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News Outlets You Get Your News From

Where do you get your news from? (Choose all that apply)

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Where (if any of these) of these news outlets do you get your news from? (Choose all that apply)
 
I usually get my news here, because those are the headlines that are really going to get people fired up, and the links are all in one place.
 
The Onion.
 
OrphanSlug said:
The Onion.
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Fun fact: read the onion for about ten minutes, then go to a legitimate news site and read the headlines. The overwhelming majority of them will sound like onion headlines.
 
I use Al Jazeera, BBC, Reuters, RT and The Guardian.
 
Fox News Channel, NBC Nightly News, CBS This Morning, Washington Post, The Economist, The Weekly Standard, The New York Review of Books
 
I have gotten news from every single one of those news outlets at some time or another. I prefer to get my news from all different kinds of outlets and all different perspectives so I can form my own informed opinion. My preference out of the list provided would have to be RT though. I like that they broadcast views that are not typically given as much airtime on other news outlets. Helps to diversify my knowledge of politics a bit.
 
APACHERAT said:
You sound like a foreigner.
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If you say so. The way I arrived at my decision was actually from the iphone app Newsify, which supplies headlines from a giant assortment of sources. You can click on and off the news sites you don't like, so I deleted news sources that had obvious click bait ("You won't BELIEVE what this cat said when it ate its owner's head!!!"), celebrity gossip ("Woody Allen shows side boob!"), headlines posed as questions ("Did Obama eat a newborn baby?") and advertisements disguised as news articles ("People murdering each other by the millions over new iPhone6!!!). What was left at the end was my list.
 
TeleKat said:
I have gotten news from every single one of those news outlets at some time or another. I prefer to get my news from all different kinds of outlets and all different perspectives so I can form my own informed opinion. My preference out of the list provided would have to be RT though. I like that they broadcast views that are not typically given as much airtime on other news outlets. Helps to diversify my knowledge of politics a bit.
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RT is Russian State News.
 
Jack Hays said:
RT is Russian State News.
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Russia Times actually. But yeah, your point is...what exactly? Are we, as Americans, forbidden from watching news outlets based out of other countries?
 
TeleKat said:
Russia Times actually. But yeah, your point is...what exactly? Are we, as Americans, forbidden from watching news outlets based out of other countries?
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You are certainly free to watch. Just be aware they get orders.
 
I get my news online mostly. Fox News.com and CNN.com for both partisan sides. Sites like this are great to hear both sides as well, plus other stories you might not catch. I like the Daily Show, but I wouldn't say I get my news from it - usually they are already a day or two behind. Occasionally, they will provide commentary on a subject that I really enjoy.

NPR is a great source, but I haven't listened to it for a few years. They present news in a reasonably non-partisan way, but those who don't like it would say they are partisan by the stories they do not talk about (which probably holds some weight). No news source can be completely impartial, but AP press releases and NPR are my two favorite to go to.
 
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TeleKat said:
RT America actually operates independently from the Russian government.
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Then why did several of their on air reporters resign because of story directions from Moscow during the Ukraine crisis?
 
Cardinal said:
If you say so. The way I arrived at my decision was actually from the iphone app Newsify, which supplies headlines from a giant assortment of sources. You can click on and off the news sites you don't like, so I deleted news sources that had obvious click bait ("You won't BELIEVE what this cat said when it ate its owner's head!!!"), celebrity gossip ("Woody Allen shows side boob!"), headlines posed as questions ("Did Obama eat a newborn baby?") and advertisements disguised as news articles ("People murdering each other by the millions over new iPhone6!!!). What was left at the end was my list.
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Getting your news from headlines doesn't sound like being to informed.

As for myself,

Subscribed daily newspapers:

Wall Street Journal; Orange County Register. After almost forty years I have canceled my subscription to the Los Angeles Times.

Newspapers on the Web:

San Diego Trib; any that the Drudge Report links to.

Other daily web sources:

Drudge Report; Google News; Yahoo News; American Patrol; Brietbart; Naval Institute News; Stratfor;

Cable TV news sources:

Fox News Channel; CNN; One of the major evening national news programs, CBS, NBC or ABC; 90 minutes of local news.

