Pretty much the same here. Most of my reading is reports, online financial news and things like that. I've got dozens of non-fiction and fiction books that I've bought over the years. But I'm beginning to think that I won't get to them until they roll me into the Shady Meadows rest home. As far as TV, I also watch the channels you mentioned, as well as some historical dramas. I also like a small handful of TV shows, like Better Call Saul. And I found that my new TV provider, Dish Network, has a channel called MeTV. Those are old shows, with good, traditional/****** values that I grew up with and loved as a ***. But I don't/can't watch MSM news (including Fox News or Fox Business News - just another version of Fox News with a stock crawler at the bottom... VERY little actual stock or business news on there). CNBC and Bloomberg Financial have some good financial reporting, but they both sprinkle in a fair amount of biased, whiny reporting too (especially Bloomberg). Increasingly I just watch the online financial channel that's on the Ameritrade app. I'm looking for data and analysis, not propaganda.
IMO, most of what's on TV these days (entertainment and news) is just a propaganda exercise meant to train the sheeple to think and do as they're told. Beatman gets a lot of stick on here sometimes. But any person with just a small amount of observation skills can see that there is most definitely a social agenda being pushed on the unwashed masses. Homey don't play that. But that's the direction we're going in. So maybe I will get around to Plato's Republic and Empires of Trust sooner than later.
Say, RJ. I can't remember which channel it came on (Discovery maybe?), but if you catch the report on the moon and the theories about what it really is and how it was formed, it'll make you think for a long while. It absolutely blew my mind.
