[californiadisasters] Re: A why is it?

I feel the same way about Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, so we would cancel each other out in the Nielsens. :~)

--- In californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com, Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@...> wrote:
>
> If I were too deeply offended by anti-American rants I would never watch
> MSNBC in the evenings.
>
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Vic <sactovic@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > My earlier defense of the role of the press notwithstanding, sadly, I agree
> > with most of the criticism of TV news. Local newscasts. especially, seem to
> > be nothing but a dreary recitation of all the accidents, murders, traffic
> > and weather they can cram into a half hour. One small exception is the NBC
> > station in Sacramento, which has long had a succession of solid political
> > reporters covering state government and politics. Sadly again, their current
> > one is leaving to go to work for a PR firm. I don't feel good about the
> > chances they will replace him.
> >
> > BBC is often great. But if you're interested in what's going on in Africa
> > and the Middle East, another surprisingly good service I've tuned into
> > lately is Al Jazeera English's web service. Their hard news coverage is
> > generally excellent, in my view, much of it written and edited by laid-off
> > U.S and British journalists. Just ignore the anti-American rants of their
> > comment and analysis pieces.
> >
> > Vic
> >
> >
> > --- In californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com, newnethboy <kef413@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I found better coverage of the Mississippi River situation on BBC than on
> > US
> > > sources for a while. (I'm now watching NO TV-Internet sources, including
> > a
> > > Webcam of Algiers Point. and WWL-TV and CE charts on river stage.)
> > >
> > > I just don't watch TV news at all anymore. (And I don't consider PBS's
> > new
> > > program stream of such sources as al Jaziera to be an improvement!)
> > >
> > > Even on the Web news, I found about 10 times as much coverage of the IMF
> > > president's and Arnold's "issues" than of the plight of thousands of
> > > Louisiana residents being forced to move from their homes.
> >
> >
>
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