Where do you guys get your news from?

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I know... nobody does MSM anymore. Nor do I.


I check the Drudge Report and Lucianne.com everyday.

I've been checking U K Mail but it's about like People magazine with a few news stories thrown in.

But I like to read the news, now news is news and NOT what a reality TV "star" had for lunch.

So where do you go on the 'net for YOUR news?

GF
 
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I read the local "fish wrapper" daily, and sometimes it's a chore. Local news in A.M. CNN in early P.M. hrs then Sheppard Smith at Fox at 3:00 P.M. and assorted network news in the early evening. I'm kind of a currents events junkie, which means sometimes it can be hard to be a good guest here and obey the great apes no no list.
 
Fox, local radio station, local conservative newspaper and select internet sites. Most of the rest are trash.
 
I don't want any talking head interpreting the news for me. Turn that damned tv off, Fox included, and start reading Drudge Report and Lucianne.com. Do this for a while and you will become the most informed person on current events in the room. :cool:

I do like to listen to Rush, Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Miller, Mark Levin but 99% of any news they give has already been reported on Lucianne.
 
I watch Fox and read the local newspaper on my computer. I also watch local news because it comes out of Chicago. Chicago is a dog n pony show not to be believed. It's more like bizarre entertainment than a real news show. Toughest gun laws in the country. Yet multiple shootings every night. No one can figure it out. 21,000 Chicago teachers went on strike this morning leaving 440,000 kids with "nothing to do". A major concern seems to be the kids are gonna get in trouble. The law breaking kind of trouble.
 
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I watch FOX News most of the time and bounce around the other media outlets (i.e., MSNBC, CBS, NBC, CNN, etc.). Unfortunately, after a few minutes I get really pissed off and switch back to FOX.
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GF said:
I know... nobody does MSM anymore. Nor do I.


I check the Drudge Report and Lucianne.com everyday.

I've been checking U K Mail but it's about like People magazine with a few news stories thrown in.

But I like to read the news, now news is news and NOT what a reality TV "star" had for lunch.

So where do you go on the 'net for YOUR news?

GF
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I'm a bit of a news junkie and no longer subscribe to news papers or magazines so for me it's on line all the way.
I read every day:
New York Times.
Wall Street Journal.
Reuters.
CNN.
BBC.
The Huffington Report.
The Gothemist.
Dagblad {Norway}
The Trinidad Guardian.
The Village voice.
and I love The Onion.
 
Fox and WWL TV in New Orleans for local news. As mentioned above sometimes I try to watch one of the "mainstream media" channels but they just drive me away.
Steve W.
 
I read and watch a wide variety to get a full picture on what's going on in the world. Both the conservative and liberal media have a habit of leaving out stories that do not fit with their views. The only way to get the big picture is to see everything. I admit is get difficult to read, watch or listen to those I don't agree with but it hones my critical thinking skills and keeps me from becoming too one sided. Sometmes the "other side" has good ideas that can actually help us get past the current political grid lock.
 
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Mainly on the local NBC aflfliate, but only because the blonde babe on the local news that follows is a hotttie. And I like their weatherman, whose broadcasts I've followed for years. That's David Finfrock (Sp?) on Channel 5 for those of you in the Dallas-Ft. Worth "metroplex". Meredith Land is the blonde hottie. (I think she's married, but I'll probably never meet her, anyway.) Channel 11 has Ginger Allen, but she's not an anchor anymore; does investigative stories.

But I see more news on the Net and watch other channels, esp. if Ch. 5 is running a sports event, as with the Olympics.

I TOTALLY think that the media report news in a biased manner, with liberal tunnel vision on some issues. I saw two surveys that asked both broadcast and print media to tell their political leanings. I think 93% in one survey confessed to being Dems and it was more like 96% in the second survey. I hope this doesn't violate the ban on politics here. I just mean to show why I distrust "reporting" on some issues.

I do read widely and see some foreign magazines that update me on news elsewhere. My celeb news comes mainly via Entertainment Tonight and from guests on the Tonight show. And from YouTube videos about some individuals. Also scan the tabloids at the grocery checkout line, but some are untrue, imagine that... :rolleyes: If I want to see why the former TomKat split or who got Holly Madison preggers (not Hef), I look to, "People" or "Us." I like learning about celebs in part because their behavior makes me think that I'm relatively sane and normal, in comparison.

Oh: I very occasionally watch Telemundo/Univision. I can't follow all the Spanish but they do have some good international stories not covered by the mainstream US news outlets.
 
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When folks say they only watch Fox, for instance, or read Drudge, they're really saying they get a pretty good dosage of mainstream media, i.e., New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, PBS, the AP, Reuters, Wall Street Journal because many, many news stories that Fox and Drudge feature are from them as well as many of their columnists. And ditto, Drudge gleans many news items from foreign press and the local printed press across the nation as does Fox.

What's fun with Drudge is that a conservative headline is put on the straight news story and when it's read, you find the headline is based on his viewpoint and and is often irrelevant.

What I really enjoy is Fox and Friends when they accuse the main stream media of not covering a story, which they got from the general press, and they act like someone but not them should have ferreted it out. God forbid that that usual three-some on Fox and Friends should ever do some honest reporters' legwork.

All this said, I do believe that much of the reporting is slanted left on the big networks and many of the newspapers.
 
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