Who else does not watch cable "Opinion" shows?

[AlCzervik]

i don't, they detracted from the quality of my life.

i read 2 newspapers a day and i watch the local news and read other newspapers online.

I don't even watch KO anymore, i just got really burned out.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Not me either. We cancelled cable a year ago. We only get the weekend newspapers

I get my dabs of news from DU, TPM, Fivethirty eight. I get what I need to know...and avoid the anger that watching the right wing, corporate owned monopoly media used to provide.

[Wwagsthedog]

2. It is really getting hard to trust anyone or any source anymore.

Yes, I've limited my news to mostly online providers like DU. I do subscribe to the Houston Chronicle for some local news. What does all this mean going forward? Beats me.

[AlCzervik]

5. i used to get the Chronicle when i lived in Spring Texas.

i found that when watched Cable shows i would over analyze everything they said and sometimes there really wasn't a there---there. sometimes there was but overall the quality was low and there was way to much pack mentality. the local news people just give me the news and not the spin.

[ginnyinWI]

12. I dislike their preoccupation with the petty and mundane.

Who cares when the economy is going up in smoke?

[sandnsea]

3. Rarely. Sometimes Rachel or KO

but that's it. The rest of it does exactly what you said, decreases quality of life.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. I get news I can learn from, not to hear opinions, even...

opinions I agree with.

Rachel Maddow is the closest thing to left-wing analysis on cable or network TV, but there is rarely anything new there that I haven't heard somehwere else already. Olbermann is every bit as full of himself as Mornin' Joe or the Fox bloviators and there's never anything new there, either -- just his take on stuff I already heard about.

And so it goes...

(Two newspapers, several magazines, some online subscriptions, local TV news, PBS, NPR, and some other stuff as needed or as I feel. I consider myself reasonably well informed without any hysteria)

[ErinBerin84]

6. I burned out on a lot of it during the election

But I still watch some of it. Though it does bother me that some so-called "straight reporters", who regularly express their opinions, show contempt for opinion shows and think that they are so above it all. It IS hard to find credible news sources these days, and I think that a lot of the opinion people at least are honest that it's their opinion. The straight newsers, not so much self awareness there.

[Hansel]

7. Me. n/t

[Thickasabrick]

8. In August it will be two years since I had TV. Sometimes I watch the

Daily Show and Colbert on the internet. Most of the time, I just check the comments here to see if there is anything earth shattering I missed....so far hasn't happened.

[AlCzervik]

10. i still catch TDS and Colbert usually the next day, i can never make up past 10:00pm.

oh yeah i know, i'm exciting.

[Danger Mouse]

9. I don't even watch tv anymore unless something I REALLY want to see is on...

which doesn't happen often.

[ogneopasno]

11. Me. I find it a total waste of time.

[FrenchieCat]

13. I have weaned myself away from Sunday morning talk shows completely

except for GPS on CNN.

I watch during the week, because my TV is next to my computer where I work at home. But I watch CNN in the morning ONLY. I will watch MSNBC in the afternoon (pacific coast means hardball), but will turn it off if they start talking stupid, which they for sure usually do. Mainly I watch in hopes that the President will be televised and provide me with some information.

[backscatter712]

14. I canceled cable a few months ago.

Since I can do so over the web, I still watch Olbermann and Maddow. And I pick up Daily Show and Colbert a lot.

I refuse to watch any of the other bobblehead shows.

[AlCzervik]

15. i wish i could just pay for the channels i actually watch, BBC America, the law and order channel

and pbs, i'd save a bundle.

[chascarrillo]

16. But they're experts! They know what they're talking about! You should listen to them!

!!!

[terisan]

17. I watched cable one night last October. I was disgusted by the performances re bailout vote-

media, Congress, all of them. Even Maddow behaved badly and I had had much respect for her when she started with Air America.

I enjoyed Olberman when he began- it was wonderful to hear someone attacking Bush and Cheney (richly deserved). I yearn, however, for facts and knowledge and seek these out online.

My friends who are addicted to "Keith" have become snappish, opinionated, angry and illogical-I have felt like I should attempt an intervention--but it is possible that they might kill me.

Olberman is a richly paid by GE ( a welfare corporation through its hi-interest loan company GE Capital Credit). He gets $8 million for his emotional presentations that are full of heat, as I recall from few performances I've watched).

Wonder why no has suggested that he turn over about 6 million a year to some impoverished workers. Jeffrey Immelt of GE gets 15 million + has an a role as advisor to the White House. The former head of GE-Jack Welch who had interfered with the reporting of news on election night 2000 to give Bush a psychological advantage- got a package of benefits well over 500 million when he left.

[EFerrari]

18. I don't. They're stupid and boring and wrong. Otherwise, they're fine.

[Crabby Appleton]

19. I don't watch them anymore. nt

[Jennicut]

20. i owuld rather watch C Span and decide for myself what is important and truthful

[Bluenorthwest]

21. I'll listen for a moment once in a while...

I love opinion, and the editorial page was always my favorite. For me, DU and other places on the interwebs are like gaint editor's mailbags, where I can read endless opinions from people of all walks of life. The citizen denizens here are all the punditry I need.

[rucky]

22. DU is my opinion show.

I can't think of too many people on TV whose opinions I value.