I threw my shoe at the TV…I recall I was watching CNN at the time

And if you can’t get passionate about Good vs Evil, then go ahead and call up your Death Pan….err…..end-of-life counselor and stay out of the way

Past is prologue. Funny that CBS tried to whitewash the affair with a phony baloney “investigation” conducted by a couple of directors. It’s not like they had REAL INVESTIGATORS ON THE PAYROLL ALREADY. And Rather repays CBS’ shoe shine with a lawsuit alleging his wrongful discharge. Hahaha. Rather got his fanny kicked by Katy Couric, and Bush got an honorable discharge.

over the berm into Iraq and within 24 hours the word “quagmire” started up and never ceased until 1/20/09. The only time I broke my rule of not watching them was when Charlie Gibson did the hatchet job on Sarah Palin. Bad time to break a rule. I learned my lesson and never tuned in again.

You’re so right, Vlad, about the epic struggle we are engaged in now. It is positively Biblical to watch the gathering darkness and to know that our progeny and theirs as well depend on us in this crucial moment to stand up and never stop moving forward.

Katrina, then the 2006 elections when the Democrats were allowed to lie through their teeth about everything. I thought surely people will see through the tripe and they didn’t.

My RS birthday is a bit later than 2006 because I lurked for months before signing up and commenting.

their is NOTHING mainstream about the media. They are and have been the bedrock of liberalism in this country for as long as I can remember. They told us kids in the 70′s that ALL Vietnam vets were drug addicts living in the gutters and how the Republican’s put them there.

They LIED this entire election about who and how EXTREME Obama is and was. They have tried to control the messages that they think are “worthy” of public consumption, they along with their brethren in the Democrat party have done more to DESTROY the morality, kindness and gentility of this country then any enemies of the state have ever done. When they go under and they will if we survive this Presidency I will do a happy dance on their graves!

They’re dying off, and they think it’s solely because of the free online access.
No, dummies, it’s because you all suck have changed for the worse.

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It’s not just Gunga-Dan. THey’ve been faxing it in and parroting the left wing line for decades.

Stopped watching the national news over a decade ago, when I started catching them in falsehoods.

Fired the Chicago Trib when I realized I was correcting the stories as I was reading them.

At first, I took some grief. “How will you know what’s going on?” I found that, if it was important enough, one of those same people would mention it. Recently, though, it seems I’ve become mainstream…

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TV at work. When I first hired on back in ’03 it was always on CNN Deadair Headline news. Not being a Direct TV subscriber at home I later found out what DTV channel Fox was on. Well, somehow it got changed to Fox not too long after that. It would stay there for about a week then someone would change it back to HLN, or worse, on occasion to MSDNC. But each time I, er, someone changed it back to Fox it would stay there longer and longer. Then someone broke the channel buttons off the receiver. Didn’t stop me, er, whoever kept changing it back to Fox. Having a little bit of electronics ability I knew all you had to do was use the tip of a pen to click the channel switch. Every so often it would get changed to something less palatable, but amazingly enough, when the campaign was cranking up last year and the spin from CNN and especially MSDNC went into overdrive, people quit changing it. It’s stayed on Fox for nearly a year now, except when people work Saturday’s and it might get switched to ESPN, but now when it’s time to put it back on a news channel, which management prefers it stay on, it always goes back to Fox. They added a second break room to the other end of the building a couple years ago, then got a second DTV receiver and added TVs back there. They’ve been on Fox since day one.

I haven’t subscribed to a newspaper since my daughter was born 13 years ago. That’s when time got short.

I eliminated TV news when Katie Couric was interviewing Bob Dole when he ran against Bill Clinton (wasn’t that 1996?) She treated him with utter disdain and contempt, which she made no effort to hide.

Until we got satellite a few years back, all my news came from the editorial page of the WSJ, which I still appreciate very much.

Now it’s RS, Ace, Fox, Townhall and the WSJ.

Proper grammar saves lives.

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Let’s eat, Grandma.

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when I was four. That was in 1942.

New York City had eight daily newspapers then and at least six found their way into my home each day. I started out with just the comics but quickly became a “news junkie.” By 1944, I was reading the complete newspaper.

