I used to watch these guys. Are they still on?
Years ago, when I cut cable and started streaming everything on TV, I didn’t find a good replacement for the news channels. This was well before Sling TV came out in 2015 and carried live channel feeds like you get on cable. I had already become used to not watching news on TV. And I still don’t.
So, now with all these streaming services — Sling TV, Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV, AT&T TV Now, Philo, etc. — I now have the chance to subscribe to a live streaming package and watch the news again. Okay, not Philo. They don’t carry news. Maybe that’s why I like it. But you get the idea. It’s now available.
I’m wondering, though, is it like a TV show? Do I need to catch up on what’s been going on so I don’t get lost in all the characters on TV?
You can help me out. So, I dropped cable in January 2011. Has anything important happened since then? Anything I need to know about?
I’m thinking you haven’t missed much. I think, especially in the past two or three years, the news hasn’t really changed much. each side says the other is the worst thing ever, everyone is accusing everyone else of doing the same evil they’ve been proven to be doing themselves. Politics is almost always bullsh*t; the only thing that has really changed is the volume, which is increasing.
So, I can wait for the move? Yay!
I stopped watching the TV news when it became a practice of speculative fictions designed to advance a Socialist agenda.
You mean like Cronkite was doing on November 22, 1963?
I was only 3 years old but, yeah. Maybe Walter Winchell as well.
Since 2011, the lowest common denominator has gotten even lower. “Inane” is probably best description.
Can a common denominator be a negative number?