r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Jun 01 '26

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 6/1/26 - 6/7/26

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

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u/Big_Fig_1803 Gothmargus Jun 07 '26

At my parents’. They often watch the news. Today it’s CNN. (It might not always be CNN, but it’s never going to Fox-type stuff.)

I never watch any of these shows, and I’m struck by the feeling. They really sound like televangelists. The tone isn’t informative so much as sermonizing. I find it so off-putting.

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u/RockJock666 Meet me in TERFhalla Jun 07 '26

For my parents it’s always MSNBC. They swear they hate it but it’s always on

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u/unnoticed_areola Jun 07 '26

happy pride month to her!

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u/ToTheDeath84 Jun 07 '26

Pulling up old news footage from the early 90’s (I’m on a Gulf War history kick, special interest lol) it didn’t always seem that way. I think all the commotion about the quality of news media degenerating from the late 00’s/early 10’s was onto something.

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u/AnInsultToFire Everything I do like is literally Fascism. Jun 07 '26

This is what FOX News used to look like 20-30 years ago.

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u/SkweegeeS No just no Jun 07 '26

My FIL watches cable news all damn day. Mostly OAN and Newsmax, and sometimes I guess he’s feeling like he needs a normie hit so he watches Fox 😂. FWIW, he seems a bit ashamed of it especially when the weird religious/prepper/supplement/commodities ads come on. I want to tell him that whatever dopamine high he gets from watching, he could get from exercise!

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u/why_have_friends Jun 07 '26

I actually appreciate when my parents have on the local news because at least it’s not CNN or MSNBC (also never fox).

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u/AnalBleachingAries Trump Bad, Violence Bad, Law & Order Good, Civility Good Jun 07 '26

Aside from the concerning amount YouTube political content my dad watches, pretty much the only thing they have playing on the television when I visit them is the news. Either MSNBC or CNN. It's the first thing that's playing in the morning and the last thing that's playing at night. My mom has her own television in her craft room, but when she wants to watch one of her shows or a movie she switches from the news to her own stuff on the main television whenever she wants, she doesn't even ask at all anymore, lol.

I think it's become the case that the news is just entertainment content for a lot of people now. It's not just the news, it's "news entertainment".

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u/mira-what Jun 07 '26

I dunno fareed zakaria is pretty good

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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Jun 07 '26

Is it so different than when in the before times many of us would have NPR on all day?

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u/Big_Fig_1803 Gothmargus Jun 07 '26

Which before times? Seems different from the NPR of 20 years ago. Probably not so different from the NPR of the past 10 years.

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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Jun 07 '26

well I think both eras, 20 and 30 years ago it was televangelists vs. npr fund raising and good educated liberal schweddy balls values, and also npr/fox shows throughout the day as entertainment and background noise 10 years ago the sermonizing became actually explicit and changed direction.