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J/K
I usually go to CNN's mobile to see whats current, then go to bbc news. I do occasionally look at the economist but I don't know my head from my ass with most of those issues. Huffpost occasionally too.
I have one overarching rule: i get none of my news from television. The major networks, CNN, Fox, etc do not get my fair. Talk radio also gets none of my attention. I used to read the WSJ, WP and the like but with Newcorp and WP media conglomerates I have moved away from them.
What I am left with are three major sources that i go to:
http://www.csmonitor.com/
http://www.economist.com/
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/
So i am curious where you guys go to for your news? You come home and watch the news on TV. You read the paper or other types of publications? I am curious to see.
Spurstalk.
J/K
I usually go to CNN's mobile to see whats current, then go to bbc news. I do occasionally look at the economist but I don't know my head from my ass with most of those issues. Huffpost occasionally too.
NYT, Drudge (links), sadly HERE (links), and yahoo news (links).
drudge and bbc imho
Wired.com, the Boston Globe, AFTimes, and wherever my travels on the net take me.
Depends on what its news about.
Like you, I never watch TV news. Its all terrible and has no content. I'm subscribed to several blogs that act like news wires (Political Wire being my fav) that tend to aggregate the biggest stories and deliver them to me. I don't always keep up with it (there are weeks when it piles up and I go back and end up marking hundreds of stories as read) but its a pretty good source.
When I want to read more about a particular subject that I find on those feeds I just do a Google News search and try to pick a few good articles to read.
I read far more soccer and science news than I do political news now, though. I just have less room (and appe e) for it each day.
Yeah I'm a steady reader of sciam as well.
These feeds you guys are looking at is there any rhyme or reason to the sources or is it just comes what may?
Being old, I still read several newspapers daily...NYT, USA Today, WSJ, whatever local paper is wherever I am...but I start my day with Yahoo and
Politico. Often go to cnn.com, realclearpolitics.com, occasionally huffpost.com.
Don't want tv for news for the same most other people don't...it is too superficial and, with the internet, too slow.
Except for breaking news, when I will turn on the tv and flip between the cable channels to see who has the best coverage...normally cnn or bloomberg.
I also get both Time and Newsweek, although I wonder why anymore...they are hardly better than newspapers. I used to love getting to them once a week because I was never able to read very much of the newspapers when I was working, and the news magazines were how I caught up. Now they are not much use.
NY Times, LA times, NJ.com, Telegraph (UK), La Nacion (ARG), slashdot.org.
Watch ABC news and listen to conservative radio (NJ 101.5) on the car when not listening to music.
The O'Reilly Factor and this place
O'Reilly isn't an idealogue despite what people say. usually the people who say he is and put him in the same sentence as Rush for example haven't seen the show. he's critical of both sides.
Dozens of RSS feeds on google reader. RSS is right up there with email as my killer Internet app. Who has the time to visit sites?
On my iphone: nyt, lat, sfgate, chicago tribune, boston.com, miami herald, npr, mysa, bbc.
TV news/events: sporadically Jon Stewart, Coal Bear, Maddow, KLRN/PBS. all the cable news channels are repulsive, CNN and FRP equally so.
I've seen the show and that you think one of Fox News' top mouthpieces is objective gives me a clear gauge on things.
How is he not objective? He usually has someone with an opposing view on his show to argue his talking points. Which is one of the reasons his show is entertaining to me. I dislike Hannity now because he hardly ever has debates with someone has a different political ideology. Same with Beck when he was on.
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So by that definition Maher is objective too?
Daily I listen to NPR - Morning edition/Diane Rehm/ sometimes Fresh Air, then switch over to Sirius XM POTUS and then back to NPR for All things considered.
As far as print, I subscribe to the economist and rolling stone, but pick up links here and other places.
TV - Meet the Press every Sunday. And Bill Maher. And the Daily show if you consider that news.
I don't watch Maher. Not enough to have an opinion of him.
All I'm saying is I like the guy because both sides on the show are heard most of the time. And he's critical of both sides. His interviews of Palin, Romney, Paul, Cain, Bush were just as tough as the one he's done with Obama. Make of that what you will.
Him bringing other people on from "the other side" and talking to them does not make him objective. I don't know how you would thaink that it does.
Glenn Beck lol.
He debates the other side. I like that he faces up to it and doesn't just talk into a camera uninhibitedly like most the other news talk show anchors. is he objective? no, but his show is. and that's what i've meant the whole time.
Don't laugh.....its nice to get view points from different perspectives...I think it really helps to either a) reinforce your beliefs b) start to work toward a 'political nuance'..... sorta of like an experience politician...
...that's why some of the old timers here, right and left, have started to agree on stuff..
I remember when Hannity and Rush both started they both claimed to be political moderates battling 'left-wing bias' in the media...in other words, intimidating the media to promote a right-wing bias or have your audience slashed by the 30-40% of this country who is highly wing-nut or influence by the wing-nuttery that goes on in our political, cultural and societal lives...
.....O' Reilly may take on issues more head-on but he also promotes the wing-nut media talking-point that all other media, besides FAUX News, is left-wing media...in fact, there are media personalities in all forms, broadcast, print, and internet which clearly promote a very pro-business, anti-union, very conservative ideology....
I miss Tony Snow. I used to listen to him before he worked at the White house.
RIP Tony.
Like most others here, I pretty much avoid the TV media.
Yahoo news, CNBC, CNNMoney, Houston Chronicle, Austin American Statesman.
Stopped reading or watching the news about 2 years ago.
Best thing I ever did was to just stop caring about politics and the news in general. this world and everyone in it, long walk, short pier.
Well, that's positive and encouraging! Thanks for sharing.
Me? I get the news from "the cloud" of information available on the internet. All the major news outlets are carried in several news aggregators from which I follow the links; and, there are many Twitter threads, more left-leaning than right-leaning, which I follow, that lead me to news stories I consume; and, the blogs that form opinions on the stories found elsewhere in "the cloud."
No, I don't read a lot of liberal blogs. They turn my stomach but, I do read a lot of the news stories liberals believe support their various positions.
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