If MSM, corporate "News" pisses you off, why do you watch it?

[Magoo48]

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. THIS!!!!!!

[bullimiami]

2. it does and i rarely do.

[Binkie The Clown]

3. Simple: I don't watch it. nt

[Magoo48]

14. Me either. I can find more facts if I poke around the inter webs.

There are some news folks out there I still trust.

[brooklynite]

4. ...and then complain about it?

...and then watch it some more?

[greenman3610]

5. we need to teach media literacy

there is still no substitute for professional journalism,
even with its flaws.
Broad brush complaints about "MSM" are in part what
has lead us to Qanon and climate denial.

[Magoo48]

15. I thinks each of us is responsible for sorting out what's truest and what's horseshit.

MSM is corporate doin’ what corporate does. Not a chance in hell us bitchin’ is gonna change there actions.

[Sherman A1]

6. I don't

[Yonnie3]

7. The viewers are the product that media sells

Their customers are the advertisers who pay for viewers.

Many viewers erroneously seem to think they are the customers.

Only by not viewing and depriving the media companies of their product (viewers) will the media companies change.

If it pisses you off vote, with your views.

[Magoo48]

16. Great point.

[judesedit]

8. That's why I turned that crap off long ago. It's 99% opinion 1% facts

It's all about the almighty dollar. I will not let their bullshit cause me massive stress and negative thoughts and feelings. The just plain real news causes enough on it's own.

[stillcool]

9. I sometimes do night viewing

and if there is some serious breaking news kind of stuff, that has no room for rhetoric, I'll tune in. I think Pat Buchanan showed me the error of my ways, long before I pulled the plug. It used to be fine to leave on in the background, as ambient noise, but the noise got to be ear piercingly abusive. No mas.

[Magoo48]

18. Indeed, that's some emotive white noise these days.

[Kaleva]

10. I don't watch it. I get my news from here at DU.

[Magoo48]

19. This certainly is a good source. Most of us here are fairly adept at researching.

I must admit, I get a little lazy from time to time.

I listen to Democracy Now, and I really like the Brad Blog. Rising up with Sonali is good.

[Kaleva]

24. If I want more in depth knowledge, I'll google search for more stories

But for most the of the past several years, I come here first for the latest news!

[GusBob]

11. We are a TV nation

that's why we have a TV president

[Nictuku]

12. Because Walter Cronkite is Dead

[Magoo48]

13. If Walter showed up, now that would be news.

[Turin_C3PO]

17. I don't.

I get all of my news from reputable online newspapers.

[Magoo48]

20. Yup, I really like the Irish and Scottish take on Agent Orange's White House.

[11 Bravo]

21. Because internet crap, from either side, is just that ... crap.

I'll access a variety of sources, evaluate, and make my own decisions.

[hunter]

25. Internet crap, television crap, I avoid all of it.

I quit television news and opinion shortly after 9/11/2001.

My wife and I quit traditional television entirely more than a decade ago.

No cable, no satellite, no broadcast.

We have an $8.99 a month Netflix subscription and a DVD player. That's plenty enough television for us. And we never see commercials.

What money we don't spend on cable television we probably spend on internet subscriptions to written journalism like the New York Times and Washington Post.

Our local paper is the only paper we receive as actual newsprint delivered to our driveway. It used to be every day but it's only three days a week now.

Back in the 'nineties, at our peak newspaper consumption, we had three papers delivered to our driveway. We always picked up the community Weekly as well.

That was a lot of paper.

[tenderfoot]

22. I don't...

because it's no longer "news" and now "op-ed entertainment" whose sole purpose is to keep the masses in an incessant state of rage.

An absolute waste of time.

[Jimbo S]

23. BBC

especially after watching "Truth"...and get my news from this site or the local paper.

[ananda]

26. I usually don't.

I watched it for awhile when Trump had Covid.

Not any more.