana Bash over Maddow if you want to hear excellent analysis over propaganda. Bill Clinton Rhodes Scholar and Maddow Rhodes Scholar - I'm beginning to rethink the integrity of the Rhodes Scholarship Rhodes was a diamond mine owner in Africa who was the epitome of Corporatist slavery.

Wiki: As elaborated on in his will, Cecil Rhodes' goals in creating the Rhodes Scholarships were to promote civic-minded leadership among "young colonists"[4]:24 with "moral force of character and instincts to lead," for "the furtherance of the British Empire, for the bringing of the whole uncivilised world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for the making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire."[4]:59 With the scholarships, he "aimed at making Oxford University the educational centre of the English-speaking race."[4] Since its creation, controversy has surrounded both its former exclusion of women (thus leading to the establishment of the co-educational Marshall Scholarship), and Rhodes' white supremacist beliefs and legacy of colonialism.

I need to move to Democracy Now more often. TV is easier that sitting at computer all day. I guess I need to buy a tablet. Would that help?

[mhatrw]

46. James Woolsey, Stansfield Turner, Dean Rusk & Wesley Clark were also Rhodes Scholars.

"It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring more territory ... more territory simply means more of the Anglo-Saxon race, more of the best, the most human, most honorable race the world possesses ... the absorption of the greater portion of the world under our rule simply means the end of all wars." Cecil Rhodes

[snowy owl]

47. So, that doesn't change my post. Maddow and Clinton aren't exemplar examples are they?

Not in my book. Did that make them smarter than people who aren't Rhodes Scholars or more ambitious? It's like the attraction of Ivy League schools which aren't really any better than non-ivy league. We are so caught up in labels, aren't we?

[mhatrw]

48. I did not mean to imply that. I was mentioning them because I think they are also shady. nt

[snowy owl]

50. Thanks for specifying. I always thought Rusk was okay. I know fifties but still. . .

maybe I accepted too easily then.

[Recursion]

49. Sorry, how do you get "corporatism" from Rhodes's life?

I mean, I can think of a lot of things to complain about with Rhodes, but "corporatism"? What the hell does this word mean at this point?

[ThePhilosopher04]

41. Have been for a while. Twitter for me and that's about it.

[Uncle Joe]

43. I watch CNN for one reason and one reason only.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/17976-if-you-know-the-enemy-and-know-yourself-you-need

Thanks for the thread, mhatrw.

[cliffordu]

45. I unplugged a couple of years ago

After Olbermann left MSNBC

I don't miss one fucking thing about it.

[juxtaposed]

51. over ten years ago I cut the cord on cable. I haven't turned my tv on in almost a year.

[elleng]

53. Been done with it for months.

[bjo59]

55. I unplugged my cable cord 10 years ago.

[Todays_Illusion]

57. I left all that about 1990, Propaganda and manipulation, not news and the political agenda driven

programs served via revolting and offensive commercials. It is nothing but indoctrination and marketing 24/7.

[tazkcmo]

58. If you're waiting for me

You're too late. Haven't had a T.V. since the 90's.

[silvershadow]

59. I only watch so I know what the memes are. I spend all day refuting them. nt

[Manifestor_of_Light]

61. I watch Thom Hartmann and Ed Schultz on RT America.

[Nay]

62. Except for on-the-spot coverage of such things as airplane crashes or

tornadoes, I haven't watch media news channels in many years. I suspect many people are like me.