>I would not want to be without a television. I don't watch much of it, mainly sports and the occasional TV series. And breaking news. When something big happens I am glued to CNN.

Having been on the business end of the CNN et al, I've seen how the bastards spew outright lies. They (and any other mainstream media in the West) are simple propaganda outlets, no better than once Pravda was. The most important things they never publish, the stuff they publish is mostly distraction (dragging one murder case for months, for example), and what important stuff they do publish is bent beyond recognition.

The only thing they print that is true to what they said it is, they print in private and then flush it.