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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Who Else has stopped watching broadcast news since the election? [View all]tenisfin
(36 posts)32. I realized just before the election when the cable media
Reported with glee and abandon about how Obamacare premiums were increasing next year but failed to mention the many premiums which were either staying the same or decreasing that I couldn't take it any more. These days, I read the LA or NY Times, read Newsweek and visit some political websites and my nerves are the better for it. I can read what BS Smellyanne is spewing rather than watch it and stay calmer.
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yes myself ... but its more to do with my personal situation ... I suddenly became alone...
MyNameIsKhan
Dec 2016
#1
What means "broadcast"? I rarely watch cable-light news, but I do watch local stuff...
TreasonousBastard
Dec 2016
#4
Right here. Downgraded my satellite service so don't receive CNN, MSNBC, fox, and CNBC
still_one
Dec 2016
#12
Yes. Or reading the newspaper. Or reading CNN online, etc. Or radio. Only DU for a while for me.
C Moon
Dec 2016
#20
I don't anymore, nor does anyone I know. I'm watching "Breaking Bad" as we speak
Hamlette
Dec 2016
#25
I was pretty much addicted (as pissed off as I would get sometimes) up through election night.
world wide wally
Dec 2016
#33
Haven't watched any local, broadcast, nor cable 'news' program since Nov.8th.
sinkingfeeling
Dec 2016
#40
Stopped watching broadcast news years ago-- now am boycotting any and all cable news
ailsagirl
Dec 2016
#41