my local news is really supporting the republicans on this stimulus package...unfreakin'believable

[spanone]

nbc affiliate

republicans offer to spend less

republicans will spend more on education

just complete and utter horseshit

[jkshaw]

1. Where are you? Utah maybe?

[spanone]

2. not quite....nashville, tn. a blue city in a sea of red.

[SharonAnn]

4. Of course. I was going to ask if you're in East TN with me. Same here.

[villager]

3. write in, call in, complain

they do it because they're still stuck in pre- "Jan. 20th" mindsets...

[SoCalDem]

7. The problem is that WE have to "write in and call", and THEY get free TV/Radio/Newspaper time/space

It's an UNFAIR playing field... and ever dem who DOES step into the breach, ends up weasling and semi-agreeing with those oh-so-agreeable republicans and their WONDERFUL ideas....the same ideas that PUT our economy in the mess it's in..

[villager]

9. that's true -- we don"t "own the printing presses"

as they observed a couple hundred years ago...

that, or the ones that were trouble - on the TV side, certainly -- have been "absorbed"

No wonder they hate the internets!

[kentauros]

5. Local news is the equivalent of "Inside Edition" anymore...

I stopped watching local news (Houston) in the late 80s, early 90s. Same for reading the local newspapers. I am very happy to have a Pacifica station locally for national and some local news, as well as a great investigative-reporting weekly paper. The wingers hate it because it's so "liberal". Uh, yeah. That's what a true liberal news source looks like, not the MSM.

The only time I willingly watch the local news is during (or after) a hurricane. The rest of the time it's the Internet and the previously-mentioned sources :)

[lib2DaBone]

6. The Right Wing Media Cartel..Bring Back Fairness Doctrine

..and restore station Ownership limits.

Clear Channel Radio Inc owns almost every radio station in this country. I would like to see a show of hands for all those that think this arrangement is healthy for the dispersal of information in our supposed Democracy?

__________________(crickets)

Radio Channels are PUBLIC PROPERTY. We must reclaim them.

[MiniMe]

8. It may be less this year, but it is 3 times as much overall

And they fail once again.