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We spent two nights on an island off the coast of Maine. The cable available in our motel did not have CNN or MSNBC (no CNN????), but it DID have OAN and Newsmax! Arrrghhhh!!!!
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A sobering experience. (Original Post)
LAS14
Jul 2021
OP
I once spent a night in a motel in Big Sur, California. There was NO tv and NO radio!
abqtommy
Jul 2021
#5
That's strange, usually coastal ME up to Portland and some miles beyond is fairly liberal.
smirkymonkey
Jul 2021
#7
Walleye
(31,022 posts)1. Did they also have RT the Russian state propaganda networks? Some of them do
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)2. No need; OAN/NewsMax/Fox serve that function.
Walleye
(31,022 posts)4. Ha! Absolutely
cilla4progress
(24,733 posts)3. How did this happen?
Whack-a-mole with evil.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)5. I once spent a night in a motel in Big Sur, California. There was NO tv and NO radio!
I survived. Somehow. But that was way before OAN and Newsmax were around. I'm sorry you had
to go through this.
bahboo
(16,339 posts)10. don't think you'd need tv or radio in Big Sur....
just drink wine and stare at the beauty...
2naSalit
(86,612 posts)6. I'm glad to see...
That you escaped with your sanity intact!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)7. That's strange, usually coastal ME up to Portland and some miles beyond is fairly liberal.
It's inland and way up the coast that tend to be more right-wing. How far up were you?
LAS14
(13,783 posts)8. Vinalhaven, 15 miles off of Rockland. Working class. nt
Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)9. Stay at the Colony in Kennebunkport.
No tvs in most rooms.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,857 posts)11. The Hotel Congress in Tucson
has no TVs in the room, just an old radio.
Love that place.