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Master Shake User is Offline

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07/27/2007 1:24 PM	Alert
Is anyone watching the news now? About the two news helicopters that crashed over central Phoenix?

Trajanbear User is Offline

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07/27/2007 1:46 PM	Alert
I stopped watching the news a few years ago. My husband worked for a local ABC affiliate and the blubs would make us so mad. After he left it was hard to wath TV at all. Now we notice all the little discrepancies in programming, etc. As for news - no way do I watch local news. Mostly for the reasons mentioned before. It's so negative and not really informing me of anything pertinent to my daily living or to those I love. Why watch something that has more commercials and teasers than 3 hours of TV combined. I get news from the internet from several different news sites.

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navygurl

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07/30/2007 1:41 PM	Alert
I watch it every moring when I am getting ready and almost every night

YZRacer

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07/30/2007 2:09 PM	Alert
Posted By richfellow on 07/27/2007 10:39 AM Posted By Fritzydoodle on 07/27/2007 10:17 AM Posted By YZRacer on 07/27/2007 10:06 AM Posted By Fritzydoodle on 07/26/2007 11:56 PM If you could watch a local news for Pinal County - would you? probably not. why? because i don't feel like i wanna be lumped in with tucson. i think maricopa has more maricopa county ties than pinal. but that's just my 2 cents Tucson is Pima County not Pinal County. It's tie to Tucson is the "520" area code. Other than that it is really a "Phoenix" area town. Those of us that have been here a few years, how many times have you heard this? "Oh, I dialed 520 and thought I was calling someone from Tucson!" Or given someone your phone number to have them ask, "is this a Tucson number?". this is what i meant.

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chessman

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07/30/2007 3:40 PM	Alert
I stopped watching TV 15 years ago. I find I am like most other people, in that, I can sit down to watch a ½ hour program and my rear doesn’t come off the couch for two hours. I have more time to spend in the shop or with the horses now. What has amazed me is the change in television programming as a whole since I stopped watching. Now when I’m on a business trip stuck in a hotel room I’ll turn on the TV and flip through the channels. What I see is that an awful lot of programs are nothing more than short five minute segments – almost like watching a classroom full of fifth graders performing skits. I wore out a remote in Augusta looking for any show that actually had a plot of theme that lasted for a full half-hour. I don’t remember that things were this way more than a decade ago. The big network news stations are much the same. Some of the reporters seem so phony that it hurts to watch them. I get most of my news online now.

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07/30/2007 10:48 PM	Alert
only if I want to feel more stupider.

Liberalism and capitalism address themselves to the cool, well-balanced mind. They proceed by strict logic, eliminating any appeal to the emotions. Socialism, on the contrary, works on the emotions, tries to violate logical considerations by rousing a sense of personal interest and to stifle the voice of reason by awakening primitive instincts. -- Ludwig Von Mises

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07/31/2007 12:36 AM	Alert
Actually, I don't like the general 'stuff' I see on the news. (stuff? Fluff?) If I want to really understand things, I will dig a little further and goto http://thepaperboy.com/-choose where you want the perspective from, or seek out foreign news. I love to see other perspectives of events. I stopped watching local 'news' years ago because I found them so self serving and I hate outlets like CNN and FOX because thay are so biased. Living in the Bay Area for 6 years was a lot worse than what I see here. I do watch channel 3 for traffic.... And that is about it.

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TheBoymaker User is Offline

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07/31/2007 12:56 AM	Alert
Honestly, I can't bring myself to do it anymore. They are so graphic and so sensational. Sometimes they're just stupid and that's almost as bad as unfunny.

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