On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 13:42:06 -0500, Califbill billnews wrote:

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On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 06:46:23 -0400, Keyser Söze
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On 8/17/15 1:49 AM, wrote:

I think all of the recent host and anchor changes have been weak.
Dickerson may get better, Todd is a waste of time, Lester Holt is
pretty bad.
What the hell happened to guys like Cronkite and Brinkley. Hell even
that gas bag Rather was better than the people we have these days.


I don't watch a lot of TV "news," especially TV "political" news.

I usually watch it with my finger on the "skip" button.
That is why I have a good idea of how much free time Trump is getting
vs everyone else. I can just count the number of 30 second skips it
takes to get by them.

We still prefer Paul Henry from New Zealand.
He covers a lot of international stuff we never hear.
One thing we haven't heard much about here is the TPP. What happened
to that? It is a big deal in the Pacific community.

TPP?

The trade deal. Trans Pacific Partnership.

We only seemed to look at it as a break for China and Korea but it is
a lot more wide ranging, particularly for the smaller countries.
New Zealand is mad about the dairy tariff the US and Canada charge on
their products.