Cable News Addict - Democratic Underground

Stevendsmith

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Fri Aug-01-03 04:26 PM
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Cable News Addict

God help me, I'm spending far too many evenings clicking my way through the absurd and infuriating political drama that is playing out on cable "news" every night. I know it's propagandized crap but I'm hooked nonetheless. My fiancé is tired of watching me yell at the TV every night. She's challenged me to take a week off. Maybe I'll give that a try.

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Room101

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Fri Aug-01-03 04:44 PM
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1. I have not watched cable news in close to 4 months

It feels so good. If I can do it why cant you?

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Stevendsmith

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Fri Aug-01-03 04:54 PM
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2. Thanks for the Inspiration

Do you have a television? Do you have cable? If so, do just skip by the cable channels? That's got to be difficult for someone that's politically engaged. What about when major events happen?

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Room101

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Fri Aug-01-03 06:10 PM
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3. I have cable tv the only things I watch are...

The daily show (comedy political satire)
Conan (comedy)
Southpark (comedy)
Trigger happy tv (comedy)
Cspan sometimes and Cspan2 book tv

When there is a big event story I turn to.

Pacifica radio's Democracy now and free speech radio throughout the day its called KPFA 94.1 FM in the bay area and other parts of california. They have mainstream people on all the time
Check here if they are in your town- http://www.democracynow.org/stations.shtml
http://www.pacifica.org/stations/

You can watch or listen via web or DISC SAT TV.
http://www.democracynow.org/

BBC has news clips you can watch.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/default.stm

http://www.pacifica.org/
http://www.buzzflash.com/
http://www.gregpalast.com/index.cfm
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/index.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
http://www.latimes.com/la-columnist-rscheer,0,1092086.columnist
http://www.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/paulkrugman/index.html
http://www.c-span.org/
http://www.fair.org/
http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/fscm2/genx.php?name=home

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