Some times I actually go outside and take a look around at what's going on around me.
 
APACHERAT said:
Getting your news from headlines doesn't sound like being to informed.

As for myself,

Subscribed daily newspapers:

Wall Street Journal; Orange County Register. After almost forty years I have canceled my subscription to the Los Angeles Times.

Newspapers on the Web:

San Diego Trib; any that the Drudge Report links to.

Other daily web sources:

Drudge Report; Google News; Yahoo News; American Patrol; Brietbart; Naval Institute News; Stratfor;

Cable TV news sources:

Fox News Channel; CNN; One of the major evening national news programs, CBS, NBC or ABC; 90 minutes of local news.

Some times I actually go outside and take a look around at what's going on around me.
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The point is that any news source that would carry those kinds of headlines I listed weren't serious news sources.
 
Jack Hays said:
Then why did several of their on air reporters resign because of story directions from Moscow during the Ukraine crisis?
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If we're thinking of the same incident, those were reporters working for Russian news media...in Russia.
 
Cardinal said:
The point is that any news source that would carry those kinds of headlines I listed weren't serious news sources.
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Have you noticed how the Drudge Report rewrites the headlines ? Drudge is good.

Headlines have to purposes, to inform one what the topic is about and to gain attention of the reader so he reads the story. Drudge goes for the later.
 
APACHERAT said:
Have you noticed how the Drudge Report rewrites the headlines ? Drudge is good.

Headlines have to purposes, to inform one what the topic is about and to gain attention of the reader so he reads the story. Drudge goes for the later.
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Yeah, that's called click bait. The idea is to get you to click on a headline that's as "grabby" as possible. When you click on it the news site gets money from the ad shown in the banner.
 
Jack Hays said:
Then why did several of their on air reporters resign because of story directions from Moscow during the Ukraine crisis?
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That wasn't RT America though, that was just plain ol' RT. RT America operates on US soil and is run by US citizens.
 
Cardinal said:
Yeah, that's called click bait. The idea is to get you to click on a headline that's as "grabby" as possible. When you click on it the news site gets money from the ad shown in the banner.
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My favorite twitter handle for a while was @SavedYouAClick. They basically take all of the clickbait headlines and sum them up. It's awesome. Here's a sample:

No. RT @ContentHackers: Are people actually reading your content?
Bitcoin. RT @CNBC: Trader thinks this currency will replace the whole global financial system
Golden State Warriors. RT @matt_dollinger: We have an all-West top five in the NBA Power Rankings. Who is No. 1? (via @SInow)
CVS. Cigarettes. They're bad for you. RT @Upworthy: A major pharmacy just stopped selling a super-profitable item. Here's why.

I've actually seen where the social media person who put the tweet out get mad and fire back at this guy because he ruins their headlines. I love it.
 
whysoserious said:
My favorite twitter handle for a while was @SavedYouAClick. They basically take all of the clickbait headlines and sum them up. It's awesome. Here's a sample:

No. RT @ContentHackers: Are people actually reading your content?
Bitcoin. RT @CNBC: Trader thinks this currency will replace the whole global financial system
Golden State Warriors. RT @matt_dollinger: We have an all-West top five in the NBA Power Rankings. Who is No. 1? (via @SInow)
CVS. Cigarettes. They're bad for you. RT @Upworthy: A major pharmacy just stopped selling a super-profitable item. Here's why.

I've actually seen where the social media person who put the tweet out get mad and fire back at this guy because he ruins their headlines. I love it.
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Ha! Nice.
 
Cardinal said:
Yeah, that's called click bait. The idea is to get you to click on a headline that's as "grabby" as possible. When you click on it the news site gets money from the ad shown in the banner.
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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 ?
 
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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Yeah, that's the definition of click bait and it works on everyone. Even if you know it's click bait, you still want to go see it. It's not limited Drudge Report. The whole slew of "Kinja" sites do it as well:

Deadspin
Gawker
Jezebel
Gizmodo

I'm not sure about Vice - they might.
 
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