How Happy Are You NOT Watching Corporate Media?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

I had to take a peek at our competition today. I turned on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox. It was 24/7 bashing of President Biden for pardoning his son Hunter. It was pathetic.

There was no context. No nuance. No historical perspective. No discussion of Jared Kushner, Don Jr., Ivanka, and other Trump family conflicts of interest. There was no discussion of Trump’s pardons of the worst people, including his own criminal co-conspirators.

There was no mention that the felony charges brought against Hunter by a Republican special counsel involved buying a firearm while high on drugs in 2018 (something no one else has been charged with) and paying taxes late (normally resolved as a civil penalty at most).

There was no discussion that Trump-appointed federal judge Aileen Cannon threw out charges against Trump by claiming that “special counsels” aren’t allowed to exist under the Constitution—yet Hunter was prosecuted by a Republican special counsel, and that was apparently fine.

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/how-happy-are-you-not-watching-corporate

[spooky3]

1. I had exactly the same experience when listening to the car radio today.

It was appalling.

[NewHendoLib]

2. Turning it ALL OFF 15 years ago has made my wife and I much happier people

[LearnedHand]

5. Likewise

The greatest thing about abandoning broadcast "news" is they no longer have the power to set your brain's agenda for what to think about and what questions to ask. I just think about whatever puzzles me regardless of whether someone has a program addressing it current. My life is infinitely richer without broadcast anything.

[RockRaven]

3. About as happy as I am not watching clickbait hyperbole artists.

[UpInArms]

4. I turned off the corporate media in 2009

Actually, they turned my signal off when they took analog service away …

My nearest station was 60 miles away and my rooftop antenna could catch the signal. Digital antennas never worked.

I just read my news from a lot of sources and have never missed all the talking heads

[PXR-5]

6. I still read the print edition of the NYT

daily. I rarely look at the online site except for breaking news.

I also get a lot of my news from Comedy Central and the late night comics

[slightlv]

7. I haven't done corporate media for quite a few years...

I'd turn on MSNBC during special events, occasions, or to catch a favorite person, like Rachel, very once in a while. But when I started seeing less and less difference among all of them... including fox... I just figured I was getting too cynical and it was time to just stay true to myself and read, rather than watch talking heads. I find the news I glean from here at DU is more than enough to keep my blood pressure on "high"... (LOL).

I don't know where we're heading, but at least the whole damned thing will be torn down and by the time the magas decide they've had enough of the economic and social poverty accompanying chaos, they may actually help to build it back better. I doubt it, but I'm feeling a small glimmer of hope tonight. My underlying belief is nothing will ever happen and we're going to have to split into two countries... and I've made my peace with that, even knowing that I'm going to be on the short end of that stick... what with being poor and currently residing in a red state. But tonight, for some reason, a glimmer of something that, at the penultimate moment of chaos, even magas are going to go back to their human roots and say "enough".

[montanacowboy]

8. Very Happy

don't miss it one damn bit either

[The Wandering Harper]

9. been decades without it

and I seem to be better informed than most