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News Outlets You Get Your News From

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APACHERAT said:
I'm not talking about that. Look at the Drudge Report. It's nothing but links to other news sources mostly newspapers, the MSM websites, AP, Ruters, etc. Drudge rewrites the headlines of those news stories to catch your interest. He doesn't get one penny when someone links to the NY Times, WSJ or Brietbart, etc. websites where the news article is located. Drudge makes his money from the advertising at the top of the page. Have you noticed how ignoring it is every minute or so when the page refreshes itself when a new advertiser appears at the top ?
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And when you click on those links, Drudge gets paid.
 
NY Times
Washington Post
CNN
Various news aggregation sites
The Atlantic
BBC
Mainichi Shinbum
 
I intentionally avoid TV news except for Democracy Now and occassionally the news on PBS News. The Nation magazine, my local Hearst Corp owned newspaper, another inferior local paper, a couple of local lifestyle weeklies and Pacifica radio provide most of my news. Various sites online, including this forum, often lead me to news stories. This site is a convenient way to quickly learn about my opponents spin on events and their trending issues. I also get a lot of alerts in my e-mail from advocacy groups. I don't consume them consistently, but Al Jazeera TV and the Guardian (British newspaper) are good sources.


In my opinion, and probably objectively, commercial broadcast and cable news-entertainment*1 shows and the lesser newspapers disinform more than they inform the consumer. It isn't that they lie, its that they tend to sensationalize the trivial, trivialize or ignore the important, create fear and crisis, manufactures heroes and villians and misses the big picture. The bias is a centrist pro-corporate bias. The agenda is to encourage you to buy stuff. Those outlets don't even provide much actual news with all the sports, weather, advice, entertainment "news", video "news" releases*2, and human interest stories. Commercial TV is the worst with all the happy talk and banter, theme music bumpers with crane shots coming out of the commercials, and opening and closing credits and titles that are included in a news show, there is very little time for real news. Ignore the stories on fires and crime (almost always inconsequential) and there is very little substance.

*1 that's all of the "news" shows

*2 "A video news release (VNR) is a video segment made to look like a news report, but is instead created by a PR firm, advertising agency, marketing firm, corporation, or government agency. They are provided to television newsrooms to shape public opinion, promote commercial products and services, publicize individuals, or support other interests. News producers may air VNRs, in whole or in part, at their discretion or incorporate them into news reports if they contain information appropriate to a story or of interest to viewers......"
Wikipedia
 
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Cardinal said:
And when you click on those links, Drudge gets paid.
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No he doesn't.

What Drudge does is no different than what I do when I start a thread on the DP that links to another source. I don't get a damn penny and neither does the DP. But I should. :lol:

>" Drudge met Andrew Breitbart in Los Angeles during the 1990s and became his mentor, with Breitbart later helping to run the Drudge Report.[6][7] Breitbart announced in 2005 that he was "amicably leaving the Drudge Report after a long and close working relationship with Matt Drudge" but still helped run Drudge's website from Los Angeles by working the afternoon shift, in addition to running Breitbart.com.[8][9][10] Drudge frequently links to Breitbart's site, but does not get paid for this service.[7]

A story by Business 2.0 magazine from April 2003 estimated that Drudge's website received $3,500 a day (almost $1.3 million a year) in advertising revenues. Subtracting his relatively minor server costs, the magazine estimated that The Drudge Report website netted $800,000 a year..."<

Matt Drudge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


>"The Drudge Report doesn't have a salesforce. It works with a firm called Intermarkets to sell the ad units on its pages. The Drudge Report contains general news, often with a political slant, which means The Drudge Report likely gets relatively low revenue-per-page. (Say, $1.50 per 1000 pages). But The Drudge Report has a lot of pageviews...

One of the most remarkable things about The Drudge Report is that the site's content still consists primarily of original headlines linked to stories elsewhere on the web. This is a highly innovative and efficient media model, one that takes full advantage of the amazing capabilities of the Internet..."<

Read more: Drudge Report Worth Hundreds Of Millions - Business Insider

>"The Drudge Report site consists mainly of selected[22] hyperlinks to news websites all over the world, each link carrying a headline written by Drudge or his editors. The linked stories are generally hosted on the external websites of mainstream media outlets. It occasionally includes stories written by Drudge — usually two or three paragraphs in length. They generally concern a story about to be published in a major magazine or newspaper. Drudge occasionally publishes Nielsen, Arbitron, or BookScan ratings, or early election exit polls that are otherwise not made available to the public.
The site carries advertisements that generate the site's revenue. The Drudge Report's advertising is sold by Vienna, Virginia-based ad firm Intermarkets..."<

