I no longer watch any network or cable news.

[bullimiami]

I want to judge Trump and the rest of the monsters by their actions alone.
I don't care what they say. It's all lies and misdirection.

Our media is bogged down in the useless gobble.

[Warpy]

1. Congratulations

Your cardiovascular and GI systems will thank you for this.

I know because I turned them off in 2004.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Welcome to my world of the last 10 years.

You'll love it!

[Cha]

25. Me, the last 15 years.

[Ilsa]

3. It can be exhausting. Maybe you need a good break,

a "vacation" from most, if not all of it. Watching Rachel Maddow usually gives me hope, though. Even if nothing is getting done, she is exposing stuff.

[marybourg]

4. I'm pretty stress-free.

I never had cable. I stopped watching commercial network news in the John Cameron Swayze era. I did occasionally watch Newshour and Washington Week PBS. Haven't since Gwen Ifill died.

[apcalc]

5. Good, they all suck, tho some more than others.

[doodsaq]

6. Nice

The best thing I did was stop watching cable tv news years ago. Toxic stuff.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. I have been without TV of any sort for

nearly ten years now. And this is the third major time in my life I've been without. I don't miss too much, and because I don't get caught up in so much of the crap on the various networks, I think I'm better informed than most.

Whenever some sort of breaking news happens, various stations will go to live streaming, especially in the city where that news is occurring.

If I actually want to watch Rachel Maddow, which I almost never do anymore, I can watch her from the MSNBC website a couple of hours after her show is broadcast.

Here are the two very best things about this.

1. No commercials.

2. No commercials. By which I mean, I can watch whatever I want to watch more efficiently because the show isn't half again as long as the running time because of the dumb commercials.

The very, very best part about no commercials is that I don't see political ads, ever. Talk about keeping me sane!

There really is a lot of good television out there. Most of it can be watched over the internet. I have Hulu, Netflix both streaming and one DVD at a time, and Amazon Prime. Those provide me with as much content as I can handle.

[womanofthehills]

8. No TV here - I spend too much time on the "internets"

I would have no life if I had tv too. I podcast Randi Rhodes and Rachel during the week and listen to them on my iphone while I am doing other things.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. so you just read the internet?

[LeftInTX]

11. That's what I do more or less

I hate the commercials. I don't have a DVR. And I hate sitting through a show - life is too short.

If it is something special, I will watch it.
But, I didn't watch Comey's hearing.
Kinda wished I would have watched Session's because his body language was interesting. I caught a few YouTube clips of him.

Most of the Cable News can be read or you can find clips online. It tends to be very repetitive.

[Iggo]

36. Pretty much.

I see an article about a video about people yelling at each other about something, then I look up that something and there's my news, sans people yelling.

That's an overly simplistic description of how I get my news, but it's kinda in the ballpark.

[hunter]

10. My television plays movies. That's all it does.

No cable, no satellite, no broadcast, and best of all, no commercials.

Saves me money, saves my sanity.

[MiddleClass]

12. While I agree the news has become Ela Carte

Or however it's spelled,

you have to understand ever since the eighties, all news, agencies are done for ratings.

Understand where they're coming from and what they're selling, and bounce back and forth.

When one of the other goes overboard with the Donald Trump lovefest or hate fest for ratings.

Otherwise, you'll start believing stories like Hillary Clinton running a child photography out of pizzeria.

Or opposite

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

14. A la carte.

And there's an accent above the first a, like this: à la carte.

[MiddleClass]

15. Thank you, they knew there was an "e" but I wasn't sure where it was

So French is like Gaelic with the accent above certain vowels,

stands to reason, they're both Celtic in origin

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

17. I don't think French is Celtic in origin.

It's a Romance language, meaning a descendant of Latin, as are Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and several others.

But yes, it has two different accent marks, the accent grave and the accent aigu, which generally influence pronunciation, and the circumflex which indicates a missing letter s. Example: île which means island, and was originally spelled isle. The s was silent and so disappeared, but its original presence is indicated by the circumflex above the i.

The also have the cedilla, a little mark below the c: ç It changes what would otherwise be a hard c to a soft c.

This concludes your French lesson today.

[sinkingfeeling]

13. The last news show I saw was CNN election night. Turned it off about 9 PM. No network

morning shows either. Only read the local and international news sections of paper.

[Sunlei]

16. I don't have cable news & have for about 8 years considered everything fox as RW lies & propaganda.

I do watch the 5.30 nightly news, CBS/NBC/ABC and CNN online.

I mainly follow what our government is doing , what they send through the Federal register and the front page of all our federal agencies, including the current WH HORRIBLE STUPID-TRUMP "supposed to be DAILY" press briefings.

[brooklynite]

18. I see...and how do you know what the actions of Trump are?

[bullimiami]

20. By reading. I'm surely not going to find truth in

Jeffery Lord or some similar babbling equal time panel half filled with cronies and liars. Or by being subjected to Trumpco agitprop.

[brooklynite]

23. ...so, written sources are more objective?

Remember the reaction when the Times hired Bret Stephens?

[jrthin]

28. I don't think the NYTs is much better.

Until they stop writing stories from a false equivalency point of view, they and much of print journalism is a big part of the problem. Also, when bipartisanship is their god, the readers are not served. Each time I hear anyone talk bipartisanship in this climate, I want to puke. I want to ask, exactly which republican bill or policy would any reasonable citizen want to support?

[bullimiami]

30. of course not. but i have better control over what i deem important to examine and what i dismiss.

[brooklynite]

33. I have plenty of control over what I watch and dismiss on TV...

...it's called a channel selector and an off switch. I see no difference.

[hunter]

19. If you subscribe to cable television you are paying for Fox News whether you watch it or not.

Please, just stop.

[VOX]

21. Rachel is it for me, plus NYT, WaPo and The NYer online.

Seriously, the lone news program I watch is Rachel on MSNBC. I mute the commercials, and sometimes 20-30 minutes is enough, no need to stay glued the entire hour every weekday.

I do read the papers and the New Yorker's daily entries. I do "monitor the dosage" of information I'm consuming, however, so I step away for a few days as needed.

[NCTraveler]

22. Outside of links from DU...

And a recent trip to a bar that had CNN on in the background, I haven't watched them in years.

[GusBob]

24. March of 2003 for me

The media was lying then about them WMD's in Iraq.

They foisted this monster Trump upon us, while demonizing Clinton

They are rolling in the ratings now. I just read in Rolling Stone ( us former watchers read), that network news viewership is up 37%.

BE WARNED: "turn off your TV" is not a welcomed sentiment on DU. You will be labelled sanctimonious and self righteous

[SweetieD]

26. I only watch bbc or sky news.

[jrthin]

27. Very true. At this point, I have done the same. nt

[AmandaRuth]

29. i'm done with NBC

after that Megyn Kelly/Alex Jones fiasco. This is no idle threat either, I did tune in for the Chicago franchise and I loved Law and Order, SVU. I've unhooked cable, I'm just done with that network. I'll stick to netflix and podcasts from now on.

[bullimiami]

31. i think its obvious, even more so now that they dumped vanS, that it is mostly $$$

that motivates them.

nbc has totally put me off with their rw pandering. i think they totally blew it dreaming about fox$$$$.

[LaydeeBug]

32. Not since about 6:30 the night of the coup. nt

[Iggo]

34. Welcome to the club.

[DrDan]

35. ". . . all lies and misdirection." - painting with a bit of a broad brush, don't you think?