First, this isn't a competition- there's no need to tell us how much those guys suck and how much you hate them, and how you haven't watched the news since Lyndon Johnson was in office. I just want to know if you stopped and stopped entirely.

I gave up on the last of them on election night, last November, and I ain't goin' back, ever. I watch no news programs, listen to no news programs, read no news websites. In the past, I had stopped for periods of time, during all the utterly insane impeachment nonsense, and at other times as well, but I always went back. Well, no more. No more, ever. I get my news through the filter of SIGforum and I am all the happier for it.

I have stopped. Now and then I pop onto a news website and quickly realize I don’t want to read it.

Yep, stopped some time back. Ending my daily dose of stupid and nonsense has contributed positively to my mindset.

It has been several years since I deliberately watched anything on television, whether news, entertainment, or anything else. Not that I made a decision to boycott the medium, but since I lost most of my hearing, it is a strain to understand what is going on, and it just is not worth the effort.

My wife does watch, and once in a while I might be passing by and something will catch my eye, but it has been a long time since I have turned a TV set on to watch anything.

Yes. My transition started with the 2016 election and we went cold turkey about a year ago when we completely ditched cable.

I get all the important “news” right here…

I haven't watched a lick of news since after Trump was elected. The only exception since has been when a serious storm/hurricane threatens the Miami costal area just to peep at the weather. Thats it, just the weather segment. Anything of value newsworthy I get here.

I haven't watched TV news for years and have never read news web sites. Recently, however, I've made a conscious effort to turn off/down the radio when the news updates come on.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
It has been several years since I deliberately watched anything on television, whether news, entertainment, or anything else.

There's good stuff to be found on TV. Despite PBS's disgusting political bias, there are marvelous programs like Nova to be had. There are old films, old TV series, but you know this, of course.

I haven't watched the news in years. I don't have any strong feelings towards it, I just quietly stopped when I realized that watching the news doesn't make my life better or easier in any way. Most of the things they report are useless time wasters, and the things that are actually important typically aren't reported well leaving me needing to seek out better sources anyway.

Yes, completely. With the exception of occasional Ben Shapiro or Mark Dice videos (more for entertainment and not news) I get everything worth reading right here in Sigforum.

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Have you stopped watching "the news" altogether

Yup.

Corporate Media is dead to me.

No news on TV. I recently started listening to Fox Business on XM, probably less than an hour a week while driving

Yeah I no longer watch any "news" and haven't for a few years. I'd go back if they'd start unbiased reporting.

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Originally posted by parabellum:

I gave up on the last of them on election night, last November, and I ain't goin' back, ever.

Cable news, yes entirely. And the same...not a single minute of it since election night. And that includes Tucker, Hannity, et al.

Onboard the ship, I do occasionally browse some news websites however.

We slowly started watching less TV, especially the "news", beginning about 6 years ago.
This wasn't a conscious decision, just something that started happening as we realized neither the right or left version of the news was actually anything but editorializing and in many cases, outright propaganda.
When there is some major disaster or significant event that isn't, or shouldn't be, political, we may turn it on to catch the first information but soon things start to get slanted and you have to do your own research to attempt to get the real story.
The sad thing is that the weather, as inaccurate as it's always been, is now among the most politically slanted part of the media.
We now mostly watch history, National Geographic, movies and other forms of entertainment.

COMPLETELY GIVEN IT UP.

As I've mentioned before I stopped about 6 years ago. For me it was realizing that as a SME in a given area, only half of what the NEWS reported was even remotely true and even then was misleading and half-assed.

It's the same reason I don't watch reality shows. It's poorly scripted, fake, and only there to make money.

Now, I'll watch a POS movie all day because I know upfront its purely for entertainment value.

I'm on a survival show kick, Alone, Building Off Grid, Last Alaskan here lately.

I've stopped watching most TV news. I watch a little on OANN and Newsmax only.

Like mentioned in my post above, I only watch the news for the weather segment on occasions during severe hurricane or storm threats...but even those can often be deceiving, who can forget this short clip of flooding from a storm..

please delete if inappropriate para, I just always get a kick out of these nitwits and remember your posts of reporting as a cameraman I think..

Yes. I haven't watched or listened to any TV or radio news in many, many years. Occasionally I browse some internet semi-news sites, plus this forum. I'll still watch old movies, documentaries, old sitcoms, etc if I watch any TV at all.

What's the old saying, if you don't listen to the media, you are uninformed. If you listen to it, you are misinformed. I'd rather be uninformed than misinformed. At least then I know I'm not being lied to by the "experts".