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To: mass55th

I stopped watching television programming completely around 1998 or so. The last things I recall watching on any kind of routine were Home Improvement and ER.

Stopped watching television news and reading newspapers before that.

For me, the bottom line is that I feel like I am watching what THEY want me to watch (which is true) and given who THEY are, I don’t see that as a good thing.

I do watch a lot of movies I rent or own, and a lot of YouTube material but I can’t be in a room with a television on watching their program. I have to leave, I find it so off-putting.

I have a degree of contempt for anyone who gets their news from television or newspapers these days.


53 posted on 04/02/2020 4:49:31 AM PDT by rlmorel (The Coronavirus itself will not burn down humanity. But we may burn ourselves down to be rid of it.)
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To: rlmorel

Why? Not every news outlet is that left. Its local news is the best.


57 posted on 04/02/2020 6:21:07 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
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To: rlmorel
"I have a degree of contempt for anyone who gets their news from television or newspapers these days."

I happen to feel the same way. I can't remember the last time I read a newspaper either. Before I retired in 2003, I used to pick up the New York Post before heading into work, and sometimes I'd access The Washington Times online. I sometimes click on the links in FR threads if I want to read the full article, but so many of them won't let you access their sites unless you turn of your adblocker, which I absolutely refuse to do.

60 posted on 04/02/2020 11:08:12 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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