Where do you get your information?

[Belegon]

Most days, I just read down the center of the front page of The Wall Street Journal...

hey, I'm in the financial services business ya know...

 

[slyc_willie]

Talk radio.

Glen Beck, Rush, Sean Hannity, and late at night, George Nouri on Coast 2 Coast AM. Then I look up key words and links on the Internet, and occasionally watch CNN and Fox.

I like to think I get all sides of the news.

 

[Huckleman2000]

Talk radio.

Glen Beck, Rush, Sean Hannity, and late at night, George Nouri on Coast 2 Coast AM. Then I look up key words and links on the Internet, and occasionally watch CNN and Fox.

I like to think I get all sides of the news.

Umm, on the theory that if you keep going right, you eventually circle around?

 

[slyc_willie]

Umm, on the theory that if you keep going right, you eventually circle around?

I'm assuming you know neither Beck nor George Nouri

I'm anything but Right. Lol

 

[Huckleman2000]

I'm assuming you know neither Beck nor George Nouri

I'm anything but Right. Lol

I'm not familiar with Nouri, but Glenn Beck is not even a moderate conservative. He's the guy that asked the first Muslim elected to Congress, "Prove to me you're not working with our enemies." He said "Obama is colorless...he's very white in many ways...he may as well be white."

Don't they broadcast Air America in Florida?

 

[slyc_willie]

I'm not familiar with Nouri, but Glenn Beck is not even a moderate conservative. He's the guy that asked the first Muslim elected to Congress, "Prove to me you're not working with our enemies." He said "Obama is colorless...he's very white in many ways...he may as well be white."

Don't they broadcast Air America in Florida?

Don't know if they do . . . I'm in Texas.

Beck has also said 'If the Democrats can convince me they can protect the country better than the Rerpublicans, I'm a Democrat.' He has no political affiliation; that's why I like him. He speaks his mind (clumsily, sometimes, but at least he's honest) and doesn't give a damn about the consequences.

Rush and Sean are definitely Far Right; I listen to them the same way I read the NY Times; with a grain of salt.

As for Nouri . . . Lol. You gotta tune in late at night. That show's a riot.

 

[Huckleman2000]

Most days, I just read down the center of the front page of The Wall Street Journal...

hey, I'm in the financial services business ya know...

As long as you stay away from the editorial page , the WSJ has some excellent reporting. The editorial page is nutjob city, though.

 

[S-Des]

MSNBC and CNN aren't liberal, and the LA Times has gone conservative since they were bought or got a new managing editor (not sure which).

As the Daily Show has pointed out, Reality has a liberal bias.

Really? Then why did Leno joke that during the Iraq war, Fox reported that we had won, MSNBC had reported we were in tough fights, and CNN was reporting our surrender? Guess he's just another right-wing hatchet-man. I couldn't honestly tell you. The last time I saw it was when Jon Stewart torched the idiots on Crossfire.

I use a wide cross-section of news. I watch MSNBC & Fox. I read what I see on the Net that catches my attention. I listen to several talk radio shows that offer some balance (with at least two viewpoints). I also actually listen to what others say in these forums. I'm often surprised that so many others are too intent on beating each other over the head to force them to see the "truth", that they never seem to consider that they could be wrong about something. I've learned a lot in posts by Shang, Roxanne, Pure (arghh!), 3113, and others too numerous to mention (even our host on this particular thread). Even when I disagree with someone's opinion, I try to see things from their point of view so that I can better frame my own argument. The goal for me is never to force someone to see it my way...it's to explain it so they understand me better. If we all understand each other a little better, it makes it easier to be good to each other, despite our differences.

 

[gauchecritic]

If your news reading is so diverse and unaffected then why do 90% of 'quoted' threads come from the Grauniad on loan?

 

[pop_54]

I have a head full of useless information, what I don't know about... I take a leaf out of most tabloid's book and invent it.

