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hunter

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37. Television news is worthless in my opinion. All of it.

Reply to Maraya1969 (Original post)

Mon Jul 9, 2018, 12:54 PM

Jul 2018

The U.S. television news networks, including PBS, were all complicit in getting Trump elected. They're all awash in dirty money; from the pharmaceutical industry, the political action committees, the fossil fuel industries, etc..

Quitting television is one of the better decisions my wife and I have made.

Our television is a movie player, that's all it does. No cable, no satellite, no broadcast television at all. No advertising.

Another reason I don't have cable or satellite is that I don't want ANY part of my subscription going to Fox News and the like.

We have one inexpensive medium speed DSL connection and two inexpensive cell phones with very limited data plans. Our only television subscription is the most basic Netflix, a single video stream of "standard" quality. (That's $8 a month for new subscriptions.) We never run out of entertaining things to watch on Netflix, possibly because we just don't watch that much television. We also buy DVDs in thrift stores or rent them from Redbox.

As my fellow DU cord-cutting extremists have noted, once you've quit television for a few years you never go back. Traditional television becomes intolerable noise. Television wears people down and conditions them to passively accept all manner of bullshit.

If MSNBC and CNN are suffering because of people like me, I don't feel bad about it.

Maybe I can convince the Fox News crowd to quit too for purely budgetary reasons. Cable and satellite television are expensive.

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Once again I am reminded of the stupid reason Fox news is number 1 so often [View all] Maraya1969 Jul 2018 OP

dump cable... get Dish or Direct samnsara Jul 2018 #1

I use playstation vue...I like it. get all the channels. Demsrule86 Jul 2018 #2

I had DirecTV. Then my trees grew up. dhol82 Jul 2018 #5

I think Fox is much cheaper for cable companies than MSNBC or CNN LeftInTX Jul 2018 #3

That is the point I am trying to make. The other two can afford to lower their prices, even if Maraya1969 Jul 2018 #6

Fox has much higher profit too. LeftInTX Jul 2018 #8

But you are assuming that you can't get MSNBC and CNN through basic service. pnwmom Jul 2018 #22

The OP is about how Fox is "everywhere"...she can get MSNBC and CNN if she wants it LeftInTX Jul 2018 #24

No. She says that she was promised MSNBC and CNN with her BASIC cable, pnwmom Jul 2018 #27

No, I really am saying that Fox is frigging everywhere. I realize that if I can do certain jumping Maraya1969 Jul 2018 #32

Fox is everywhere but that doesn't mean the Comcast person set your system up properly. pnwmom Jul 2018 #33

Comcast owns NBC Universal. mwooldri Jul 2018 #15

They are..... LeftInTX Jul 2018 #25

Whoever runs your gym might have set the cable box to block the other news stations. n/t pnwmom Jul 2018 #28

It only gets like 10 stations. LeftInTX Jul 2018 #30

Cable sales get a bonus for selling Fox as the default.... LeftInTX Jul 2018 #39

Pluto TV is free and has msnbc on it and a bunch of news stations MattP Jul 2018 #4

Good point. I received the free pluto app with my Roku stick ooky Jul 2018 #31

Some people are completely missing my point. But thanks for the help. Maraya1969 Jul 2018 #7

I see what you are saying. Not everybody has access to a spectrum of information, viewpoints, FACTS HoosierDebbie Jul 2018 #12

YES!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!! Maraya1969 Jul 2018 #20

I had (until I moved recently) the $50 month internet only lapfog_1 Jul 2018 #9

My sisters u verse cable box died kimbutgar Jul 2018 #10

i haven't had cable since 2007 barbtries Jul 2018 #11

Maybe it's the Clear Channel AM radio business model? yonder Jul 2018 #13

Sling. $25/mo. NO FOX NEWS. mwooldri Jul 2018 #14

Agree, RW news is ubiquitous radius777 Jul 2018 #16

uneven broadcasting mehrrh Jul 2018 #17

I've had MSNBC and CNN on my basic cable forever RussBLib Jul 2018 #18

Livenewson.com flamin lib Jul 2018 #19

I get MSNBC and CNN on Comcast. Call Comcast up and complain. pnwmom Jul 2018 #21

Murdoch probably pays the companies to have Fox on agincourt Jul 2018 #23

I think so... LeftInTX Jul 2018 #26

I think that may be the case also. It would be great if some really wealthy Democrat did that for Maraya1969 Jul 2018 #36

I know many people don't like Bill Maher agincourt Jul 2018 #40

So true. Thanks. Sophia4 Jul 2018 #29

Here's a Comcast link that can be checked for your area. pnwmom Jul 2018 #34

Call them back sometimes they have to do something...who was it? Demsrule86 Jul 2018 #35

Television news is worthless in my opinion. All of it. hunter Jul 2018 #37

Cable sales get a bonus for selling Fox News as the default LeftInTX Jul 2018 #38