
Ex-ABC Employees To Boss: Take “Public Stand” Against Trump
More than 200 former employees of ABC News – executives, producers, and journalists – have signed a letter to current ABC News president James Goldston, urging him to speak out against Donald Trump and the White House war on the media. The letter started making the rounds on Facebook after White House press secretary Sean Spicer barred some news organizations from a small briefing last Friday.
According to the AP, the letter demanded that Goldston “take a public stand” against the administration. “Refuse to take part in any future White House briefings based on an invitation list of who’s in/who’s out,” they wrote.
From the AP:
Signees include Reagan-era White House correspondent Sam Donaldson and former ABC reporters Ken Kashiwahara, Jeanne Meserve and Lynn Sherr. Among the executives are four former executive producers of “World News Tonight” and top leaders at “Nightline,” ”20/20″ and “Good Morning America.” Prominent news executives Rick Kaplan, Bill Lord, Paul Friedman, Av Westin and Tom Yellin signed, along with documentarian and the late anchor Peter Jennings’ widow, Kayce Freed Jennings.
The letter called last Friday’s incident “an alarming new development enacted by an administration that has declared war on respected news outlets.”
Well…formerly-respected news outlets.
While these former correspondents are calling on the news media to ratchet up the aggression against President Trump, at least one prominent liberal is calling on them to take another approach. Jon Stewart, who has not been shy about criticizing Trump himself, said he was sick of listening to journalists complain about the president.
“So I heard Donald Trump broke up with you,” said Stewart, speaking directly to the press in a guest appearance on Stephen Colbert’s show. “Finally thought you met your match: a blabbermouth who’s as thin-skinned and narcissistic as you are. Well now it’s over. Good riddance I say! Kick him to the curb.”
Ah, but that’s the one weapon in the media’s arsenal that they will never use. Because for all their whining, these networks and newspapers are addicted to the ratings and revenue their Trump coverage has generated for the last year and a half. They may hate him…but they love what he’s done for their business model.
And, perhaps, all of this is part of “making America great again,” even if it’s unintentional. The news media has something to prove, and they are stepping up their game to meet the challenge. Even Trump’s greatest adversaries are benefiting from his presidency! Even his fiercest detractors may look back on this time 15 or 20 years from now and think, “Damn…that was really something.”
America may be divided, but we are ALIVE again. All by itself, that’s a huge step forward.
Okay. That’s about three tenths of one percent of the ABC workforce. I wonder what the other 99.7% thinks. How low can Sam Donaldson go??
Ok, you are former employees..what you say does not matter. Go away
What exactly is wrong with you cretins?? Where were you when the incompetent vacation-taker with his feet on the Resolute Desk was ruining the country for the last 8 years? Where were your protests, your eternal whining, grousing, moaning about the blundering stupidity that made America an international laughingstock, including the Nobel Prize for nothing? Oh, right. that’d be racist? You all need head scans.
Bravo!
Ya, but the scans would come up blank.
Right. My error. Thanks.
“Your entering a land of both shadow and substance; of things and ideas. There’s the signpost up ahead. Next stop, ‘The Vapor Zone'”.
What can you see when you scan empty air. THEY ARE ALL AIR-HEADS!!!!!
ROFLMAO….LOL….LOL
Psycho? NOT! Very rational comment. Thank you
What does this even mean?
And how about the last minute giving Biden and himself awards? I could (and still) feel my stomach trying to empty itself violently.
Hey, if John Kerry can award himself the Silver Star . . . . well, no need to preach to the choir.
Who else would give Biden and Obama** awards? No one, They had to pat each other on the back cause no one else wood. Surprised Obama** didn’t give his transgender wife an award.
Obama was playing ball with them—he had his hands in their pockets and they liked the feel of it—that was the ball game they played. They all had a gay old time.
It’s often said that he got the Nobel 4 not being G W Bush. I imagine Trump’s successor will get eight or ten or twelve in a row. We might all deserve a prize 4 surviving until January 20, 2021.
On the other hand, the new president’s cluelessness, and conflicts with deep-state entities like main-stream media, the “intelligence community,” and various other military and quasi-military cliques, has probably done more 4 the peace movement than dozens of thousands of lives of activism could imaginably accomplish.
