Reply #16: I disconnected my cable over a year ago

[Fiendish Thingy]

Because my kids weren't doing their homework. It's been a great time saver (if you consider spending more time surfing the internet a good thing :7 ) Where I live you can only get 4-5 channels with an antenna, and 2 of them are in spanish. I almost never watch TV news, to preserve my sanity. I get most of my news from Buzzflash, Yahoo, etc. where I can pick and choose from biased or balanced sources. I occasionally listen to Air America and NPR.
The dilemma that I see is: if more progressives stopped watching mainstream TV news, ratings might drop, as would ad revenues, but then that would increase the share of conservatives watching, which would reinforce the Networks rightward bias...