Anyone else not wired into the MSM? At all.

I don't have TV- Ok, I have a TV and and DVD player, but not reception and no cable. My radio only gets NPR. I don't read Time, or Newsweek.
I do pick up the Sunday NYT. And that's it. Anyone else as tuned out as I am?

alright...in fact better than alright..

I don't need to watch any of it; I can always get reports from DUers.

I canceled cable last summer -- too much crap. I watch Cspan on line -- and can get just about any other thing on line. I watch PBS on teevee, and we get a subscription to "The Week" and "Vanity Fair."

Particularly "World Service" and "Radio 4".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/i/

I'd love to, but I only have dial-up. I do listen to BBC on VPR every morning though.

For someone as well informed as you obviously are, it must be frustrating.

I even listen to NPR streaming because I live in the mountains and radio reception is poor here.

For some reason, I have the vague idea that it's NM.

Semi-rural, 3 acres of woods and meadow.

Born in L.A., but lived in various parts of the country. Including a car when I was a kid and we were homeless. Nevada, NJ, FL, OH, OR, but mostly CA until we got crowded out 26 years ago. Never looked back but I still miss the Eucalyptus trees and mockingbirds.

I know you live in Vermont, we (my wife and I) considered it because it seems so beautiful and progressive, but Oh, that snow.

Born in L.A., I mean. Moved to CT when I was 10. Fell in love with Vt when I was a kid and we went skiing there. Still love to ski, and love the snow.

I have TV reception but no cable.

I can get whatever radio I want. I do pick up local papers too.

I get The Nation. I gave up on all the other news magazines a couple of years ago. Some friends told the The Economist is good. I might try that.

But the MSM does nothing for me any more. I started seeing too much propaganda there a long time ago, at least as long ago as the Clinton Presidency.

the New Yorker and a couple of more esoteric journals on history.

I canceled it when we moved a month ago. Watch local TV every now and then but rarely. I feel like topics and opinions aren't being shoved down my throat as much anymore. Cable has some nice educational programming, but I don't think it's worth having to be exposed to everything else.

14 months ago, and I don't get any local programming. I don't miss it at all.

That's probably why I don't watch TV much anymore. The DVR prevented me from having to sit through commercials and made it easier to record what I wanted to watch. I'll probably get one for local broadcasts sometime.

I get all my information from Du. If it weren't for Du I would be in the dark. I have a low post count, but, I have been lurking here since 2002. I was afraid to post because of my grammar. I had a stroke that left the left side of my body paralyzed. All my info about what's going on comes from DU. I email all important info to my Democratic friends, to keep them inform too. I don't sleep very good because of my condition. I wake up at 2:30 am and the first thing I do is get my coffee and crank on DU. One time our internet was down for a week, I went through withdrawals.

I just want to thank DU for everything, There are some very intelligent people here.

Thanks again,

John

to tell you how glad I am. Please don't let your grammar or having had a stroke, stop you from joining in the conversation.

Thanks again for posting. I look forward to more posts from you.

cali

For your kind words.

John

Now let's see you get that post count up there.

I`m looking forward to your participation here. Don`t worry about the grammar. It`s the heart that counts. Glad you`re here, John.

I came out of the Amazon once and saw a newspaper with a headline "War Ends, 70,000 Dead." We had not heard of this war in the jungle, of course. That kind of news was more depressing than having to put on shoes again.

You may hold the DU record. I'd love to hear about what you were doing in the Amazon.

Share, goddamnit.

turned off extended cable a couple years ago specifically so I wouldn't have to see bill O. as I clicked past fox to the weather channel. we had a good local weather channel that I watched instead and the simpsons reruns during news hour. broke my heart to give up animal planet tho.
my tv went out a couple months ago now and I haven't gotten a new one yet.
no newspapers, no radio, no news magazines. just internet.

Most news obtained online from Buzzflash, the Guardian, Indymedia, the Independent and DU -- occasionally from other online sources, preferably published or hosted outside the US. And if I want to any research about the recent news stories or anything else from the big bang to the missing nuke, the Web is my dearest friend (excluding CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and Fux websites), along with Powell's Books if it's hard copy I need.

No radio except AAR and the local indy/left-radical station. No TV except baseball games and Moyers' PBS show on Friday evening, and maybe a Frontline now and then.

And that's it. I haven't watched CNN or the networks in years and have no desire to hear or see a single damn thing they have to say. Same with radio, AM or FM. Even NPR is apparently so worried about their federal funding that they've become relatively untrustworthy over the past several years. They're still a cut above the rest, but slipping in the wrong direction.

Purists R us.

wp

:shrug:

I love John Stewart. I've seen him twice and it cracked me up. I miss Masterpiece theatre. CSPAN is valuble, no doubt about it, and I'd have a hard time characterizing it as MSM, but life without all that is definitely different.

I have found it to be a good deal less politicized than cable channels. As well, I don't really have a choice. I live in Florida and, after having lost one home to a hurricane, would prefer watching the news over getting caught off-guard. :)

...but I don't watch any corporate news and I can't stand commercials, so I seldom watch any one thing for long, if I don't just turn it off. I'd much rather watch movies I rent or own anyway.

it on in over a year, hooked into an A/V receiver. Otherwise no "TV".
Cable internet only, no TV reception. The DVD player I use mostly for music.

Don't see any MSM except when in restaurants and the like.

Don't listen to any MSM, but get it shoved it down my throat in the form of the pathetic ABC Radio news and their sniveling Bush sphincter suckers, which is used by the local Air America/Jones Radio network affiliate (Clear Channel) broadcasting a puny scratchy signal that can barely be received indoors.

Don't read any MSM, except as maybe referenced in RawStory or DU or others.

So I would say I am mostly MSM free, hence well-informed.

I wouldn't watch the news channels anyway can't stand them.

working to wean myself off MSM. Old dog, new tricks thing.