Well said, PsychoBob. I was particularly amused at the outrage in the press over Kellyanne on the sofa in the oval office. No shoes, stocking feet and they were outraged – how dare she. Then there was the deafening silence when Obama put his feet up on the desk and the coffee table. No outrage there. Oh that’s right, he’s a Democrat and Kellyanne works for Donald Trump. No bias there, is there?
They grab P….y in the black house, and its ready
What does this even mean? It makes no sense.
Spot on, WriterDude. Exactly.
Four weekends at Mar lago.
14 million spent on golf vacation.
Plus 2 million a day for the family.
8 wasted years of golf vacations & world family travel tours all paid for by US taxpayers, not to mention the famous “red lines” that meant absolutely nothing except that US resolve could be ignored as worthless babbling. But hey, Obozo was a “great speaker,” & Moochelle was finally proud of her country. Get your lobotomy money refunded.
If you still have the receipt, get a refund on your lobotomy.
Ozoozy,President Trump doesn’t even accept a pay check!And last I heard,he OWNS Mar a Lago &so it doesn’t cost YOU a dime! PS, did you know Granma Obama(Robinson) got $165,000 a year —for baby sitting!!!?
And all I get from Soc. Sec.is 14,800. and I cannot get food stamps or any other money, guess it’s my fault for having been born 1932, and worked when wages were low, made $5.50 an hour as a nurse,
There could be a very good reason why you say past employment.
Good point! 🙂
My family has a saying { some people are dumb Asses ,But not all are } so if you act like a dumb ass don’t except to get respect from people. Just saying
It’s amazing that the anti-Trump rhetoric is a personality attack only, when this movement offers not a single proposal to better our nation’s ills. It must be that these pundits would have felt that returning the Clinton’s to power would solve all the world’s problems and erase the O’bungle’s 8 years of destruction or continued this downward spiral! The heights of idiocy and hypocrisy!
Yes, and further, if someone came up with alternative methods for correcting the nation’s ills, Trump would be GRATEFUL AND WILLING TO HEAR AND CONSIDER THEM.
Trump likes a plan, if someone comes up with something better than HIS people thought up, he wouldn’t be too proud to do it!
It’s all there for you to read in “Rules for Radicals.”
Exactly, anybody could see from the very first that this was the plan Obama was adopting. Alinsky is his hero and also Hillary’s. Chills your blood.
Sure chills my blood.
Why not publish the letter?
What letter? What are you talking about ?
Or are you a SOROS TROLL?
Hey dimwit—–I think we’re on the same side.
I’m not a Soros Troll, hate that rotten bastard.
Question: Did you even glance at the article?
First sentence:
“More than 200 former employees of ABC News – executives, producers, and journalists – have signed a letter…”
That letter dimwit—-gez, you need to do an ounce of homework before you pounce—–please.
Save yourself a little embarrassment twit.
The reason I’d like to see the letter is to see what these Leftstream media a$$holes had to say—–then attack it.
For cripes sake………….idiot
no response bucko?
What letter are you referring to? I didn’t see a. (Letter).
And. You are most certainly a jackass
You really are an idiot.
Reading and comprehending are suppose to go hand in hand.
It’s difficult for a fool, we understand.
You’ve just identified yourself as a moron.
You really should go back to reading the funny papers. It’s the only part of the newspaper you’ll understand.
Read the 1st line of the article fool—-gez.
One more time:
“More than 200 former employees of ABC News – executives, producers, and journalists – have signed a letter…” That’s the “letter” I’m referring to. Would like to see exactly what the 200 former ABC employees have to say in that letter. The letter is not included in the article.
If you’ve overlooked that—-an apology would always be accepted. Stubborn stupid people will continue the course you’ve started.
The letter will never be seen.
By now you should realize that. AND FFS, I’M A LOT SMARTER THAN YOU THINK.
If you would report the truth …..there would be no “war” on the media. FAKE news IS the enemy of the people..
Tell the truth for once!!!
How is this piece even an article? Let’s hope you all come up with better fillers because the longer Trump is our president and the better off we all are due to his desire to make all our lives better, the less bad news there will be and quite frankly, most of us are tired of all the negative nonsense passing as journalism.
You people have embarrassed yourselves.
Where the hell were ALL of you the 8 long years Obama was in office
And where were you during Hillary’s mess?
So as far as Trump, you all of a sudden want to be welcomed with open arms into the inner sanctum?
