Does the TV coverage on the trump administration wear on you?

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newspapers are basically extinct

radio is nothing but commercials & conservative talk

TV is diverse, entertaining, mindless entertainment & you can change the channel w/ the a flick of the remote whenever something you don’t like appears

how else you gonna watch Notre Dame football? travel to South Bend?
 
You don’t have NPR? Lotsa lefties there.

Sports? Not my religion. Back in 1968 or so, I had a study hall teacher in high school. He maintained that there was an over-emphasis on sports.

Almost 50 years ago.
 
i just don’t get people who say “i never watch TV”

its like abraham lincoln sayng " i never read a book using an electric light bulb"
 
brian_custer said:
i am trying to understand why posters here are not watching television
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Youtube is more genuine and interesting. It’s been building like this for a decade. They are more on the front of the culture war and talk about real issues while the cigar-smoking execs of the dinosaur media are behind the times. That’s why so many people are always “surprised” when things like happen like they never had a clue.

As far as cable news goes: they blew their big lead. CNN underestimated FOX. FOX became too arrogant and corrupt, and everyone and their brother’s cousin knows MSNBC had an agenda from day 1. HLN’s biggest break was probably being paraodied on Boston Legal.

Even the NFL has lost its appeal. So has the NBA.

MTV, which used to have good music videos, has turned into SJW central and seems to have a buzzfeed-ish anti-white, anti-male agenda. The Laci Green situation is the exclamation point to all of that.

Celebs have politicized everything and seem to think it’s divine duty to fight Trump. And they lose almost every time. Bigly.

Though they don’t realize it, American confidence in the so-called experts and anyone remotely elite with rare exception is at an all-time low.

The social media market’s ability to dig at the Truth has these people running scared with their hair on fire, which is why a lot of them are pushing for censorship. Slowly but surely, they know they are losing.
 
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brian_custer said:
newspapers are basically extinct
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Well, they’re on-line but have more competition.
brian_custer said:
radio is nothing but commercials & conservative talk
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When 90%+ of the mainstream media is liberal which is not even 50% of the country…yeah.
brian_custer said:
TV is diverse, entertaining, mindless entertainment & you can change the channel w/ the a flick of the remote whenever something you don’t like appears
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That’s how it should be, but people on social media are just more genuine and interesting. If someone is wrong, the response is multiple and immediate.
 
brian_custer said:
TV is diverse, entertaining, mindless entertainment & you can change the channel w/ the a flick of the remote whenever something you don’t like appears
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except for the old cowboy shows i rarely find it entertaining.
 
SuperLuigi said:
Youtube is more genuine and interesting. It’s been building like this for a decade.
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It sure is. Plus if there is something I really need to view (example: footage of a major fire in my area last night), every news outlet posts video to their web page. This means I can pick the stories I want to follow rather than have to sit through an hour of coverage on politics that I’m not involved with (such as for local cities and counties other than mine), school systems I’m not involved with (such as for the major city 30 miles away), etc.

I barely even use my Netflix anymore and will probably cancel it because I get more interesting stuff on YouTube and a lot of it isn’t Hollywood gunk.
 
almost2 said:
Does the TV coverage on the trump administration wear on you?
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It depends what coverage you get, I always try to get full video of events (such as Trumps full speeches on youtube) and then make up my own mind. It is annoying with biased media cutting, pasting and manipulating events to suit their own agendas.

God Bless You
 
josh987654321 said:
It depends what coverage you get, I always try to get full video of events (such as Trumps full speeches on youtube) and then make up my own mind. It is annoying with biased media cutting, pasting and manipulating events to suit their own agendas.
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I do this with everything, not just Trump. The couple of years of police shooting / police brutality case coverage forced me and a lot of other people to go be our own researchers. One newspaper I used to read had a policy for a while of not giving the full physical description of crime suspects because they thought mentioning a skin color, even if it was in the police report, was racist. When a serial rapist is running around my neighborhood (true story, one was) I need to know what he looks like to stay safe, so if that means I need to go to the police website and pull up the police description, then who needs the media?
 
brian_custer said:
i am trying to understand why posters here are not watching television

tv can be an entertaining way to pass the time

there is sports, weather reports, old-time family sit-coms & movies

and EWTN

i don’t get it…

if you don’t like particular channel(s) don’t watch them…

there are a lot of fun & interesting things on television
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When it comes to those “old time” sit-coms I’ve already seen them, several times, when they first aired.
 
I started cutting way down on my televised news consumption near the end of Obama’s administration. My wife is a die-hard Fox watcher (it could be the 5th gospel as far as her family is concerned) and I just got so tired of the constant negativity towards him. I work nights and was working the night of the last election and whatever shred of respect I had for news networks evaporated. I read the news now and am selective about my sources. Fortunately my wife started to see the negative impact of constantly watching the “news” and we got rid of cable a few months ago. Besides, one can only handle so much inaccurate reporting on the Church.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
When a serial rapist is running around my neighborhood (true story, one was) I need to know what he looks like to stay safe
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I think that’s totally fair, I find those double standards so bad especially when there are black vs white statistics in so many other regards where it actually doesn’t matter and where it is racist to be recording skin color.

