Dear "Disappointed" Corporate Media,

[Warpy]

3. Those are all the reasons I turned them off in 2004

Watching the evening news had been a habit left over from my childhood but the lies of omission, the pandering, and the lack of any political reporting beyond where the candidates were and what the horse race looked like combined so that I just couldn't do it any more.

The amazing things were how little I missed it and how much more information about this country was present on Simpsons reruns, the only alternative fare on broadcast channels.

The nightly gasbags made themselves utterly irrelevant to me eight years ago. I don't think I'm alone in this.

I see bits and pieces here and there on satellite channels but that's about it. I've just never gotten back into the habit of having news come through my ears instead of my eyes.