Have you stopped watching the news?

Yes

Yes. I haven't been a TV news watcher for years, but I stopped listening to NPR on Wednesday morning after the 5am newscast. Thankfully there's a 24/7 classical station in the area. That's been my go to. I can follow the news with a newspaper subscription on via the NY Times and CNN and Drudge online.

Yes. Used to watch MSNBC every n ight but have invoked a total embargo. It's almost as much one-sided propaganda now as Fox. Nothing international. Nothing but Trump. I need a break to pack for the camps!

I think it's healthy to give the news a miss for a little while. Sometimes you just want to focus on something else for a change.

I don't really agree with people who ignore most news. though. My sister has a really busy life with working full time and raising two children as a single mother, so she barely has time for any TV/radio, but she says even when she has time she avoids the news because she finds it depressing.

So I think it's healthy to avoid it, but when people proudly say they haven't seen or heard any news for weeks, I think it's a bad thing. We should all be informed to a degree.

No need to voluntarily flagellate.

It will be the same as the last nine years for the next four:

Trump. Trump. Trump.

As dire as it is, the media loves it because he means eyeballs.

I think they may be in for a surprise this time. Even during Biden’s entire run it’s been Trump, Trump, Trump. He’s been a cheap way for easy ratings despite the normalization that resulted. These organizations were a huge part of the problem. Including beloved MSNBC.

But like any long-running show or horror franchise, the audience is exhausted. Low-info voters don’t watch anyway. Democrats feel betrayed by everyone. The Fox cult is what it is.

If anything is important enough, a news alert is sent to the phone. This is just going up be a worse version of show everyone has already seen.

The next four years is about survival and self care. Movies and fun. Watching your portfolio grow if you’re fortunate enough to have one.

There’s no reason to voluntarily waste your life watching and fretting over something you can’t control.

Yes. No news analysis on YouTube either.

I watch Tubi but it doesn't make sense to continue to do so because it is now owned by Fox.

I would recommend the Democrats not attend its inaugural event in January.

Have their own party and invite the A-list.

I am taking a 100% break from news for the next few months. My mental health is not at its best, and I think for now the best thing is for me to just work, exercise, and just escape a bit - books, music, etc. Even here, I am skipping all the political threads.

I've been immersing myself in period dramas on PBS and Prime. Currently watching The Forsyte Saga, which is a great diversion from current events. Any other recommendations would be appreciated.

I've only been watching "The Golden Girls" since Wednesday.

Repeating R1 reply-YES!

Yes! Hard habit to break, but I have to, for my sanity. A check-in in the morning. Maybe one at night. Distracting myself with music and streaming content.

Said it before-I don’t want to hear the play by play of a Dictator and his dicks. Harris Faulkner must be in Hog Heaven.

Yes. I’m not interested in cable news dissecting Trumps every move until January 20. Same for Dave Parkman, MediasTouch and Kyle Kulinski. Kyle was especially stupid in the days leading up by ignoring the polls and Nate Silver’s map which was completely right.

Yes.

With all the hand-wringing postmortem blaming and "deep" examinations and explanations, I kept asking the TV and radio "Well, if you suspected this would happen, why the fuck didn't you SAY something, DO something at the time?"

When the TV and the radio and my mobile phone finally said "Bitch what the fuck would WE know; we're just the medium--go ask the ghost of Kamala's campaign yourself."

So I un-installed MSNBC and CNN from my Fire TV, and un-favorited certain channels on SiriusXM.

Back to my recent podcast (Infamous America) and Insta/YouTube (comedians Tony Baker and Josh Johnson) obsessions! Yesterday I saw a Tony Baker segment of his animal video voiceovers that *literally* hurt my stomach, I laughed so hard and long--hadn't done that in a year or more. And thought, "Boy, I needed that after last week!"

More post-election decompressing:

(especially @3:10)

I stopped watching TV news completely after 9/11. They simultaneously inform us *and* prey on our psyches/emotions. I really felt this duality, sitting there watching the same horror footage over and over, around Sept 14th or so. That was it.

Since then I stay informed online and in print.

