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In reply to the discussion: Gotta love Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! ....... [View all]SheilaT
(23,156 posts)and have had the pleasure of seeing her speak in person several times.
My local community radio station has her on at 6 a.m. and 3 p.m. with BBC news before and after, plus they do other programming. I wake up every morning to her, and usually listen to at least some of the BBC also.
Most evenings I watch the Rachel Maddow Show, and I read the local newspaper. No TV, so I never see what passes for Mainstream news, other than Rachel. And then there's DU. I feel as if I'm quite well informed, and I don't get the crap that MSM passes off as news. What I most specifically don't get, along with no political ads at all, is the way some truly irrelevant story gets hyped to the exclusion of genuine news. Unfortunately, here on DU the equivalent happens when six hundred threads get started on the same topic, and sometimes that topic is one of the stupid and irrelevant items of non news.