boycott TV news. . .?

[stellanoir]

We all grumble incessantly about news bias. The right says it's too liberal and the left says it's corporately controlled propaganda. Either way, it's fundamentally not impartial, often inaccurate, rarely researched at all.

The way scrappy working class investigative reporters have morphed into over paid celebrity talking heads is totally pathetic.

The media freely aired the SBV's lies for weeks with no substantiation whatsoever for their claims.

They're now touting the Newsweek & Time polls as gospel with no mention of the countless other polls that show a meager 2-4 point bounce for *.

The scream fests that pass for lively discussions are intractably polarized. Americans have never in our history been appropriately represented by only two points of view.

For months they've wasted more time on Kobe and Scott Peterson than they've devoted to either convention. They preoccupied themselves for a week with a dead president but couldn't bother to cover Barack Obama's inspiring speech.

The networks have successfully dumbed down our culture for years now with mindlessly uninspired so called "reality TV."

The media is basically not doing its job. So we all e-mail them relentlessly and call them repeatedly and nothing changes. They most likely count our responses, figure people are watching and probably rarely read content.

This may be impossible to pull off during the run up to a national election but I just wonder if it would be possible to start a massive boycott of the TV news. . .say for a couple weeks. . .just to see if it would make a difference. Of course, it would be hard for news junkies but in truth, most of us get more news from the internet , NPR and the BBC long before it shows up on the tube.

Does anyone think this would be possible or even make a difference. . .?