This kind of sucks...

[DemocratSinceBirth]

MSNBC is abandoning their liberal programming and CNN aspires to be FOX Lite.

I use the news as background noise and now I will have nowhere to turn.

[Romeo.lima333]

1. i abandonded msnbc a long time ago

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Of course I'm gerneralizing

But MSNBC beat up on the conservatives and FOX beat up on the liberals and CNN played it down the middle.

Now, there's two stations beating up on liberals and one station I have no idea what they will be doing.

[riderinthestorm]

3. Turn on liberal radio. It's a sanity saver for me nt

[BeyondGeography]

4. Look at it as an opportunity to listen to more music

It's better for you anyway.

[snooper2]

5. Um, that is what music videos are for LOL

wouldn't you rather listen to this than some random idiot on the tube reading talking points?

or this..

or even this!

[giftedgirl77]

6. Yep, yep

Music is my escape from the madness.

[snooper2]

8. Well, sometimes you need the madness too...

I forgot to include some Rammstein LOL


here we go!

[giftedgirl77]

12. lol, I say word.

[spanone]

7. the media propaganda is all there will be to 'inform' the masses

[jwirr]

10. Exactly. If MSNBC stops the liberals then forget educating anyone for the elections. And we already

wonder why so many are voting R. Yes, the morning shows on MSNBC are awful and now the evening programing is going to be the same.

I will go to places like LINK but who will the average joe in this country get there news from? Fox? Might as well.

[hunter]

9. News is bad for you.

News is bad for your health. It leads to fear and aggression, and hinders your creativity and ability to think deeply. The solution? Stop consuming it altogether

Rolf Dobelli
Friday 12 April 2013 15.00 EDT

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli

In the past few decades, the fortunate among us have recognised the hazards of living with an overabundance of food (obesity, diabetes) and have started to change our diets. But most of us do not yet understand that news is to the mind what sugar is to the body. News is easy to digest. The media feeds us small bites of trivial matter, tidbits that don't really concern our lives and don't require thinking. That's why we experience almost no saturation. Unlike reading books and long magazine articles (which require thinking), we can swallow limitless quantities of news flashes, which are bright-coloured candies for the mind. Today, we have reached the same point in relation to information that we faced 20 years ago in regard to food. We are beginning to recognise how toxic news can be.

I quit television altogether, and I only read the local paper. I've been much happier, and I don't feel disconnected at all.

Seeing the television and mass media generated storms blowing through DU gives me a greater awareness of how much news is pure propaganda, fog, and utter bullshit.

Hillary's emails? Please...

[BainsBane]

11. Find something on the radio

Cable news rots the brain.

[2naSalit]

13. Unless, like me

you have no radio other than two stations within range... one is a mormon owned NPR station, the other a RWNJ AM station that only gives a 30 second brief on RWNJ views of the latest travesty of religio.., I mean national importance. If I had a TeeVee, it would cost over a third of my rent to have 287 channels of BS and mind-rot going on... you have to have cable (which here is eleven channels) or satellite dish access because there is nothing in range otherwise.

I used to enjoy the evening news on MSNBC but they seem to have been restructured to adhere to the fuxnooze agenda. Sad. I may have to reconsider where to spend the rest of my years... like some place other than the US. This place is unrecognizable compared to what I was led to think during my first half-century.

Anyway, we are allowed less and less real info with each passing day... a subtle social engineering tactic that is taking hold quite nicely, according to its architects.

[BainsBane]

14. You can find a lot of radio stations online

and unlike TV stations, you don't have to have a cable/satellite provider to access them.
One I listen to online is WAMU out of DC because I like the Diane Rehm show.

[2naSalit]

15. I do that but

NPR news is so compromised anymore that I yell back at it daily now with a lot of cursing involved. I'll check out WAMU, not really fond of DR, hard to listen to her struggle with every word, not the content though. My neighbor/landlord and I share our slow modem and only one of us can either listen or watch anything online at a time... which is why I was bummed that NPR is so crappy now, at least I could listen without having to be online which I can't do in my 1992 vehicle. We have cell phones here but they only work in certain places.

Guess I should lessen my hunger for news since access has been a concern for years. One of the trade offs for living far away from cities, lights and pollution. At least I have that for which I am very thankful... but it's important to be informed.

[BainsBane]

16. It takes a little bit to get used to her voice

She has some sort of voice disorder. But I don't even think about it anymore. I certainly don't agree with everything on there, but I don't want news discussion that just tell me what I want to hear. I also like As it Happens from the Canadian Broadcasting Corp, their public radio.

[2naSalit]

17. Oh yeah, the CDC

I used to listen to that too, had over two hours an evening in the last town I lived in many years ago. Guess I should start bookmarking those links so I can get some actual news again.

Thanks for the suggestions, even with my limited access, those news services are more reliable and I should try to listen to those when it's my turn to get online.

[BainsBane]

18. Also I think you can download podcasts

onto an IPod, phone or computer to listen to when you're not online. I haven't tried it myself though.

[2naSalit]

20. I'll have to look into that

I am not a social media type nor do I have an ipod or iphone. But if podcasts are playable when not online, I need to learn more about that. There are so many icons on every page that I have learned to ignore them due to lack of interest in social media stuff. The aging process, it makes one less inclined to explore all that is new.


Thanks.

[Quantess]

19. Know what sucks in general? Channels dedicated to news.

Give it up altogether, and you will be so much happier. Find something more worthy of your time.
Here is a hug because I suspect you are on the verge of turning off the boob-tube, "waste of eyeballs", as my Dad called it. Find something else to do, and you will be glad you did!