Go back into your rabbit holes.
Your a waste to society, and intelligent people.
Stay home where you belong.
Just think when Obama took office he had the house, senate and Presidency and did not need a republican to get any legislation through, they took two years to get the health care through and had to bride two democrat senators to get it through. His stimulus was used mostly to bring whole teachers retirement funds in blue states. Obama did not want to govern that is why he used executive orders because he could not even get along with his own party. He loved the perks of being President but he really wanted to be a dictator. He was a serial liar, incompetent and clueless on how to fix anything. Obama, Pelosi and Reid destroyed the democrat party putting them in the worse position they have ever been and did it in just 8 years and put the republicans in the best position and they had been trying do it in over 100+ years and could not do it. Obama and his more regulations, more taxes and open borders and his ideology is what the people got tired of. Obama says he created 15 million jobs but fails to tell you he lost almost 15 million jobs for a net near zero and he gets away with it because of the so called Main Street Media who is owned by the democrat party and they are out to destroy the country along with the alt left.
and now after refusing the peaceful transition of power by setting up illegal circumstantial classified evidence rejected by Intel to be released anytime Trump has anything good in the media is not peaceful transfer. Moving 2 blocks from white house to build a epicenter to attack the sitting president by the out going president id what happens in other countries. Our country has evolved better then that If the people choose a president the the out going party should respect the will of the people enuf to allow their choice to at least try. This team has been attacked from the 1st day he announced. Trump has never been allowed to even set yup his cabinet having now been obstructed for the hearings the longest in history by democrats who will not give up the power of leading the country as the people have chosen to allow republicans a 4 year shot Have enough respect 4 the people of this country Mr Obama and allow Trump to lead without your secret or any attempts at undermining a sitting president. It feels like you are spitting on the people of tyhis country. YOU EVEN TOLD THE DEMOCRATS NOT TO WORK WITH REPUBLICANS TO FIX OBAMACARE WHEN ALL INSURANCE HAVE NOW SAID THEY WILL PULL OUT IT IS TO EXPENSIVE BUT YOU DON’T CARE you would not allow either party to craft it and now you wont allow your party to help fix it.PLEASE GO AWAY
This is perfectly written. You have a clear insight into the former Prez and his band of thieves. Obama couldn’t be bothered with governing after all he had all of his Czars doing everything. The media tried to convince everyone that there was no reason for Republicans or Americans to vote – Hillary already had it tied up. They had to have known she couldn’t beat Bernie, how could she defeat Trump?
True and didn’t bother to report that many jobs “created” were second part-time jobs because employer’s had to cut hours because of the high cost of Obamacare. Also didn’t bother to report that there were people not counted unemployed because they stopped looking for jobs. Obama’s whole administration was a lie and he was comfortable saying anything because he could always count on his buddies in the press to lie along with him.
Couldn’t have said it better!!
The media of today is nothing more than money mongers. They print anything without regard to accuracy and decency. If it sells a newspaper and they get more money for their coffers, so be it. Its finally bitten them on the butt. The only news worth watching is local. National is far from being honest and up front. When they finally treat President Trump honestly then maybe it will become newsworthy.
Believe me depending on what city you are in….local news reporting is just as bad. Seattle. Yikes!!!!
Yes, we should ALL write to our local and national media (including newspapers) and demand that they start reporting accurately (or at least FAIRLY.) Can you imagine seeing all those letters pouring in? They would shake in their boots every time they wrote an article, wondering constantly if there are any mistakes in the piece. It would do them a world of good.
An even better hammer to hold over their heads is to tell them and then stop buying the products that sponsor their programs if they don’t stop being Anti-Trump. Bet you’ll see a big change in their broadcasts then. If enough people do that to the TV stations that are Anti-Trump we could make them turn around.
Great idea.
If anyone still does not believe the American media is predominantly socialist, this should remove all doubt.
Where were these ‘guardians’ of journalistic integrity when their former collegues were acting as the communications division of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party? These phoney’s opinions are as irrevelant now as they were before. Gone and forgotten!
Trump needs to open a dentention camp and treat these maggots like they treated Scalia.
Speaking of the esteemed member of the Supreme Court, I want Trump to have his AG look into the Hon. Scalia’s death, the circumstances smell to high heaven.