Reading from six to eight different newspapers on a daily basis had an effect. I learned that, under the best of circumstances, reporters were not very well informed andwere often inaccurate.

We did not get a TV until 1954 but, from the first, I noticed the same inaccuracy in TV journalism as I had observed in the newspapers.

I had asked my father about the fact that the same story would be reported in so many different ways. He told me that it depended on who the reporter interviewed and on what the reporter considered newsworthy.

As I grew older and more informed, I noticed many instances of reporting errors. Statistically speaking, the general level of ignorance among journalists woud guarantee that their stories would often deviate from the facts. That deviation would form a scatter-shot pattern above and below a “truth-line” if there was no bias.

As time went on, I noticed that there was a consistent leftward bias in the MSM. At first, it was barely noticable and sporatic. I learned to read, watch and listen carefully. I also used several sources on the same story and analyzed the differences. As in reaing Pravda, what I noticed had been left out was often more important than what as left in.

If the internet had existed in the 1950′s, many of our media icons of that period would have been “Ratherized.” It always amuses me to hear about how great Edward R. Morrow was. He produced a “hit piece” on McCarthy that was so inaccurate and obviously biased that, after it first airing, it has never been shown.

With adequate videotaping of the show and internet exposure, the “hit piece” would have been torn apart. I watched the program and, to paraphrase Mary about Lillian, almost every bit of the show was a lie, including the ‘ands’ and ‘buts.’” That is why Murrow and the network would not let McCarthy have a copy of the program to use in his rebuttal and why, of all of Murrow’s works, it has never been rebroadcast.

I still read three papers a day. The New York Times, the New York Daily News and the New York Post. I read them as if I was walking through a minefield with caution and care. Even Fox is too “quirky” for my taste so I only watch the Sunday morning punditry – mostly for admusement. Even the “Republican” guests are no source of usefull information.

I had participated in the destruction of an insurgent mortar crew who was firing on our FOB. We watched them fire, nothing else looks or sounds like a mortar, and after subjecting them to several thousand rounds of .50 and Mk-19, the QRF arrived at the location. The mortar had been romoved, along with the bodies of the insurgents, though remaining evidence proved several had been badly wounded if not killed. The firing position was set up near an obviously abandoned block house on the outskirts of Fallujah.

The next day we went to the mess hall where MSNBC was on the satellite TV. One of the stories they played during our breakfast was “US Forces Kill Family of Five Near Fallujah.” Complete with interviews of Iraqis and photos of the blood splatters and pools in the abandoned house.

I’ve probably commented about this here before, it was a memorable experience. I knew the MSM leaned left. I was a young kid when 60 minutes or whoever it was did their documentary, “The Guns of Autumn” and remember sitting with my father watching and listening to him rant about the outright lies and staged performances. We were avid hunters in my home and feirce defenders of the 2nd Amendment. To actually be so closely involved in an event, one that was actually victorious for us, even if it was small and very minor and to hear outright lies, obviously concocted stories to denigrate and condemn our unit was beyond belief.

at the time I discovered Rush Limbaugh, talk radio, Ross Perot, and the Concord Coalition.

Enjoyed reading everyone above’s A HAh! moments. Mine was not so clear cut. Eventually, in about 2000, I threw away my TV for good, and I haven’t taken a newspaper since 1985.

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I fired them long ago. I canceled my subscription to the St. Louis Post Dispatch after their endorsement of Obama in which they said that his work as a “community organizer” trumped his lack of experience. They trumpeted his forgoing the politics of smear then promptly smeared Sarah Palin in the next paragraph.
Just before the election, my wife had CBS Evening Propaganda Hour on. I was shocked to see the extent they had become an outlet for the big O. The TV had a reflection of a bird (my middle finger), which is usually only there during trial lawyer ads.
I remember vividly seeing the cover of Newsweak while at the checkout stand at the supermarket with a photo of Bush in the background of some scandal which was totally unrelated to the President.
I could go on and on…….
Good piece, the sooner they go out of business the better.

First off, great post…we should have a special area where we can post all of our similar stories.

