For example, a friend emailed me an update on some awfulness that went down on Morning Joe and I suddenly realized that just a few days from now will mark the one year anniversary of the day I stopped paying any attention to what Squint and the Meat Puppet had to say about anything.
Or, with a couple of rare exceptions, pretty much anything any of Comcast's on-air employees or their rotating casts of recently former Republicans have to say about anything. If the legacy media has sent me one clear, unambiguous message over the past decade it's that they don't care about my issues at all. They're not speaking to me and the wise and seasoned voices I would like to hear represented somewhere in media are almost nowhere to be found on cable news.
Elsewhere, the Scott Jennings/Abby Philips reboot of "Hannity and Colmes" is tedious and repetitive. A cartoon where nothing fundamental ever changes. His lying smirk will be there until they close the place down, and no amount of faux "calling him out" or "showing him up" will change the fact that this is just Konflict Kabuki designed to keep eyes on the babble box between dick pill commercials.
And the appointment of a right wing despoiler like Bari Weiss to gut CBS coupled with Norah O'Donnell's rolling over and giving up in the face of Trump's torrent of lies on 60 Minutes was sad. Inevitable, but sad. Like watching the end of Poltergeist --
-- a haunted, cursed place finally collapsing and imploding into nothing.
Taken all in all, it's somber portrait a dying wasteland, but considering my wife and I do this every day for a living, you know what? I'm not one jot less informed or aware than I was before going on the cable news wagon.
Amazing what the power of "I don't care" can do.
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