ABC is a bunch of CRY BABIES!!! You will never defeat PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!
Hehe…sam donaldson, ex-employees are like stuff in the trash can…irrelevant.
abc …. is a non sequitor
Omg , is their milk warmed up yet … These media morons need to grow up !
STAND UP AGAINST THESE MORONS!!!!
WE THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN, GET OVER IT. LAME STREAM MEDIA OF WHICH I DO NOT WATCH NOR WILL I EVER WATCH ANY PROGRAMMING….
I READ BOOKS MORE THAN EVER NOW…,
WE THE PEOPLE HAVE TAKEN OUR COUNTRY BACK….
WTF They’ve been anti-Trump from jump! It bothers me so to see folks, whom by their own actions have made themselves irrelevant, attempt to become relevant again.
You want to fight back, how about trying to go back to basics and report the news as it should be reported. Straight up, no slant, like Joe Friday said, “Just the facts!” That is how to become relevant again.
The only reason I would tune into ABC is college football but I can get that on my computer via ESPN game feed. The media has been biased for years and so badly so in the last decade it is worthless. Talking heads without any brains.
I hope all major networks who stoop to this idiocy they claim is news go bankrupt.
Hell these people are the enemy of America. Execute or throw them out of the country
What a bunch of hypocrites!
The poor whining press doesn’t feel it’s being treated fair by PRESIDENT TRUMPS people. Why would the President put up with their fake news reporting? Why should we the people put up with lies and liars reporting opinions, twisted stories and fake news? The obvious attack by the left is out of control and MSN just doesn’t get it that Americans are not going to put up with their blatant daley lies.
So MSN if you don’t want to be journalists, but continue with your socialist propaganda then that is YOUR PROBLEM!!! But don’t whine when your diapers are full and there is no one who cares!
Right…they need to step aside and start a scandal magazine with they must. But step out of the way of REAL NEWS. Grown ups wish to hear what’s REALLY going on. Their time is too important to be wasted over non-issues.
Its time now for all of us to realize this is no longer a war against TRUMP, this is a war against America! Against our constitutional right to elect who we want as President and how we believe we want for our country and the direction it should go! It needs to be stopped.
It has caused civil unrest and in a way it is a civil war, one we need to see stopped.
One way to do that is write letters demanding that it be stopped and sent to every news outlet of any kind.
We the people voted for TRUMP, which was our right and it should respected!
I have been saying this for a long time. Back during the primaries when they kept saying that his poll numbers was down. I knew better. We watched all of his Rallies and you can’t draw that many people and not have a better poll rating. Just like now they keep saying that he hasn’t even gotten to 50%. If they would interview conservaties they would get a whole bigger rating.
lol, AND if all they interviewed were liberals, then 50% is AMAZING!!!
GRIN.
Ouch.
Where have these people been, the media is already taking a stand against Trump. Listen to Lester Holt every night on NBC. He has never said anything good about Trump and every night he is raising his eyebrows (his words) about something that he then ties to a perceived Trump failure of some kind..
Hope they never come back to the news room it will be refreshing if a news paper that prints what is said like it was said. How stupid are they? Do they really think we care? The only thing I watch on ABC is Jeopardy and wheel of fortune. I never watch their news.
The key word I see is “former.” If they want to take a stand they should become active in the media again. No one is reporting news. It is all sensational, gotchya bs. Facts? Do not confuse the current talking heads with facts. They are biased, incompetents and malcontents who were proven to have no credibility based on their very obvious support of Hillary. Let them fester and sign letters while the rest of us do what we can to support the progress that Trump is making towards recapturing our country and our culture. Stand tall, my friends.
AMERICA FIRST
Former employees? You mean the ones out of a job because ABC had to lay down hem off because profits fell and they couldn’t afford to pay them! Yea, appears they learned a lot setting at home.
I see this as nothing more than msm has-beens and used to bes seeking relevance now that the spotlight has dimmed. Or, maybe in order to keep your msm green card you have to remain a whining, snot nosed snowflake. Probably both, apparently petulance continues after childhood.
