How many DUers have left or been booted because of DU politics?

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14. Trump would be a nobody without television, and television "news" especially.

Fuck 'em both.

I read all my news and subscribe to multiple local, national, and international newspapers. (These are electronic subscriptions for all but our local papers.) Sometimes I watch videos on newspaper websites, mostly The Guardian it seems.

It's the nature of television news and opinion -- left, center, right, or completely out of the ballpark -- that it must appeal to the less rational aspects of the human mind. Otherwise very few people would watch it.

My wife and I quit traditional television more than a decade ago. No cable, no satellite, no broadcast. I feel better informed now than I was then.

I certainly feel less helpless. I think that's the whole point of television, to make people feel empty. People who feel empty are more likely to buy something -- be it a car, an expensive pharmaceutical of dubious effectiveness, or a rotten politician.

I know Trump is rotten. I don't have to be yelling at a television about it.