I sold my television set over 4 years ago. Television only serves one purpose these days, and that’s to entertain the sleeping ignorant masses. "News" is a trivial label for what passes as accurate information on the good old boob tube in the USA.
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I live in Wisconsin and we have a public broadcasting network on the FM band of radio. It serves to inform, and it’s excellent in that respect. We are the only state in the nation that has a network like this. Except for our WPR affiliates, NPR, CSPAN, and places like Peakoil.com on the Internet, A few journals such as “Reason,â€

