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RockRaven

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1. Cable news is manipulative infotainment trash, and not news.

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Wed Jun 11, 2025, 09:00 PM

Jun 2025

That is true regardless of the bias/perspective/target audience of the network in question.

No matter how much some people around here love MSNBC, it isn't any different from the others in being a useless waste of time at best when it comes to developing a useful understanding of what is really happening in the world.

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I'm watching the local news channels in LA (CBS, NBC, KTLA-5) ABC has basketball... [View all] IcyPeas Jun 2025 OP

Cable news is manipulative infotainment trash, and not news. RockRaven Jun 2025 #1

cable news is kind of like Trump stillcool Jun 2025 #2