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AverageOldGuy

(2,862 posts)
9. No, they are not unaware. They are not interested.
Fri Aug 15, 2025, 10:48 AM
Aug 15

Try this. For a couple of weeks watch the NBC, ABC, and CBS nightly news. What you will see is the briefest possible coverage of national events then most of the “newscast” will be a multi-vehicle crash, a fatal house fire somewhere, a feel good story, and something about a celebrity.

There is no morning network news - the morning programs are insipid, low IQ crap about some third-celebrity’s latest record or diet book, interspersed with interviews with some unknown influencer personality.

I’m stunned every time I watch network and cable “news” at the ignorance of the hosts - no background in history, mispronounce basic words, use improper grammar.

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