Has DU made it impossible for you to watch most news media sources?
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I read about people watching Morning Joe so I turn it on and some guy professing to be non political and in the middle makes the idiotic statement that there are 100 million in America that are addicted to entitlements.
Fourteen seconds and I am watching ESPN even though I don't really care who goes to the Super bowl.
Reading DU is definitely sharing information among people with particular point of view but it is also dripping in facts in virtually every thread. Sometimes these facts will float up into the news broadcast atmosphere but it frequently takes several days to do so.
I can no longer watch any broadcast news, HLN, CNN, or MSNBC shows except the 4 (Ed, Sharpton, Meadows, O'Donnell) that don't bother with trying to 'balance' the facts with the other side (which always makes me hear in my head a news announcer in 1512 explaining how coming up after the commercial message for the leading Astrologer Magazine how they are going to listen to some asshole discuss the 'other side' on how Copernicus is 100% wrong about the Earth being the center of the universe"
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I can't bear watching even CNN who will have Begala on and then force us to watch some Neanderthal. Lots of other DUers seem to be able to watch Morning Joe and not throw heavy objects at their TV. I wonder how many of us are in the '23 second club': We try to watch but usually can only watch this crap for about 23 seconds.
As DU makes you an 'extremely high' informed media consumer do you find it . . .
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| Impossible to watch almost any News Media, CNN and FOX are really difference in degree but not in real quality. | |
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| No impact on who you can watch, you remain objective and get a better feel what the country is watching. | |
3 (23%) |
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| Easier to watch various sources and get various viewpoints no matter what level of facts they are operating on. | |
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and I can count on it to alert me to events of interest to me across the media spectrum!! 
As a sidenote, CSPAN is a good source of live or recorded events (outside of their often heavy-handed featuring of rethug seminars from AEI or Heritage or Hoover during prime viewing times). Their archive video library is unmatched, going back some 30 years.
Like C-Span3 running the Warren-Brown debate last evening for all us non-MA folks.
Maddow (Meadows?)...O'Donnell...Bashir...Mrs. Greenspan (just kidding about Andreyaaa)
I think that's primarily because of the spillover of the LBN rule that you have to provide a link to your source. It's sort of become a standard requirement (community enforced) in all forums and groups. How many times have you seen a post without a link and one of the first replies will be "Link?"
That's particularly true for regional news. National news is somewhat concentrated in a few major players (AP, AFP, Reuters, Christian Science Monitor, etc.) and the major news sites (obviously excluding FOX on the grounds that it isn't "news" all look relatively the same because they're all using the same stories and sources. Local news is often far more important nationally than the so-called "national" news. Take the Voter ID law in PA for example. I get the local paper (Harrisburg Patriot-News) and it is amazing how much you glean from the print version that the on-line version doesn't cover. Regional stories are a lot harder to track down, but they show up on DU regularly.
As for national/world news, the paper is not worth much in that respect because I've already seen damn near every story on DU or elsewhere before the paper hits the press. Sadly, they're moving to a three-day distribution beginning 1 Jan (a disturbing trend).
As for TV, I shut that off in '82 or so. If there's a clip worth watching, it either shows up here or at Crooks&Liars, or both. There's been a progressively more annoying invasion of commercials in on-line clips, but it's still targeted viewing. The only time I'm exposed to "TV" is at bars and it's just an endless loop of the same shit. Every ten to fifteen minutes, they restart whatever loop they're on. Yeah, most of it is sports in a bar (I don't give a rat's ass about sports), but even then it's most of what they do. Boooooorrrrriiinnngggg.
