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pwb

(12,706 posts) Sat Aug 21, 2021, 11:07 AM Aug 2021

Today is one full week of no Cable news for me. Even the one we call ours. [View all]

It made me think back to when elections and politics lasted only a month or so every year. These channels invented politics everyday and now we are at each other daily about stupid invented rage.
Hour after hour of the same dribble from different mouths. Opinions of the same people over and over again. Always asking what are your thoughts as if it was news. 24 hour news is 23 hours too much. IMO. Go Networks.

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Today is one full week of no Cable news for me. Even the one we call ours. [View all] pwb Aug 2021 OP

welcome to a happier day! 17 years for me. NewHendoLib Aug 2021 #1

Same..been a lot more than a week. Even with "our" network there's a lot of ranting for ratings PortTack Aug 2021 #2

there is so much news out there to cover RussBLib Aug 2021 #3

Not if it's Fox. GoodRaisin Aug 2021 #6

I guess it's a good thing RussBLib Aug 2021 #11

Maybe. GoodRaisin Aug 2021 #19

Well done, and I hope this works out for you LearnedHand Aug 2021 #4

This: Hour after hour of the same dribble from different mouths. CrispyQ Aug 2021 #5

I went out of town to wander in the north woods, Ocelot II Aug 2021 #7

I don't want to hear the bat shit from Greene tetedur Aug 2021 #8

I cut the cable long ago too but pwb Aug 2021 #16

Good for you! Isn't it Liberating? it is for me. msfiddlestix Aug 2021 #9

13 yrs myself N/T Tink41 Aug 2021 #10

I only watched one hour of Rachel in 10 days cally Aug 2021 #12

I don't like to add to their ratings if they don't deserve it. ananda Aug 2021 #13

Television oioioi Aug 2021 #14

Fifteen years cable free pecosbob Aug 2021 #15

Elections never lasted"only a month or so" brooklynite Aug 2021 #17

I just watch CBS Evening News. Elessar Zappa Aug 2021 #18