Haven't missed a thing.

and I've never gotten into the cable news habit. Oh, I tuned into CNN for a live feed of the Japanese tsunami and once in a blue moon when Olbermann had a special comment, I'd watch just that. However, the breathless delivery with everything a crisis is exquisitely painful to watch.

These days if there's a breaking story I want to catch, I might flip over to Al Jazeera America for a few seconds. They deliver the news without the breathlessness and loaded language and it's refreshing. Yes, I know their editorial bias. For neutral, objective delivery I'll cope with that.

The biggest favor you can do yourself is to turn that shit off for a month. After a month, evaluate whether or not you still miss it. I sure as hell didn't.

Trying to get their attention.

"Trying to get their attention" means I might start watching again if they straighten up their act.

And that ain't true.

their ratings are UP... so you can stop watching, but you were replaced already

Why people are watching is a good question, but the place also changed from the place for politics, to more "mainstream news" because that was costing them viewers.

I also posted this a while ago, and got no attention

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027482107

But I also blame the viewers. Truly

Oh and find your any local independent media and support them

Well worth reading.

kind of a story, speaking off

They are all boring, the biggest hate is for Chuck and his MP profram

But I've been a fan of Rachel & Lawrence.

Until now.

I don't watch them any more because I think they suck, and not just because it's recently turned into Trump TV. The sucking started a couple of years ago and has steadily increased to the point where they suck hard enough to bend light. I wouldn't call my not-watching a boycott so much as serious customer dissatisfaction resulting in a refusal to accept the product.

and reclaim a little extra humanity.

Do it for the children.

Quit watching last summer and my blood pressure is very thankful. Who needs it.

They could do nothing to get me back.

I never turn on their bullshit any more. I only ever watch CNN when there is some major breaking story live, and then only CNN because they are the only news channel with the infrastructure to handle these sorts of stories.

Otherwise, cable news channels are permanently off my television consumption menu, and there was a time when I ALWAYS had Cable news tuned in when the television was turned on.

Didn't you see this coming?

My suggestion is, do what I did. Call your cable or satellite provider and cancel your service. If you have a contract, you may want to wait until it expires to avoid penalties, but cancel it at your earliest convenience.

Buy yourself a Roku, apple TV, amazon fire stick or google chrome and plug it into the USB port on your TV. Subscribe to Free Speech TV, BBC, and a few other of the available news services and forget about the crap you get fed by corporate Amurka via network and cable TV.

The MSNBC you remember is gone forever. Its now owned by Comcast, one of the most hated corporations in the country.

I loooooooooooooooove Al Jazeera. And the BBC.

But there is an Al Jazeera app available for iPhone and iPad.

How nice of you!!

I just love Al Jazeera America, and I love having their news on in the background as I get stuff done around the house. It makes me feel so worldly and the quality of the reporting (and the things they focus on) is SO much better than anything else here. I even prefer it to the BBC News (which is like preferring one child over the other--I love them both) because Al Jazeera seems to have a focus on social justice as well as on good reporting.

5 months ago.....

For all the reasons you mentioned.

To old age and the streaming content on the internet. Younger viewers tend to not have cable and instead stream shows on the internet. Cable news is dying. Thats why Trump is on 24/7. He gives every station staggering towards their eventual death a boost in ratings. Best just to cut the cord.

Until it returns to real objective news, I will continue to ignore and not pay a dime toward any sponsors of prime time stupid news.

mentioning them, it's like pointing out someone's goiter, they can't help it and they already know it so it's nicer just to pretend you don't notice.

Sorry.

it's trump fucking central.

I too am fed up to the teeth with tRump. That's what that little red button is for.

I check in with Rachel and Laurence and sometimes Chris. Don't always stay. Just don't watch as much anymore. Actually I like some of the new reporters. But the subject of tRump remains and I a move on.

In order to obtain and convey real, substantial information about the issues and the other candidates, the journos would have to do some actual work. Entertaining the public is easier than informing it, especially when you have a showboat like Trump available.

they are doing what they want to, not what they have to.
such a canard.

imho

No cable, no satellite, no broadcast.

I know the biases of the news sources I use very well, especially our local newspapers where it's possible to talk face-to-face with editors, reporters, and columnists.

Aljazeera and BBC are okay for international news if you remember they are very biased toward international high finance. Reading a second language will really open your eyes.

It always amazes me how much news spun for U.S. television leaks onto DU.

Once you quit watching corporate "news" on television you can smell it a mile away.

