Print reporters tend to do research and investigate issues. Television reporters wait

[mfcorey1]

for information drop in their laps. However, why hasn't one of them gone to Kentucky and done a report from the mouths of the poor on how they will be affected by the AHCA? Hit Mitch and Ryan where hurts.

[Cha]

1. KICK! They don't give a shite?

[WinkyDink]

2. It's above their pay grade? They're afraid to lose their jobs? They're indifferent?

[spanone]

3. cnn has steve beshear on right now...he was the democratic governor who implemented Obamacare

in kentucky

[MineralMan]

4. I'm often struck by that.

It's my habit on weekday mornings to read the local newspaper, with the local TV news on in the background. Often, as I read the front section of the paper, I turn a page and the local TV newsperson is talking about the very story I'm reading. Our morning paper comes out very early in the AM on weekdays, which often makes me wonder if the local TV news folks aren't just writing their morning news show right from the paper.

I suspect that is the case, very frankly.

[mfcorey1]

5. Yep!

[Madam45for2923]

6. How can we as consumers make them do their job???

[hunter]

7. Television "news" is worthless, especially in the U.S.A....

... where it's mostly propaganda and a medium for advertising.

I won't pay a dime for it and I won't suffer television advertising.

My television plays movies, commercial free, that's all it does. No cable, no satellite, no broadcast.

One reason I won't pay for any form of cable or satellite television is that a certain portion of my subscription would go to channels that are absolutely loathsome (like Fox News) whether I watch them or not.

It's time for traditional broadcast and television news to die. That business model is obsolete. This is one of the reasons "conservatives" like the Koch brothers are fighting net neutrality and affordable high speed internet, especially in Republican strongholds. They don't want the television propaganda outlets they influence and control losing viewers.