who doesnt watch cable news anymore, for any employee eyes

[seabeyond]

i have watched cable news for two decades and have watched obsessively since impeachment of clinton. one after another event happening, election theft, 9/11, using 9/11 for 2002 election, iraq build up to war, iraq war, election 2004.........every morning before getting kids up would get coffee and turn on news, was a nice my thing. now i just get coffee and turn on computer

i turned off cnn 3,4 months ago, i turned off msnbc before the debates, and i havent gone back to the news, and wont. they no longer earn my viewership in the lazy reporting and promoting a specific candidate. story telling.

any one else off news. i want the media to see how many they have lost, this last election the final straw. i can get my news elsewhere adn stay bettr informed. i dont need them anymore. daily show gives me more

[Shopaholic]

1. I watch Keith Olbermann on MSNBC,

Lou Dobbs on CNN and that's it. I was an avid cable news watcher until the past year or so. But they've just driven me away with their obvious bias.

[katmondoo]

8. No cable news here

I would give up cable except for my granddaughter. When she visits she likes to watch Disney and a few other kiddie programs.
I was an avid CNN watcher many years ago. I wouldn't stay at a hotel that didn't carry CNN. Now I am happier and less anxious not watching cable news. A cup of coffee and the net is all I need now.

[jean]

14. we watch Olbermann and nothing else. Don't even tune into CNN

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. DU gives me my news,

and Truthout is where my husband goes for news (hi Will Pitt!)

[senseandsensibility]

3. It's eerie

Your morning routine sounds just like mine. I get up very early, and for many years watched cable news with my coffee. Now I, too, go straight to the computer. I've also been off CNN for 3-4 months. I'm better informed, less angry, and don't regret it. But that doesn't let these corporatemedia whores off the hook! They have a responsibility to tell the truth!

[DrZeeLit]

4. Three years ago, cut the cable, no t.v. LIFE IS GOOD! n/t

[harper]

5. My family was must mentioning that this afternoon

We were all big time CNN watchers in the past. But not now...I can't remember the last time I tuned in cable news. Probably the last I watched was in the run up to the Iraq invasion in 2003.

[captainjack]

6. good for you!! yes! and i have SOOO much free time now

i stopped watching at about the time you did. i saw an episode of NOW with bill moyers and was hooked on the in depth, insightful, and accurate reporting. CNN and msnbc started to show their true colors at that time...

it's nice to have all that free time now but i really miss NOW with bill moyer's, $40 a day and 30 minute meals, and espn though :(

i plan on never owning another television set again, or not hook it up to cable just so i can watch movies.

congrats on kicking the tv habit! god only knows it's hard to do :D

[Walt Starr]

7. I watched CNN religiously starting in about 1983

Regular cable news junkie for more than two decades.

Today, I watch Countdown with Keith Olberman and nothing else on cable news. I no longer watch the network news or the Sunday Morning Whorefests wither, which I used to watch regularly, even taping the ones I did not watch live.

I now get my news from the internet. I used to read the Chicago Tribune, but no longer after they endorsed the Chimperor. I;m going to give the Sun-Times a shot, though.

I used to start my mornings with American Morning on CNN while waiting for my wife to get ready so we could take the train together into the city, but no longer. I now watch Gardener's Diary on HGTV instead.

[Hamlette]

9. I too was a cable news junkie....gone cold turkey

If someone here posts that a particular show is fair, I'll turn it on, but other than that, Keith and Jon is all the cable TV I watch.

[ablbodyed]

10. I have NEVER watched>>>>

cable news. I tried CNN when it first started and was so turned off by the trivialities and mindless repetition that I couldn't be bothered by it. The rest of the cable networks are far too creepy to imagine. I occassionally catch a few seconds of Fux when I deliver the mail, and every time, EVERY TIME, the meanness and pro* bias is there. EVERY TIME. I know statistics, and I know that if a random sampling is taken and the results are always the same, that the non-sampled events are also the same.
I also have not watched local mews for 25 years. Drivel and pandering and self-rightous greed from a multitude of airheads.
I gave up on network news at least 8 years ago. And this from someone who taped and indexed two newscasts 7 days a week.
I get my news from the internet, and newspapers.

