Posted on 11/25/2016 7:16:14 AM PST by conservativeimage
It was thirteen years ago this holiday. George W. Bush made a surprise trip to Iraq to encourage American troops who were fighting the War against Islamic Terrorism in Iraq. As the president was photographed serving Thanksgiving turkey to soldiers in the battlefield, subversive journalists in the U.S. reported the visit as a political stunt. One day later H i l l a r y C l i n t o n showed up in Iraq and was praised by the same media as heroic. That was it for me. I turned the TV off and began my lifetime boycott of ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR, CNN, MSN, these Marxist mass illusionists who disguise themselves as journalists in the United States.
So how about you? Was there a definitive instance that convinced you to shut it off permanently? Tell us your story below.
When the internet came out and I adjusted to it and mdae Drudge my home page then I gave up broadcast TV and the local lib rag.
I haven’t watched the news when I heard Rush Limbaugh suggest that if it depresses you, shut it off. I read somewhere later that the combined audience of network news today, equals one of the big three from the days of Uncle Walter. Still powerful, just not as powerful.
That's when.
I quit Time, Newsweek, USN&WR, etc...way before then.
Drudge every day was reporting the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Every day there were THOUSANDS of responses to those related threads —we were PACKED with Monica experts.
For SIX MONTHS the TV news had NO story at all and the Enquirer had a print story just ONE time.
I was spending SO MUCH time infuriated that I just got rid of my TV completely.
I have no cable and no television set AT ALL.
I’m much happier.
Howard Beale: [laughing to himself] But, man, you’re never going to get any truth from us. We’ll tell you anything you want to hear; we lie like hell. We’ll tell you that, uh, Kojak always gets the killer, or that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker’s house, and no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don’t worry, just look at your watch; at the end of the hour he’s going to win. We’ll tell you any shit you want to hear. We deal in *illusions*, man! None of it is true! But you people sit there, day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds... We’re all you know. You’re beginning to believe the illusions we’re spinning here. You’re beginning to think that the tube is reality, and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you! You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even *think* like the tube! This is mass madness, you maniacs! In God’s name, you people are the real thing! *WE* are the illusion! So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off! Turn them off right in the middle of the sentence I’m speaking to you now! TURN THEM OFF...
December 2000. Ringing any bells? That’s when I discovered FR and found out the news formats were repetitive and biased. Never looked back. 4 years ago I turned off my cable too. I don’t regret it in the least.
CC
Howard Beale: [ascending the stage] So, you listen to me. Listen to me: Television is not the truth! Television is a God-damned amusement park! Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, side-show freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We’re in the boredom-killing business! So if you want the truth... Go to God! Go to your gurus! Go to yourselves! Because that’s the only place you’re ever going to find any real truth.
I joined the Marines in 1980.
That was when I last got news from some guy reading a few pages at most on any one topic.
25 years ago when I realized I was being lied to on a regular basis...
Same for me.
Now I listen to the “news” the same as I listen to a “sales pitch”.
Look for what’s hidden- misdirection, look for a narrative that’s presented to distort the facts.
Fact is that the media profit financially from “progressive” politics- it increases government subsidies of consumer spending.
The same time i got rid of the boob tube.. almost a decade ago?
Once Al Gore invented the internet I was gone.
2007
Almost 10 years ago.
Not only TV news but all of TV. I have never made a better choice. Just not watching the ads alone has been worth it.
I do watch a few movies and a few, mostly British, TV series on Netflix or streaming. But it has to be very good for me to invest the time. Most movies and TV are absolute excrement IMO
Ya. Thank God for Drudge and FR. I don’t have to turn the TV on to get the weather and traffic. Intellicast.com, Living Earth and Google Maps apps tell me what I want instantly free of the seditious bias and commercial interruptions. Freedom is beautiful! The tyranny of the media would make nonattendance a punishable crime. They’re already putting social pressure on us, calling us uneducated simply because we refuse to pay them attention.
I watch the local Denver and Cheyenne news just to see the cute girls. Channel 2 now has a Broncos cheerleader doing the traffic in the mornings. Damn she’s a hottie.
Peter Finch died but won the Academy Award for that. His widow accepted for him.
7 years for me, going on 8.
I stopped because I couldn’t afford it. It was $120 a month so I could watch ads.
I don’t get that. When I was a kid, I remember my father paying $20 a month for this new HBO. He justified it saying that they don’t play ads, and instead look to you to foot the bill. The idea back then was that Cable TV would never play ads, but instead charge you to keep the lights on.
And of course, that went away. Now people both pay for it AND watch endless strings of ads. Why would anyone do this ?
The channels don’t even play what their subject matter is anymore either. Wrestling on Discovery channel, fishing shows on VH1, cooking on TNT. I mean wteverlivingF ?
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