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Message   Dale Shipp    Bob Ackley   Re: News   June 23, 2019
 12:56 AM *  

 -=> On 06-22-19  12:44,  Bob Ackley <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Re: News <=-

 > Your statement confuses me.  How can you not be able to watch 
 BA> broadcast
 > television (news) but can watch cable news channels?

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

And I suppose you have no control over which channels are on the TV.
Too bad, on multiple levels.
 
 > 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.

 BA> It didn't when I watching it, but as I noted, I only see four hours a 
 BA> day twice a week.
 
And I only watch cable news in the evenings.  There is most likely a big
difference in who is on at the various times.

 > What little I have watched of Fox News (e.g. Hannity) is only a little
 > step above talk radio in its slant.

 BA> I've never seen Hannity

Count your blessings on that.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
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