ABC TROLLS
you should be glad that Islamic ahole is gone after 8 yrs as a complete failure
lets start by getting REAL news out not FAKE NEWS by a very biased liberal fake news outlet. sam donalson has always been a STUPID fake news reporter who cares what he and other liberals views are you lose we are going to leave abc nbc cnn cbs in the dust of the fake news sand bowl GOOD BYE LOSERS GO TRUMP
Those people who wrote those comments about taking a position against MR. Trump– better watch out –they are about to take a position of TREASON-
The mainstream media effects many in a negative way. When I post an article on Facebook that explains a different point of view than my college professor brother in law has, he like just like a child, tries to counter it with left liberal media gibberish. I guess knowing that the left has indoctrinated most college PHD’s I can’t even bring myself to listen to his blabbering. It just proves you may be a PHD in some obscure field that most don’t care about but your brain has not been busy with reality. Now I realize how hard my sister has had it over the years.
Make perfect sense to somebody … but not me. The only tough stance he should take is that all reporters are 100% truthful in their reporting.
Yes, I can’t even REMEMBER when the liberal media called anything of Obama’s in to question. Something has GOT to be up with that. No President has been perfect. NONE. And yet, really, have any of YOU heard negative things said about the Obama Administration from a more liberal new station? If so, please send me a link to a video of it. I would like to be proven wrong on this.
If none are in existence, then it could mean one or two things. 1. You are fearful to say anything against him, or 2. You completely agree with everything he’s done.
If it’s the FIRST, I wonder WHY you would be afraid. If it’s because you don’t want to be called ‘prejudiced’, then you WOULD be prejudiced because COLOR means nothing about skill, so why are we noticing something so irrelevant as skin color? Why are we not looking straight to his work in office?
if it’s the SECOND, I find that disconcerting, since his ‘work’ has set us back, not moved us forward.
So many people are pre-judging Trump. Why? What is the Force behind this?
If Trump does badly, we will know by the results around us. If he does good, we will know. If Obama did badly, we could see the results. If he did well, we could see the results.
Let’s just call things like they REALLY are, not create imaginary problems.
New stations have the ability and the OBLIGATION to do this very thing.
There would be NO ARGUMENT from ANYBODY, if new stations just reported the facts.
And THAT’S what President Trump said. He said the FAKE NEWS were the people’s enemy, not NEW STATIONS. Report facts and they’ll have no problem.
HEY you need to start withe the public we are fed up with opinions ! it takes a fool to try to pass of opins as news I am waiting for facts and they might be there buried deeply in personal politized company opinions
Just another industry that is undergoing shrinkage. Too many people in the news media biz, running into each other and making up “news” and stories to keep their jobs. They are supposed to be there to report real news and the hidden truths that people need to know, not grind political axes and sell out to one side of the political spectrum. Let them reap what they hjave sown, and get a “real” job.
former employees – quit , fired or retired ?
I”d bar all of the liberal trash media from any press conferences. They are used to reporting through unnamed third party sources–so it shouldn’t matter. We don’t like or need any of this laughing stock of “readers” (I will not insult real reporters and elevate their status to a legitimate field). Keep them out! They think they are worth something because they have recognizable names. Yes we do recognize them as dealers in trash.
ABC HAS BEEN IN THE TANK FOR YEARS ALL THE ANGER COMES FROM THE SNOWFLAKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This gives the phrase “snowbank” an entirely new meaning.
Yeah, that’s a real brilliant idea!! Go ahead and just SEE how much business you lose!! MORONS!!
These people are a joke! Self indulgent bunch of phonies! The main stream media is dead….brain dead!
This is exactly why the White House is taking a stand against the mainstream Liberal media. The major network news organizations have become so arrogant that it is about time someone knocked them down a notch or two.
HaHa, Nobody needs you fakers in there anyway. ABC:” Anything But Correct”.
Those ex-ABC employees need to stop criticizing President Trump. If they don’t, their ratings will drop to the very bottom of the charts. Don’t forget that we, the people elected him, and we can choose whatever media want!
This is from the “who cares” division. Their unemployment checks are in the mail.
And now we are learning Obama was using his underlings to set up booby traps to undermine the Trump Presidency!! No wonder he moved to a mansion near the White House to keep “tab” on things, sort of a shadow government. A colossal
failure for 8 years, a failure now. Bet the Anti Trump media does its best to hide this!!
Yeah!! America feels ALIVE again! Well said!
screw them!! abc is now the pro pervert network anyway!!
and you are the pervert blogger
Edwinnie, no your the pervert idiot
Have you ever read any of the 1000’s of posts she has sent. Many are nothing but crude right wing statements supporting right wing causes regardless of what it is. she has a problem.
