I've spent the last 3 days in ICU (Intensive Care Unit.) My phone went dead, no charger, no laptop and as I'm being shot up through IV in one arm, blood pressure cuff on the other and EKG wires all over my chest. I couldn't move and so the only stimulation available is the horrific cable channels available. All the movies were stupid so I ended up watching the news channels. I was flipping back and forth non-stop, trying to find something actually interesting. Honestly, between Fox News, CNN, NBC and HLN, it all just sucked and wasn't very informative. They all have bias but just slightly and to be honest, the reporting, including straight facts. breaking news along with commentary from so-called expert pundits, just isn't very insightful. Also, every channel tends to talk about the same exact thing. It's all about Donald Trump (DACA, Healthcare, the UN Speech) and hurricane news. Literally nothing else. They all re-play the same news clips something like every 10-15 minutes. There's so much more going on in the world than 4-5 things that all of these stations cover and for some reason they feel the need to reiterate it to the audience every 15 minutes.

 

It reaffirms why I and most others just get their news online from independent sources. It's no wonder people just get Netflix and get news articles and video clips from websites. A nurse offered me a copy of the Plain-Dealer and the news entailed exactly the same thing I had just saw on TV. That's because they all just steal each other's information.

 

I saw the whole UN thing go down and Fox is more pro-Trump but I don't think they're as extreme as you guys make it out to be. They were mostly talking about how great of a job Trump did, with his speech. On CNN, they just kept showing clips of Hillary Clinton giving her opinion to Trump to Colbert (she was obviously there to promote her book but they mostly just kept replaying her comment about how bad Trump's speech was and how bad he is in general. Personally, I didn't think Trump's speech was THAT bad. He was crude but someone had to say a lot of that stuff. There was a lot of mention on CNN about Jimmy Kimmel's rant on the new healthcare bill and how the senator he had on earlier lied to his face and how the bill named after him entails absolutely nothing that he said he stood for on Kimmel's show. That was pretty entertaining.

 

Overall, though, all of these channels just reiterate the same (select few) topics each day and pundits/commentators just give typical generic opinions, with segments that these networks loop over and over, every 15 minutes or so. I don't know how people can watch that crap.

 

Is this really how people should be getting news? I know some people on here are die-hard CNN fans and some are die-hard Fox fans, etc., but the whole mainstream media in general just sucks. They steal information from each other in the blink of an eye and no one really seems to offer any unique insight on these few matters, let along bring up a unique topic. They're lazy and copy each other's content and opinions. I learn way more from this forum on any given day or from various indie websites than I ever could from watching cable television or even reading the local paper.

 

Bah. Mainstream media needs to die.

 

The hurricane non-sense is also ridiculous. It's exactly the same reporting on every news channel. The only difference is that each station has a different dumbss[/member] standing out in 100 degree wind, a hair away from getting blown away as if we wouldn't believe the hurricane footage exists unless we saw the reporter standing in the midst of it. I saw one guy literally in San Juan after land-fall in PR, at the edge of the eye of the storm, reporting on it, outside. Describing how building debris are flying all around him. Is that really necessary? That should be illegal to put reporters in that position.

 

I wish all of these major networks would fail. It's scary that people watch these channels with the same non-sense looped over and over every 15 minutes, drilling this agenda-driven crap over and over in their heads. Multiple times in one hour.

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl8hVWoXID8

Watched the whole clip above.  O'Donnell is in the last time slot of the evening and does his show live or at least near live with a 30 to minute delay. He does an interactive handoff from Rachel at the end of her show which is also live on a studio above or below him.  So maybe there was still a hot mike from her studio that was getting in his ear.

  Anyways I'm not sure what the point of the outtakes were trying to get across. He was obviously pissed off at the lack of professionalism in his control room.  He did seem out of sorts that night.

F*** it, we'll do it live.

^The difference being O'Reilly was doing a tabloid tv show although the pressure is the same for going live.

I changed the thread title because it's not just mainstream media that sucks but also the prevalence of fake news websites that sprout up left and right and are enabled by Facebook which is the most popular social media outlet. It shouldn't even be worth the effort to build these fake news sites.Those fake news sites can't be pulling in much ad revenue at all. I think it has more to do with political agenda of those funding said sites. I wish there were legislation making it illegal to make fake news sites, with harsh consequences. You can track who registered the domain names and investigate it. This should be a bi-partisan issue. This obviously isn't a fake news site made by a Russian. Most of the absolutely blatant fake news I encounter, comes up in my Facebook news feed from the less educated people on my friends list. Sadly, a lot of people (who are entitled to VOTE) don't care to investigate it, let alone read the whole article. They just see the headline pop-up on their news feed and then share it on Fakebook.

 

The latest example, and what popped up today in my news feed (twice!) is a shared link on Facebook to an article that talks about how Donald Trump and the majority of congress passed a law, preventing men from having to pay child support. I can't believe people buy into this crap. It's so dangerous to have fake news like this, going viral on the internet.

 

Can you imagine how busy the folks at Snopes.com are in recent years?