[shortstop]

"I'm just tired of their crap."

Not as much as I am.

[Clarinet_King]

After being stationed overseas for the past year, I can’t tell you how little my TV was used, unlike when I still lived state-side. I lurked on FR for quite a while until I left the country and now this is where I come for all my news/political needs. What do I use my TV for now? A place to display all the coins I’ve received.

[skinkinthegrass]

How do we stop them?...Pretty simple. Just turn them off. Let them talk into dead air.
C-Span, was a hopeful trend...until the Washington Powerbrokers (MSM, DBM, DNC & RINOs), put a stop to their coverage.

[kevkrom]

I get all of my news from FR. Haven’t watched TV news (other than for major breaking stories, such as on 9/11) in a decade. I rarely even touch newspapers — any topic they deign to cover is already discussed, and discussed more intelligently, here.

[xDGx]

Barackfest ‘08 has finally opened the eyes of millions as to just how biased the media is. The free-fall in newspaper sales is only part of the story. Network News is no longer an evening family staple. And the unprecedented attacks on Governor Palin, and particularly her children, is mobilizing many to put the heat on advertisers who underwrite it.

[mountainlion]

I quit watching the lies that cam out of the tube form Viet Nam. They were at it way back then. Then Kerry muddied us and showed himself as the traitor he is. Now he and murtha are in congress with Pelosi with the 9% rating and they still think they are something. My dogs are better for me than congress.

[RKBA Democrat]

“HAS THE MEDIA GONE TOO FAR?”

Who cares if they have? Does any intelligent person still watch or listen to the leftmedia?

There are a lot of folks who want to boycott the leftmedia. I don’t see the point. A boycott implies that once behavior changes, you’ll be back. I won’t be. The leftmedia can do whatever it wants or say whatever it wants. I’ll still be tuning them out.

[CPOSharky]

Ideally, the news business is nothing more than a pipe. Its job is to gather and transmit information. Like the water pipe that leads from the main to your kitchen sink.

But now days, the "water" travels through reporters kidneys and bowels before it gets to the kitchen sink.

[ripley]

“has the media gone too far?”

too far? the media has been far-left obnoxious revolutionary for a long time. it has already fallen off the far left scale. can it go any further?

IMHO

[pgkdan]

Nothing is more emblematic of that than the frequent sight during convention coverage of various talking heads in the TV networks' skybox studios prattling on while in the distant, out-of-focus background some legitimate newsmaker was giving a speech. It's as if the media feels that its people and what they have to say is more important than the people who truly are the news and what they have to say.

Exactly why I kept my TV tuned to CSPAN during the RNC.

[pgkdan]

Nothing is more emblematic of that than the frequent sight during convention coverage of various talking heads in the TV networks' skybox studios prattling on while in the distant, out-of-focus background some legitimate newsmaker was giving a speech. It's as if the media feels that its people and what they have to say is more important than the people who truly are the news and what they have to say.

Exactly why I kept my TV tuned to CSPAN during the RNC.

[Wil H]

Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the Republican and Democratic national conventions. At each, reporters outnumbered delegates and officials more than 3-to-1. The vast majority of these media people were doing nothing but regurgitating what others had said, over and over and over. In almost every situation, the priorities and topics of the reporters were very different from those of the delegates. For all the news media, for all the coverage, all you got by watching TV at night was the opinions of the anchors and reporters, you don't learn a thing, truly, about the convention or the delegates.

Excellent Observation!

[redpoll]

>>>Ideally, the news business is nothing more than a pipe. Its job is to gather and transmit information. Like the water pipe that leads from the main to your kitchen sink. You turn on the tap and you should get, unadulterated, cool, clear water. You don’t want to taste the pipe. You just want water.<<<

That’s the ideal. The problem is that we’re human beings, not pipes. We all come to the table with biases and preconceptions.

Information is more like a buffet table. We get all sorts of flavors and tastes. What we don’t want is contaminated food, diseased food, or pollutants. Otherwise, I may not enjoy the dull flavor of doctrinaire liberalism, but I shouldn’t demand that the food be banned.