CBS SUNDAY MORNING

CBS SUNDAY MORNING

CBS SUNDAY MORNING has been, or should I say had been, part of my Sunday morning routine practically since it’s inception in 1979. I have been an enemy of routine all of my life but my Sunday morning routine had been an exception.  I always equated routine with falling in a rut and becoming stale but I truly liked this routine. 

Get up, get the Sunday paper, drink my dark roast coffee, watch CBS Sunday Morning and then do the Sunday LA Times crossword puzzle. I stopped getting the Sunday LA Times when the paper got smaller and smaller and it’s price kept getting bigger and bigger. I pride myself on adaptation. Whenever a roadblock appears in front of me, I either go around it, over it or under it. My answer to the skyrocketing price of printed newspapers was to get a digital edition of the paper. I got both the LA Times and the London Times. After about a year I cancelled the LA Times. It really didn’t have anything of interest to me. The London Times has it all. Balanced news, a good crossword and interesting human interest stories.

The television news situation is a totally different arena. I am, and always have been, a news junkie and we don’t have cable TV or a dish. This leaves us with over the air or internet news. As Abraham Lincoln said, you can’t believe the news on the internet, so live TV it is.

When I watch the news, I want to hear, news, not opinion. If I wanted to hear some talking head’s opinion I would have turned on to CBS Sunday Morning Opinions. CBS, Communist Broadcasting System is the worst. I stopped watching their local news over thirty years ago because I couldn’t stand Linda Alverez. I don’t watch the Late Show, to me, it is intolerable with that buffoon Stephen Colbert. At least on 60 Minutes there was a segment called Point/Counterpoint. That provided some balance. I don’t watch Fox News either. Once again I don’t think that it is balanced either from the other extreme.

For the record, I am neither a Democrat, no shit? Or a Republican. I am, and have been, a registered Libertarian. I consider myself as somewhat right of center. I like the way Jessie Ventura described himself. He described himself as “fiscally conservative and socially liberal,” a straightforward expression of his libertarian philosophy. On Sunday Morning at least we had Charles Kuralt who was a folksy guy who roamed the back roads of the USA looking for quirky stories. Speaking of quirky, Bill Geist kept things light and amusing. After Kuralt retired we had Charles Osgood who was no Kutralt but wasn’t that bad either. Kuralt was a tough act to follow. Ben Stein helped keep some semblance of balance but he is now gone. These days, Martha Teichner is the worst. She is a non-stop unabashed Trump basher. Does Mr. Trump deserve some bashing? Of coarse he does, don’t we all? Should she be allowed to run amok? According to the very first  amendment of the US Constitution, she does. Am I required to watch her rantings? Hell no.

So it’s AMF, Aloha My Friend to CBS Sunday Morning.

You will be missed but not watched anymore by little old me. 

OK, I'm done. You can have your soapbox back now.