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Where do you primarily get your news/information?

Where do you primarily get your news/information?

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radcen

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Where do you **primarily** get your news/information?

  1. BBC
  2. CNN
  3. Comedy/satire shows (i.e. Stewart, Colbert, etc.)
  4. Fox
  5. Internet news sites
  6. Internet social media
  7. Magazines
  8. Networks (ABC/CBS/NBC)
  9. Newspapers
  10. Other
Multiple options available.
 
National Public Radio....... Sirius POTUS ....... NBC News.... Detroit Free Press ...... various internet sites
 
In no particular order:

The Guardian UK (Online)

The Globe & Mail (Canada)

The Christian Science Monitor (Online)

BBC

Drudge Report

Alternet.org

DP

Lew Rockwell.com

Rawstory.com

New searches on the Internet

We recently stopped our local newspaper. It is worthless.

I never watch any television news.
 
Drudgereport.com
Hotair.com
Redstate.com
charismanews.com
^^^ How I stay up to date on the right. CharismaNews is cringe porn.
news.google.com
centerforinquiry.net
thedailybeast.com
reddit.com/r/news and /r/atheism
Chicago : News : Politics : Things To Do : Sports | Chicago Sun-Times
thebrowser.com

I watch Stewart and Jon Oliver sometimes as well.
 
NYT
WaPo
Politico
The Atlantic
National Journal
Weekly Standard
Fox News
 
Internet News Aggregators (news.google.com and Flipboard) and NPR. Some world news I get from the BBC World Service and Al Jazzera English.
 
News: PBS, CNN, C-SPAN, Fox, Reuters, AP, Disability Scoop. Informational analysis: National Affairs, AEI, AIR, Brookings Institution, STRATFOR, Chronicle of Higher Education, "New Books In" podcasts (Education, Political Science, Intellectual History, etc).

Aggregated sources: Google News (customized on two different accounts, each for a specific broad subject area-one on disability and mental health issues, the other on american conservatism and neoconservatism).
 
radcen said:
Where do you **primarily** get your news/information?

  1. BBC
  2. CNN
  3. Comedy/satire shows (i.e. Stewart, Colbert, etc.)
  4. Fox
  5. Internet news sites
  6. Internet social media
  7. Magazines
  8. Networks (ABC/CBS/NBC)
  9. Newspapers
  10. Other
Multiple options available.
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PBS should be on there. The Newshour does a great job. Newspapers do a better job than TV overall.
 
Oh, in addition to Google News being a godsend...another (in my opinion) fantastic news aggregate application is Facebook's Paper on iOS and Android.Some pretty good categories with interesting stories and commentary will come up. It's been pretty useful in terms of getting stuff I would not have ordinarily been exposed to.
 
NY Times
WaPo
Atlantic
BBC
Asahi

On tv mostly CNN
 
Where do you primarily get your news/information?
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i'm a bit of a news junkie, so i use a lot of sources. generally :

breaking events : CNN
balanced coverage of stories : blank google news search. this one is my favorite, because you get every story from every angle and slant. helps to dilute the bias.
world news : BBC. sometimes NPR, as well.

on top of that, i generally listen to NPR when driving to work and back, and i usually watch NBC nightly news.
 
Radio, TV, Internet memeorandum.com/
 
CRUE CAB said:
Cant wait for the Billery bashing to start in earnest.
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Of course that's coming soon.
Call me a masochist, but I can't wait for the 2016 prez primaries to start.
Let the bashing begin!!
 
radioman said:
Of course that's coming soon.
Call me a masochist, but I can't wait for the 2016 prez primaries to start.
Let the bashing begin!!
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Nah....just enjoy how long it takes for the prospective candidates to formally announce their candidacy. It's always a fun game to me. We discuss each of them ad nauseum, but there's the fear that they run overexposed if they announce too early.
 
radcen said:
Where do you **primarily** get your news/information?

  1. BBC
  2. CNN
  3. Comedy/satire shows (i.e. Stewart, Colbert, etc.)
  4. Fox
  5. Internet news sites
  6. Internet social media
  7. Magazines
  8. Networks (ABC/CBS/NBC)
  9. Newspapers
  10. Other
Multiple options available.
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Al Jazeera
BBC
Reuters
RT
The Guardian

These were the news sites I was left with after eliminating those that featured
1)headlines about which celebrity showed side-boob
2)headlines that were questions, e.g. "He said WHAT to Obama???"
3)articles that were advertisements packaged as news, e.g. "Angry citizens killing each other in the streets over release of new iphone."
 
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Chain letters from my right-wing friends who have been convinced America is on the path to Shiria law under the leadership of an illegal alien who despite being a devout Wahhabist, supports same-sex marriage and reportedly eats bacon every morning. Lol

Actually, I wake up with early morning local TV news followed by NBC's Today Show. Sometimes I watch GMA instead of Today. If I'm home early enough, I watch NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. If nothing good is on TV, later in the evening I go between CNN and MSNBC; mostly CNN. Election Nights and breaking news, NBC. I have all the local TV news apps on my phone and get alerts when news breaks. I also have the CNN, USA Today and Fox News Apps and get alerts on my phone from those as well. If I get an alert I look online for more details when possible.
 
If I want fancy pictures or obvious news reporting - the major sources...but the farther from Americans sources, the better (they have almost all become worse then useless, imo).

If I want actual news reporting, I have to go hunting for it...and the farther off the beaten path, the better.

I almost NEVER believe ANYTHING a major news source says until I have verification from an unbiased source.


BTW, imo, if you get most of your news from ANY major American news cast...you probably do not understand what is really going on.
 
roguenuke said:
Me too actually. I usually find something out here, then research it further elsewhere.
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Yes. I figure if anything is of noted importance, or particularly controversial, it's certain to be posted here. :lol:
 
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