Rather like how non-smokers living in non-smoking environments can smell a smoker in the car ahead of them as they are driving down the highway.

The ship has long sailed since then.

I'm thinking they have already lost a good percentage of their Liberal audience, which would explain the ever-growing pandering to the Repubs.

I watched a clip on DU where Hayes interviewed Bernie. Half the screen was Trump stumping throughout Bernie's interview. It's ridiculous!

If I want TV news, I turn to al-Jazeera.

Up until then, Maddow, Schultz and O'Donnell on MSNBC were the only political commentators I watched regularly, but between the growing Trump coverage, the Comcast deal, and Ed getting the ax, it got to be too much.

I don't feel like I'm missing anything, and if enough people walk away and their viewership nosedives, they'll know why.

I do like true breaking news of major events. I have tried looking on-line at the same time I have CNN on and also checking Google news. So far, my internet sources are very slow. In the end, my favored newspaper sources have the same news with less speculation. It is hard to break with the immediateness of breaking news.

Any suggestions? I have really been wanting to pull the plug on cable for a long time.

I already do the Roku available stuff with Netflix, Hulu-plus, Acorn , PBS and Free Speech TV.

Its the immediate news I need.

and was confused as to why they had a video split screen with Trump to the right (silent) giving some speech while Chris interviewed Sanders. WTF? I put a piece paper on my screen so I didn't have to watch the nutjob doing his thing.

I find it disturbing too.

Lost cable 4 years ago, and never been happier, nor more informed.
Also, nothing's quite as annoying as logging in to DU and seeing the latest posts all people rushing to talk about what's on TV. If I wanted to know what was on TV, I would watch TV.
/rant off

individuals. I first noticed it from Steve Kornecki. Then they shut down others one by one. We even witnessed Chuck Todd backstab David Gregory, even though both of them needed to be shut down. Moaning Joe has one of the worst shows and he is their go to person. We are witnessing the decline of intelligence in America. Rachel and Lawrence O'Donnell are the only reasons I still watch. Notice how they keep them in a slot very late in the evening.

Public Broadcasting people tell me they get a lot of money to keep John McGloughin on air.

dominated by the right wing machine.

as a former longtime employee of a PBSnews program I am here to tell you that they LOVE CONSERVATIVES and genuflect to them outrageously. Read the FAIR reports (which they hate) and you will see that 75% of their speaking guests or featured persons are white Republican males.

I know because I performed the in-house "counts" for the unnamed but very very famous daily PBSnews show. When I pointed this out to the Chief Producer I was told that, well Republicans are in power, of course we cover them the most. When Obama was elected, nothing changed. Still nothing but the same familiar white male conservatives. This, I was told, was because they have an obligation to cover the opposition.

Cute, huh?

there is no way to watch the games in real time without having a "provider" and this includes the NFL online broadcasts which are all delayed. And that is AFTER we paid 50 bucks a month for NFL access.
Then we found out it's delayed even for subscribers. It was way cheaper to go back to our "provider"
for channel access.

Short of divorce or widowhood, I'm back on the teat.

We used to watch Matthews, until he developed a mancrush on Trump.

so i can not boycott what i no longer have access to

i rarely miss it

miss a and e and fx more
hell i miss hallmark channel more

We got rid of cable almost two years ago, partly because of MSNBC. We only watched news and HBO/Showtime, and MSNBC was about the only news we could stand. They got so bad it just wasn't worth the money anymore. Now they're the only news station I can get a free live stream for, and it's from Europe! Plus CBSN has an Apple TV/Amazon channel (semi-live, lots of reruns of last nights news, 60 minutes segments, their morning show). CNN used to have a live stream for a while, but it got blocked, and they suck anyway. We can also get BBC and PBS on Apple TV and Amazon, which are way better overall.

Cabal news is garbage. I watch the foreign news.

join you.

Rachel, Chris Hayes, Matthews, O'Donnell, MHP, Up, Rev = Pretty Liberal

Maybe this is the problem:
Matthews is an establishment Democrat and gets tedious.
Hayes and Rachel are the same geek. Difficult to watch back-to-back.
Larry doesn't add anything.
Up is always good as is MHP.
I haven't watched Rev since he moved to Sundays.

We have 7 hosts but don't like anyone except Rachel. Hayes and O'Donnell don't add anything. Whether you liked them or not, Ed and Rev broke the geekopoly of Rachel, Hayes, and O'Donnell. That's why MSNBC sucks more than it used to: our TV personalities are tedious.

I know I am not missing much