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hunter

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2. My wife and I quit traditional television a long time ago. No cable, no satellite, no broadcast.

Mon May 10, 2021, 03:04 PM

May 2021

Mostly we watch Netflix and DVDs.

If I'm not watching something on Netflix, Netflix knows it. Maybe that's creepy in some way, but it also allows for boycotts.

Everyone who has cable or satellite television pays for Fox News whether they watch it or not.

I've found it remarkably easy to exclude television news, opinion, and advertising from my personal universe. I don't have a "cable box."

My wife was never a fan of television news and opinion. It's just noise to her and always has been.

September 11 2001 turned me off of television news and opinion forever.

Before that I still had some of my dad's habits. He'd come home from work, pop open a beer, and watch CBS News, mostly awful stuff about the war in Vietnam, as I recall.

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"Unfox My Cable Box" NOW! [View all] momta May 2021 OP

This badly confuses how such decisions are made FBaggins May 2021 #1

Get rid of cable all together, they are not worth what they charge Escurumbele May 2021 #9

Excellent advice Mysterian May 2021 #12

My wife and I quit traditional television a long time ago. No cable, no satellite, no broadcast. hunter May 2021 #2

Kick dalton99a May 2021 #3

If you have Dish, their "Flex Pack" is a Faux less package. roamer65 May 2021 #4

Sling used to be ok .. but no more CloudWatcher May 2021 #5

It's a pervasive channel. roamer65 May 2021 #8

I haven't watched Fox since the 2008 primary. Unfortunately there us a lot of time devote the CentralMass May 2021 #6

10 years now without a cable box. padfun May 2021 #7

Most (many) cable companies have very bare bones packages of mostly local area broadcast stations ToxMarz May 2021 #10

The last time an antenna was attached to a television in our house we got more than twenty stations. hunter May 2021 #11

K and R GigiLeigh May 2021 #13

Back at ya' momta May 2021 #14