There are "food deserts" that are an urban area in which it is difficult to buy affordable or good-quality groceries. There are also hospital deserts that are by some definitions a community more than 30 miles from a medical facility that offers emergency care. As far as cable new goes I feel like I'm a news desert.
FOX news has dropped quite a bit of the reporting on Trump and are now in a mode of bashing democrats, and very disturbing to me, have a constant theme of how the government is screwing the little man. Almost to the point where they are deliberately inciting the emotions that divide us. They constantly say thigs like democrats stand for allowing drug dealers and rapists from Mexico to freely come across the border. I'm being generous saying that is hyperbole but it is just one example of a constant flow divisive rhetoric.
CNN news sprinkles a non-political news story in here and there more than FOX but they focus on attacking republicans in more subtle ways. Instead of just constantly saying things like FOX does, for example democrats want to defund the police, they report on things republican politicians are doing. But it is always in a negative light and NEVER anything positive. For example today's focus is about a Georgia representative that has done some "outrageous" things. Their theme is something along the line of "what is wrong with republicans - they have no morals". That is also a pit us against them theme.
My point is they both claim to be "news" stations but both are just political bullhorns for their respective sides. Over the last few days I have just not watched either in disgust. I feel like when it comes to current and long time news reporting I'm in a cable news desert. I get most of my news via digital news papers and online articles. On a daily basis I read digital new papers from major US cities and also have links to European news organizations. If you Google something like "French news papers in English" or "German news papers in English" you can see what I'm looking at.
When it comes to what I have on cable the best I can do are the big three; NBC, ABC, and CBS. In my opinion they lean liberal but at least they are not non-stop anti democrat or anti republican. Sinclair Broadcast Group has bought a lot of them and they lean republican and send them segments they have to do. But their news is only on a few times a day and Sinclair Broadcast Group is tainting that. I would love a 24/7 cable news station that really is a news station.
FOX news has dropped quite a bit of the reporting on Trump and are now in a mode of bashing democrats, and very disturbing to me, have a constant theme of how the government is screwing the little man. Almost to the point where they are deliberately inciting the emotions that divide us. They constantly say thigs like democrats stand for allowing drug dealers and rapists from Mexico to freely come across the border. I'm being generous saying that is hyperbole but it is just one example of a constant flow divisive rhetoric.
CNN news sprinkles a non-political news story in here and there more than FOX but they focus on attacking republicans in more subtle ways. Instead of just constantly saying things like FOX does, for example democrats want to defund the police, they report on things republican politicians are doing. But it is always in a negative light and NEVER anything positive. For example today's focus is about a Georgia representative that has done some "outrageous" things. Their theme is something along the line of "what is wrong with republicans - they have no morals". That is also a pit us against them theme.
My point is they both claim to be "news" stations but both are just political bullhorns for their respective sides. Over the last few days I have just not watched either in disgust. I feel like when it comes to current and long time news reporting I'm in a cable news desert. I get most of my news via digital news papers and online articles. On a daily basis I read digital new papers from major US cities and also have links to European news organizations. If you Google something like "French news papers in English" or "German news papers in English" you can see what I'm looking at.
When it comes to what I have on cable the best I can do are the big three; NBC, ABC, and CBS. In my opinion they lean liberal but at least they are not non-stop anti democrat or anti republican. Sinclair Broadcast Group has bought a lot of them and they lean republican and send them segments they have to do. But their news is only on a few times a day and Sinclair Broadcast Group is tainting that. I would love a 24/7 cable news station that really is a news station.