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I Have Lost Interest in Watching/Hearing "CBS News Sunday Morning"

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Mario500

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Has anyone else lost interest in watching and/or hearing "CBS News Sunday Morning" recently? I did after its previous edition last week due to the reporters in its segments about the airplane that crashed in Ukraine using what sounded like their own personal feelings about the outcome of the crash. I was able to return to the program after hearing other segments like those two, but not this Sunday. I guess this means the only CBS broadcasts I would want to watch in the future is one of their sports broadcasts (with either golf, tennis, or football) or a past edition of "The Price is Right" with Bob Barker hosting.
 
"Sunday Morning" used to be appointment TV for me for many years but I also have given up on it. My reason is not the same as the OP's but rather that the program has become too NYC-centric. The people they interview, the plays, the books and many other stories are in, about or near NYC and I just don't care about that subject matter. I lived there for four horrible years and if it fell into the Hudson River next week I could really care less.

Sorry CBS. I don't care.
 
Let me get this straight. You don't want to watch Sunday morning because it "sounded like" reporters shared "their own personal feelings?" Where have you been? CBS (and all the other networks) have had "reporters" "sharing their feelings" back to Morrow. This is the first time you noticed it. I'd rather hear their feelings than see them ask those insipid "how did you feel" questions of people who have suffered some terrible tragedy.

"Reporters" keep doing this because most viewers like it. Good luck finding any news shows where this doesn't happen.
 
I did not just begin noticing CBS reporters sharing what may or may not have been their own personal feelings, I just lost my tolerance for their doing so on "CBS News Sunday Morning".
 
"May or may not:" Good point. I have often wondered if some producer, consultant or the so-called "reporter" decides which "feelings" they are supposed to express in a given situation. It sometimes seems like it's all for show. Like the self-righteous indignation in 60 Minutes interviews.

Does this means you're stopping watching all CBS News shows or just Sunday Morning? Do you still "tolerate their doing so" on other shows?
 
"CBS News Sunday Morning" was the last CBS News program I had watched on a regular basis after having stopped watching all of the others for the same reason.
 
I refused to watch either one of those programs or any news program from NBC or ABC for the same reason.
 
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Mario, people use the word "feelings" in different ways. Are you talking about their emotions as they look at the aftermath of the crash? Or are you talking about their opinions about the crash and why it happened and who should be blamed?

As far as emotions, I don't know that's always inappropriate. A little while back Charles Osgood (on his radio show) played portions of Ed Murrow's broadcast from one of the Nazi death camps after it was liberated at the end of World War II. His comments moved me, even after all this time. I wonder if a dispassionate account would have been an injustice to all the people who suffered and died in those camps.
 
FredLeonard said:
Mario, people use the word "feelings" in different ways. Are you talking about their emotions as they look at the aftermath of the crash? Or are you talking about their opinions about the crash and why it happened and who should be blamed?
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Both.
 
I did when Charles Kuralt left. I foget whether he left or he was still doing it when he died.

I may have watched Charles Osgood for a while.
 
I'm starting to lose interest in Charles Osgood and "The Osgood File" on the radio. He gets his facts wrong. His pieces are often not original but recycled from the previous night's Evening News. Seems like he's just phoning it in.
 
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