How much teevee "news" / punditry do you consume / support?

[EFerrari]

Someone brought up the point the other day that even people who find these shows reprehensible still visit their websites. Hmmm.

[jakem]

1. Only Stewart / Colbert

the rest can fuck themselves.

[crankychatter]

2. I only check in to hear what Crap Corporations are feeding the Mushrooms THIS week

mostly it's off

you can get the essentials, even rebroadcasts online at the stations or in youtube now...

don't need a television... don't need commercials... and I like a solid dose of solid journalism as opposed to spin with my information

can't get that on television

[redqueen]

3. I watch Olbermann sometimes...

other than that, I don't need the headache. :)

[kid a]

4. PBS / BBC International / Stewart / Olbermann / SNL weekend update ;)

[Cant trust em]

8. PBS & BBC international?

How's that latte taste?

:sarcasm:

[Cant trust em]

5. If I'm at someone's house that has cable, then I might see what they're saying

My building doesn't have cable, so I don't see it regularly.

[Aloha Spirit]

6. I listen to them instead of watching them. I learned this technique after realising that Bush is

less nauseating when I don't look at him.

[myrna minx]

7. Olbermann, Daily Show and Colbert. I do watch the occasional AM fluff for weather. n/t

[EFerrari]

9. I don't watch those shows but I occasionally visit their sites

if an issue I care about comes up and we can respond to it. I'm wondering now if that's the best course or not.

[harun]

10. Democracy Now on occasion, rest have been blocked for about 2 years (n/t)

[EFerrari]

12. I watch Amy every day -- but, that can be streamed and, she's not

corporate media. Thank God.

[harun]

27. She does a great job (n/t)

[cali]

11. I blew up my TV

well, not really, but I don't have cable and I don't get a single channel without it. I do watch movies on it though. I unplugged from cable several years ago. When there's something I really want to watch I go over to my friend's across the road.

[Cant trust em]

14. I miss ESPN.

It's NBA playoff time and I have to go somewhere else to watch games. Going to sportsbars gets expensive after a while.

[Window]

13. Other.

I watch the first 15 minutes of KO...that's it. I get my news from DU.

[EFerrari]

17. There's so many choices, we needed "Other"/

I get my headlines from Washington Journal. Even if the sources they use are skewed, at least I have a fix on the stories of the morning. Then I watch Amy. Between those two, I can keep up pretty well if I scan LBN.

[tblue]

15. Amy Goodman, Stephanie Miller, Keith, Stewart, Colbert. The rest can go to hell.

Can't specify these out of your poll choices.

[EFerrari]

16. I know! Thank you, tblue. n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

18. I watch Frontline and Bill Moyers...

I used to watch Hardball, Countdown and Abrams, but I just got sick of all that stuff, so I haven't watched any of them for two or three weeks now, and I'm not missing them at all. It's just gotten too silly for me.

[kenny blankenship]

19. My television plays movies and cartoons-that's about it.

As far as I can tell, aside from weather reports, the rest is mind control programming with the object of making you A) Love Big Brother, and B) making you dumber than a patch of moss so you will be a good docile citizen (see objective A.)

[TragedyandHope]

20. I surf the cable "news" channels to get a sense of the buzz on the other side of the fence

but they usually make me sick after a minute or two.

[EFerrari]

21. I find I can do that by watching the WJ headlines in the morning.

It's still nauseating but at least all the winger stuff is in one place. :)

[mikelgb]

22. select few... I used to be worse

try to catch most things on DU video or other sites but on elections days I can't help but turn the tube on

[EFerrari]

25. Sometimes I can't believe I used to watch all these shows

and let them rot my brain. lol

:hi:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

23. BBC World Service where the newsreaders read news and don't sound like demented ducks.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/

American "news" is laughable and pathetic.

Hell, American TV is laughable and pathetic.

[Forkboy]

24. I watch the Newshour pretty much every night, and Greater Boston on Friday's.

When they do their Beat The Press episode. I used to watch the McLaughin Group after Greater Boston, but Monica Crowley is even worse (if possible), and far less entertaining, that Blankley was, so I haven't been watching anymore.

Other than that I ignore the rest, and not having cable makes that even easier to do.

[stillcool]

26. I have watched the Debates on Television...

everything else is YouTube, or reading on the net. I can not tolerate the cackling hyena's at all.

[EFerrari]

28. Kick

[JuniperLea]

29. Sunday mornings are all about the political talk shows in the X house

'Cept for my brief visit with Jacob Two Two... Jacob Two Two:)

[Vinca]

30. I watch just about everything and it's driving me crazy.

Today I started the garden, though. Very relaxing. I plan to watch radishes grow instead.

