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   hsawlrae said, about 1 year ago

   Garbage in, garbage out.
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   Peabody-Martini said, about 1 year ago

   I stopped watching the evening news when I noticed just how far afield they had to go in order to find a violent crime to cover. They really go out of their way, as in thousands of miles.
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   Fiendly Neighbourhood Terrorist said, about 1 year ago

   Stick to the net for news. Much less of a strain on the credulity.
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   dkendraf said, about 1 year ago

   @Fiendly Neighbourhood Terrorist

   Don’t count on it.
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   dkendraf said, about 1 year ago

   @Peabody-Martini

   Yeah, I stopped watching the evening news a LONG time ago – and I sleep w/o a lot of bizarre dreams now.
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   Wenthral said, about 1 year ago

   This is why I gave up on the news a very long time ago. The most I can take of it is the top of the news bites on the morning radio show. I truly believe that the news has become nothing more than a sensationalist fear mongering machine with zero creditability. In the last few years I’ve added weatherman to this as well. More inaccurate than they were 20 years ago and scaring everyone for no reason what so ever.
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   psychlady said, about 1 year ago

   I also prefer the net. You only have to see and read it once!
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   GSJ Olé said, about 1 year ago

   One reason why I like the Lehrer News Hour … far from sensationalist.
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   icky mudd said, about 1 year ago

   I get my news online and then check with another source to see what really is true or at least close to reality. Most stuff is not worth bothering with.
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    lightenup said, about 1 year ago

    I gave up on the news because although I’m in a metropolitan area of a city, it was all local news. If I’m going to watch the news, I want to educate myself about what’s happening around the world, not how many got murdered today.
    
    I’m with IMudd. I don’t believe a lot of what’s online, so I try to go to reliable sources and then double check it.
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    LingeeWhiz said, about 1 year ago

    The most reliable news sources for the U.S.A. come from other country’s.
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    Milestheglassguy said, about 1 year ago

    @ Lingee Whiz: I get most of my (American) news from the BBC online for that reason.
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    UncaJim said, about 1 year ago

    Worst of all is the 10 or 11PM news. The blonde or black co-hostess ‘updates’ us on the events of the day and then turns us over to a glum field reporter-ess and her crew who’s been
    hanging around the site of
    the shooting/robbery/crash/drowning since 10 that AM to only show us the darkened street/building/lake and roll a field-edited tape and…“Back to you, Andrea” ..
    Then off we go on another merry chase in the dark ‘coming up next’..(cut to car commercials)…….Gaaahhh.. (click).
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    Kab Buch said, about 1 year ago

    Hey all if I did what you did not listen, we would be in serious trouble. I do agree with Wally on turning the radio off when listening too much. Our national and local news gave us a days warning for sever weather conditions. This happened Saturday into early Sunday with massive tornado’s., there was destruction. One small town did not get warning and 5 death’s took place. Here in KS we had very good warning and preparation.
    Then the FL parents of slane teen was reality with angry people protesting. I did not protest.
    I’m also not very interested in global warming. Industries took care of this and provide what is left of jobs.
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    xvanta43562 said, about 1 year ago

    Switching to paranoia mode now, are we Joan?
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