Long time ago

Yep cable go off after this billing cycle I'm done with this BS all of it. That chit with OWN on so many channel last night was the last straw for me.

Bingo. We have the winner. Best post in this thread.

I watch the local weather some. Haven't watched the fake news, local or national in many years.
OANN is ok in small doses.

Don't sugar coat it, Bill. Tell us what you REALLY think...

I stopped watching any news back about 25+ yrs ago now. I have watched some local weather a time or two when bad storms were moving in or during the hurricane. I won't even listen to any news on the radio. If someone was to ask me about a current event, I have to ask them what is happening and when did it happen. When the Gulf War started in 1990(???) I did not even know anything had happened till about 5 days after it had started when I was in my truck heading into town and caught a little piece of it on the radio newscast. I can get weather on my phone or desktop and that is much better than local news stations in SA or CC or Victoria.

I watch it on mute.If a story seems interesting to me I un-mute it. Any story about Covid-19 or Black Lives Matter....it stays muted.

OAN for the win

I used to watch 4 or 5 hours of different "news" shows every night on the big 3 cable news networks. I would record the entire prime-time lineup on MSNBC and Fox and watch every show. Around 2003, I stopped watching the prime-time shows on MSNBC because they got too predictable. I watched Fox for another couple of years and then I stopped watching them as well. Like today, you could watch the talking points for each side came out in the early afternoon and then each successive show throughout the night would pound on those points until the re-runs hit at 10PM. Except for Beck, he went all Soros, all caliphate, all the time. It was interesting for the first couple of weeks, but got really repetitive after a couple of months. During the Obama years, I would check in from time to time. However, I would usually check back out because it was still the same old same old. I don't even bother watching the prime-time shows now. Occasionally the hosts will go off script, but most times It's nothing but cheerleaders for each team regurgitating the daily talking points. About the only shows I still occasionally watch are The Five and Bret Baier. Baier because he has decent coverage of the news without all the opinion nonsense. The Five because you still can get the occasional nugget from Dana P on how things actually work inside an administration (I wish they would bring back Beckel).

I still watch the occasional daytime show. However, back in the early 2000's the daytime shows figured out it was easier/cheaper to do political panels than it was to cover actual news. Once the daytime shows went all politics, no news, I stopped watching them as well. When it first launched, Fox Business carried a lot of news and I watched it a lot of it during the day. Unfortunately, it followed the path of the other daytime shows and I stopped watching.

Never was big on watching news, particularly national. I DVR the local 10pm news and start it about 10:15, FF through any worthless segments. Weather.com has the weather but the local guy tends to catch some things and I know him personally. So basically weather, any feel-good or interesting stories, and maybe local sports (when there are any).

^ this

I brought this up at work today. My wife puts it on the local news to watch the weather and I tell her to change it. I distrust all of them all of the time except Fox news. I check the market (DOW) and the price of oil on line because it effects me and my job but the news channels kiss my A$$.

Me and the wife sit on the porch. She listens to music, I drink (not particular). If its not happening on our street I try not to concern myself with it. The kids will give a Sunday update. I do read a lot more lately though.

Watching the local news in texas for the weather forecast is about as useful as checking the farmers almanac for the daily weather.

Sunny with a 10% chance of rain in the summer.
Sunny with a 20% chance of rain in the winter
Sunny with a 10% chance of a tornado in the spring
Sunny with a 10% chance of hitting a buck in the fall

Seriously, I could not imagine a more easy job than being a network weather person, even if they are wrong they just blame it on the "cap" and everybody forgives them of their mistake. I missed the boat on that job

go home yankee

Being a weather person south of 10 is even easier:

Every season sunny with a 2% chance of rain
Spring 1% chance of a tropical storm rolling through.


Sorry if you are a weather person Payne, its just a joke....

We stopped watching it. If the police aren't allowed to do anything to criminals when they are being criminals then I don't want to know about it. If it comes to my door, I will take care of it.

The media makes a killing off of this junk. They stir the pot.

Yes

Lol

Lets talk modern football and not when football was really some variation of soccer.

Talk from 1950 onward, the record shifts considerably to 39-28-2 in favor of OSU.

We can even just take out the early early football record (prior to 1912) and the record still flips in OSU favor 51-46-6.

Plus, we have owned the last two whole classes of the skunks...and it will continue to happen as long as hair ball is there.

You wanna talk football, I am happy to talk football.

Yup. September 12, 2001.

I couldn't think of anymore adjectives.

The window and Frankie McDonald is my weatherman.

Here are only two previews of the same topics that will appear in the paper tomorrow morning.




‘It is on you.’ George Floyd’s brother urges Congress to act
"Maybe by speaking with you today, I can make sure his death would not be in vain," Philonise Floyd testified to the House Judiciary Committee, which is considering a package of police reforms proposed by House Democrats.

Divided Commissioners Court approves George Floyd resolution
A divided Harris County Commissioners Court passed a resolution condemning the death of George Floyd as the product of racist policing and a flawed criminal justice system.

Considering this forum's composition, maybe better to ask, "Has anyone here started watching the news again?"