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serynA while back I endorsed Miro, which is a podcast downloader/player. I must withdraw this recommendation. It will not close cleanly. It always wants to report an error whenever I quit the application. That is very annoying. It also uses a gob of memory waiting to see if it should download something. My computer is old now, 3+ years, so memory hogs are a problem for performance.
However the dealbreaker on my use of Miro has nothing to do with the software. I stopped watching the podcast news. I stopped being able to tolerate Keith Olbermann's show. Some of it has been because of his personal reasons where he was gone 60% of the time and the substitutes they had were terrible. A lot of it is that I think the healthcare debate was hyped by the media without thought for what else was happening. (Which was exacerbated by the subs who were monotopical.) But really, there's a difference between watching the opposition news pointing out the obvious failings of an administration you disagree with and watching the same news program when their people are in power. Obama's doing a lot of stuff wrong and not living up to his campaign promises in a lot of areas--- not worse than other presidents assuredly, but not as much better as expected.
I never liked the Rachel Maddow Show as much, even though they rapidly overtook Keith's show for content immediacy. (Keith's show tomorrow covered what Rachel's show covered tonight.) I kept thinking that there had to be more news out there that wasn't political. Or more issues than what were discussed by the repetition. Some of Rachel's segments were astonishingly good--- especially the ones where she outlined things with historical and geographical causes that explain why something cannot be viewed in isolation. I know it shouldn't be her job to explain why something is news, but when she did, it was really stellar. But it was always followed by some bogus nonsense about sports or drinking or strip clubs or motivational seminars or music.
I need a better source of news. I want one that's not full of pop culture trash. And I need one that actually talks about more than just politics. Preferably one that's done in California (because that East Coast slant often means they forget about the other 90% of the country and if we're going to be biased, I want it to be applicable bias.) And if it's going to be team anchored, I want the male anchor not to interrupt the female one.
What I'm really looking for is news that's accurate, unbiased, in-depth (and with pointers for background if I'm confused about the underpinnings), and covering all topics. 30 years ago I would have said I'm looking for a newspaper. 20 years ago I would have thought I was looking for a newspaper with hyperlinks. Now I just think the media shouldn't matter and we need some actual fucking journalists.
However the dealbreaker on my use of Miro has nothing to do with the software. I stopped watching the podcast news. I stopped being able to tolerate Keith Olbermann's show. Some of it has been because of his personal reasons where he was gone 60% of the time and the substitutes they had were terrible. A lot of it is that I think the healthcare debate was hyped by the media without thought for what else was happening. (Which was exacerbated by the subs who were monotopical.) But really, there's a difference between watching the opposition news pointing out the obvious failings of an administration you disagree with and watching the same news program when their people are in power. Obama's doing a lot of stuff wrong and not living up to his campaign promises in a lot of areas--- not worse than other presidents assuredly, but not as much better as expected.
I never liked the Rachel Maddow Show as much, even though they rapidly overtook Keith's show for content immediacy. (Keith's show tomorrow covered what Rachel's show covered tonight.) I kept thinking that there had to be more news out there that wasn't political. Or more issues than what were discussed by the repetition. Some of Rachel's segments were astonishingly good--- especially the ones where she outlined things with historical and geographical causes that explain why something cannot be viewed in isolation. I know it shouldn't be her job to explain why something is news, but when she did, it was really stellar. But it was always followed by some bogus nonsense about sports or drinking or strip clubs or motivational seminars or music.
I need a better source of news. I want one that's not full of pop culture trash. And I need one that actually talks about more than just politics. Preferably one that's done in California (because that East Coast slant often means they forget about the other 90% of the country and if we're going to be biased, I want it to be applicable bias.) And if it's going to be team anchored, I want the male anchor not to interrupt the female one.
What I'm really looking for is news that's accurate, unbiased, in-depth (and with pointers for background if I'm confused about the underpinnings), and covering all topics. 30 years ago I would have said I'm looking for a newspaper. 20 years ago I would have thought I was looking for a newspaper with hyperlinks. Now I just think the media shouldn't matter and we need some actual fucking journalists.