I had a subscription to nymag. After the election results were announced last week, I received an email from the editor promising to be there in tough times ahead, I immediately canceled my account. This is not the time for platitudes and hand wringing. Y'all wanted another Trump term. You got what you wanted so shut up about it.

No Amazon. No Whole Foods.

Datalounge is in my peripheral vision for cancellation.

I stopped 8 years ago.

I particularly cant stomach coverage & people who discuss politics like it is an exciting spectator sport.

No, I'm currently watching the Veteran's Day ceremony in Washington.

I stopped watching when the President's HEART OF THE NATION was not aired on any of the major networks.

I got their message.

The corpse media is not interested in American democracy.

I am not going back, no more news.

HEART OF THE NATION, speech.

I’m where R17 is at. No news since last Wednesday, including visits to DL. Probably won’t renew my membership this Spring.

TCM, trashy true crime, and British mysteries.

Never forget what now disgraced CBS Chairman Les Moonves said eight years ago.

The lesson: it’s about ratings. They don’t care about the country.

Why would anyone bother watching?

Haven't heard Trump's voice once since the election. I check news online a few times per day, that's it....

Since November 6th, I’ve watched so many Hallmark Christmas movies I’m in the dreaded “I just saw this one last week” rerun wheel of torture.

The pain is exquisite.

R16 exactly. Another point often missed is that the media doesn't just manipulate people with fear, they periodically inject feel-good reporting and opinions, especially during election seasons. I read so many times on DL how after reading the latest polls or watching/reading someone claiming they had insider info that indicated the collapse in support for Trump, they felt optimistic and energized, only to learn from the media the next day that everything was slipping away again, which cratered their hope. Swinging from feeling hopeful about the election one day, and then being dashed into anxiety and dread the next is hard on the mental health and eventually pushes a person to feeling helpless/hopeless on a consistent basis. The false hope narratives are often worse than the doom-and-gloom narratives.

No news! I've been licking my wounds by listening to the new Cure album - Songs of a Lost World - which completely fits my mood these days.

Yes. I have been in the process of removing news sources (mostly related to politics) from my various feeds and training the algorithms as much as possible to show me more benign content. I just don't care anymore, and I'm not going to fall for the clickbait headlines again.

[quote] I watch Tubi but it doesn't make sense to continue to do so because it is now owned by Fox.

Fox = Disney

Yes, because I don’t want to see or hear him.

MSNBC is the FOX news of the far left.

Yes.

I usually have MSNBC on in the background while I work.

Since last Wednesday I’ve been switching between The Carol Burnett Show, Barney Miller, The Twilight Zone, Wings and Gunsmoke.

I’ve seen them all so many times I don’t have to pay attention.

I think this weekend I’ll watch season 4 of Only Murders in the Building.

R32 "MSNBC is the FOX news of the far left."

How astute you are. Are you trained to use the potty?

R14, you’re the first person I’ve seen mention Josh Johnson! I love that guy.

I’ve been hiding away in his videos whenever it all becomes become too much.

Yes, I stopped years ago and I'm so much happier. Politics is a like a joyless circus... plenty of clowns, but no fun to be had. The most miserable people I know watch the news every day.

As the legacy media will never admit it's culpability regarding Trump's forever term and will shift the blame onto everyone else, I'm done with them.

I will pop the champagne I had saved for a Biden, then Harris, win for when they're all fired or taken off the air by King Trump.

Looking forward to being able to drink the entire bottle.

Journalists always get it in the neck first under dictatorships. A free press and informed populace is a direct threat to despotism.

None of these hos who pontificate on air or their sad podcasts are journalists, their hides are safe.

They are prostitutes who don't care about anything other than hitting that sweet,sweet algorithm.

Van Jones? Teary-eyed after "Joe Biden's", debate performance on CNN? Had no tears to shed when the confederate flag was flown for the first time ever in the nation's capitol on J6.

Fuck all of you.

I can't watch the news- it makes me physically ill. Also I am sick of hearing about Trump 24/7. It's insulting to promote that man. I do not care what happens in American for the next four years. People got what they wanted. America gets the president they deserve. As far as I am concerned the American story that I was a part of ended on the 5th. I don't know or recognize this country anymore. I wish I could move to another country. I feel the same way many German Jews felt in 1933. This is not longer my home. Not because Harris lost but because Trump won.

