ban 24 hour news stations

[boobookittyfuk]

my intentions are not to start a political debate here....but to start an anti-political debate


i really think that all 24 hours TV news stations should be banned....FOXnews, CNBC, CNN and so forth. It seems to me that they are nothing more than political stations spewing crap from either republicans to democrats or vise versa. These channels are only making us more bipartisan. This country is starting to turn into a crying bunch for sissy douchebags. From 2000-2008 all you heard was Bush this Bush that.....now its Obama this and Obama that. If we don't man up to being a great country we are going to be speaking chinese soon!

I just saw a political commercial on TV of an obvious Republican candidate that said...."don't vote for so and so because he is LIBERAL.....his plan is LIBERAL..." ...give me a break! both candidates are probably going to do the shittiest possible job.

[ZZ]

I agree.

There isn't enough news for 24/7 so they either have to repeat the same thing over and over again or make shit up. They all suck...

[Wutz]

For-profit news isn't news; it's an advertisement.

I've been saying "ban 24-hour news stations" since the first time I heard O'Reilly and I knew that political talk shows were doing more harm than good the first time I heard Limbaugh.

I think I was 16 or 17 at the time though I'm not exactly sure about that. I could be off by a couple years.

I was hanging out with my dad, a rabid conservative, at his office and he had Fox News on the TV. He worked and I hung out and did what I could around the office for him. Later, we turned the TV off so we could listen to Rush's show. I listened closely all day, analyzing everything they, and my dad, said. I didn't hear news, or facts, or even legitimate opinions; I heard divisive rhetoric, manipulated talking points, and calculated repetition of opinion that was intended by the speakers to be interpreted as fact by the audience.

I was brought up in a conservative household with conservative views so I "should have" just accepted those things and agreed with what was being said but, on one single afternoon at my dad's office, I was turned off to political "jounalism" by the very people that were supposed inform me of things I needed to know about. I realized that they should have been using actual facts, sound reasoning, logic, and education instead of the radical opinions, misrepresentations, and rhetoric to disseminate information to the viewers who would then form their own opinions.

After I realized what the media was trying to do to me (indoctrinate more than educate), I looked elsewhere (to a mixture of non-profit media sources) for my political information and I used my intellect, my moral compass, and my set of beliefs to determine how I wanted to interpret and react to the information I was finding.

[alan_marks]

Please remember that you do have the ultimate vote...CHANGE THE CHANNEL!
They only exist to sell an audience to an advertizer.
NO AUDIENCE, NO MONEY.
That's how you can influence the situation. Unfortunately, there are too many people who are too lazy to take the time to actually think for themselves. That way when their lives turn to crap they can blame other people for their self created mess. It's much easier that being responsible for their lives.

We now return to the regularly scheduled corporate agenda.
Alan

BTW, one of the lead stories in Yahoo news today is that the top 10 percent of the wealthy earn half of all the money in the economy. Also, the lower 80 percent of earners only acount for 35 percent of consumer spending. Makes me wonder how Obamanomics can stimulate the economy when the money the government hands out goes to the pockets of the people who didn't need it in the first place and aren't spending it anyway?

[boobookittyfuk]

Alan

BTW, one of the lead stories in Yahoo news today is that the top 10 percent of the wealthy earn half of all the money in the economy. Also, the lower 80 percent of earners only acount for 35 percent of consumer spending. Makes me wonder how Obamanomics can stimulate the economy when the money the government hands out goes to the pockets of the people who didn't need it in the first place and aren't spending it anyway?

they should give all that money to my sister-in-law. She blew through $80K of inheritance in 4 months and has NOTHING to show for it...in fact, she doesn't even know what she spent it on!