How Do You Get Your News?

Discussion in 'In the News' started by Lon Tanner, Jan 11, 2017.

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How You Get Your News

  1. local newspapers -- e.g. Chicago Tribune, St Louis Post, Seattle Times, etc

    15.4%
  2. New York Times and/or Washington Post

    15.4%
  3. Wall Street Journal

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  4. local TV news

    7.7%
  5. ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS

    46.2%
  6. CNN

    38.5%
  7. MSNBC

    15.4%
  8. FOX or Breitbart or Newsmax or OANN

    7.7%
  9. NPR

    23.1%
  10. Apple News, and/or Yahoo News and/or Bloomberg News

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  11. Associated Press and/or Reuters

    23.1%
  12. Huffington Post and/or USA Today and/or Politico

    7.7%
  13. other?

    53.8%
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  1. Hedi Mitchell

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    Watch CBS of morning, then flip flop between the other channels . I watch Lester Holt in the evening if I even watch the news. Lately, I skip news on tv and catch it off of laptop.
     
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    Gateway Pundit
    Breitbart News
    Daily Mail
    Populist Press
    Citizen Free Press
    Revolver
    Southfront Crisis News
    Defense News
    Defence Update
    (other defense news sources)
    Evolution News
    Websites of the Presidents of Russia, Turkey, and Brazil
    Judicial Watch
    Real America's Voice

    I used to watch France24, RT, DW, NHK news. Now I only watch NHK, but just for the sumo. I tried al-Jazeera and the Pluto TV channel that has Glenn Beck's program, but didn't care for them.
     
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    "Other"

    First hand. Go to the sourse of what you want to learn or know or find out.

    Medical? Ask a doctor(s), nurses and other experienced practitioners.
    Legal? Ask a lawyer(s).
    Authorities? Ask a policeman/ other officer(s)/ sheriff, etc ...
    Military ? Ask current or former military enlisted , or maybe an officer if you can find one who will talk.

    People won't always tell the truth. Test everything to verify it before believing it.
     
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  4. Lon Tanner

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    I use many sources and have no favorite.
     
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  5. Marie Mallery

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    I don't trust any of them actually but those I trust the least are all the major popular ones.
    I go to Daily Wire,InfoWars,Savage Nation OAN Newsmax at times .Unless its live then I may watch 11Alive News in Atlanta or 4For Jax out of Jacksonville Fl.
     
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  7. Marie Mallery

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    I've been on The Hill site but don't recall what I was reading, will check it out again later. I sometimes have even watched RT which I think is Russian but all of them including the ones I put up with caution and skepticism.
     
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  8. Jo White

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    I used to have a longer list of news sources but was becoming a hopeless news junkie. Cutting back on sources plus cutting back on how often I check has made a happier me by far.
     
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    So true!!. I keep saying I'm not going to read or watch the news it just irritates me but then I'm back on it again. Like the song my granddaughter got me to listening to' it's all ' Complicated and it makes me frustrated.



     
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  10. Ken Anderson

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    In the past, The Hill had been a reasonably objective publication but when the left really needs their backing, they'll give it to them, as they did during the entire Trump term and the last election. I trust what I read in Epoch Times to be factual but I realize that it's a conservative publication, and I don't expect objectivity from them. I don't know if the Canadian press can be trusted when it comes to Canadian news since they probably have a dog in that race, but I trust some of the Canadian news outlets on US news more than I do the US media. I don't trust any media to be objective, however.
     
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    I don’t actively search for news but somehow it finds me. I’ll glance a little at the national news on TV and sometimes I’ll see it talked about on local TV news and newspapers. We recently got NEWSY on broadcast TV so I’ll watch a little of that. I can’t see any reason to get all wrapped up in it, and it gets annoying after a while when the news outlets harp on it over and over in their “hair on fire” presentation style.
     
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    I'll get away for a while then I return to it but I do so less often .Mainly it is out of boredom that I read it at all. Not use to living in a hellhole to where travel can be dangerous as can whatever plague the heck they turned loose on us.
     
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    Agreed re unbiased reporting. The best we can hope to get is an attempt at it.

    Re Canadian press, National Post does admittedly have scathing op-ed pieces that lambast Trudeau and the current government. I cannot stand Trudeau, so have to confess to liking viewpoints that support my own. Best of all they do it with a fair degree of wit, which is enjoyable. Less vitriol, more clever (yet scathing) commentary. It is the only news source I'd consider paying to read, and may well do it one of these days.

    CTV News is a good solid and very long time standby news source that is good for keeping up with all news, and with less bias than most.

    The Hill is the closest I've found to reasonable reporting for stateside news, but will definitely check out Epoch Times, thank you for the lead. . . .
     
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  14. Jo White

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    My favourite source for checking media bias (I've worked that side of things and have some experience in recognizing bias, especially subtle bias) (and man, what is out there chills me to the bone) is this site: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com
     
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    Used to be, twenty years ago when GW was waging his Blood-for-Oil Wars, that to get any non-neocon viewpoints you'd have to go to the Canadian press.

    I remember that on the brink of the start of the Afghan invasion there were massive anti-war protests worldwide that were never shown on US news. Footage of 'local' protests in DC and major cities showed only small portions of the crowd and made them appear trivial to the viewing public.

    There was a site back then with links to over a hundred foreign English-language newspapers that let you peer directly into the events and opinions of other countries.

    Very eye-opening, to see how negatively non-Americans viewed our so-called War on Terror! The idea of blasting an entire country in the Middle East with depleted uranium in order to capture or kill one man was thoroughly disgusting to most of the world.

    Anyway, that was then. The international newspaper site no longer exists. So mostly these days I read news sources that are as 'middle of the road' as I can find. I keep harping on the usefulness of AP because they try so hard not to contribute to the jungle of alt-news chaos.

    There are a variety of other sites that I like that drift a bit to 'the right' or 'the left', and that's fine. But I don't see the point of reading much of the stuff way out there on the fringes, with people who claim to be privy to The Truth screaming a lot of nonsense that's so easily debunked if any effort is made to look into it.
     
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