Where do you get your news?
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These days you can't rely on 1 source to get your news. To varying degrees every source has a slant. On TV, the NewsHour on PBS is a good source, but they cover a few topics in relative depth rather than report on everything. The 3 network nightly news shows are all biased but do cover a wide range of news. The 2 best newspapers for front page reporting IMHO are the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Depending on your politics, you'll likely find one of their editorial pages distasteful. The NY Times has become so propagandistic I no longer even bother. Just about everything on the net is biased. One thing you can do look at a couple of biased sites and figure out where reality really is. A good way to do that is going to RealClearPolitics. It gives you links to various articles and op eds with totally different perspectives and lets you decide.
I just go to news.google.com to see the top stories.
You can personalize that page and block entertainment news because i dont give a shit about celebrities.
I also look at the breaking news twitter account.
You can personalize that page and block entertainment news because i dont give a shit about celebrities.
I also look at the breaking news twitter account.
Fox News all the way. I watch Bill, Megyn, Neil C and The Five (at the gym), and Shep. Not a big fan of Hannity but he does do well in place of Sominex. I also catch Red Eye on Saturday nights. Greg Gutfeld is one talented dude.
When not at work, I get breaking news in the form of alerts from my Bloomberg and NY Times apps. I read news stories on my NYTimes app and get other stories from my Flipboard app (which if you don't use, you should). I never watch evening news shows.
Really, any time I hear a news item that is of interest, I generally google it and try to get a span of different perspectives. The question is, where do I generally hear those news item bits that prompt the additional searches.
news.google.com
various message boards (and social media) with people who post news items
WNYC radio
CNN.com
BBC.com
foxnews.com/msnbc.com (rarely these days, used to try to spend equal time between CNN/BBC/FoxNews/MSNBC as far as traditional "news" sites... but these days I've dropped MSNBC and FoxNews almost entirely, unless I want to see how their propaganda engines have spun a particular story).
The Daily Show / Last Week Tonight (occasionally, but rarely on TV - usually on the web after they've aired. Also, it's as entertainment/infotainment, where I look up parts of their shtick after the fact online).
I avoid television news like the plague, usually - most especially 24-hour news channels. They are built on sensationalism and appeal to emotion, and are really just trying to keep you from changing the channel so that they can keep their ratings up and their advertisers happy. 90% of the airtime on those shows is just spent rehashing and opining on nonsense - when there is a ton more news around the world they could be covering but ignore.
news.google.com
various message boards (and social media) with people who post news items
WNYC radio
CNN.com
BBC.com
foxnews.com/msnbc.com (rarely these days, used to try to spend equal time between CNN/BBC/FoxNews/MSNBC as far as traditional "news" sites... but these days I've dropped MSNBC and FoxNews almost entirely, unless I want to see how their propaganda engines have spun a particular story).
The Daily Show / Last Week Tonight (occasionally, but rarely on TV - usually on the web after they've aired. Also, it's as entertainment/infotainment, where I look up parts of their shtick after the fact online).
I avoid television news like the plague, usually - most especially 24-hour news channels. They are built on sensationalism and appeal to emotion, and are really just trying to keep you from changing the channel so that they can keep their ratings up and their advertisers happy. 90% of the airtime on those shows is just spent rehashing and opining on nonsense - when there is a ton more news around the world they could be covering but ignore.
Good thing we're renaming this to the Rutgers Football and Celebrity Obituary Board.
I suggest that you sign up for free daily email from the New York Times. The morning email has the important headlines (national, local, sports, etc.) and a 2-3 line summary of each story. You can click on any headline to go to the complete article...you're allowed to read 10 stories per month for free. Usually the summary is all you need to get a quick overview of what's going on. I found myself going over the 10 free stories so I signed up for an electronic subscription which is $20 per month.
Reddit does news? I thought it was just porn.
Color me surprised. But I'm sticking to the porn anyway. :D
I'm am older and have had way too much of the news. The world is often a pretty depressing place. As a rule, I don't watch any of the tv news networks....CNN/FOX/MSNBC. Too much politicizing and agenda garbage with all of it. If i'm interested in a current event or some issue, i'll usually go on line and read some more in depth articles available to get better informed.
I used to watch a lot of news shows on TV, a good bit of MSNBC, some FOX, and network news programming. But then I stopped about ten years ago, because I got tired of all the garbage. The left-wing will shovel you their crap and tell you it smells good. The ring-wing will shovel you their crap and tell you it smells better. But in the end, crap is crap. It don't smell good no matter who's shoveling it. FOX is ridiculous with their "Fair and Balanced" because they are anything but. Yet they're successful, because everything else on TV has a liberal slant so FOX is the only place for conservatives to watch for their point of view. Anyway, now I just go on the internet to aggregate sites like Yahoo, MSN, and Drudge and figure if a story is important enough it will pop up. If I find something that really interests me, I'll run a seach on it and research from there.
The Golf Channel, Dan Patrick show, CBS Channel 3 in Philly. Sometimes I'll watch NBC 10 for the weather. We'll not the weather exactly, I just like stalking...I mean watching Sheena Parveen. Than I switch back to 3 to get the weather forecast
No better source than Twitter imo for aggregating news. Just follow news feeds you are interested in. Highly customizable. Very easy to follow headlines and then deep dive into full articles that you are interested in. Get an app such as Tweetbot for a better user experience on the phone or iPad.
When I get up in the morning, it's already midday in the US. I get almost all my news online. I start with Washington Post and NYTimes, and then go to Huffington Post, Talkingpointsmemo, Realclearpolitics (to see what's up with the right wing), and then, if there is a big political news story, I go to Fox to see how they are covering it.
I also occasionally go to fivethirtyeight.com for political analysis and to The Economist or BBC if it is an international issue.
I also occasionally go to fivethirtyeight.com for political analysis and to The Economist or BBC if it is an international issue.
Sheena Parveen is probably the only reason why i watch any part of the news, to be perfectly honest.
It's FOX and very little of the straight news.I watch some of "The Five",some O'Reilly,some Kelly.Straight news is so depressing and never ending and repetitive.
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