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Opinions in the News

Cable News.  I watch cable news mostly.  You can tell what stations if I tell you the advertisers.  A. Insurance, life, auto, home, all.  B. Drugs, many for unusual conditions. C. Automobiles. D. Weight loss programs – where the food is mailed to you.   High profit products all, I see the same ads dozens of times, ad nauseum  These are actually common to all cable news channels.   The content is mostly about events, polls, rumors.   Occasionally , there is actual news, like a train derails, or congress passes a bill – rare.   But this is just the filler placed between their favorite offerings, and those are  Opinions.    They come in non-dietetic quantities.  Lumping events, polls, and rumors into “news,”  fake and otherwise, we use the symbol “N.”  Symbolically, this means I/you get daily servings of OAN, or opinions about the news.  This is OK, but the stations, wanting to feed the frenzy of their viewers then move on to OAOAN, or opinions about the opinions about the news.  Som