If you're into watching TV during the prime time hours sometimes you'll find yourself wanting to check in to see what the news is...traditionally when I grew up in the 1960's and 70's we got all that in a half-hour span on one of the three network news shows, nowadays usually airing at 6:30 pm: my parents preferred Cronkite on CBS. Now, if you wait a little later to 8:00 then you can tune in to WGN/Chicago which, in my hometown of Gainesville, Cox Cable provides on Channel 14. At that time they present a great three-hour-long news show called NewsNation that covers the news straight and much more comprehensively with a wider variety of stories than do CNN, FoxNews, and MSNBC...and it's on seven days a week. From 11 to 2 they repeat the earlier evening show, which is great for someone like me who gets off from work at 10 pm. I am so utterly fed up with the out-of-control spin and manipulation on those aforementioned three channels that I'd rather forego the news than spend any appreciable amount of time watching them. But now we have NewsNation, which only began its run just a month and a half ago. Try it out and see if you agree with me that here is a more reliable news source. I also recommend the more obscure Newsy channel, which in Gainesville is Channel 276 on Cox Cable. That station presents news around-the-clock and genuinely tries to present the facts without drowning the viewer in the announcers' own opinions. Newsy and WGN's NewsNation: two welcome alternatives to the mind-numbing, slanted crap we're getting elsewhere. Of course, in our very polarized, emotionally-extreme electoral season simply watching the news...especially with regard to politics...might pose a mental health hazard to viewers, even without the spin...
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