I hate to say I think the media is JUICED about Trump winning, but let's be honest - their daily news cycle with that Orange Turd in charge is going to be something new and insane every day. They're secretly loving it. I can hear Mika Brezinski's sighs in my sleep.

I didn't get what I wanted.

I wanted an educated person, (who speaks correct English and dresses in a professional manner) to represent the United States on the international stage.

I have my prejudices and very little use for women in my personal or professional life but my personal issues are beside the point.

I can acknowledge people who are competent, professional and intelligent and thoughtful regardless of my own personal prejudices.

No one has ever described Trump as thoughtful, well-groomed or intelligent.

You're exactly right r40. They're scat queens looking forward to eating shit from a soiled, adult diaper.

I’ll watch ABC World News Tonight and read BBC and Reuters.

[quote]As the legacy media will never admit it's culpability regarding Trump's forever term and will shift the blame onto everyone else, I'm done with them.

R37, to your point, this Salon article makes mention of how the media aided Trump in gaslighting the public, specifically where it came to the economy:

[quote]Here again the media collaborated, consistently painted a gloomy picture for Biden. University of Wisconsin political scientist Mark Copelovitch, who tracks media coverage alongside real-world economic trends, reports more than 10,000 media mentions of "inflation" since Biden took office, compared to 1,226 of "recovery." Even though inflation is now down to normal levels, there have still been 1,017 mentions of it since Aug. 1, compared to just 16 for "recovery."

[quote]“Even in 2024, continuing into the general election season, media coverage of the U.S. economy has overwhelmingly and disproportionately focused on covering inflation and the (nonexistent) recession,” Copelovitch told me, “while barely mentioning the fact that unemployment remains incredibly low or the fact that we've experienced an unprecedentedly rapid and complete economic recovery from the pandemic during Joe Biden's presidency."

[quote]Is it any wonder that even after Harris made early gains as the Democratic nominee, Trump still retained an advantage on the economy?

As others have mentioned, I absolutely do not want to hear anything about what that man is doing. It’ll be atrocious and people will get worked up and outraged but NOTHING will be done. What’s the point in hearing about it - so I can be be anxious and upset? No thanks.

I even stopped listening to NPR on my drive to work because all they do now is talk about him too.

R33, come and sit next to me! I too love my classic TV comfort food (Bewitched, Golden Girls, Gilligan, Carol Burnett, Gunsmoke, Twilight Zone, etc.). Like you said, you've seen them a million times and you don't have to think while you're watching them.

I watched the Terminator movies and the Alien movies, and now I'm watching Clint Eastwood play a secret service agent who is on the trail of a potential presidential assassin. The assassin is John Malkovich who plays a disgruntled former CIA operative. After this I am watching the Predator movies. Then I will watch Jason Statham blow things up and beat people. I'm fine not watching the news...really. I am.

I had cut way down on my news consumption a few weeks before early voting, but since October 21st, when I voted, I've observed a complete embargo on news. I'm not sure when or if I will ease back into it.

Time will tell.

Love you, R28! I knew before that album was released, tempted as I was by its title, that it would be my go-to post-election listening. I haven't been disappointed.

I’m heartbroken that half the country is more driven by the price of eggs than the character of the incoming president. Perhaps they are more racist, sexist, xenophobic, evangelical, and greedy than I’d like to imagine. I’m consoling myself with two thoughts: 1) The vote against inflation has happened all over the civilized world, and people are more concerned with the rent, groceries, and gas than the future of their country, global warming, or women’s bodily autonomy. 2) There are 220 million adults in the U.S. 75 million voted for him, which leaves 145 million who did not. Maybe there’s hope that they will see the light when they realize that the con man doesn’t have a magic wand.

I watched the news to be informed. This was naiveté on my part because informing the public is not why the news is shared.

Perfect example being President Biden's SOUL OF AMERICA speech not being aired on any of the major networks.

These people could have chosen to broadcast the speech and then immediately offered analysis from their "experts" of how creepy and divisive the President's message was.

Instead, the networks aired reruns of Survivor AND then told us his speech was divisive and creepy!