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[Maiden England]

12. I used to be a CNN junkie

when I moved over here from the UK, CNN was like manna from heaven, 24 hours a day non-stop news, I loved it, and always had it on, in the background, no matter what I was doing. But I can't take it any more, its no longer the fair, truthful and trustworthy news source it was once, and I won't watch propaganda, nor support their advertisers.
I listen to AAR now.

[janx]

13. CSPAN.

But that's about it. It's all fluff and entertainment. And most of the people who host those shows really creep me out!

The stiff hair on the guys, the leg shots of the women...not very genuine.

Edit: The women always look as if they're dressed to go to a cocktail party.

[cavanaghjam]

22. C-Span is the best

especially on weekends, with the select forums and author interviews. You often get the right and left so closely juxtaposed, you can see a great difference in temperament, policy, and tolerance. The rest of cable news is just pablum spoonfed to unwitting infants by overpaid nannies.

[greenmeanie]

15. news

i try not to watch local news too much myself.

















the rectory school

[Shadow30]

16. I have don't watch cable news anymore...

...I am sick of being fed pro Bush drivel all the time.I will do some flipping around on election night however but thats about it.

[Roland99]

17. I stopped watching cable news after I canceled all but Basic cable

C-SPAN or PBS for me...or the web.


Got tired of the hate-mongers.

[DireStrike]

18. My mom watches... small apartment.

I try to convince her that it's bullshit and point out every lie, but it's tough. Several per minute.

[union_maid]

19. Slowed way down

We watch Lou Dobbs sometimes because there is actual information about outsourcing, which is of particular interest to us. Other than that it's much less. What really did it is not anger at the partisanship or the Bush-worship which seems so prevalent. It's that when we became so engaged in the electoral process we were paying much closer attention to the news from all kinds of sources and started watching talking heads for more than just entertainment. That's when we noticed a couple of things about cable news. We noticed how much time is spent on meaningless crap, even on the hard news shows and also how little the so-called pundits really seem to know. There are posters here on DU that are much more on top of events and trends than the people that get paid huge salaries to tell us about them.

Then there was the really craven act they pulled in the early days of the Iraq invasion. The news started to report problems and the expert talking heads had some criticism about strategy. Then the administration got all huffy and I assume came down on them. The next day, like magic, on all the stations all you heard was how well everything was going, things were great, the flowers for our troops were coming, they were just a little late..held up in traffic no doubt. That was a big clue that Orwell was right, just a couple of decades late.

It's kind of hard to know what to watch. I gave up on network news when they started reporting events that were happening on their network's primetime schedule as if they were news and doing interviews with stars of said shows, using up the little time they had to be covering real news. So, it's CSPAN, some newspapers and more and more the internet for us.

[evilqueen]

20. No network news, no cable news here

I stopped watching TV news after the STOLEN ELECTION OF 2000. I now get all my news online. Here's my "big list" (for anyone who might want to bookmark that and surf it when looking for news).

[Peanut Gallery]

21. I watched less and less after 9/11...

Stopped watching completely for months after the shameless cheerleading that led up to the Iraq war, and the portrayal of the war as nothing more than a harmless pyrotechnic show. What an incredible disservice that was.

I tune in once in a while now, but for the most part the cable networks have lost their credibility in recent years, imo. It's all about short-attention-span theater, shouting heads and PR for the administration.

[progressivebydesign]

No TV news at ALL. Not broadcast, nor cable.

I read everything for my news. I pick and choose from so many media outlets online, etc. Don't need television "personalities" reading scripts. My European friend said they call those "news readers".

I only watch decorating and cooking shows, and some documentary stuff, or old films. The TV is usually off in our house. (okay, except for the World Series because Boston is in it!)

[shelley806]

23. Glad to know I'm not alone!

Keith Olberman, Lou Dobbs, and Dan Rather for support. If Bush is re-elected the media will have blood on their hands, as if they don't already! Interesting link that I ran across several months ago and haven't been back to visit: http://www.mediawhoresonline.com/

"The site that set out to bring the media to their knees, and found out that they were already there." !!!

When I first linked to this site, I was still watching Aaron Brown with awe and reverence, and Media whores and DU has dispelled much of that unwarranted respect.

[seabeyond]

24. good to see so many people saying goddbye to media

bet there are a lot more. not going to be watching on big production election day either. gonna be making calls from dem headquarters from 9-2 to get out vote, while kids are in school.

