I switched to NewsMax for the first time ever on Friday

[malaise]

To hear the post court room bullshit from the CONvicted felon.
I could not believe the madness on display.
They had a split screen - one side had Smelvis coins (gold and silver they said) . The self promotion by the station was Vomit inducing

How does that shit remain on air?
Oh I’m not going back.

[Hugin]

1. I don't even think I can tune in NewsMax...

It doesn’t seem to be available in my area.

Perhaps, I blocked it long ago.

[malaise]

3. I was shocked to see it available here

Hmmmm

[Dennis Donovan]

2. I just don't have the stomach for it... or the nerves.

MAGA makes me gag-a.

[surfered]

4. Hope you're not permanently scarred.....but is helps to know what the enemy is doing.

[louis-t]

5. I know people that have the app on their phones.

They check it every 15 minutes for the latest Dem "scandal" then start talking about it amongst their fellow tsf worshipers. They think it makes them patriotic. I remember one guy (who carried around a cardboard cutout of his hero for a year) saying "Hunter Biden spent $800,000 on hookers and blow" after checking his app. This is how propaganda works in the 21st century.

[malaise]

7. ROFL

They are weird😀

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

6. Newsmaga

I tune in sometimes to see how they are covering a story.

Pure propaganda 24/7.

[malaise]

8. I was shocked

Seriously

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

9. Tune in any time and you will be shocked again

I don't know what they will do when trump loses.

Bash Madam President I suppose.

[underpants]

33. With talk radio this is what tens of millions of people digest daily.

Newsmax has very small ratings. Fox dominates ratings while decrying “Main Stream Media” - Now it’s become “Legacy Media”.

Talk radio is a whole other, underestimated, world.
Hour after hour of the same talking points. Reality evolves especially with sudden changes on Twitter. Everyone has to extrapolate out what was previously “reported” and at some point the 5th or 8th degree becomes fact. Repeated the next day and cited repeatedly. Millions of people everyday.

[malaise]

34. This is madness

Rec

[GoCubsGo]

10. Hal Sparks regularly picks them apart on his daily evening "show.".

Especially Greg Kelly, who, like everyone else there, got kicked off of Fox and other "more reputable" right-wing outlets. Which tells you how bad they are. Hal's MST3K-style show is the only way I can stomach their shit, and even then, I often still have to mute it because they're so vile.

[malaise]

11. What is this

MST3K-style show?

[GoCubsGo]

14. "Mystery Science Theater 3000."

Which is a TV series that features a host and his robot friends who sit in the audience and mock and joke about the bad sci-fi movie that's playing in front of them. Hal does the same sort of thing with right-wing videos and Trump rallies, only he also provides actual data to refute their lies along with his jokes.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

18. I love MST3K

Miss it bad, and I follow TV's Frank on twitter.

[malaise]

24. Thanks

Never heard of it

[debm55]

12. I did it one also. Did you see the tRump books they have for kids?

[malaise]

13. I. Saw the coins

And some shitty chyrons

[debm55]

15. I watched tRumps rallies a couple of times. I think the books were written by Huckelberry

[malaise]

21. You mean

Fuckerbee?😀

[MorbidButterflyTat]

16. I did, too.

Never before and never again.

When I tuned in (on mute) the right side of the screen was hawking *rump mugs. Everything about that thing is scam and fraud and filth.

[malaise]

19. I am still in shock

It was an all CONvicted felon channel

[DemonGoddess]

17. You are a braver soul than I

[malaise]

20. Not going back

Horrific

[H2O Man]

22. Yikes!

Recommended.

[malaise]

25. Hi there!

[dsp3000]

23. I was surprised to see it available over the air with an antenna in the philly area.

This means that people who are too poor or dont want to pay for cable can watch this garbage spewed into their homes. Also dont understand why there are a crap ton of religious tv channels over the air either.

[malaise]

26. So some group wants this crap everywhere

[SheltieLover]

27. TY for taking one for the team!

[malaise]

28. LOL

😀.

[SheltieLover]

32. You must have a strong stomach, my friend!

[keep_left]

29. I noticed recently (after doing a TV channel scan) that two...

...of the far-right sugar-daddy-funded "news" channels are now broadcasting over-the-air in my area. One of them is the execrable ONAN...er...OAN, and I can't remember the other one; it might be the Salem network, which is better known for its third-rate radio shows (the infamous Janet Parshall comes to mind). Apparently the sugar daddies funding this crap aren't being taxed nearly enough, and they are sufficiently flush with cash to fund not only cable channels, but now over-the-air broadcasting as well.

[malaise]

30. Aren't they governed by the Feds?

Hmmmmm

[keep_left]

31. Presumably. But so are their radio stations...

...and yet they soldier on, year after life-sucking year.