Where Do You Get Your News?

[PanchoHambre]

What media do you rely on as your primary source for your news information?

I am a lifelong NYT reader always had it delivered at home now I read online every day.

I look at the local paper mainly to find out crime and other local stuff and check out BBC for an international perspective.

When something major happens I usually look for the same article in the NYT, BBC, and Houston Chronicle to see how they are differently written (Houston Chronicle because It is a conservative leaning but sort of average paper and generally gives a different slant to the NYT)

When I am Lazy I just read the NYT OP-ED page

TV is just for traffic and weather.

[buckytom]

i would have checked all of the boxes, but i can't on the last one. my loudmouth neighbors don't speak english very well, so unless you speak polish, turkish, or maecdonian, you're shit out of luck.

having to choose one, i checked my local paper, the bergen record. i get most national and international news from various tv sources such as cbs news, and the bbc. but i read my local paper every day.

often, the best articles are the one's that catch my eye as i'm putting paper down in the birds' cages.

[chowhound]

USA Today online, the unsubscibed version. I checked Major National Paper, but it includes international news... I don't pay as much attention to what is going on as I should, but it's just one less thing to worry about in a life I am trying to simplify.

[Ronjohn]

Mostly the local papers here. Or at least the online versions of them.

I try to get all my news from the Internet. I mean, if it's online it MUST be true, right? :yum:

[joec]

I would of checked all of them except the last, his opinion is mostly useless. I simply read and listen to it all then come to my own conclusions as to what is going on. But then I've seen some of the news makers up close and personal which left me wondering how they ever got were they are at. Kind of turned me into a skeptic.

[Miniman]

I mostly listen to the radio, but also read a major daily newspaper and occasionally watch the TV news. I will also sometimes track something on the internet.

[PanchoHambre]

I mostly listen to the radio, but also read a major daily newspaper and occasionally watch the TV news. I will also sometimes track something on the internet.

oops left radio off my pole... ARGH:confused:

[JoeV]

Writings on rest room walls have proven to be equally accurate when compared to the news media. I get a local newspaper for the comics and something to wrap fish guts in for the trash. Other than that, it's useless, as are the TV, radio and cable networks. They all suck.

[Maverick2272]

I avoid the news like the plague, so I had to check off my loud mouth neighbor. If it weren't for him I wouldn't know anything that was going on in the world!

[Maverick2272]

Oh, forgot to add that considering the many threads lately about things in the news, NCT is ranking a close second, LOL.

[Mama]

Mostly FOX news

[buckytom]

fair and balanced, huh mama?

they have both: hot blondes and sexy brunette anchors.

the news is somewhere in there.

[Calicolady]

All of the above except the last. I don't speak spanish with one, and never see the other.

[buckytom]

i forgot about radio. i listen to 3 news stations everyday, timing it for the traffic reports.

i'm a news junkie, really.

[Wart]

I stay informed through WCPN (http://www.wcpn.org/index.php/WCPN/schedule/) , at least during the warmer months. Shop radio is set to CPN Monday through Saturday night. Carries NPR, PRI, BBC, APM, CBC.

In the house I have CPN online, or listen to back issues of CPN programs, but usually let the cable news play in the background.

Use to read the paper, then my eyes started going , got out of the habit, got glasses, should get back into the habit. Wife brings home the Plain Dealer Monday through Friday. Wife also brings home the student 'newspaper', wherever I've lived for 30 years (or so) I read the local higher education papers. Started reading them as a student then kept with it as an adult because its interesting to see where the children's heads are. And its been interesting to watch the shift.

BT, Fox News isn't too bad, later in the day and early evening they do "Sundown". At least more than others.

THe days of Walter, Chet and Dave are done. Use to be 'broadcast' news was ran from a news department and there was a viscious race to bring events to light in as truthful manner as possable. This also applied to print media. This isnt to say there wasn't editorializing, back in the day truth and un-biased was an actual ... priotity? And news divisions were not profit motivated.

Today news departments are a division of the Entertainment departments and profits an issue. Use to be if someone wanted sensationalist pap they had to pick up The Enquireor or the Nidnight Sun, now all they have to do is turn on the TV.

[buckytom]

wart, i can speak for cbs in that the news and entertainment divisions are seperate entities, with completely seperate internal structures and budgets.

you are correct, though, that the lines between them, all profit driven, have been blurred.

i got to work with douglas edwards, wally kronkite, and dan rather.

dan got caught up in a bit at the end there, but they were the last of the breed you mentioned. they really did try to out-scoop each other, with journalistic integrity, to the benefit of the public. now they try to out-wow each other, with ratings as the beneficiary.


e.t.a. - oh, i wasn't really putting down fox. they DO have really hot anchors. especially blondes.

[RobsanX]

Internet first, TV second. I view international, national, state, and local on both.

[FooD]

Right wing talk/news radio while I'm driving.

[Wart]

wart, i can speak for cbs in that the news and entertainment divisions are seperate entities, with completely seperate internal structures and budgets.

I stand corrected on CBS.

I should look up the different cooperate structures, :bonk:

you are correct, though, that the lines between them, all profit driven, have been blurred.

Am I correct in my memory of News divisions not expect to make money? That if the news broke even or didn't lose too much money they were considered successful?

i got to work with douglas edwards, wally kronkite, and dan rather.

dan got caught up in a bit at the end there, but they were the last of the breed you mentioned. they really did try to out-scoop each other, with journalistic integrity, to the benefit of the public.

I still have "Thats the way it is" , a tribute to Walter Cronkite, on the DVR. From May. Of 2007. It was hard to watch.

I grew up with this. This is what I expect. And this is why I'm so disturbed at what people today think is news.

e.t.a. - oh, i wasn't really putting down fox. they DO have really hot anchors. especially blondes.

Remember the Katie Couric sign off contest?

I wanted to submit:

Think of me
As you go to sleep
Tonight.

What's bothersome is in todays climate that wouldn't be too far out of line.

[Wart]

Right wing talk/news radio while I'm driving.


I can't listen to rightir radio, last time I did they played a clip of Coulter, in one run on sentence she said no less than 4 fallacious statements and tied them into one big booger.

Wow.

[Maverick2272]

I need to change my answer to first and foremost The Daily Show and Colbert Report followed by NCT, LOL.

I keep my head as far down in the sand as possible...

[Mama]

fair and balanced, huh mama?

they have both: hot blondes and sexy brunette anchors.

the news is somewhere in there.

Well, I don't know about the blondes...but Bill Hemmer...nothing lukewarm there! :agree:

[buckytom]

Well, I don't know about the blondes...but Bill Hemmer...nothing lukewarm there! :agree:


lolol.

hey, it really is balanced. eye candy for everyone !!!