Comment Re:Find a better excuse (Score 4, Insightful) 89
Wow, worst case of injustice EVER????
Wow, worst case of injustice EVER????
"In an accompanying article, Crawford makes a compelling case for FCC intervention."
That won't work unless it comes with a check with seven digits attached to it.
Local and national news channels tend to run web sites. Is it that much less convenient to read instead of watching?
Well, in most cases...YES.
I do tech for a living, and I don't know about you, but I'm reading pretty much 99% of my day...staring at a computer all that time.
Before and after the day job...I kinda prefer to get away from a computer screen for a bit....and relax and watch and listen.
I suppose if your job doesn't have you reading a computer screen your full day, it might be more convenient to sit and read it all...but that's not my day. I like to get away from the computer when I can...
Sure, for the USA. But there's plenty more to the left of MSNBC in the world.
Well, we ARE talking about the USA here after all, so, that's what matters, what is left for us.
Who gives a damn about what is right or left in the rest of the world, eh? That isn't germane to the conversation here.
I'm a good reader, a fast reader..but after awhile I like to rest of them, do you not too?
Congress will do precisely what it did for the music industry; stiffen laws and make competitors like Netflix and Amazon jump through increasingly small hoops while allowing the cable companies to extract ever more rent from both online services and customers.
Heh heh
If you think Fox and MSNBC define the right and the left
... then you really are a clueless American. What passes for 'left' in America is pretty severely to the right in the rest of the world.
And precisely why would I give a fuck what is "right" and "left" in other parts of the world?
If I wanted to live in a left leaning, more socialist part of the world, I would.
I prefer the US.
I will agree, the US and its polices aren't the "good guy" ones of the past, I blame that on corporate money takeover of our govt.
But I don't really care what the world thinks of us. I really don't, I have too much of my own life occupying my time and efforts. I don't have time to waste worrying if country X doesn't like me really, as long as they leave me alone and don't throw a weapon at me.
I do think if the US *did* pull fully out of world politics and wars...there'd be a lot of screaming that "the US doesn't do anything, they don't share, they don't help"...etc.
Hell, if we pulled fully out of all the bases and all in Europe, there would likely be a lot of pissed off people when they found they had to start pulling all that funding for free healthcare and 3 month vacations in order to pay for their own self defense in the big bad world. The US covers a lot of your countries' defense cost allowing you to spend your money on other things.
This is what you get when you depend on video for news, you can think that centrists are leftists
Seriously? You thank Rachel Maddow, and Al Sharpton are centrists??
[rolls eyes]
Or make your own meals at home and save money.
Amen.
I can buy a box of salad greens (already mixed and washed) at Costco/Sams for less than $5...and some onions, tomatoes, cukes, etc...for a total of maybe altogether $10...and get several meals out of it, maybe 5-7.
That's just barely over a $1.x / meal....and much better and filling for you.
When I was in college, we fit 21 people into a station wagon and 19 people into a pickup truck. This was years before the practice was made illegal by state law. I doubt they can get that many dummies into today's cars.
Back when I was in college, I fit in 5 people into a 2x seater Datsun 280Z, along with a case of beer.
We had to leave the hatch up and it was only about a couple miles or so....
Thankfully the cops didn't see us...hahaha.
I can get a 500 calorie sausage McMuffin for $1 (ready to eat no les), about the same price that I pay for an 100 calorie apple,
Wow..where do you pay that much for an apple? When they are in season (and I try to only eat fresh veggies and fruit that are in season and mostly local)...I buy 6-8lb bags of apples for $4 or so.
Go compare what is costs in most cities to put a veggie loaded salad with some white meat chicken on the table ($20-25 in my experience)
Where are you paying this much?? I mean, chicken breasts in the meat dept on sale are about $1.99/lb....whole chickens often are $0.89/lb...so a veggie and chicken dinner to feed a family of 4 isn't $25?!?!
Where in the US do you live where food is so expensive?
I find that I spend far less money buying whole foods like veggies and fruit in season, along with good animal proteins, cooking from scratch..that I would for crap processed food.
I certainly feel MUCH better doing it that way too. I mean, don't get me wrong, I like a good pizza or occasional Taco Bell..but if I eat that crap for 2 days in a row, I feel physically less better than I do when eating good for you foods.
And again...it isn't a money thing, at least not anywhere I've lived before.
Only if you want news biased to a conservative, American ego-centric sources.
If you think you're getting the truth by watching those three sources, you're sadly mistaken. CNN hasn't been an objective source of news for over a decade now. Fox never was.
Add some international stuff to your news, because with only 3 US sources, you're pretty far from objective truth and balanced coverage.
Well, I"m not that interested frankly, in the news of the world for the most part...why would I?
I don't expect that much of the world to be that interested in US news...?
But really....I watch a swath of new channels from the right (Fox) to the far left (MSNBC) and the more moderate ones....and try to get my own sense of balance between all of them.
It was a bit of a joke but also based on the truth.
No, there really is no unbiased news in the US...hence a good reason to watch them all, and make your own decision.
But what happens outside of the US, has very little impact on the average US citizens life....
Anecdotally, I never watch TV and I'm 27, part of a fairly large generation/cohort that has shown to be very unlikely to adopt TV. Ran into a classmate from high school and the story was the same, she doesn't even OWN a TV, let alone TV service.
How do you get your news , both local and national?
I usually start my day with TV switching between morning local and national, to see what's going on in the world, local weather..traffic, local interest stories, etc.
Do you not keep up with or care about real news of the world and your local community?
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh