Any recommendations for morning news television programs?

I am in the habit of watching this utter piece of excrement called "American Morning" on CNN. It's awful in just about every way. But the most irritating thing is this jerk Jack Cafferty, who is literally the last human being on the planet that I would want in my home before I've had my morning coffee.

So, is there anything better out there? Or is it all crap?

Any recommendations would be appreciated.

...just the usual NeoCon propaganda offered by the usual NeoCon media shills.

;-)

I hear ya about morning news shows.

Washington Journal is about the best compromise I've been able to make.
Even then, I have to hit mute when some idiot RW caller makes me too crazy.

Whatever you do, PLEASE free yourself from CNN!!

-chef-

Washington Journal is irritating in its own way, but I suppose it may be a tolerable compromise.

I listen to the Bushbots and marvel at how quickly and thoroughly they pick up the disinformation that the GOPropagandists spew daily. The Fascist propaganda machine has made an art of composing one-liners that embed themselves in the Bushbot brain-pan. Their programming would make the Borg green with envy. The hive mentality is fascinating.

For the love of God, do not watch the Today Show.

I'm sorry to hear that it still sucks.

WTOP and/or NPR.

NPR isn't perfect, but it's better than just about everything else. It's my radio station of choice when I'm in my car. But I'm not in the habit of listening to the radio in my home.

I've never listened to WTOP. I'll have to try that.

though the wingnuts who call in can make Cafferty look sane. At least, though, they're not on the payroll like Mad Jack.

I just turned on C-SPAN. It doesn't appear to be showing Washington Journal right now.

his show will be on from noon to 3 on Friday.

There is a banner at the bottom of my screen that says "Political Talk Show Week".

And CNS -- the network Al Gore was supposedly buying -- has sane broadcasts from various sources (Canadian, German, Japanese.)

LINK TV has a German news show, plus MOSAIC (a collage of news broadcasts from the Middle East, complete with graphic war footage), plus "Democracy Now" with Amy Goodman twice a day.

I had to give up CNN after their behavior during the DNC -- and never could stand to watch Cafferty.

I have the "expanded basic" cable package. 70 channels.

C-SPAN, and NWI for news, plus IFC and TCM for movies -- and the Comedy Channel for "The Daily Show." Aside from a couple of network shows and HGTV, I don't watch anything else.

I wish LINK would broadcast "Democracy Now" earlier in the day. It's a perfect show to have on while working because it IS a radio show. Of course, "Washington Journal" might as well be on radio, too.

That would be my advice. I listen to Air America in the morning. Actually, I listen to AAR all day long. . . and I limit my Cable News viewing these days to Keith Olbermann, Lou Dobbs, and Jon Stewart. Occasionally, I'll turn on Tweety to see which multiple personality of his has surfaced for the day, just out of curiosity. But that's it.

I have to do my "morning rounds" on DU first thing in the morning. It takes me about two or three hours to do all the stuff I gotta do here in the morning. I can't read the paper while I'm reading DU. But I like to have some TV news going on as "background noise" so I know what the big stories are.

I turn the tv on out of habit. I put it on HBO or Comedy Central on mute, making sure that no "news" network get my ratings then I turn on Air America Radio on my computer. That's how I have been getting through the last couple of weeks. Good Luck

Maybe I should try that.

pics in front of your eyes. But I get all my news of the day on Morning Sedition - and some good laughs too.

i listen on the way to work and then on my computer when i get to work. those guys are great!!

I guess I should try it.

the guys are funny and they have some great stuff. Today it was a whole list of crap that **** has flip flopped on or hasnt done.

Security", W's diary" "Iraq - Birth of a Nation" , the fax with the Barbara Streissand marching orders.
A while ago they had "Bill in Harlem" and "William in Chapaqua" calling (the Clinton 2 personalities - serious an party animal. It was rib splittingly funny.
They have great guests - Greg palast was on yesterday. Not much of interviewers either of them - Sue Elicott used to be good at that, but the guests are good on theor own.

watch the absolute worst potentially political program on. I'm not sure what that might be, since I refuse to buy cable, but I think Fox News has some morning show, now.

I think it's important to keep tabs on what the Repug talking points, that will be used all across TV by their surrogates and brainlessly accepted by their watchers, will be.

Just don't tell Nielsen that you watch them. :silly:

It is an utter disgrace, even by the standards of Fox News.

all look like caricatures of trollops!! It's almost funny!!!

Where do they get these freaks?

i don't usually watch tv in the morning, but if i do turn it on, it's c-span.

- They have news you WON'T see on any other network.

IMUS is a repulsive toad. (I don't like to demean animals by attaching their identity to repulsive humans, but...)

Where does he get off commenting on other people's honesty, character, looks, or any number of things. This morning he was out-doing his own repulsiveness, calling JK all kinds of synonyms for "liar" while claiming to support him. He also disrupts the guests who are setting him straight, interrupting with off-topic crap and breaking the train of their thought.

The network shows are drivel. I liked COURIC for awhile but LAUER cancels her out.

C-SPAN is bland and rigidly structured with the tit-for-tat callers.

And then there is Faux's Faux-&-Fiends. The babbling of the 3 heads all over one another plus the wingnut talking points, same stories multiple times per half hour are insufferable.

Sorry, it's a wasteland.

On edit: Wow! for the avatar.

nothing. Listen to Pacifica or NPR. Imus is good for a laugh and that is about all but nothing is worse than Fox and Friends.

Some halfway credible news program for the A.M. on TV would be great.

I look forward to Olberman in the evening as a don't miss news program, finally we have something in the evening.

Would be nice if something similar could be arranged in the morning.

I can't think of anything in the morning involving news that is worth watching either.

It runs on my Cable Access station in the morning, but I listen in on college radio.

Kind of like what NPR used to be a long, long time ago.... OK, perhaps a tad more Left. :evilgrin:

I usually tune into MSNBC for a hint of the days news .
then quickly move to AAR for the rest of the day .

Harry Smith seems to be pretty fair. Hannah Storm is really the only one that gets testy at times, but overall I like it--at least for now.

broadcasts real news at the top of every hour.
It's straight, fact-based reporting as opposed to the Republican pablum on CNN.