[CitizenLeft]

32. LOL, me too.

It's why I have no more hair.

[CitizenLeft]

31. do I have to confess?

Get ready to gag:

I watch Situation Room (1st demerit), then turn to Race for the White House (2nd demirit), then Hardball (3rd demerit) then Countdown (gold star) then *gasp* Verdict. When I get tired of Dan Abrams on caffeine, I turn on Mike Malloy. Sometimes I fit Randi Rhodes in there. On Sundays I can only stand Russert, depending on the guests (5th demerit). But I get my real news from HERE.

Let the beatings begin.

[EFerrari]

36. LOL. I just don't understand how you can endure those whackamoles.

You must be a very strong person. :)

[featherman]

33. My spouse and I DVR Olbermann and watch it daily. That's the only regular

cable news viewing we both do. She watches CNN off and on but I don't bother. I check the CNN and MSNBC websites daily to keep track of stuff. Less regularly the CBS and USA Today websites to keep track of how things are playing in the (non-cable) MSM. I subscribe to USA Today by mail but no dailies (rural area... nothing local worth reading).

[RichardRay]

34. Other - haven't owned a television in my adult life.

[flowomo]

35. If anybody is on GDP regularly, then you're getting it all anyway...

"He said this." "She said that." You don't need to watch them or surf their sites -- all the juicy bits get dropped here anyway. The posts attract dozens (or hundreds) of comments about the bits -- and then people say, "Oh, I never listen to him/her."

By the way, I watch it all. Not entitled to an opinion if you don't have the experience.

[EFerrari]

37. But as you point out, there are less punishing ways to get the information.

:)

[City Lights]

38. Olbermann, Stewart, Colbert, and local news in the AM. nt

[Uncle Joe]

39. I used to be a dedicated news hound, reading three newspapers a day,

The Nashville Banner; (now gone) The Tennessean and USA Today, I made sure to be home virtually every day to watch the network news, flipping between ABC,CBS,NBC then it was on to PBS for the McNeal Lehrer News Hour and Nightline when it came on. Local news, murders and such rarely interested me so much as national and international news. I was always looking for the truth of the big picture and felt I needed multiple sources.

At some point in the 90s I started picking up on a pattern, there was no real differing of opinion, everything became as if thought out of the same ever diminishing box of thought. Superficial B.S. that wasn't fit for the National Enquirer became standard issue on the nightly news and virtually every newscaster or pundit parroted the same buzz words. Increasingly more issues which seemed important to me, were totally ignored and it seemed no one was thinking for them selves anymore.

The wall to wall coverage of O.J. and continuous witch hunt of Clinton on what seemed as nothing stretching out in to eternity started to alarm me. Even if there was nothing new to report, we got to see on a nightly basis some form of negative innuendo. However the real splash of cold water came with their totally one sided fabricated myths leading up to and surrounding the 2000 selection. This is when it finally occurred to me they were flat out making up absurd lies and slander with no regard to any form of journalistic integrity. They were betraying the American People's best interest.

They were not only trashing who I thought to be the best, brightest and most superior candidate to come along in long time for the most powerful job in the land. They were trashing the importance of the office it self as being insignificant to the daily lives of the American People and the world at large.

Generally speaking I still watch the News Hour with Jim Lehrer and the BBC on PBS and I believe Bill Moyers is the best journalist/interviewer out there, but even PBS is under attack by the corporate loving neocon types. I've gotten to the point where I could care less about the Network News, I've come to view them as nothing more than corporate mouth pieces.

I checked other on your poll.

Thanks for the thread, sfexpat2000.

[bridgit]

40. Other: I watch them, but give them '0' import; I even think KO is a tool...

[AlCzervik]

41. Olbermann now and then and BBC America. I used to watch KO every night but lately

even though i really like him i'm just really, really tired of the tv in general. I do look forward to my newspapers though, it's almost ritual, get at at 5:30am, make coffee, feed Princess Bob the happiest guinea pig on earth and then out to the front porch to retrieve the sacbee and sf chronicle.

[Jersey Devil]

42. I avoid all of it, watch only BBC news

It's all such irrelevant bullshit that bears no semblance whatsoever to "news" that I just can't stand it.

[invictus]

43. I can't miss Keith Olbermann! I don't have much time for the others. n/t

[Scurrilous]

44. I deleted all cable news from my lineup years ago.

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