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My guesses would be al-Jazeera, Comedy Central, the CW, C-Span3, TNT, AMC, and the Oprah Winfrey Network. That is, if one is honest about the (corporate) ideological slant of the others

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How about Gorman Herring??

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1) ashamed that Herring is in San Diego2) what a great article about yet another wing nut with too much money,3) This is why we actually cut the cord with DirectTV long age. The actual reason. Took one look at one of its 'noise' stories and almost puked. Sad that it took negative publicity to finally cut the cord.

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Die Luegenpresse.

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How 'bout NewsMax?

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“If I think I’m right, I just go for it”The motto of top quality journalists everywhere …

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I've always called them ONAN.

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Glad I'm not the only one. It's a joke that writes itself.

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Did they not carry NewsMax? Dish does. That's at least 2.

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any ones that,.even just part of the time present actual news , rather than all propaganda all the time

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Same here!

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My dad worked for Ma Bell, and later in his career, AT&T. We got our phones and phone bill paid for by the phone company. My dad did not abuse his employer's largess, however, he was forever yelling at me and my sister to "get off the damn phone, is it stuck to your damn ear." At his retirement party he brought a tape recorder and a tape that had "Take This Job and Shove it" and played it for his bosses.

I bought an old bell phone like the round Austin Powers phone at a garage sale. It's very heavy, and you could kill someone with the receiver, if necessary. I have to say they made damn good phones. I hate the way cel phones sound. Always a delay, always sound like the other person is talking from the bottom of a barrel.

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I could suggest you buy a better cell phone, but it might be the provider. Things are more complicated today. But I can talk to my sister a thousand miles away for less than 2 dollars a minute. Long distance was brutal.

About those kill an assailant phones. You could buy accessories for them and my Dad got a lamp you attach to it, the lamp melted our phone, it still worked but we did not want to report it and have to pay to replace it so we worked with a phone that had melted holes in it.

I worked for AT&T for a short while as a consultant before it broke up. I was very young. I wrote a report on the number of miles of phone lines they owned through the data. Computer had a limit of digits and they would not accept how many thousand of miles they had, it had to account for each mile. So I spent a lot of time at the office developing an overflow counter. I was on the same floor as the top executives because the report was for them so I could hear them talking and I learned why things cost so much and why they wasted so much money. They were regulated and could not raise prices unless they could prove their expenses were higher. So they would manipulate the amount things cost so they could raise prices. OF course, when their expenses dropped they would not drop prices.

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'Ow, noice. ONAN for InCels.

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BBC?

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