Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!, and Laura Flanders and Grit TV. Do you watch either, both or not.

[ConsAreLiars]

Goodman is on Dish Network and Direct TV and many cable systems, and Flanders is on Dish and a few cable systems, but both are available to you through the internet, which, I assume, you already have. If on a dial-up connection, access is a bit harder, but if on broadband, access is as easy as changing a TV channel.

http://www.democracynow.org/
http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/

If you don't watch either (better both because they are quite different and equally essential) and yet watch the TV, you are being totally played by the corporatist scam machine and should just take a little time to think about who is telling you what to think and about what things to think about.

Do yourself a favor and get another few clues. You already have many but more are better.

Take the time to watch both on the TV if that is an option or the net.

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. Don't really watch either

I'm fully cognizant of the corporate scam(scum?) that has fully and deeply permeated everything. I'm not too familiar with Flanders and while I do like Goodman, truth be told I need a bit of a break. I've watched a few of Goodman's broadcasts and it just makes me ill to see the extremely harsh criticism of Obama as if he were on the same par as Bush. Are some of those criticisms justified? Absolutely! But there's not even a hint of a breather and putting things into any context from a political standpoint...if it were all black and white as it's made out to be there will always be a divide without a middle.

[ConsAreLiars]

2. Watch a bit more., There is a lot more there than you seem to have seen.

If you think there is some sort of middle between the corporatist propaganda you now absorb every day and what you regard as too-lefty, at least give yourself the information from both perspectives, rather than just one.

And take a look at GritTV. It is brings information, voices and perspectives that you won't find anywhere else.

[Syrinx]

3. I watch Amy sometimes

I like her, though she doesn't really seem to be familiar with the word "pragmatism."

I have DirecTv, so I guess I can't get Laura Flanders on the tube. I've heard her on the radio a time or two, and I guess she's okay, but no great shakes.

I still can only get dial-up internet, so there's no streaming video access. I can get audio-only programs online pretty good, though.

Amy Goodman is informed to the hilt, and I think her heart is in the right place, but she seems totally devoid of a sense of humor, in my opinion.

[rurallib]

4. BTW on Dish both are on channel 9415 FreeSpeechTV

Thought I would throw in a plug.
I watch both, but not religiously. About once or twice a week for each.

[Kitty Herder]

5. I watch them online.

I don't have cable or satellite, but to me these shows are worth seeking out online. I watch Democracy Now almost everyday. I watch Grit Tv maybe once or twice a week.

Watching those shows makes me feel utterly disgusted with the mainstream media, especially when I hear all the headlines that Amy Goodman lists and realize that any one of them could take up an hour of serious discussion on one of the 24-hour news channels. But they'd rather talk about celebrities a good share of the time, or repeat the same story ad nauseum. Granted, my exposure to the 24-hour news channels is limited, since I don't have cable or satellite, so my assessment of them could be flawed.

[ConsAreLiars]

6. Both programs are unlike anything found on the Corporate Media, because they side

with the people of the planet, rather than the Monsters.

Although there is often some overlap in topics, they provide news,information, interviews and analyses that go into depth on events that are key to understanding the world we live in. And that is why they will never get corporate funding and why the information they provide does not get propagated through the Corpora the Media.