Can you imagine any network choosing not to air a speech made by President Trump?

No more news..no more network television.

Ever.

R7 I was avoiding much of the pre-election stuff immediately before the election as I was just oversaturated.

I’ve been sick so I’m sleeping a lot. Reading, house stuff, dogs and exercise are stress reducers for me.

Going all the way back to 2016. On the eve of the election the venerable nyts choosing to drop the story of President Clinton having missing emails? 'Interesting" editorial choices.

I only have broadcast TV which has lots of reruns channels; MeTV, Comet, H&I, Catchy Comedy. I have seen lots of the shows before. No surprises.

I self-soothe with old episodes of short-lived early-1990s sitcom "The Powers that Be." Good satire of a completely different political era.

Les Moonves is exiled in disgrace from the industry for a documented pattern of abusive behavior. But the object of his professional admiration, who delivered the radical ratings to the networks was found liable for rape is about to sashay into the White House for a second term, with no plans to ever leave office.

It's not ironic. It's not poetic justice.

It's a sick and cruel joke.

I am seeing a number of posts on here linking to various social media threads and 24-hour news channels about how horrible it is. I don't understand why people are doing this and what they're expecting from it. Turn off the effing news, how is it helping you?

There is absolutely nothing to be gained by watching the news right now. After he's sworn in (hard to even type that), I'll probably need to pay attention in case the world starts falling apart.

I'll be here on DL for the Inauguration Day hate-watch thread on January 20

Yeah, I’m done with my addiction to news. I also am giving up my MSNBC addiction. It was my one-stop shopping place for ramping up my hatred of Trump and all rethuglicans. As a previous poster said, I am giving up on things I cannot control.

Also, the first thing I do when visiting the DL is to hit the ignore button for all political threads I see (and a bunch of them spring up everyday).

OP, your question assumes people watched it in the first place. Aside from breaking news, I've almost never done so. Both of my parents are HUGE readers (even today at nearly 80), and I've been reading the NYT nearly every day since I was 14. I completely agree with their rationale: aside from in-depth "60 Minutes" content, most TV news is either sensationalist and/or fluff.

Yes, I always tune in to presidential debates – with the one exception of the Trump/Biden one this summer. I knew beforehand that it'd be bad, but not so bad that Biden would drop out entirely as a result.

At this point, however, reading the news feels masochistic. Even as an optimist in general, there is almost literally nothing positive going on right now: it's only a question of whether a given problem will be bad, terrible, or a potential WWIII trigger. I still read The Times each day, along with WaPo and Bloomberg, but I've admittedly been mostly skimming it. I have ZERO fucking interest in the specifics of how Trump plans to destroy America, or endless "if only Democrats had..." hypotheticals and navel-gazing.

This is also why I've only been skimming DL as of late. I know we have reason to panic, but since I also have zero interest in hand-wringing for the next 2.5 months – let alone four years – I'm guessing my time here will be limited for a while.

Porn will be banned so that rapes can increase, and the impregnated women will be coerced into whatever That Handmaiden's Tale book foretold.

Completely. No more

Absolutely.

I stopped watching broadcast network news back in 2000 during the Florida debacle.

I stopped watching local broadcast news about the same time simply because it became so fucking stupid. Sending an entire news crew to cover a fund raising ice cream social for a disabled girl was just so cringeworthy.

I only watched cable news sporadically. Now, I've given it up entirely and will probably never go back.

I pay $170 year for an electronic subscription to the local newspaper. That's pretty damn expensive just so I can do the Daily Jumble, 7 Little Words and the crossword puzzle. I dropped the print subscription simply because delivery became very sporadic, and nobody seemed to give a damn whether the paper got delivered or not.

I haven't watched since Tuesday. I have no plans of going back... (Kamala: NOT GOING BACK but with a different meaning).....

I wish I had done what R64 did and stopped years ago!

No but i did the day before Election Day. Too much.

R37 Hello Mary. I didn’t know Trump bought NBC Universal.

I watched a bit of MSNBC Weds. and Thursday, but I'm over it.

I get it’s gonna suck. I don’t need to fill my head with all their fear-mongering. We’ve been at this for like 9 years. I can’t take another 4 years of following Trump’s every move.

