Rec this if you want to get rid of ALL cable news...

[steelmania75]

These broadcasts are NOT doing their jobs.

They're more interested in the Anna Nicole Smith case then what's really happening in America.

If you're a journalist, or a commentator, you're susposed to ask tough questions to the people you're interviewing. Sadly, these broadcasts can interview senators, congressmen, CEOs, businessman, and the president at the blink of an eye, and they DON'T TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THEIR OPPORTUNITIES TO ASK IMPORTANT QUESTIONS THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT ANSWERED. For example, the Iraq War. When Bush said that they were going to invade Iraq back in 2003, NO ONE dared to question why they were going to invade a country that had nothing to do with the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This happened since this was the post-9/11 era, and if you disagreed with Bush, you were considered anti-American to the GOP and the media.

The current cable news system hasn't done its job to the American people and they need to be destroyed.

Hopefully Jon Stewart will achieve that someday.

[PeaceNikki]

1. You can get rid of it.

[babylonsister]

9. +1. I like it. nt

[virgogal]

2. And you think network news is better? Not me.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. We already did. Bye Bye cable. I get what I need from DU, 538, TPM.

[Webster Green]

4. I canceled ALL my television service..

Because it cost me too much and it sucked too much. :thumbsdown:

[tangent90]

5. Not to defend any of them but investigative reporting is not the same thing as

news journalism. Both are important but they aren't the same and should never be conflated.

[Triana]

6. I had my cable teevee service shut off in 2001 or 2002 or so - don't need it

and I'd love to see the lame$tream media either busted up ownership-wise or put out of business. They're useless.

[checks-n-balances]

7. Isn't that a little simplistic? I take it that includes KO? n/t

[LuvNewcastle]

8. No cable for me.

I have rabbit ears and digital converter boxes. That's enough channels for me.

[Lost in CT]

10. I want the choice of what cable channels I pay for... nt

[frazzled]

11. It's not even news, so let's not call it that

Lately, we've been watching France 24 news, and sometimes a German-produced news program. They're on one of our local PBS stations (actually, the black-owned PBS station). Sometimes we watch BBC World News.

In one-half hour, we learn what is happening in Pakistan, news from various African or Asian countries, things that are happening all over Europe, or even things here at home ... stuff that we never get to hear on CNN or the networks. (If we had known more about what was going on in Afghanistan before 9/11 (or in Saudi Arabia) we might not have been so stupendously stupid and gullible after it.)

In that same half-hour, they even manage to get in ten minutes of business news (no, not stock-market updates, but real information about finance and business) as well as a full ten-minutes or so of cultural news. Did you know that the Kennedy Center is doing a whole festival of Arab dance, music, and theater (called 'Arabesque'), with additional exhibitions at the National Gallery? I didn't even know about Arab avant-garde theater troupes or dance companies ... but I do now, thanks to a farking FRENCH newscast (in English).

All we get on the CNNs and MSNBCs (and yes, this includes Keith and Rachel) is political chit-chat, news of the weird, and useless medical stories. Political chit chat is not news. Ideological arguments are not news. We need real reporting on actual events around the globe, given that we live in a global society, and things in Caracas or Johannesburg or Tehran or Kuala Lampur can affect us. We need real business reporting. and we damned well need even a smidgen of cultural reporting. With twenty-four hours to fill, don't you think they could devote 15 minutes a day to tell us about important art exhibitions or the latest thing in theater, etc.?

I am sick unto death of the cables (I've been saying this since about 1998). Turn them off. Better to watch an old movie on TCM or go play some gin rummy.