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To: BBell

News coverage is a branch of the Entertainment Business. It’s not serious in any way, except as a distracting piece of Bread and Circuses.


4 posted on 02/08/2015 5:45:19 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (The dog days are over /The dog days are done/Can you hear the horses? /'Cause here they come)
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To: ClearCase_guy

There is a new channel called OAN. It’s really pretty good. Just the news without all the B.S.


24 posted on 02/08/2015 5:58:08 PM PST by BBell (breathe easy obey the law)
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To: ClearCase_guy
disonfotainment!

one must suspend one's disbelief to enjoy entertainment....thus ...the happy talk news style being entertainment at its base....can make some really inane claims and present unthinkable positions.....that BYPASS one's critical facilities rather easily

thus was born.....


26 posted on 02/08/2015 5:58:52 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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