On a more serious note... Daily Mail, local national telly news, and conversation with those in the know... I work at Oxford Uni after all's said and done

 

[TheEarl]

BBC Sport website mostly. Secondary to that are news.bbc.co.uk and forum.literotica.com:81/forumdisplay.php?f=3.

I can rarely afford a newspaper atm, so I generally read the headlines of the Telegraph in shops (my paper of choice) and occasionally try and pick out the 2 bits of news that are scattered around the Sun and Mirror, which frequent the staffroom at work.

The Earl

 

[gauchecritic]

I can rarely afford a newspaper atm, so I generally read the headlines of the Telegraph in shops (my paper of choice) and occasionally try and pick out the 2 bits of news that are scattered around the Sun and Mirror, which frequent the staffroom at work.

The Earl

They've increased it to two?

 

[Pure]

slyc

Rush and Sean are definitely Far Right; I listen to them the same way I read the NY Times; with a grain of salt.

an equation you find only in America.

incidentally, Fox is not news. nor can it be properly cited as a source of "information" as per this thread topic. if you like its pizzazz and piss, fine, but don't ruin the party by bringing in truth.

 

[WarLordwrites]

Greetings

Hate to admit it but I still read the "dead tree" versions of our local newpapers, we have two -- then AP and Yahoo online. Salon and Boing Boing and The Smoking Gun...

Oh yeah and the Weather Channel!

Enjoy the journey

WarLord

 

[cumallday]

Al Jazeera is surprisingly refreshing. The internet itself is a gold mine for alternative media sources.

 

[cumallday]

Rush is a clown who needs to go address the crowd at a Mexican circus.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

SJ: Recent threads have made me curious about where people get their information, particularly their news and political information.

SJ: ...Countdown with Keith Olbermann (my very favorite news commentator ever).
RR: Did you catch his Veg-a-matic job (sliced-diced-and Julianned) on Sec of State Rice and the factual errors in one of her more inane statements on Iraq? A bit long, but beautiful.

SJ: What about you? Where do you get your information?
RR: The same place I learned all about sex, from dirty-minded wise-guys in dingy pool halls and dark street corners.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[drksideofthemoon]

SJ: Recent threads have made me curious about where people get their information, particularly their news and political information.

SJ: ...Countdown with Keith Olbermann (my very favorite news commentator ever).
RR: Did you catch his Veg-a-matic job (sliced-diced-and Julianned) on Sec of State Rice and the factual errors in one of her more inane statements on Iraq? A bit long, but beautiful.

SJ: What about you? Where do you get your information?
RR: The same place I learned all about sex, from dirty-minded wise-guys in dingy pool halls and dark street corners.

Rumple Foreskin

That and I subscribe to the Hooterville World Guardian...

 

[ILienBagby]

My information comes from:

I'll just list the sources I believe work to get me a well rounded look at the world, a well rounded look that is based on FACT moderated opinion. My sources are listed in order of importance:

(1) the NY Times......All the news that's fir to print....and they ATTEMPT to make it fair.

(2) Huffington Post.....just a good summary of news (with a slight liberal bias.

(3) Daily Beast........An excellent opinion and news summary, idiocentric, non-ideological.

(4) Truth/Slant.......Their columnist are opinionated. original, clever.

(5) The Daily Show......spot, right on!!!!

(6) Bill Maher......His final five minutes (New Rules) is absolutely the most intelligent and funniest close to an excellent show.

(7) Rachel Madow.....She also assks well-researched, interesting questopns while eschewing the alleged wisdom of others.

(8) Finally......Stephanie Miller for a clever, funny and interestingly wry look at what the right wing media is trying to articulate.

 

[SeaCat]

Can't believe I missed this thread when it first came out.

For me:

Cape Cod Times
Boston Globe
Boston Herald
Palm Beach Post
Sun Sentinal
Channel 12
Channel 5 (Both local news stations)
CNN
MSNBC
Florida Today
Orlando News
Flame Trench (NASA News Blog)
Der Spiegal (German Newspaper)
Bild (German Newspaper)

Yes I am a News Junkie.

Cat