I trust that responsible journalists will continue to hammer away at Trump (OMG, that name, seriously?) I’m hoping that his presidency will go the way of Turmp steaks and Trump University. However, his supporters will not let go, as Trump said, he could shoot someone on 5th street in NYC and they wouldn’t care. Seriously, who are these people? I know some of my cousins are these people, but I know there are others that are good people and just grasping at straws. Of all the flimsy things they could grab, Trump is the worst. As Carl Bernstein said, and I paraphrase, Trump floats in a weightless atmosphere of lies. He doesn’t bother to substantiate or deny, he just farts out something and the 50% you speak of inhale and swear they smell roses. That 50% are bigots, racist and Booboisies and Trump has no real interest in them or their needs.
Actually why don’t you all just go away……we voted and we have spoken. Get over. Just report the truth…we don’t give a flying rip about your opinions. Just the truth. You wouldn’t know the truth if it slapped you up beside the head.
If the media was responsible for their reporting and told the truth , they would not have a problem with access to President Trump. They have been told over and over again and they still don’t get it. What a bunch of whining idiots. Get the picture you morons Donald Trump is the President of the United States. Stop your useless gossip with the fake news and tell the truth. I believe that is what journalist are supposed to do in the first place. You are trying to weaken the USA all over the world. However that has been done already by OBAMA ,and President Trump now has to combat that opinion and show America is not weak. Where were you when other countries were making fun of the US for electing OBAMA with derogatory floats, cartoons, etc …Oh you missed that -amazing how if it doesn’t fit your views you have blinders. I think fines need to be placed on any journalistic forum that states false information knowingly.
It’s so unfortunate that MSN has become an embarrassment to our country, our people, our President with their Fake news, but what is worse is their denial, denial and compounded lies stacked on lies. MSN your no longer relevant, either start reporting the truth(very difficult for liberals) or we will make you go away! We the people have had enough of your fake propaganda! We will boycott you!
MSN
I knew there was a reason I do not watch this liberal crap that is spewed every night on the news. ABC NBC CBS CNN MSNBC
What a bunch of ash wholes these news readers are. I want President Trump to authorize investigation of media personnel–like obamawamadama did of the American people. Let’s light a fire under them and watch them cry. Start investigating their families and their children—real investigations no fake news—just the truth. They will start squirming like worms in hot water.
Call us when anyone really gives a tinker’s damn. (Look up the term). “200 former employees of ABC News – executives, producers and journalists.” So what? I could call up 200 coal miners, factory workers, manufacturing workers that mean more to the gross national product of this nation. F*ck ABC News and their “former employees”. WHO CARES?
I an sick of this Trump bashing. Would you idiots rather have Hillary and those thousands of Muslims and illegals in this country ? So shut up and be glad we have a president that puts Americans first,
To all you ABC so called reporters, the answer is SIMPLE. TELL THE TRUTH. Of course I would suggest you look the word up in the Webster dictionary not the clinton dictionary which is what you must have been using. In other words give me the true FACTS. As news reporters of the long ago past did. I don’t need your opinion quite frankly most of you today aren’t smart enough.
.I can’t believe Trump has made sale of liberal news better unless the liberals need to assure themselves that there is a possibility that they might not be wrong. I know of no conservatives that are buying their junk news, I for one have cancelled all of the junk Perhaps they are just hoping that their sales are better therefore trying to convince themselves.
Listen up James Goldston: Donald J. Trump and Michael R. Pence were elected. That means We, the People wanted him in leadership. We believed in his message and realized the destructive path our country was on with Obama. We the People were sick and tired of Obama and realized we could not have this repeated. Donald Trump is now your president too so we ask you and ABC to be part of the building blocks. BTW: I used to like and watch David Muir and George Stephanopolous, but they spend too much time making negative comments on our president and it’s administration. They don’t “report” anything good about the president; they just blow up negative comments and call that “reporting”. This is not news, Mr. Goldston; it’s slander. Now I have cut off ABC too along with CNN, MSNBC, CBS and the like and millions are doing the same. Happy ratings!
And that is why very few listen to ABC NBC CBS MSNBC OR CNN I do however watch FOX at times. The rest of them are of no importance