[endnote]

25. Never had cable. Sponsoring the whores is criminal

[Homerr]

26. I watch the News Hour occaisionally for it's complete lack of hype.

[Philostopher]

27. I watched CNN a lot during Gulf War I

Ted was still in charge, back then, and the main CNN feed was a good source of information. My watching fell off after that, though. I completely stopped during the Clinton impeachment -- there was no freaking way I was going to sit around and listen to that junk for several hours a day. CNN completely went down the toilet when Ted Turner sold it to Time Warner. Some folks didn't see it at that point -- it took Bush* for them to realize what a sensation-humper CNN had become -- but I saw it during the second Clinton term and decided to stop pouring that junk into my head.

I get my news off the LBN page here, several liberal blogs, links Mr. Nownow sends me, and The Daily Show. I read some parts of the daily newspaper here, because it's not yet totally corrupt and seems to make an effort to execute some 'actual journalism' once in a while by following up a story to its conclusion.

I admit, one memory I'll never lose is the night I watched Charles Jaco piss his pants from the balcony of a hotel in (I believe) Jerusalem during the first Gulf War. Something blew up a few blocks away and he literally dived under a table, right on camera.

Wonder what ever happened to him?

[liveoaktx]

28. Me, with only one exception- Countdown with Keith Olbermann

We blocked Fox and CNN from our Dish satellite channels so it's not even in the listings.

[liberal N proud]

29. I was tempted yesterday to see if they were running the

whistleblower story in Time. But I fought off the urge and made it through the day.

The time story btw is: Beyond the Call of Duty
A whistle-blower objected to the government's Halliburton deals—and says now she's paying for it.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101041101-733760,00.html

[catmandu57]

30. I gave them up

a few months ago, deleted cnn from the idiot box. I'll stop at msnrc if it looks interesting, but I just look at the local and still watch Dan Rather, but with a jaded knowledge that too much is getting omitted.
I used to watch the news hour every week night, but now I'll tune in to catch the synopsis, see if there will be something of interest in their featured stories and go off to something else if there isn't.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

31. I haven't watched cable news except for News World International for years

Too infuriating.

I get most of my news from print media and the Internet.

[jhain]

32. I WAS obsessive

pretty much CNN all day.

PUH.

That stopped a few months ago. I am SICK of being fed propaganda.

How do we change it?

[seabeyond]

36. someone down below had a couple suggestions.

have restriction on how much a corp can own. and to do the fair and balance act.

i owuld also like to have a collection of people here. i dont htink they look at individual emails, but maybe if there is anyone from media perusing this board, i would like them to see how they are losing their viewers. people that have watched them for years. i have to assume they dont know, cause they kinda need people like us

[Triana]

33. no cable news for 4 years...

...rarely turn on the tv except to watch a dvd or vid.

i will not patronize republican-owned media whose 'news' is so damn slanted Right you can cross-country ski down it.

forget it. never again.

unless the fairness doctrine is reinstated and the megamedia moguls are FORCED to break into smaller entities with laws in place to ban them from owning too much media and from conflicts of interest - forget it.

[GeoK]

34. TV News makes me sick!

As an employee of a (Repuke-run) Newspaper in Missouri, I am appalled at the spin TV news is shoving down our throats. What I think is major news is nothing close to what CNN or MSNBC version being aired. I am constantly throwing this in the OpEd's face where I work. I have direct access to AP stories many hours before it hits airwaves (although, I think AP is very slow posting it). I have always thought sensationalism and descent was involved with these news monopolies and never really trusted the TV news media. If you don't have credibility then is just propaganda. I'm so g'damn angry at these stations for not focusing on the real news. I've turned them off a month ago when I found DU! I have learned so much more here following links and sources in the last month than I have the last 2 years watching TV news and working at my Repuking newspaper! If a reporter is not pissing people off, then he or she is not doing there job. It is time to end corporate run media! :mad:

[jayfish]

35. Other Than Live Events I...

I have watched very little TV news for the last two months. It's especially nice to sleep in on Sunday mornings.

Jay

[deadparrot]

37. I flip lightning-fast through that particular series of channels.

Luckily, in my area, all the cable news networks are grouped together. Instead, I've been tuning into CSPAN a lot lately.

Yuck. Apart from Olbermann, I stay away from the corporate media.