If You Watched The Convention... What Was Your Source

[arwalden]

I tried CNN and MSNBC, but the talking heads were just TOO MUCH to bear. It was as though they were reading RNC scripts.

I'd rather chew on balls of aluminum foil before listening to that CRAP again. --- I switched over to the commentary-free coverage on CSPAN and I *honestly* enjoyed it. It wasn't just an exercise in partisanship... it made me feel GOOD and hopeful and energetic and motivated.

The pundits and commentators would have ruined that experience for me.

-- Allen
edit: whoops... forgot CNN... silly me (but then again)

[MaryH]

1. PBS - Coverage was Good, I thought.

[Zynx]

2. C-Span was the best. I don't like stupid shit commentary.

[Coventina]

3. I watched the PBS coverage

I don't have cable, so PBS was the best choice I had.

Jim Lehrer did an interview with Jimmy Carter after his speech which made me love Jimmy even more!

[nickinSTL]

7. also no cable

I agree. I've known Carter mostly by his post-presidency work, as I was only 7 when Reagan won the election in 1980. So, I already had a great deal of respect for Carter.

The speech and the interview were just great.

Followed up by Clinton later on...

I found myself getting choked up remembering what it was like to have Clinton as President. vs the idiot-in-chief.

[WyLoochka]

15. James Earl Carter

destroyed David Brooks in that interview. David Brooks was touting the neo con line that it's the Islamic religion that is the enemy and dismissing Carter's speech because it failed to declare a new crusade against Muslims who, according to Brooks, are totally incapable of constructing democratic societies - that was before Lehrer sat Jimmy right at the table with Brooks.

Brooks didn't have the guts to broach his complaints to Jimmy's face, so Lehrer did it for him and then Jimmy just demolished Brooks by chronicling the development of real participatory democracy in Indonesia, the world's most Muslim country. And they are doing that in Indonesia with some help from Carter himself and without being invaded and taken over by the US.

He reiteraterd much of his floor speech in the interview, forcefully. Brooks was put to shame, speechless and left down for the 10 count. PBS will have the video. I'm going to watch it again.

I don't have cable - so PBS is my only choice - although I tried to keep the raw stream from CSPAN going at the same time. It went own a few times, I assume because many others were trying to do the same thing and really pushing the CSPAN servers.

[LTR]

4. Watched CNN earlier in the day, wound up on C-SPAN

But they must have thought it was the RNC convention, since it was all Republicans, all day. Just appalling!

Flipped it to MSNBC, hoping to catch Olberman. Their coverage wasn't nearly as bad as CNN's.

But I finally got my fill of talking heads, so I flipped it to C-SPAN. Excellent coverage! I'm glad I did.

[Cassandra]

5. I was out most of the day and evening...

and turned on C-Span when I got home. During the day, I was listening to Air America coverage, which was a lot of fun. Unfortunately, there is no radio reception on the subway or in much of the Javits center. which has a lot of metal in the convention area. The lobby gets OK reception, though.

[gpandas]

6. c-span a no brainer...

unless you want someone else to tell you what is happening. no commercials a big plus.

[MrBenchley]

8. I think Peter Jennings was half in the bag...

He called Hillary "Senator Kennedy," and signed off with "And now enjoy Patti LaBelle for as long as we'll let you."

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. I started with CNN

and couldn't take it anymore and ended up watching C-SPAN all night. What a RELIEF that network is.

[GreenArrow]

10. listened on NPR -- a couple of interesting pundit comments

Right after Clinton's speech. The first was when the commentator was analysing the speech and referred to the bUSH administration as the bUSH "regime."

Second was referring to Dick Cheney as "president cHENEY."

[JLuckey]

11. Have cable...

Started on MSNBC and got ill and went to C-span and PBS.

[onecitizen]

12. C-Span.........

plus I had ear buds in listening to AAR too.

I made the decision, when I found out that the analysis of our Democratic convention would be done by Repuke operatives, not to watch what would surely be cheer leading for bush. Reading the posts here, I think I made the right decision. I will NOT watch one second of cable news for my coverage of our convention. I'm at least smart enough not to have to a repuke shill telling me what my leaders just said.

[wish_I_could_vote]

13. I started with CNN

Switched to MSNBC, and ended up staying with CSPAN and PBS. I have always hated watching something and then having the "experts" explain to me what I had seen. This is my first election with cable. What a difference.

At one point during Carter's speech I flipped to FOX. Huge surprise.....they were not showing Carter's speech, instead Hannity was spewing some tainted crap. The last time I checked FOX, Hannity was calling someone "disingenuine".

[MaineDem]

14. C-SPAN was fantastic!

I flipped over to CNN and MSNBC for giggles a few times and had to change back immediately.

C-SPAN earned its stripes this week.

[jpgray]

16. Switched between CSPAN and PBS--PBS did a great job

CNN had Wolf, who I find worthless, and I heard MSNBC had Scarborough, so no go there either. The only PBS correspondent I didn't really care for was David Brooks, who when not writing a column isn't so much of a smarmy asshole, but is more of a 'look how reasonable I am acting, peon' type of conservative.

[Toronto Ron]

17. C-Span. We turned to MSNBC for a minute...

right after The Big Dawg's awesome address, and I almost woke up my daughter by yelling at that useless, smirky little piece of filth known as Joe Scarborough (and also at Tweety, who of course was all into SScarborough's obsessive anti-Clintonism).

[arwalden]

20. I Paused Briefly On MSNBC Too... There Was Scarborough...

foamin at the mouth like a rabid dog and Tweety just gleefully playing right along with him. The RNC talking points were being shoveled out so fast and furious that the camera operators and the control room couldn't keep up with close-ups on who was actually talking at any given moment.

It was FOX News II (and amateur night in the control room). I groaned and continue on to C-Span.

-- Allen

[playahata1]

18. C-SPAN.

I don't need some commentator insulting my intelligence. You get everything you want and need raw, pure, unfiltered, uncontaminated, uncensored....

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

19. I had C-Span on all afternoon and last night.

It was great coverage. I especially liked not having to listen to any commentary. Totally refreshing experience.

[porphyrian]

21. People without fillings in their teeth don't get the foil chewing...

...those who have fillings who haven't tried chewing foil should definitely experience the unpleasantness if they already haven't, just to understand.

[ronnykmarshall]

22. CSPAN

I loved it. No talking heads spewing the RNC's marching orders (or odors).

[arwalden]

23. I WONDER.... What Would This Poll...

... look like over at FreeperLand?

[BurtWorm]

24. C-SPAN

No more gasbags for me.

[terrya]

25. It was MSNBC until last night. Now, it's C-SPAN.

[Wind Dancer]

26. C-Span, I couldn't handle the hatred

and attacks spewing from pundits at CNN and MSNBC.