Replying to a message of Richard Webb to JOHN FITZGERALD:

 RW> Hi JOhn,

 RW> On Sat 2037-Aug-22 11:01, JOHN FITZGERALD (1:123/140) wrote to RICHARD
 RW> WEBB:

 JF>>   TV news is for simpletons generally.  Usually, they just zoom  in
 JF>> on what they want, and try to spin it one way or the other.   Look
 JF>> at the way they're covering townhall meetings.  Seen any  coverage
 JF>> where they highlighted, discussed, the issue?  They focus  in on
 JF>> some shouting (as if the left has never been loud and disorderly) 
 JF>> and try to pass it off as the norm'.

 RW> NOpe, I haven't, but then I don't own a television.  I grew
 RW> disgusted with tv news being too busy telling me about some
 RW> actress's new hairdo or giving me other sensationalist
 RW> crappola and passing it off as news.  I haven't owned a
 RW> television since 1996.

Hmpf.  I think I have four of them here.  Haven't watched any of them
for probably 35 years except for the week following 9/11/2001.  Didn't
bother to get the digital conversion boxes so I can't watch broadcast TV
any more - not that I'll miss it.  I have both VHS and Beta VCRs and
a DVD player and several dozen tapes and DVDs if I get desperate to
watch something; I assume they still work, none of them have been
turned on since before I moved out here beginning in 2003.

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