Last week, PoliticsDaily.com columnist Walter Shapiro, who is recovering from surgery on his leg, decided to commit to watching nothing but cable news networks for 12 hours a day for five straight days.
To some, that may sound not all that abnormal. But Shapiro, something of a dinosaur, gets his news from print media, and therefore is in no way acclimated to what he found on the boob tube.
Shapiro blogged each day for five days about his new experience with cable TV news. It’s pretty interesting.
Here are the five parts of his series:
Day 1: A New Survivor Show: Watching a Week of Cable News and Living to Tell
Day 2: The Cable News Patrol: Rounding Up the Usual Suspects and Subjects
Day 3: The Cable News Patrol: Sound Bite Skirmishing Silenced (Mostly) by Real Life Tragedy
Day 4: The Cable News Patrol: Glenn and Rachel Become My New Best Friends
Day 5: The Cable News Patrol: My Long National Nightmare Is Over!
Raising Two Americans 