{"id":58253,"date":"2025-03-23T00:04:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T00:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58253"},"modified":"2025-03-23T00:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T00:04:38","slug":"news-boycott-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58253","title":{"rendered":"News boycott continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Hey, boys and girls, I have an announcement to make, which is that my daytime news boycott is continuing with no sign of letting up.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned some weeks back that I was turning the TV off for the forseeable future for a number of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>One is that I am sick of hearing Donald Trump&#8217;s name mentioned. Two, the news talking heads aren&#8217;t telling me anything I don&#8217;t already know about or expect to know about him. Three,\u00a0 I am enjoying the quiet in my North Texas home, with just my puppy Sabol and me making noise.<\/p>\n<p>Truthfully, I have no interest in turning on the Fox Propaganda Channel and listen to those talking heads make excuses for Trump&#8217;s behavior or Elon Musk&#8217;s bullying of federal employees.<\/p>\n<p>As for CNN and MSBNC, channels I normally tune into to learn the latest and the greatest news of the world, well, those folks are boring me with their repetitious recitals of what I already know about how those folks feel about POTUS No. 47 and his hired gun.<\/p>\n<p>I am able to learn the important news as it develops. For instance, I learned of former heavyweight champion George Foreman&#8217;s death online. I learned about the wildfires in the Texas Hill Country and the savage wind that blew in the Panhandle.<\/p>\n<p>So, the news that matters to me the most is getting through. I just don&#8217;t have the noise of voices blathering the same ol&#8217;-same ol&#8217; through my house.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to keep it quiet around here for a good while longer.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, boys and girls, I have an announcement to make, which is that my daytime news boycott is continuing with no sign of letting up. I mentioned some weeks back that I was turning the TV off for the forseeable future for a number of reasons. One is that I am sick of hearing Donald &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58253\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">News boycott continues<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1043,1790,7419,2978,3155],"class_list":["post-58253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-cnn","tag-fox-news-channel","tag-maga","tag-media","tag-msnbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58254,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58253\/revisions\/58254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}