lafta All American 14880 Posts user info edit post |
Post where and in what quantity you get your info. here's the format:
40% Internet - huffpost, CNN, wikipedia, youtube 15% Radio - WPTF 5% Radio - NPR 20% TV commentators - Hardball, Maddow, Blitzer, Olbermann 10% TV News shows - MSNBC, CNN, ABC 10% Messageboards - tww, freedomworks
[Edited on March 31, 2010 at 4:30 PM. Reason : .] 3/31/2010 4:25:02 PM |
Lumex All American 3666 Posts user info edit post |
This thread seems familliar.
70% NPR 10% Digg 10% CNN iGoogle addon 10% Twitter 3/31/2010 4:28:15 PM |
Solinari All American 16957 Posts user info edit post |
internet - drudge radio - NPR 3/31/2010 4:30:28 PM |
lafta All American 14880 Posts user info edit post |
^thats weird, im more left and i listen to conservative radio, solinari is a right wing extremists who listens to NPR
why is that? 3/31/2010 4:31:40 PM |
eyedrb All American 5853 Posts user info edit post |
Huffington post 50% Maddow 50% Oblerman 50% Palm Readers 100% 13 yr old girls 50% Hippies 2700% 3/31/2010 4:34:23 PM |
MrLuvaLuva85 All American 4265 Posts user info edit post |
10% google news 30% Drudge 30% Rush 10% Foxnews (tv and .com) 20% Misc
[Edited on March 31, 2010 at 4:53 PM. Reason : ;lkj] 3/31/2010 4:53:01 PM |
Shaggy All American 17820 Posts user info edit post |
5% npr radio 35% tww/sa forums 60% theregister.com 3/31/2010 4:59:30 PM |
OopsPowSrprs All American 8383 Posts user info edit post |
50% Twitter 50% RSS feeds through Google Reader 3/31/2010 5:15:31 PM |
Solinari All American 16957 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "thats weird, im more left and i listen to conservative radio, solinari is a right wing extremists who listens to NPR
why is that?" |
well, first of all, i'm not a right-wing extremist by any stretch of the imagination.
second, it's boring to listen to crap you already agree with.3/31/2010 5:40:06 PM |
lafta All American 14880 Posts user info edit post |
^haha, i was jk, but i agree, i like to listen to what the other side is thinking 3/31/2010 5:52:37 PM |
Supplanter supple anteater 21831 Posts user info edit post |
Radio - mostly NPR, but to a lesser extent CBS radio news. The local talk/radio station does CBS radio news on the hour, and also some local news. For local affairs I find myself from time to time going to town hall for a town council meeting.
Internet - CNN is by my most visited news website which is as much a function of the user friendly layout as the quality of news. But I do venture to msnbc.com (I hate their site) and foxnews.com from time to time, as well as a few blogs, and obviously I participate on tdub as well.
Commentators - I listen to Maddow, which occasionally causes me to catch some of Hardball or Countdown when they change the schedule around or I leave the TV on while doing something else, but they are too much for me most of the time. Something about their style gets on my nerves as often as not. I turn on CNN sometimes, but never to tune in for a specific program, although Crowley usually seems to have a good head on her shoulders. 3/31/2010 5:53:16 PM |
Solinari All American 16957 Posts user info edit post |
^^ also, I'm glad you have least tacitly admitted that NPR is liberally biased. 3/31/2010 6:04:32 PM |
PinkandBlack Suspended 10517 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Huffington post 50% Maddow 50% Oblerman 50% Palm Readers 100% 13 yr old girls 50% Hippies 2700%" |
Come on, tell us how much of your news you really do get from Rush.
It's hard to categorize all of this b/c of the cross-platform nature of so much news these days. I watch the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams every night (and have since my dad made me watch Tom Brokaw/Roger Mudd/John Chancellor as a kid during dinner, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZnw7VgEtP4), but I watch it online, usually very late at night.
I get most of my news from either Washington Post online at work or BBC World News Radio in the car (the Virginia Tech public radio station plays BBC News, which is great).
I personally worry about what people relying so much on unpaid bloggers or other non-professional news sources will do to the news industry, so I try to avoid them, but 538 is an amazing site, as are some others including Boing Boing and some of USA Today's blogs. The news needs the best journalists, and to get the best journalists, you have to pay them well.
I have no idea how to figure out how to fix this issue, it's not my field.
