I reckon a lot of old timers who had been watching since the 60's, stopped watching after Rather and his producers were fired. But some of us continued watching occasionally until the Benghazi story, which for me was the last straw.

to try to expose them and keep them more honest. But most of the stories on tonight's 60 Min. were non political. Tonight they did stories on how the FBI found Whitey Bulger which was interesting. And a couple others. Thye might be laying low for awhile now thanks to Media Matters vigilance.

is important. That DOES require monitoring a lot. I was involved in that activism for a few years, but I never wasted energy monitoring Fox, all the others including PBS was enough on my plate! Happy to know Media Matters is all over it and still going strong.

problem you are likely to develop. BTW, the body can't distinguish between true stress and made up stress, so in a real sense, FOX kills.

I quit watching FAUX news during the *ush terms. They had it on in my lunch room at work and if I was the only one there at the time, I'd just turn it off.

60 minutes was never my bag.

Still I love the groups that do take the time that can stomach the lies and let me know what to watch for in the next "meme" from republicturds.

I don't have the stomach for it. Makes my blood pressure go thru the roof.

It was a relatively painless break-up, surprisingly enough.

I don't even miss them.

Of course, Mike "Getcher Blood Boiling" Wallace is gone, so there's that.

Wasn't he in contention for 60 Minutes? I felt that he was a more honest reporter than most but it's hard to judge these things relying on the talking-machinery.

Then I use that hand to pick up the remote and change the channel!

They are disgusting to me when they deny the truth and promote lies due to the "personalities" involved. I have not watched this show one single time since the Rathers retraction and will not watch it again.

.... was a trial balloon, to see if they got any negative feedback about Peterson. To see how many people in the hinterlands know who that SOB is. I didn't see it, because I never watch the show anymore. But, if I had landed there while surfing and heard them blessing that POS, I would have quietly walked to the utility room, searched out the hammer and crashed the TV. And then I would have written them and said pretty much verbatim what Bernie said. Perhaps they did get a ton of letters informing them what kind of character Peterson is, including the one from Bernie. Rather than say what overwhelming feedback they had, they chose to just read Bernie's letter.

... sometimes I hit pay-dirt, more times than not, given the fullness of time. Heck, we're never told the straight truth about anything, after all.

(and audience) especially from the left.

Maybe a mixture of both? Whatever, they're toast.

One could connect the dots just by reading down the page. For instance, seeing the words, shut down SS, may be a clicker. Glad the senator's letter was read.

When these shows relied on something that was called "journalism". And they would not be afraid if the trail led them to high power corporate CEOs or politicians. They would not ignore a story if it hit a little too close to home for the corporate executives that own the big media conglomerates today.

It was part of the intrigue of the show. To watch truth standing up to power on a weekly basis.

Now, increasingly, 60 minutes and its clones like 20/20 and Frontline etc..are ignoring any story that may piss off the corporate sector and concentrate on infotainment rumours and scandals. Sometimes its hard to see the difference in a shows like that and Entertainment Tonight. Now we see they have gotten even bolder and have decided to "create" the news by inventing stories for their corporate masters in order to sway public opinion.

And the Democrats and Obama are doing their part. With the unprecedented war on whistleblowers the decline of journalism is predicable.

their fantasy boxes and start living their lives?

That he was a liberal senator, last time I checked he was an independent!!!

Let's see, I'll make money off the destruction & exploitation of the environment, sweatshops, military weapons and fracking but I'll give a few dollars of that blood money to charity and that will make it all better.

Saw the intro that still had Lara Logan on it and immediately changed the channel.

...so we can get something respectable on the idiot box? Geezzz. I keep asking the friggin question with minimal response.

Bernie wants to pass media reform and end this corporate crap. And so do I. The question is, are people on the same page as Bernie? Is anyone here on the same page as Bernie? For cryin out loud, as long as Ton's of Fun with the golden mic, and all those other RW dirtbags are spewing this crap, we allow a society to get dummer and dummer--perhaps to the point there are a million more half-term governor twits walking around.

We have all these other campaigns (like better wages at Wal-Fart) that are picking up steam. Why not start while we have time to change this? Are people giving up?

I don't know. I'm just asking.

I've got the petition. Two as a matter of fact.

They just need some people power.

I rest my case.

"To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful."
-Edward R. Murrow

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When a RW pundit says some ridiculous lie, "social media activists" need to go to their Twitter of FB and call them out on it. I dont do either very much but when I watch these Fox fools I just want to reach out and strangle them almost. I promise myself I'll look them up and will shame them in public on social media but I rarely do. This might eventually be an answer to keep them honest as more and more people get on social media.