Mockingbird

1inxs

An hour in the morning and a half hour before bed gives about all the news I can handle. Anything more is just repeats.

divxhacker

I get all the news I need online- no need to be dragged through teasers and other nonsense.

Aaron62

Same here!

But I do miss bad segways like this one,

Orrymain

I can't stand it! I grew up with 'where the news comes first', and I want to bean that station daily. They mean it, too. They break in on anything at any time .. and for squat! I hate them! lol Let's see -- they have 2 1/2 in the morning, an hour at lunch, an hour at dinner, and 35 minutes late night. Wait! That's not all. They own another station and air news there throughout the day, too. AND they have a weather station.

Overkill!

Piggie

Then to add to that of just overload... which it is overload

We have the divisive nature of more so the cable channels. Pitting person against person for having different views.

The cable channels pump propaganda into the TV while ignoring any real news in so many cases.

Turning co-workers against co-workers , neighbors against neighbors etc. as though we were all not Americans? As though this country was founded on common ground amongst different opinions?

By pumping this divisive propaganda, they pull in viewers that buy their form of propaganda and the other stations pull those of like persuasion. They even spout hate speech at anyone that watches the other channel from both sides.

This has gone all the way to the halls inside the Beltway, where now nothing gets done but calling each other un-American.

This bull hockey needs to end. One of the ways it will end is to stop watching cable news. This is not likely to happen.

I figure in rough numbers about 20 to 25% of the people that watch cable news watch FOX and believe every word they say. Before the election it was close to 50%.

Then post election I think about 50% of the people that watch MSNBC believe everything they say.

There is a larger percentage of people that fall in the middle than in the last 20 years. I think at least 30 maybe 40 percent know it's all bovine manure.

But if those stations can get you to hate the other side, they hope it makes the other side loose viewers, with little regard to what it has done to the country or our government.

So my final conclusion is not only overkill, but propaganda filled fresh steaming cow patties.

PS: I could add that both sides have a single agenda, to divide the population into trivial arguments while corporate America continues to take over the government but that would make a thread on it's own.

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Aries

I prefer to have a news channel on TV, a news station on the radio, and a news site on the internet. To be honest, if I change the channel, I expect to see TV, not someone saying "Obama shot, the president played a round of soccer with kids from the local elementary school, and scored a terrific goal."

If I want to know what's happening in the world, I'll pull up a news site.

crimson

It's too excessive. You can watch all the news in the morning and night. They just exaggerate the news that you see to gain more publicity with their network.

Mockingbird

Heavens Piggie switch to decaf before you hurt yourself!! I don't think anyones out to get anyone to hate anything, I guess you must be asleep at the wheel because corporate america now is the government.

louise31

They have to put it on so much as they dont know when people are working, we are now a society when we all work such different hours that if they didnt show it then someone would miss it.