Wake me when the killing starts.

I've not stopped completely, but I am severely rationing my diet of "news"... I just can't take the media (in all it's forms and positions on the left-right continuum) reporting in a way that makes this seem normal in any sense.

There is, for me, great positive benefit in this mess. I intend to learn to live with much, much reduced screen time. Most of what winds up on my screens is just engagement crack... "keep clicking and scrolling... fuck it, just on click more... ok another click... come on one more..'"

I can't stand the way the Media has moved on and aside from beating up on Biden and Harris they are all about Trump and his appointments etc. The idea of going through 4 years of this...again... is more than I can bear.

It sucks now. Only one podcaster had the balls to ask Where is Mike Pence?

[quote]Since November 6th, I’ve watched so many Hallmark Christmas movies I’m in the dreaded “I just saw this one last week” rerun wheel of torture.

Have you watched “Haul Out the Holly” and its sequel?

Like cranberry bread and cocoa ☕️!

I know Trump was found liable for assaulting a woman and had to pay damages. But he was not found guilty of rape in a criminal case. The burden of proof is much higher in a criminal case and it's not a lock they could get a guilty verdict. I'm not defending his horrible behavior but the rapist tag can be seen as overkill. Bill Clinton was in exactly the same boat. Do you refer to him as a rapist?

Pelosi knew Kamala could never win. That's why she says Biden should have stepped aside earlier so there could have been a primary. Democratic leaders screwed us.

What is that smell? It is the odor of a thoroughly used and soiled diaper. It's a n odor that entices magat, Inc.

A full soiled adult diaper is good eating

Yes. No more "news".......what the idiot does will affect me - so I'll read headlines online....but no MORE tv news.

Bye network and cable news! Enjoy the next four years without this viewer.

I don't care what Kamala, Biden, MSNBC, FOX, NewsMax, Rogan, Trump or anyone else has to say. I'm done with all of it, DONE. I'm going into hibernation come January 2025 and I'm not coming out for at least 4 years. Period, over, and seriously done.

Way back in 2017.

Ignoring for the past few days has really improved my attitude.

I recommend it highly.

I think you've got something there, R81. Good call.

Yes. No news. No current affairs. I’m carefully filtering the DL (obviously this thread made it through). I’m not in the US but am enjoying the break from local / national / regional news as well. I’m heading for a remote off-grid cottage today with a stack of books for a couple of days of digital detox.

Yes, no cable news, no print, save a few magazines. Not interested in watching the pundits reorient themselves as they adjust to Trump back in WH.

I probably did, r73, but mercifully, since November 6th, I'm comprehending them all as one giant, therapeutic, soothing, irresistible snoregasm.

I'll say it again - You bitches think I don't know Hallmark and Lifetime Christmas movies are schlock? Well, I do. And right now, they're the schlock I want and need.

Sue me.

Someone in cable news told me that they were rolling in money during the original Trump administration, the ad dollars were just non-stop. Everybody was fat and happy and the bonuses. They're gearing up for that again. That's why they couldn't let him loose 4 years ago. The cable news networks are for-profit entertainment channels. Stop believing that you're getting any news from them.

R86 Media monopolies coming.

Yup, r86.

The 1st Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits Congress from making any law that prohibits are free press, but nowhere does it say the "free press" is itself prohibited from engaging in self-dealing conflicts of interest.

Oh, and while, I'm at it, note the US Constitution's 1st Amendment is absent any prohibition on the Executive (President) behavior when it comes to the "free press."

If Fat Donny Dictator wants to intimidate the press, who or what institution is going to stop him?

"Inform the public", my ass. Fatten corporate wallets is more like it.

I have no objection to fattening wallets or the whoring done to fatten wallets.

I have a problem with the press being used to remove American democracy and replaced with a flaccid magat oligarchy.

Not watching not interested

Hell, he’s already dominating the news and they treat him like the King Shit he thinks he is. Nope, not watching anymore.

Yes, and for the next several years.

Story after revelation about allegation after lawsuit after indictment after conviction, all day, every night, January 2021 to November 2024, and what have we to show for it?