As for a specific predator, skin color is just like hair color or any other identifying feature, thus ironically making him the racist for concealing it.

Thanks for sharing that.

God Bless

Thank you for reading.
 
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“tv can be an entertaining way to pass the time”-- That’s what the internet is for! 🙂

I know there are plenty of people here who are twice as old as me, but even I remember the days when there was ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and maybe two or three other channels. Everyone watched the same shows. So there was a lot of cultural unity in tv. It was easy to be a “habit viewer”, because you had such a limited number of options, so your focus wasn’t diluted.

For example, a piece of trivia I stumbled across-- in 1965, when CBS first aired “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, almost half the people in the US who owned tv sets tuned in to watch it-- over 15 million+ households in a time when there were 52.7 million households with tvs in it. (Yeah, I’m still trying to make the math work, too. I think it was a 48-point-something market share, but whatever.) In contrast, the Game of Thrones season 6 finale drew 8.9 million viewers, and the season 7 premier drew 16.1 million viewers. (I’m finding that they’re reporting “market share” much differently nowadays, in terms of number-of-viewers rather than percent-of-households, now that it’s not just a matter of households-with-tv-sets [over 119 million tv households with tvs in 2017-2018 viewing season, and over 100 million pay-tv households in 2015], but that totally ignores streaming devices/internet viewers/whatever. Plus, you have other-people-in-the-world streaming American tv shows, so we’re not just limited to the 301 million Americans.)
 
Anyhow, there’s a tremendous amount of choice going on, which is a good thing. But that cultural unity of being able to talk about what happened on the last episode of “Gilligan’s Island” sort of disappears. And when I look at the programming blocks, it’s like a whole bunch of marathons… I used to like watching “Income Property” on HGTV, but I haven’t seen an episode in years, when it just fell off the map and made way for “Property Brothers”, which was cool, but was way over-exposed. I used to like watching the History Channel, even when it was very WWII-heavy, but every time I’ve stopped by, it’s been the Aliens Channel. I used to like watching the Travel Channel, when they talked about travel, but now it’s evenly split between ooo-is-it-haunted and shows recycled from the Food Network. (I don’t even think the Food Network has more than two shows.) I used to think the Discovery Channel was cool, but then I wasted about two hours on a fake documentary about prehistoric sharks, and I haven’t touched it since. I used to like Cartoon Network, but it’s either the Teen Titans channel or a bunch of homegrown animations with ugly art.

Instead of going off the air for the night, they keep the programming running around the clock. But they only pay attention to cultivating a few hours’ worth of it in prime time and making it interesting. The rest is filler. And it feels like filler. And if I wanted filler, I’d still be watching Naruto Shippuden, which didn’t get aired on American tv until 2014, about six years after I gave up on them getting to the point. 😛 If there’s a movie I want to watch, I’m likely to own it these days, not have to wait to see when it airs, and then try to tape it on VHS. But life is too full to stop what I’m doing and pay attention to the tv for 30-60 minutes on a certain night every week, like I used to back when I was a kid.

But we’re used to custom everything these days, and that includes our entertainment. And it makes it much easier for us to say, “There’s a thousand things on, and nothing worth watching.”
 
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midori said:
even I remember the days when there was ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and maybe two or three other channels. Everyone watched the same shows. So there was a lot of cultural unity in tv. It was easy to be a “habit viewer”, because you had such a limited number of options, so your focus wasn’t diluted.

For example, a piece of trivia I stumbled across-- in 1965, when CBS first aired “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, almost half the people in the US who owned tv sets tuned in to watch it-- over 15 million+ households in a time when there were 52.7 million households with tvs in it.
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When I was a kid, the TV movies and specials were like THE big highlights of our week. Whole groups of kids would watch each one (unless it was some movie with possible “mature themes” so some of our parents wouldn’t let us watch, which caused the kids who couldn’t watch to have the usual kiddie angst about being left out). The ads on TV for the upcoming programs were extremely exciting (sometimes more than the programs). Every fall, kids watched with great interest to see what the new Saturday morning cartoon lineup would be and pick which shows they would choose out of the three competing selections offered for each time slot. Sometimes it was really hard to pick. Sometimes you would be flipping back and forth between two of them.

This was a huge shared cultural experience, and also I remember many (not all but many) of the shows being really good quality.

Now we have many low-quality reality programs clogging a large number of channels. I agree that a few shows like Game of Thrones, House of Cards, etc. have some production values, but they’re not something I would spend time watching, especially when the Internet offers me dozens of much more appealing selections. Plus the availability of streaming video removes any immediate need to watch the TV when it airs except for the handful of people who are really “into” TV and want to be the first to see a new show and discuss it on the internet. I may want to watch something like “The Sopranos” but I could do it any time, all I need to do is buy the streams whenever I like.
 
Yes…but so does the Trump administration from top to bottom, making themselves such easy targets…its time the new swamp gets drained…“Make America Great Again” is a noble pursuit, but the wrong team (not necessarily, the wrong party) is not how it is going to be accomplished.
 
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