When did you give up MSM news?

[MNDude]

I am making two presumptions here:

1. There was a time most of us would sit and watch 30 minutes of Peter Jennings, or Brokaw, or CNN in the PM to find out what was happening in the world. 2. Most of us here no longer watch any MSM news.

If my presumptions are right, what was it that caused you to finally boycott MSM news forever? Was there some final straw that caused that decision?

[Radix]

I read the Boston Globe regularly from the late 60s until some time before mid 1994. I refuse to knowingly even click on a link to that horrible enterprise. That has to be the biggest POS newspaper of all time.

I stopped with the MSM on TV during the Clinton years. I stopped regularly watching Fox more than a year ago. I used to love the Sunday morning programs but during the last few years they have all become absolutely intolerable for me. The Fox program I stuck with for a while but I have not seen it in 16 months or so. Extremely disappointed in their product these days.

[wardaddy]

Prolly in 1981 when CNN took off and was campy and southern and not terribly progressive at all

Even msnbc was better in beginning when john Gibson was on

I quit TV news around 87 with Iran contra till FOX in 97 I think

I quit newspapers and weeklies in early 80s

[SamAdams76]

He only MSM I take these days is the Wall Street Journal. To me, that is the paper of record, not the NY Slimes.

I also read it on my tablet. WSJ has a wonderful app for reading it in that form. Makes my commutes to Manhattan on the train a pleasure.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings.

[Mad Dawgg]

After the morons reelected Odumbass....

[SaraJohnson]

My dad explained demonstrated propaganda on the news when I was around 8 years old.

[a fool in paradise]

I can’t pinpoint that date, but I gave up tv in 2008.

My tv died and I never looked back.

I have seen a random telecast of local news maybe 2 or 3 times since. 10 minutes coverage of a traffic jam (with a 5 minute human interest story about the dog of one of the passengers being lost during the ordeal and being recovered before traffic moved on), 7 minutes on sports, 5 minutes of questionable weather coverage, 2 minutes of something they found on youtube.

I’d grown weary of the nutty network news broadcasts even before Rathergate. I was only watching at that point to see how they would spin the news (total denial/media blackout that the authenticity of the documents had even been challenged).

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I never did watch national MSM. I do catch the local news.

[normbal]

Fascinating.

“... as a schooled journalist” you say.

This from Bob Schieffer’s recent lamentations: ‘We Now Don’t Know Where People Get Their News’... “ Most of the information is wrong and some of it is wrong on purpose,” Schieffer said. “It is our job, I think, in mainstream journalism to try to cut through this mall of information and tell people what we think is relevant in what they need to know.”

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2015/05/29/schieffer-we-now-dont-know-where-people-get-their-news/

You see, Finny, the irony of your post and Schieffer’s unintended admission is, and there is irony aplenty, you believe other news sources have a bias, an agenda, when the entirety of mainstream media leans left, as does the majority (if not the entirety) of journalism schools and their curricula.

Furthermore, evidence abounds that this has been by design, plan, slow, “progressive” (you DO know who the “progressives” are, don’t you?), incremental change and ultimately the end game in controlling the information available to Americans (indeed, the world) and the outcomes of elections and, ultimately, the support of a one-world government.

Schieffer’s admission lets the proverbial cat out of the bag. Journalists believe, as fervently as do fundamentalist baptists, communists or members of the tyrannical political system known as islam, that only THEY know “the truth” and only THEY should be the purveyors of said truth, with varying belief regarding the disposition of unbelievers, apostates and refuseniks: shaming, gulags, or decapitation.

I wonder how Schieffer would like to see those of us who no longer follow the dictates of the MSM “disposed of”?

So your “advice” although, perhaps, heartfelt, is ludicrous on its face, devious and left-handed at best, whether intentionally or not.

Being a “schooled journalist” I seriously doubt you would be able to tell the difference between biased and agenda-driven reporting anyway.

It’s like the story of the reporter at the New York Times when told Ronald Reagan was elected president. “How can that be, I don’t know anyone who voted for him.”

Journalists are on the whole, blind to their own bias, if not in on the globalist agenda and simply lying about it.

I shared your comments with several friends.

Thanks for the laughs.

BTW, regarding WND. I know Joe Farah and Jerome Corsi personally. I’ll let Joe’s statement “About WND” speak for itself for you and anyone who cares to read it.

http://www.wnd.com/about-wnd/

“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.” - Blaise Pascal

[Finny]

Wow. You sure had me fooled.

FRiend, I think you labor in a kind of blindness, wrongly assigning motives and meanings based on your own biases.

Just wow. And we're presumably fellow patriots in limited government conservatism? With your obvious contempt for me, based on my post to you?

I despair.

[Finny]

Also ... your post confirming that my decision to hold WND at the same wary arm’s length in terms of credibility that I do Wikipedia ... was and is the right one. If you represent the mindset that turns to it for news ... you’re likely misinformed.

[Zeneta]

I gave up the MSM and all local news somewhere around 1998.

[Lazamataz]

Late 1990’s.

[normbal]

I’ve been dealing with progressives in shepherd’s clothing for decades.

Despair away.