A re-elected traitor and felon.

So America and her news stories November 2024 to January 2029 can KMBWA.

Florida, enjoy your hurricanes. Oklahoma, your tornadoes. Michigan, your factory closures. Appalachia, sorry about your lack of Obamacare. Young people, hope you get that usurious student loan approved! Women, double up on those pills!

And Latinos? ¡Adios, muchachos!

IDGAF.

Now it’s time for lefties losing it!

R74, Bill Clinton was never sued for rape, so why should anyone refer to him as a repost?

Paula Jones wanted "her good name back" after a magazine basically identified her as a woman who "accommodated" then-Gov. Clinton in her place of employment. She didn't accuse Clinton of rape.

During that inquiry Ken Starr found Monica. She never accused Clinton of rape.

Then there was Gennifer Flowers. She claimed a long-term affair, definitely not rape.

There was Kathleen Willey, who said Clinton groped her when she went to beg him to help her husband. Not good, but not proven and not rape.

Finally, we have Juanita Broaddrick, who DID say Clinton raped her. Until she took it back under oath.

R93 correction: "...as a rapist?"

I tuned to NPR this morning - headlines and the first story was about the spineless GOP members jostling of positions in the House... *click!* over to the all-classical station. I opened The NY Times this morning and the headlines are about the sychophants who are lining up for appointments in the DJT 2 administration, boot lickers one and all. I scrolled down and there were the other headlines about how Harris lost. I moved on to CNN, much of the same. Over to Drudge (always a curious aggregator of headlines) where the big headlone was about Amsterdam and anti-semetism.

By 5:30 I was here. That's my news consumption, 11/12/2024

And yet here you are where a new Trump Harris thread kicks off each hour?

I stopped watching the news almost 5 years ago. I get the headlines online so I know what's going on but it's all too depressing and I have enough issues with depression as it is.

R96, Don't be deliberately obtuse. You know full well that reading is not what "watching the news" means.

I stopped watching news shows after Democrats were lectured by Bernie Sanders on how we deserved to lose because we ignored working-class males. Enough with the lame Monday morning quarterbacking, especially from Bernie fucking Sanders, who is full of shit.

People are so weird, they have no memory of the quarantine or J6.

During the quarantine, my college buddies sent links to videos of Ahmaud Arbery being gunned down in his back and George Floyd being lynched in the street.

I had to tell them, "don't send me recordings of black men being lynched in the street", I was angry to have to explain this.

And how!

I watch a lot less

Same here, OP. The only election news I'm seeing in on DL. For some reason it doesn't bother me seeing it here. Mainly because of the snarky commentary.

I need a fucking break for a few weeks. I've asked several friends who are obsessively reading news who it's helping their mental health. Everyone admits it's making them paranoid and depressed. My position is that we can't do anything about this mess right now so might as well focus on pleasant things until it's time to take to the streets....again.

Reducing contact with the usual mainstream media sources.... and slowly acknowledging that I still will "follow" developments and connect with "the Resistance", however that eventually unfolds.

Seeing ABC or CBS... or CNN or MSNBC... or even NPR or PBS... report all this as though it's just another "peaceful transfer of power" to just another guy who won the election.

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

I bet MSNBC drops Rachel Maddow after Trump's coronation.

We stopped watching cable news this past summer. I will catch Lester Holt every once in a while. But at this point, I just don't care. When the world comes to an end, I figure I'll notice. Until then, zero fucks given. Good luck to the Department of Propaganda who will never be able to spin me up again.

[quote] I've already pissed off one friend by asking him to refrain from sending me anything else about "Why Kamala lost".

You don’t need to watch the news. There’s been a lot of good insight on DL why Harris lost and what Democrats need to do differently.

No, OP. I'll never stop watching the news.

Fuck no I’ve not stopped watching the news? Why would anyone stop?

I still get some info from podcasts or talk shows I’m a fan of, but I’ve stopped checking the Times and Post, which I I used to do frequently. I’m mostly okay to hear about what Dems did wrong or world politics, but I try to avoid anything solely focused on the incoming administration or what it plans to do. It’s just too depressing.

You can also ask your Alexa device to give you a flash briefing, and it will give you the news reports.

