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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I thought I was at the same point since last November but there's a difference between apathetic not caring and barely giving a damn because there's no immediate stop to the idiocy. Personally, keeping informed of the recent cacophony (released daily!) helps my brain keep active by thinking of ways to counteract the bullshit.
Of course, there's a lot that can actually be done by all of us in the meantime.
Excellent and spot one as always, Mr Glass. Both TV and radio are wastelands of idiocy and stupidity, for the most part. Perhaps NPR Music stations are the exception to the rule.
We've seen this garbage on TV for long enough now that you would think that liberal viewers figure it out and turn on sports or Netflix. But no . . . .
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