Where do you get your news from?
 

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em...

So where do you folks get your news from? Given the diversity here I'm sure we'll have some fun selections. For me, ever since I saw this video, I've been a Hardball man...



You mean someone actually says "hey, thats BS? win..."

I get it from the internet , television thats it.. no point in newspapers

Really? Why not?

Newspapers, Kindle, and i surf Bloomberg religiously for finance info. I still get the newspaper on Sundays not just the electronic form. I indulge in Newsweek, Time, and the New York Times also.

Newspapers. I read The Guardian or The Herald most of the time.

To be fair, she probably can't read.

Generally online from CNN, BBC, and MSNBC, and occasionally from local papers. Rarely from TV though, I think I prefer to be able to skip around and choose the stories I'm interested in.

Onion, Optimist News, my local news, my local newspaper.

really? seriously uhmm nooo just the fact that its boring

Primarily online with the BBC website, though a lot of my friends tend to post interesting stories when they come across them on facebook. For news of home, I browse the irish times website.

The BBC website's a pretty good cover-all for pretty much everything in the world I've found. It's very quickly updated, it's about as unbiased as any media centre in the world, it covers international issues rather than just focusing on the UK.

I read newspapers when I see them - when I was commuting a lot I'd always read the free newspapers on the trains and buses, but I have found recently that I'm not so regularly around newspapers and I don't really have the spare money to be spending buying them when I can get it all online :P

I know right? The news is so boring, why would we even care about the world we live in? May as well get drunk, have sex and watch Jerry Springer.

The Daily Show

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - Political Comedy - Fake News | Comedy Central

and The Colbert Report

Colbert Nation | The Colbert Report | Comedy Central

well thats what the majority of the world does

I actually don't keep much on the news at all. I haven't watched it for a week or so. I hate it. It's more than likely related to my sensitivity.

Sensitive people are sensitive, who knew!

I did! And now you do too.

I understand that. You could always focus on the fluff segments. A tortoise learned how to skateboard! It would be pretty hard to get upset over that.

If the whole world stopped posting on this site would you do the same? I hope so.

It did? It did?! YES! :tramp:

I honestly despise all television 'news' shows. At best they're infotainment - but it's difficult for me to enjoy something so blatantly reactionary & sentimental. That they dedicate so much of their time to denigrating rival networks and personalities, and that their viewers are largely too idiotic to realize this is the same as Ford pissing on Honda, just ruins it for me.

Takimag is a cheeky Libertarian oriented website that has Jim Goad as an editor.... which ought to summarize that source awfully well. takimag.com,

The American Conservative is a paleoconservative magazine founded in opposition to the Iraq War, NeoCon nuttery in general, and liberal cultural wars. The American Conservative

Tom Dispatch is part of the Nation Institute; I love it for the foreign policy, although the social and economic commentary is good for keeping myself out of an epistemic closure. Tom Dispatch

The Left Business Observer is probably the single best leftist site I know of, largely because it avoids sentimentality. The Left Business Observer

David Frum, who coined the Axis of Evil phrase, and was later shunned by the GOP for comparing Obamacara's succesful passage with Waterloo. David Frum

Do you read anything that isn't a left-wing publication?

I see no reason in watching, reading, or listening to any sort of news that doesn't involve sports to be honest. I try to minimize my connection to the masses as much as possible because let's face it, the world as portrayed by mainstream media is pretty retarded.

Used to read newspapers at work, but now I read techdirt.com for tech news and Russia Today once every blue moon. And I read any article that sparks my interest from my facebook news feed. But I don't do that much news. I think local news is a huge waste of time and braincells.

Eh? I dunno if you're speaking to me, but if so, most of the sources I gave are Conservative.

I used to really like The Week. They present the main idea of a current topic, then site other articles that usually for, against and to the point of the topic. But, they've become less about actual news and more about things like, no kidding, Why is the font on the Drive movie poster pink?

As for the TV news, as long as you know how to separate the talking heads and opinions from the actual news, they're basically all the same. Anderson Cooper and Shepard Smith are two anchors I listen to on a more than occasional basis.

For major international news, the BBC or Sky. Then a trip over to RT and Al Jazeera for comparison.
Don't bother with newspapers anymore, but the Independent online isn't bad.

My mama says that news is the devil, so she tells me what I need to know.

Whats negative? What would you cover that's positive?

I listen to news talk radio in my car, mostly. A local Conservative channel (KPEL 96.5).
Other than that, I have a few different news apps on my phone, but I generally just have a quick glance at them when I'm on the sh*tter or something.

I try to tune into a wide variety of news media.

When at home I channel surf the major 24-hour cable news outlets. However I have started boycotting MSNBC due to their blacklisting of Pat Buchanan. :mad:

At work I listen to NPR when I have a chance and the local NPR affiliate has alot of local news too.

I also like Jeff Rense as well! :yeah:


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i mostly get it from yahoo

agree with jackPat, too much negativity - natural disasters, crimes, failing economies, deaths

Wall Street Journal (print), CNN, Google News, and local papers(online), occasionally watch TV news, some radio as well.

Try not to be too addicted to one source

I watch whatever, and apply common sense and "you're so full of ****" sensing abilities and overall just take it with a grain of salt. The only accurate way to get the "news" is by looking into it yourself. It's a shame most people just believe their news source, and think the rival news sources suck. Fox News is biased, and so is CNN, NBC, etc.

I keep an open mind, and really I don't understand why people react to news.

Unless you know someone personally, you can't really objectively tell "who's saying it". Many people think Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Chris Matthews or Rush Limbaugh are credible and unbiased news sources. I always kinda have to chuckle when I see someone make a post on an internet forum or blog or whatever about how superior their knowledge of politics is, and Fox News is biased. Then you ask them what sources they prefer, and they say Chris Matthews or Jon Stewart.

Anyways, it's fine to watch those shows, you just have to take all of it with a grain of salt if you want to be taken seriously.

I watch a little bit of everything, and read a lot of news online. I prefer CSPAN on television, even though it can be dull as dirt. It can be just as biased as the rest of them, though. Usually, whenever I see a story breaking that piques my interest, I'll read up on it on several different news sources, and try to find the full coverage of what they're actually talking about to draw my own conclusions.

Stewart and Matthews are certainly bias. They aren't lead in, though, by an ad for the network saying "Fair & Balanced", neither of which Mr. O'Reilly is. And this is the problem with Fox News. They actively refute their bias. In fact O'Reilly had to change his affiliation from Republican to Independent just to keep the ghost up when the Post discovered it.

News sources often aren't perfect, but Fox is in a league of its own.

Eh? By that logic, any paper that features opinion columns is biased throughout.

By what rationale? I'd like to see you substantiate the logic that claiming "fairness and balance" somehow brings Fox to a different level of bias. Open bias does not equal to less bias.

In fact, MSNBC used to play the balanced card, as almost all media outlets do, but only recently became open about their liberal bias.

Guys like O'Reilly, Hannity and Beck are very open about their political biases.

Point here: bias distorts the truth, and almost every source is guilty of having an agenda. That's why it's important to gather as much truth and detail as possible to draw conclusions that are well informed.

Because its attempting to hide the bias. And its not about effecting how much bias there is, but how much bias is perceived. If you're saying a network is "Fair & Balanced" - then it should be. But even you're saying no one can be bias free.

So, your primary objection is the slogan they use?

What else would a person object to? I agree with the rest of what he said. No one isn't bias.