Quote Originally Posted by Furunculus View Post
i....no, i'm acting like the yank electorate are adults of sound mind who must be allowed the 'privilege' of watching stupid newstainment if that is their wish.
Actually, we have several different choices of newstainment....lucky us. What we lack is anything resembling unbiased reportage. American news, cable or otherwise, is virtually always slanted one way or the other. Fox's popularity is a result of it's slant being in the opposite direction from the other choices.

What we can choose from is partisan debates packaged as news, in-depth discussions of a subject (but through the "lens" of one set of assumptions or another) by hosts whose point of view is well known, and total infotainment tripe on irrelevancies like a local octagenarian walking in a Relay for Life event. While such "feel-good" pieces televise well, they hardly constitute news. Real news about things like economics, government policies or malfeasance, and the spending of public funds generally constitutes less than 10 minutes of the time devoted to a 30 minute news program.

I generally watch MSNBC with the sound off, focusing on the crawl. Then I can look up anything of substance without having to cope with the rest of the drivel and inanity.