Has DU made it impossible for you to watch most news media sources? [View all]

[grantcart]

Last edited Fri Sep 21, 2012, 10:19 AM - Edit history (1)

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&quot .

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 . . .

13 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	Impossible to watch almost any News Media, CNN and FOX are really difference in degree but not in real quality.
	10 (77%)
	No impact on who you can watch, you remain objective and get a better feel what the country is watching.
	3 (23%)
	Easier to watch various sources and get various viewpoints no matter what level of facts they are operating on.
	0 (0%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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