I’m not a part of the general under-informed public. I try to keep up with news from various sources like Apple News with WSJ, WP, Newsweek, LA Times, etc and NewsNation, CNN (Abby Phillip especially) and Sirius XM POTUS daily shows - Michael Smerconish and Dan Abrams. I like Chris Hayes on MSNBC.

Yes. I feel much better not listening to Mika and blowhard Joe and all the rest of them. I am watching PBN, anything BBC and listening to all kinds of good music, especially in the car. Decompression is a very good thing.

One of the reasons for my high Spectrum Cable bill is I wanted all the "news" channels.

Now that I don't have an appetite for news it's a good reason to go bare bones and save money, too.

A RERUN OF GUNSMOKE (!!!) on ISPN beat CNN's entire primetime lineup on Monday night.

During the previous Turd admin. I'd religiously watch all the nightly MSNBC programs for shreds of hope about stolen elections or impeachments or investigations.

Now I'll just casually observe the Deplorables sink into depression as they watch their dreams go up in orange smoke. They might get Religious Freedom, but you can't pay the rent with that.

r18, it is because what was News is now Corporate Entertainment fueled by Entertainment Advertising.

It is where voters can say, simultaneously, that they did not know much about Harris but that she was a failed Border Czar. Is it possible that the Murdoch/MAGA propaganda machine did not want any successes known and that simply labeling her a failed, made something real?

It is where voters can simply say the Bidenomics was a failure after injecting TWO FUCKING TRILLION DOLLARS into the economy, saving everyone's job, and then saying why can't Biden give AMERICANS money if he can give Ukraine billions? The American Voter has been dumbed down so much that they cannot connect the dots. The MAGA/Murdoch propaganda machine does not acknowledge that there are FUCKING DOTS TO CONNECT.

Harris did not lose to Trump. She lost to the MAGA/Murdoch propaganda machine.

She lost to the CORPORATIONS WHO SET THE NARRATIVE.

She lost to the CORPORATE POLLSTERS who told her to run on hope.

She lost by running against Trump and not the CORPORATIONS who live off of advertising. They are the ones who sold the load of crap, known as Trump, to the American people.

Selling crap is what they do best. Why do you think Trump met with Murdoch on election day?

Murdoch was checking out the merch.

24-hour news watching is not normal.

Neither is phone-surfing social media during every spare moment one has. It's deeply unhealthy.

Look at news only enough to stay informed, for a planned amount of time, for a planned brief session. Apart from that, find something else to do with your time.

Phone-surfing, and its destructive impact on the human mind, heart, and judgement, is why Trump was elected.

I propose for myself to back away from "The Screens".... not to reject a role in asserting values that I cherish, but spending hours and hours looking at screens to give me the juice...it's just engagement crack and it's why we are in the pickle we're in.

I watch DL. It seems to be the only outside input I can take lately.

Step away. I keep an eye on things but it’s been months since I watched a full newscast. It’s not good for the nervous system especially right now.

Keep in mind that overconsumption of media is what tipped a lot of people over the MAGA cliff.

Agree r117.

The only two things I'd add are Harris was running against the ingrained bigotry and sexism of Americans, too.

Same as R120. If something major happens, DL will let me know.

R115 - I am watching 1122 eps of One Piece and having a great time!☠️🍷

100% I turned off all my X notifications and I only follow sports and Marvel. Hoping my algorithm will change so that's the only think I see. Unsubscribed from all my news channels on YouTube also. I'm out.

R8: You might enjoy "A Place To Call Home," a lovely Australian series spanning six seasons. Borderline soap opera, but just what we need as we rest, reflect and refuel.

CNN is having a big shake up. They came in 3rd on election night, with MSNBC beating them, and Fox beating everyone. Chris Wallace announced he is gone after 3 years. Anderson, Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer are supposed to be getting pay cuts, and they will be cutting back on producers, and assistant producers. And the top guy who replace Chris Licht is gone.

I have stopped wThcung

yeah, I haven't watched in 2 years.

When I was very serious at university, including graduate school, I read virtually nothing for years. Before and after, I follow the news closely. But when I was in school I had only one focus.