Life is too short for pundits.
When I'm on the road, I can check the news online. I read the subjects that interest me internationally in politics, tech and science from mostly well vetted sources- or at least I hope I do. Then I move on and listen to books on tape/ mostly non-fiction. I don't miss the pundits from talk news on TV and I worry that they're funded by special interests to sway emotions- not to provide facts. I want the facts as journalism was intended- when it was held to high standards of fact checking and in depth reporting. Isn't life and free time too limited? If I had to pick and choose/ and I do...I'd rather hear the facts from experts and the opinions of friends because friends' opinions tell me more about my friends than they do about the news and I like that. It's fun to bandy about ideas with them too. In the process, I'm bonding with friends over opinions. Sometimes we clash too but that's personal- not remote like senseless pundit banter. Opinions from untrustworthy pundits don't provide me with facts or bond me to friends so in essence/ I'm wasting precious time that could do one or the other or something else like improve life as I know it. Life is too short for empty emotions. So life on the road focuses my attention and the pundits in America are a distraction I don't miss. Their tone is hysterical. I don't have time for hysteria about things I cannot control.