My day was back on the night of the 1994 mid term elections…I was living in Sacramento at the time and the local broadcaster (Stan Atkinson if I recall correctly), was practically crying about the outcome of the election. He was on air asking why the american people so angry (tears in his eyes)…I couldn’t believe it, They lost my trust that night.

The last two quarters of the Bush adminstration, the economy was soaring. Bush was whipping Clinton on international issues, Clinton’s dirt was being exposed, Clinton as POTUS had less foreign policy experience than Palin by the way. Did not matter.

100% in the tank for Clinton. It was sick. More sickening than 2008. There was no internet. No foxnews. Conservative talk radio was nascent.

Bias was not even an issue. Everyone took ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN as gospel. It made me sick.

is that GW went on to win the election. You sure brought back some memories, I followed it on Powerline, best soap opera ever.

Props to JadedByPolitics for introducing me to the term.

I dumped newspapers long ago because of their liberal bent. But also because of so many sloppily inaccurate articles. Sometimes local articles seemed like they were written by a kid in high school with no training. I realized then that these people don’t know any more about what is going on than I do, probably less. Why look to them for information.

These days I listen to Levin and Hannity on radio, FOX on radio and TV, and read Red State and a few other sources daily.

That was 1998 – I haven’t tuned in to CNN since. Dan Rather killed off broadcast network new single-handedly. I haven’t bought a newspaper in the 20 some years since they went to war against the internet. Hey.. Philadelphia Inquirer… I’m talking to you… How goes the war?

I am always sort of surprised when this subject comes up– I figured most intelligent people had fired them a logn time ago. I’m a little surprised you just canned them 5 years ago. I quit reading the local fishwrapper about 15 years ago– with the exception of the comics and sports pages– and haven’t watched PMSNBCBABCNN for an even longer stretch. Ignoring these purveyors of pablum is a great way to start your day!

it was the 1992 election coverage. Clinton/Gore with their, “It’s the economy, stupid!” line that was never questioned; while Bush was derided for stating that the economy was actually improving. Virtually all the MSM were supporting the Clinton version.

After the election, Judy Woodruff did an economic roundtable for CNN. Several economists were in studio, and one was live via satellite. Judy opened the program by asking the panel when we could expect the recovery to start. The economist via satellite stated that Bush had been right: the economic recovery was well underway. The in-studio economists were nodding agreement. Judy stared into the camera with well-feigned shock. Click! I have watched very little MSM since.

and I wasn’t even feeling particularly Conservatively inclined, but even as a “moderate” I was nauseated about the naked cheerleading for Obama. Journalism shamed itself beyond redemption.

it was certainly in mid-January of 1991. I was helping supervise the mobility processing unit of my military unit, getting the troops ready to ship out. It was during the evening, and we had a TV (with cable!) set up, watching CNN. When their reporters on the ground in Israel started giving sighting and targeting information to Saddam’s Scud crews, telling exactly where each missile had struck, I was finished with the so-called MSM forever. Until both FOX News and the Internet cranked up, I pretty much got my news from Rush after that evening.

The MSM, already flailing before the net, decided to piss off 50% of its customer base this past decade with its Democratic Advocacy Journalism.

It became another version of “Entertainment Tonight.”

It addition to the untruths, exaggerations and other MSM violations of news propriety, once I became a rationally thinking adult, (opinion varies by source), I realized that news as entertainment had become more important than news as information.

I became nauseated by the simpering giggling idiots on the screen who thought Ja’lo’s current boyfriend was every bit as important as the invasion of Iraq.

I can’t sit through any newscast now, not even the morning show on Fox. My wife turns them on for the weather, I turn them off as soon as I can after the weather. I can’t even watch the Weather Channel because of their emphasis on Global Warming being the reason for all evil in the world today.

Sheesh.

It’s really nothing new though. I’m reading “Flags of Our Fathers” right now and just got to the part in which the author is describing the outright exaggerations and lies from the press concerning the picture of the flag raising. Amazing.

on many levels, but it hits close to home for a friend of mine (staunch conservative) who is one of the last librarians employed by the local rag; the others having been laid off due to the corporation losing so much money.