(February 13, 2015 at 9:57 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Local news drives me crazy. 8 minutes of commercials, 6 minutes of sports, 6 minutes of car crashes/cop shootings or fires/ 4 minutes of weather, 4 minutes of some kid running a bake sale, 1 minute of important news and 1 minute of banter between the cast.
This.
TV news ain't what it used to be. I swore it off years ago. If I want news, I can get significantly better and wider coverage online.
I haven't tuned in to the cable news networks since about a year after 9/11, and I don't feel like I'm missing a damn thing.