On the off chance that someone from one of the cable networks occasionally

[Atticus]

monitors DU, please know that your breathless "this is a horserace" bs means many of us will watch LESS tv in these !ast weeks before the election. Your transparent hype to goose ratings may sell among those who actually believe "Mexico will pay for the wall", but anyone with an IQ above room temperature considers it an insult: "They think I'm THAT stupid?"

I'll touch base a couple of times a day to see if we are at war or if Trump has "had the big one", but other than that it is October and outside is a great place to be.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I have almost completely stopped watching cable news for exactly that reason.

The incessant blather about who's up and who's down has become unbearably irritating, so unless something really major happens, for now my TV will be used only to watch movies on Netflix. If in the meantime I read on DU that all those Big Macs have finally caught up with Tiny, then it gets switched back to CNN/MSNBC. But if I have to watch Steve Kornacki flailing around like one of those air-dancer things you see in front of car dealerships for another minute....

[PandoraAwakened]

5. OMG, couldn't have said it any better! n/t

[PatSeg]

2. Thank goodness for DVRs and the fast-forward button

I do not need to hear more of that "horserace" bullshit. It is exhausting, redundant, and unnecessary. My watching it won't change anything, but it will add to the stress I am already experiencing living in a Trump America. Also a lot of the observations, polls, and predictions will turn out to be wrong anyway.

[FoxNewsSucks]

3. Amazing, isn't it,

4 hours of TV are over in about 10 minutes these days. I sometimes wonder if the DVR still counts towards their ratings when you end up fast-forwarding through almost the whole show

[PatSeg]

4. I've wondered the same thing

Or if a show counts just because you recorded it and didn't watch it.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. fta sat system

Set up an fta satellite receiver system and tell cable / little dish to go away.

News? You're better off reading it than watching talking heads pick through it to find what they think will rile up viewers.