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When did you give up MSM news?

Posted on 05/30/2015 11:15:01 AM PDT by MNDude

I am making two presumptions here:

1. There was a time most of us would sit and watch 30 minutes of Peter Jennings, or Brokaw, or CNN in the PM to find out what was happening in the world. 2. Most of us here no longer watch any MSM news.

If my presumptions are right, what was it that caused you to finally boycott MSM news forever? Was there some final straw that caused that decision?


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To: MNDude

The Elian Gonzalez debacle.


21 posted on 05/30/2015 11:26:32 AM PDT by Politicalmom (Modern "Peace Officer" motto-"We have to go home at night, we don't care if you do.")
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To: MNDude
I am slow.
I did not catch on to the fact that the American Media is an active arm of the DNC until George the First's election campaign against Clinton. It was, 'say... wait a minute, these Media guys are actually in full campaign mode for the draft dodging, adulterer, Bill Clinton'.
In retrospect I can see that the Media was always that way - and that they had bamboozled me (when I was a teenager) in believing that Nixon had really committed some nefarious crimes that deserved his removal. After reviewing the facts I see that it was merely a Media inspired coup.
They did something similar to Joe McCarthy.

The Mainstream Media is worse than worthless. They are an enemy of the Nation.

22 posted on 05/30/2015 11:27:22 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: MNDude

During the run-up to the HW Bush and Clinton election. The bias was overwhelming. Every night Dan Rather would have some unemployed woe-is-me family talking of hardship and the worst-economy-in-50-years recession. Subsequent revisions revealing we were already out of that mild recession. You don’t see that now even though the economic picture is less rosy.


23 posted on 05/30/2015 11:27:31 AM PDT by bunnie911 (“But resist, we much…we must…and we will much…about…that...be committed.”)
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To: MNDude

Around 1985 for myself.

Why? I had a brief interview on TV and when I saw the broadcast it only vaguely resembled what I had said. That opened my eyes and I looked at everything else with opened eyes.


24 posted on 05/30/2015 11:28:43 AM PDT by The Working Man
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To: MNDude
sit and watch 30 minutes of Peter Jennings, or Brokaw, or CNN in the PM to find out what was happening in the world.

It boggles the mind to think there are people who still twiddle their thumbs until 6:30 to get twenty minutes of random stories chosen by liberals and parroted by Katie Couric or Brian Williams or whoever now sits with a stern face behind the desks of the "nightly news". With the options available today that is like going to a grand buffet and having a glass of tap water and oyster crackers.

I quit MSM news back in the 90s when the internet became available to me. I quit television altogether in 2012. One of the best decisions I ever made. Life is different, life is better, life is clearer. I kept my dvd collection though and will toss one of those on now and then.
25 posted on 05/30/2015 11:28:54 AM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: MNDude

My teenage years did something to me. My brain went haywire and I became a liberal. As soon as I got out of my teens, I slowly began my recovering. By ‘72 or ‘73, I quit voting for democrats and was a normal person again. I don’t know if any one thing did it... Just the accumulation of liberal absurdities made me see the light and finally turn off the MSN for good.


26 posted on 05/30/2015 11:30:17 AM PDT by LibWhacker ("Every Muslim act of terror is follow by a political act of cover-up." -Daniel Greenfiel)
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To: bunnie911
...less rosy.

That is easily an amazing understatement...

27 posted on 05/30/2015 11:30:35 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: MNDude

I have not watched the msm since the early 1980’s. I knew way back then that they had their own agenda. I watched Fox for a while but they, too, have heir own agenda. I would read the newspapers but they became very liberal. Now, I get my news on the internet from many sites.
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28 posted on 05/30/2015 11:32:39 AM PDT by MamaB
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To: MNDude

It was cumulative rather than any one thing. Free Republic outsourced my news, I’ve been here since 1999. Dan Rather may have been a key tipping point. But it hardly matters, the bias and distortion is now so blatant that the divorce is final and not reversible.


29 posted on 05/30/2015 11:33:02 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: MNDude

Well I don’t totally ignore LSM news but the real facts and details are much more in-depth and reliable from multiple internet resources especially the more conservative ones vs the alphabets.


30 posted on 05/30/2015 11:33:33 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: MNDude

When rathergate happened. Lost all trust in the msm.


31 posted on 05/30/2015 11:34:44 AM PDT by RginTN
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To: MNDude

Hmmm....lemme see: gave up:
newspapers in the early 80s....
local TV news early 80s...
network news about the same time I guess too.
NEVER had the cable news network habit....

Gave up on Fox about 2007-08. About done with ESPN a few years ago.


32 posted on 05/30/2015 11:34:58 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: MNDude

When Faux hired Jerry Rivers.


33 posted on 05/30/2015 11:34:59 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: MNDude
--probably late '90's after Tom Brokaw devoted a segment of the NBC "news" to the astounding fact that restaurants buy meat at wholesale and sell it as steak at retail-

-followed by a feature on the local Las Vegas news about how sports bras were generally inadequate--

34 posted on 05/30/2015 11:36:01 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: MNDude

2001


35 posted on 05/30/2015 11:36:42 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: MNDude

Some time in the early ‘70s when they were pushing the earth would turn to a frozen wasteland. I can see we have an ever replenishing stock of “useful idiots”.

People under 60 forget about the “global cooling news.”


36 posted on 05/30/2015 11:37:41 AM PDT by affan76
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To: MNDude

I have pretty much eschewed the MSM. I got news from various Shortwave sources and now from the Internet from many different sources. The key is understanding the biases inherent in each source.


37 posted on 05/30/2015 11:38:25 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

I thought he and his co-horts were the reasons we lost Vietnam. I really started paying attention after that. I do not even watch local news. I get a lot of news from friends, relatives on Facebook and this site, of course. I also get emails from different conservative groups.


38 posted on 05/30/2015 11:39:06 AM PDT by MamaB
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To: MNDude

1992, when I had to get details on the Clinton’s Whitewater scandal via shortwave radio.


39 posted on 05/30/2015 11:40:38 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel
When I realized Walter Cronkite was a flake. I think it was 1964 when I was 15.

Wow, that is early.

40 posted on 05/30/2015 11:41:41 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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