Drudge Report - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
TeleKat said:
That wasn't RT America though, that was just plain ol' RT. RT America operates on US soil and is run by US citizens.
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  1. RT journalist resigns on air – video | US news | The Guardian

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    Mar 5, 2014
    A second journalist has spoken out on Kremlin-funded news network ... Liz Wahl, a correspondent for RT ...​

  2. Jul 18, 2014 - 'Every single day we're lying': Russia Today reporter resigns over ... OUT ; ARCHIVE OUT ; For use in North America only, AP Members and.
  3. "I'm For the Truth": Another RT Reporter Publicly Quits Her Job

    gawker.com/im-for-the-truth-another-rt-reporter-publicly-quits-1...Gawker


    Jul 18, 2014 - Just months after an RT America anchor quit her job during a live televised broadcast, another journalist publicly left the Russian ...
 
Jack Hays said:
Then we are not thinking of the same incident. These were reporters in the US and UK.
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Okay, I think I found the incident you're referring to. Yes, RT is biased toward Putin, I'm actually aware of that and tend to filter out those stories that magically blame everybody but the West every time a story focuses on Russia (and especially Putin). It's for the same reason that I take Al Jazeera, an excellent news source by the way, with a grain of salt when their stories are about Israel.
 
Cardinal said:
Okay, I think I found the incident you're referring to. Yes, RT is biased toward Putin, I'm actually aware of that and tend to filter out those stories that magically blame everybody but the West every time a story focuses on Russia (and especially Putin). It's for the same reason that I take Al Jazeera, an excellent news source by the way, with a grain of salt when their stories are about Israel.
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Fair enough.
 
Jack Hays said:
Fair enough.
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Thanks, but I miswrote that. I meant, "...and tend to filter out those stores that magically blame the West instead of Russia every time..." but I guess you got that from context.
 
NPR and local alternative weeklies are the primary places I seek out news, although news does find me through other channels.
 
Cardinal said:
Thanks, but I miswrote that. I meant, "...and tend to filter out those stores that magically blame the West instead of Russia every time..." but I guess you got that from context.
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Yup. I got it. No harm, no foul.
 
Mostly online, usatoday, fox,local

On tv? Fox i suppose, not often
 
I challenge folks to analyze your news source to see how much of it is actually news. I think you'll be surprised how little real news is delivered amidst the editorials, sports, advice, weather, human interest stories, celebrity gossip etc.
 
DRUDGE REPORT 2014®
News - Latest Headlines, Photos and Videos | Daily Mail Online
http://english.alarabiya.net/
LiveLeak.com - Redefining the Media
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZaT_X_mc0BI-djXOlfhqWQ
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZNjpcQLBx26W6lDWvpg7PQ
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8zNIfYAQNdrFRrr8oibKw
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS6R2iiAJ1FvEYl4B3zmljw
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM2YmsRUeIbRkqjgNm0eTGQ


Those intermixed with the occasional random 1-2 minute observational disgust @ CNN/FOX/BBC/MSNBC/Al-Jazeera.


I also like to watch any and all things deemed racist, radical or somehow not officially sanctioned. Basically legitimacy goes up the more racist or "bad" it is regarded.
 
Here is what I use:
Only TV News I watch is: CNN
I will watch MSNBC for some political commentary mainly from Christopher Hayes and Rachel MAddow

My bookmark bar is 80% News Sites I go through almost daily, they are: Huffington Post, Real Clear Politics, RollCall Politics, Dier Spiegel Enlish Version, Reddit News, Al-Jazeera, BuzzFeed, Vox, Reddit Politics, Wasghinton Post, Vice NEws, Politico, The Guardian, Think Progress, Reddit Syrian Civil War, Reddit Islamic State News, The Hill, Raw Story, AP, The Nation, RT, Politifact, PressTV, Mother Jones, Venezuela Analysis, NK News, Maan News, and SANA.

I also subscribe to a lot of YouTube channels that are about current events, and political discussion but I wont go through those.
 
blank google news search to get the story from all angles

CNN for breaking

BBC for world news

NPR for the commute

NBC Nightly for fun while i'm eating dinner

USA Today on the weekends
 
I just realized I confused RT with Reuters. :doh

As for all the sources I normally use: NY Times, The Economist, CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNBC, Forbes, Washington Post, Huffington Post, NPR, PBS, BBC, Al Jazeera, VICE, Reddit (various subreddits), Politico, The Atlantic, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Last Week Tonight, The Sun Sentinel, Wall Street Journal, The Miami Herald, and Reuters.

I use the Google news function every now and then though.

I really just read my news.
 
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Mostly Fox, MSNBC, ABC (because it's the local NH affiliate), The Wall Street Journal, the Union Leader, Wapo, Politico.
 
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