There has been a plethora of Fake News & Misinformation the past few months making it difficult to really know what is going on. I really don't have a favorite news source and find myself reading many different ones including CNN FOX NEWS MSNBC BBC and a number of different columnists. This is time consuming but necessary to try and get a true idea of what the hell is going on in this world. I am glad I am retired and have the time.
Although I do read some of the mainstream news, I mainly tend to read some of the alternative news websites, and also have several YouTube channels that I follow for the news. I belong to a facebook newsgroup called "news that isn't pushed", and that also has some real news and not just fake news. After seeing some of the video on how our news is manufactured and falsified by the reporters, and that they are all told what to report and not to report; I am a lot more skeptical of what they show on television news. When it is live coverage, sometimes you will see things that are taken off or changed soon after, and it seems like there is usually some differences of what the facts actually are in any given story that is covered. For a mainstream news, I actually like RT (Russia Today) as well as I do any of the American stations.
I watch Fox, and to be honest, I see them being the most supportive of Trump. He is, after all, our President Elect and WILL be our President. I don't watch it 24/7, and know they may be as bad as the other msm at times. What I hate is the so-called journalists harassing Trump as he tries to call on someone other than them. CNN "employee" tried to do that in a clip today. I wish that folks that are in the know "of the truth" would ban together to boycott these stations. Or maybe get some new laws passed that if they are not polite to our President, then they can be escorted out. I believe they should have the freedom to ask the question, but not to go on and on arguing after the speaker has answered. If the answer isn't to their liking, then maybe they should not quit their day-job. Also, I believe CNN was a big part of this latest news about Russia (can't think of what bs/fakenews) but should our President be forced to even speak with such traitors and liars, I say NO!!
looks like Trump made a hit today with the fake media eh?? as for me I watch less and less every day. they're all liars IMO
I like the internet for news and watch you tube even Fox is biases. You have to be careful and back check everything yourself. Most web sites will be quick to cut and paste something from another without checking it out. I know I have fell for it myself now a little more cautious. I have found my favourites and have built a trust in them
LOL, did he look like he was gonna cry, LOL!! Alright, love this guy. It does backfire, because the more the left comes against Trump, the more we the people are going to stand up for him
For international news, I watch BBC America on TV and BBC on the internet. Might not be the best source, but probably no better or worst than any other. Works for me.
I like BBC news, I don't think I get it though. Thanks for the reminder @Tim Burr . I'll have to take a look
@Ren Tanner, unfortunately that's a tough question. I don't know that there are any media sources that can be wholly relied upon. Of course, I don't expect that a news outlet will have everything right all the time, but I would like it if they weren't intentionally lying to me, spinning the news, or omitting news that doesn't advance their agendas. Fox News is an arm of the neoconservative wing of the Republican Party, and it seems that most of the rest of them are pretty liberal, and their news shows it, some more so than others. Among the worst, I think, are the Washington Post, CNN, and the New York Times. I tend to watch Fox most often, but I don't deceive myself into thinking that they are not agenda driven. Of the US media, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Times are among the most reliable, but they are owned (at least in part) by the same people who own Fox. I like Breitbart because I often agree with what they have to say, but Breitbart is not objective media; I haven't seen that they lie but they certainly do omit stuff that doesn't match their agenda. For US political stuff, the foreign media is often more objective, but you can't depend on that either. It surely seems that there is a market for objective news, but I don't know that anyone has filled that slot yet. Sometimes, the best you can do is read the news with an awareness of the spin, and try to read between the lines. I haven't been following it since I left Southern California in the early 1980s, but the Orange County Register used to be among the best, although much of their national and international news comes from the AP.
With a bachelors degree in Communication, and as a former journalist way way back in my early career life, I'm still always curious about how a society gets the information that forms the basis of understandings useful for daily life. Which options below do you employ? (No need to media bash here, please save those disparagements for another thread)
I'm in a rut, I guess. I watch the ABC Evening News most weekdays. I check CNN out each morning on the computer more or less to see the world is still turning onits Axis and everything is all right, like sun explosion caausing blackouts aound the world.On one of my outdated iPads, Google gives me the news he wants me to read. I've always been a news junkie but the last few years with all the fake stuff and it hard to tell what is and is lies, one becomes distrustful.
I usually watch Lester Holt on NBC in the evening, then check Reuters or BBC online. If I'm dying to know the latest on 'The Artist Formerly Known as Prince Harry' or the Kardashians, I'll look at Yahoo. Most days I'm more interested in the financial page than more George Floyd coverage.
Most of the time, I get my U.S. news from the opening page online, but will also, sometimes, watch CNN. I have local news app for Denver, our city and Ft. Collins. But, for our city and Ft. Collins, I can only get the headlines. I don't want to pay for the entire story. Most local news is covered in my Denver Channel 9 news app. Funny, but most people, both in the city we live in and when we lived in Jacksonville, don't watch the news or the weather. We'd tell someone here about some news we read about here and we get the same reaction we got in Jacksonville.........."don't watch/listen to the news or the weather". Wife and I call that "keeping the head in the sand". As for us, we like to know what's going on, good or bad. At Easter and Christmas, it seems to be much more "good" news than any part of the rest of the year.
I seldom watch television, except if we have bad weather and want to watch the local station for tornado updates. I belong to several facebook news groups, and I check those every day, and I also look on youtube for whatever sounds interesting. I do have Trending Politics on my iPad, and I normally read that every day also.
I get my news from Satellite TV, (DirecTV), on channels 360 (Fox news), and 349 (Newsmax). All others are liberal fluff.