Anyone else have problems with the TV news media in the No. VA/DC area? (Richmond: house, DMV)

[sprklcl]

This is a problem unique to the No. VA / DC area since so close to ground zero of the federal government, but do you find the local TV news covered so imbalanced, not relevant, and annoying? In a half hour, they report the weather 3-4 times, hyping it up as much as they can, and besides say the latest local shooting, they the newscasters seem to hate and trash Trump many days (sometimes valid, sometimes not), likely will happen with DeSantis if/when elected also doing good for the people, but support and defend Biden's sometimes plain evil leftist agenda in some minds. Within the Washington DC city borders it votes 90%+ Democrat, more so than other cities, though in the DMV outer suburbs it is more red. At the same time, useful TV news to so many, such as the postage stamp increase to 68 cents on January 21 is not reported, or at best after the fact after previous stamp prices increases. It is why I come to City Data and other internet sources outside of my market for my news. I had to live stream from one of Richmond stations VA governor's Glenn Youngkin inauguration in Jan 2022 with a unifying message, as none of the local DC TV stations chose to carry it. The DMV TV news coverage is so bad here, some call it brainwashing, and some close friends also choose to distrust it.

[hertfordshire]

You come to City Data for news???? That tells me all I need to know.

[spencgr]

I haven't watched local (or national, for that matter) news in over 10 years. There are so many better ways to obtain the news. I've learned about the postage stamp price increase from at least three different sources. I assumed local news was still on because people wanted to hear about the local weather.

If you hate it, why are you still watching it?

[sprklcl]

Originally Posted by spencgr

I haven't watched local (or national, for that matter) news in over 10 years. There are so many better ways to obtain the news. I've learned about the postage stamp price increase from at least three different sources. I assumed local news was still on because people wanted to hear about the local weather.

If you hate it, why are you still watching it?

Elderly relative in the house has it on, she is not internet saavy. For me, not watch, audio just a noise mostly, catching snipets of it here and there.

[spencgr]

Originally Posted by sprklcl

Elderly relative in the house has it on, she is not internet saavy. For me, not watch, audio just a noise mostly, catching snipets of it here and there.

I catch snippets of the many B-level horror flicks my husband likes to watch. Personally, I hate them. But I've never purposely spent time bashing them on the internet.

I really don't understand why you care so much.

[sprklcl]

Originally Posted by spencgr

I catch snippets of the many B-level horror flicks my husband likes to watch. Personally, I hate them. But I've never purposely spent time bashing them on the internet.

I really don't understand why you care so much.

This DC TV news part of the humanist Marxist agenda destroying this country, but that may be an item for greater discussion elsewhere. Its just worse being within an hour of Washington DC, gotten much worse in the last several years.

The postage stamp increase elderly relative weeks ago heard from another relative in NC who he heard it on their TV news. Its so much of the TV news here is not relevant to people's day to day lives, like the president's dog biting staffers.

[hertfordshire]

And there are the buzzwords. I knew they’d pop up sooner rather than later.

[hertfordshire]

As someone who just moved to the DC area from the Raleigh area this past April, I can tell you that there's virtually no difference in the local news. There isn't more focus on Washington politics here just because we're closer.

I heard about the stamp increase on the local news back when USPS announced it. You may have missed it, but I assure you it was covered. And Youngkin's inauguration likely wasn't televised live here because this viewing area covers two states and the District. Only a portion of their viewers care what he has to say. No one in MD or DC is interested in watching. Anyone who is interested can do exactly what you did.

[sprklcl]

And DC seat of federal government more contentious federal coverage.

And they have no problem covering DC Mayor Bowser marching in a DuPont Circle parade of no interest to VA and MD residents.

They would have more time covering other news if they not think we are so stupid to have to cover the weather every several minutes.

[Flamingo13]

DON'T watch it if it is obviously upsetting you so much. Done.