Why I don't watch...listen to......

[woodsmoke]

Most of the schlock on PBS, NPR, NBC, ABC, CBS....

ESPECIALLY PBS and NPR...........after all they HOLD THEMSELVES UP AS EXEMPLARS.........of all that is meet, right and salutary........

While the others are merely profit driven anti-goodness Scrooges.... I mean.....beat up on them!!!

Is that the programming...... relies on the premise that the watcher/listener...........will not KNOW.......because they have......a short attention span....

and the wonderful liberal eddikation establishment has kids noses buried in standardized testing which is all written by an evil,, owned by white privilege people CTB McGraw Hill...

that almost all of the Soylent yellow programming merely references what was done....... with more thought, taste and class..... twenty years ago.

woodsheeshgivemeaBREAKsmoke

[whatthefunk]

And Fox is somehow better?

[GreyGeek]

I enjoy Charlie Rose and Gail King on CBS and David Murh on ABC. CNN is a waste of bandwidth. So is Fox News. However, the fact is that there is little difference between the major news outlets. This is obvious from the fact that reporters regularly switch between the outlets, working one day at Fox and the next at CNN or CBS, or at PBS one day and Fox the next. Their narratives are controlled by the editors and owners (those who own the gold make the rules - a paradigm you would follow if it was your gold) which, time has proven, are controlled by political powers. As I've said, there is no truth in the news and no news in the truth. We now know what citizens in the old USSR learned, a government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.

[Qqmike]

There's a lot of good programming on PBS.

[woodsmoke]

lol shoulda included FOX also! sorry
woodequalopportunitybashersmoke

[vsreeser]

And Fox is somehow better?

The original post said nothing about FOX, or CNN for that matter. I tend to only watch the hard news hours, roughly 10a-6p, and skip most other hours which are filled with opinions. Give me the facts and I'll make up my own mind

[GreyGeek]

There's a lot of good programming on PBS.

It's my goto station for NOVA and other science shows, and for great British comedy and drama. It's "news" shows are simply far Left agitprop, as are its shows like Front Line. It's treatment of the housing bubble is a classic example of politically slanted disinformation.

[GerardV]

To get a good perspective on how news is presented, regardless who presents it, i recommend reading " The News", by Alain de Botton.
I used to be a " news junkie", now i barely watch it.

[oshunluvr]

Here in the US (IMO of course) TV news is mostly - if not all - bu!!&h!t. Print news has much more actual content - and skipping the ads is easier . TV news spends 30 minutes giving you 4 minutes of content. Oddly, in the UK it's reversed.

Personally, I don't think of it as "Not Watch" rather, I think of "Watch." I.e. what is worth my time. Currently: Justified, Blacklist, The Americans, House of Cards, and American Horror Story top the list. There's a few others that are OK time fillers and most of the above list are not suitable TV for my daughter - so we watch Americans Funniest Home Videos often in the evening, also Jeopardy.

I really only avoid Entertainment "News" (who gives a crap what all those self absorbed idiots are doing) and what some might call American "Women's" programming: The View, The Chew, Oprah, soaps, etc. - I'd rather eat dirt. I point out "American," because in L.A. we got a Canadian channel that had a great "home" show (cooking, fashion, design, home projects, etc.) called "Steven and Chris" - a gay couple (not that it matters). The show is funny, informative, fast paced (not boring) and interesting. Technically a women's show, but my wife and I enjoyed it immensely.

[Snowhog]

Today, if one in the U.S. want to know what's going on here, look at the news reported on us by foreign sources.

[oshunluvr]

Today, if one in the U.S. want to know what's going on here, look at the news reported on us by foreign sources.

Yes, excellent idea. I used to listen to BBC Radio News on the way home from work in L.A. Good to get a different perspective.

[vsreeser]

If you want science news, check out http://www.livescience.com/
Still looking for a site with pics from the probe we sent to pluto. I think it's still on approach

[anika200]

Today, if one in the U.S. want to know what's going on here, look at the news reported on us by foreign sources.

I also employ this strategy, it is much easier to get a sense of what is possibly going on. Plus you don't get the American crazy view of left and right and all that bull.

[woodsmoke]

I agree completely with Snowhog from probably to most a rather tangential direction.

For reasons not needed to go into I do a lot of Facebook and also an app on the phone called "breaking news".

I first noticed it on reporting on the Ferguson thing from European sources.

And yes, I agree that for at least some of the "foreign to the U.S." sources it seems that it is MUCH more objective than U.S. reportage.

woodsmoke

[GerardV]

who gives a crap what all those self absorbed idiots are doing .

Unfortunately, a lot of people apparently