Anchorage's new mayor (D) changes City Hall TV from Fox News to CNN

[Newsjock]

Source: Alaska Dispatch News

One of the powers awaiting Anchorage Mayor-elect Berkowitz: The power of the remote.

The mayor’s office decides what channel will play on the TV screen across from the elevators in the City Hall lobby, said city spokesman Bryce Hyslip. As of Tuesday afternoon, the administration of Mayor Dan Sullivan, a Republican, had the TV tuned to Fox News.

That will change once Berkowitz, a Democrat, takes office, his staff said Tuesday.

“Official channel will be CNN,” spokeswoman Nora Morse wrote in a text message.

Read more: http://www.adn.com/article/20150630/changing-guard-and-channel-anchorage-city-hall

[bravenak]

1. Hahahahaha!

[RufusTFirefly]

2. Some improvement, but not nearly as much as people might think n/t

[shenmue]

3. How about Animal Planet?

Giraffes!

[Uncle Joe]

4. It's all corporate media but kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Newsjock.

[Agschmid]

5. Kicked.

The little things matter.

[kelliekat44]

6. Should have been MSNBC. nt

[oldandhappy]

7. one step ...

[fadedrose]

8. I love some MSNBC programs, BUT

Rachel, sometimes O'Donnell, Kornacki & Thomas Roberts...are great

Some do indepth stories, and some due straight news....

But CNN has more straight news (their nighttime programs are a disaster, I hate most of them, but daylight/mornings are very good.

CNN is starting to lean democratic, and I like that about it. And they are first on the draw with Breaking News...

Good for the Mayor..

[SheilaT]

9. Good. But more to the point, why in the hell

do TVs need to be on everywhere at all times?

A while back, probably in 2008 when I was having major dental work done, I complained at the dentist's office that there was a large screen TV on. And it was probably tuned to something like the animal planet channel. I suggested they get a large aquarium if they felt the people in the waiting room needed something to look at.

What is genuinely scary is the prevailing notion these days that people cannot possibly amuse themselves, read a book, talk to others, but must be mindlessly watching TV. It does not matter what TV station. It is the mindlessness of it all.

I don't own a TV. This is the third time in my life I've been TV free, and I think it's the longest. Seven years so far. I don't miss it at all. I get to watch almost all the TV shows I want to via the internet in some way, and I simply live without the others.

Back in the early and mid-70's, the second longest time I did without, a co-worker assumed I'd be quite ignorant of current events because of no TV. He was astonished to learn, over and over, that I not only usually knew what was going on in the world, but that I was better informed about events and issues than most people. I read books. Books do lack a certain timeliness, but they give in-depth information completely lacking in the transient media.

Anyway, once I become Dictator of North America, I will remove all those TVs in public spaces. I might possibly substitute aquariums, or videos of fish, or maybe even a scrolling of the Astronomy Picture of the Day (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html) for people who need something to stare at.

[Enthusiast]

13. Aquariums would be nice.

[Hulk]

10. It's really sad that ANY government office would play that dirt-bag network of propaganda...

It's bad enough when I travel, and the hotel lobby where breakfast is served has that douche bag network there to greet you. Disgusting.

Flying in to Houston, TX, the airport has fox-BS all over the place; and even has a "FOX STORE" where you can get every bit of propaganda garbage from their seditious network 24/7...well, maybe not 24/7, but during business hours. That sort of crap I've come to expect form Texas.

[Blue_In_AK]

11. There will be more changes here than just the TV station in city hall.

I think Berkowitz wants to take the city in a new, much more progressive direction than former Mayor Sullivan, who was a bit of a downer, being a dyed in the wool conservative.

Here's a nice clip of Ethan's appearance at a diversity celebration on Sunday.

http://www.ktva.com/anchorage-mayor-elect-celebrates-diversity-295/

[Enthusiast]

12. That's a start.