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Message   BOB ACKLEY    DALE SHIPP   Re: News   June 22, 2019
 12:44 PM *  

>  -=> On 06-20-19  11:00,  Bob Ackley <=-
>  -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about News <=-
> 
>  >  BA> AFAIC they're all lying
>  > 
>  > I do not believe that of the various local news stations.
> 
>  BA> You're free to do that.  I don't and can't watch broadcast 
television
>  BA> -  I quit watching the thing over 35 years ago and didn't buy 
one of
>  BA> those  converters when they changed the broadcast television 
band.
> 
> Your statement confuses me.  How can you not be able to watch 
broadcast
> television (news) but can watch cable news channels?

I have to have kidney dialysis twice a week, four hours per session.  
There's nothing to do but watch cable television, for some reason I 
can't get to sleep.

>  > believe that of most of the network and cable news stations, but 
will
>  > readily admit that they each have their own personal bias in what 
they
>  > choose to report and what they editorize about.
> 
>  BA> CNN is HEAVILY slanted toward the left wing, both in what it 
covers
>  BA> and  hot CNN covers it.  Fox is somewhat biased toward the right 
wing
>  BA> but,  unlike CNN< does present opposing views.  I've watched 
both and
>  BA> IMO Fox  is the more reliable of the two (I've not watched any 
other
>  BA> than those  two); but I don't claim it is absolutely reliable, 
just
>  BA> more reliable  than CNN.
> 
> And there we will probably continue to disagree.  CNN often has 
pundits
> from opposite sides of the political spectrum on the show at the same
> time.  It does slant left, but at least attempts to allow views from 
the
> right to be expressed.

It didn't when I watching it, but as I noted, I only see four hours a 
day twice a week.
 
> What little I have watched of Fox News (e.g. Hannity) is only a little
> step above talk radio in its slant.

I've never seen Hannity
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