I will, however, admit to getting my bullshit gossip news from Wonkette, because it's hilarious.
So...
25% NPR/BBC/ABC Radio News/Fox Radio News during the drive-home sports shows 30% Washington Post/Roanoke Times/Richmond Times-Dispatch 30% Television (watched online or via podcast sometimes, NBC News, the sunday shows, sometimes Al Jazeera online for their documentaries) 15% Other, including blogs
[Edited on March 31, 2010 at 6:24 PM. Reason : .]3/31/2010 6:23:10 PM |
lafta All American 14880 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "^^ also, I'm glad you have least tacitly admitted that NPR is liberally biased. " |
well that pretty obvious that most of them are liberal, but i think they do a much better job at reporting facts, but not a good enough job or engaging the right3/31/2010 7:06:50 PM |
Supplanter supple anteater 21831 Posts user info edit post |
Oh yeah, BBC some too. Occasionally their website, but mostly as a function of having 91.5 as a preset which goes to BBC at night. 3/31/2010 7:22:05 PM |
HockeyRoman All American 11811 Posts user info edit post |
There was a thread on this topic not *too* long ago or maybe I am just [old]. Anywho,
25% - Rachel Maddow 20% - Brad & Britt on 101.1 20% - NPR 20% - Glenn Beck, Rush, Faux News (although I wouldn't consider Beck an actual news source.) 10% - Bill O'reilly 5% - Robin Meade (mostly because she is so smokin' hot to see in the morning ) 190% - TWW 3/31/2010 7:36:13 PM |
Mr. Joshua Swimfanfan 43948 Posts user info edit post |
40% CNBC 30% CNN 30% WRAL, Fox News, BBC, Al Jazeera, misc 3/31/2010 7:53:03 PM |
tromboner950 All American 9667 Posts user info edit post |
45% Assorted Internet Sources (other than news sites) 20% BBC (online and BBCA on television) 10% NBC Nightly News (with Brian Williams) 10% CNN (online and TV) 10% Local News (News 14, WRAL, etc) 5% Radio - NPR 3/31/2010 8:15:25 PM |
eyedrb All American 5853 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Come on, tell us how much of your news you really do get from Rush. " |
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moron All American 34142 Posts user info edit post |
Google News 80% TDS 10% internet msg boards 10% 3/31/2010 11:44:53 PM |
GrumpyGOP yovo yovo bonsoir 18191 Posts user info edit post |
I'm basically split down the middle between CNN and NPR. 4/1/2010 12:01:34 AM |
lazarus All American 1013 Posts user info edit post |
Radio - NPR, BBC, Deutsche Welle, local public broadcasting (all through the same station - WAMU-FM)
TV - None (I watch Chris Matthews, Bill Maher, Bret Baier, and the Sunday morning shows, but I wouldn't call that news/information)
Internet - Yeesh. BBC News is my homepage. Most major newspapers and political magazines. And these:
http://www.michaeltotten.com/
http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/
http://www.dailyhitchens.com/ http://www.slate.com/id/2073766/year/2010/landing/1/ (also Hitchens)
http://current.com/shows/vanguard/
(not exhaustive)
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Gzusfrk All American 2988 Posts user info edit post |
No radio, no TV really for me (as far as getting news). Mostly internet-- Drudge, CNN, Fox, Yahoo, TWW, WRAL and denninger's market ticker. A lot of the background to the news for me comes from law school readings and professors, and then I research via internet, or vice versa. Also get a lot of initial news from Grama, who watches the news all day long, and then I go online and verify it.
[Edited on April 1, 2010 at 2:11 PM. Reason : ] 4/1/2010 2:10:47 PM |
lazarus All American 1013 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Also get a lot of initial news from Grama, who watches the news all day long, and then I go online and verify it." |
Always a good idea when getting information from old people.4/1/2010 2:14:09 PM |
Gzusfrk All American 2988 Posts user info edit post |
Hey, I said I go and research it, she just ends up picking up a lot of interesting stuff. And don't pick on old people, she's probably not much older than a lot of the news reporters people listen to on a regular basis. That being said, she's just ONE place I get news from, and I never take what she says for hard truth.
[Edited on April 1, 2010 at 2:25 PM. Reason : ] 4/1/2010 2:24:29 PM |
God All American 28747 Posts user info edit post |
NPR The Daily Show "News and Weather" app for my Droid Somethingawful.com Forums news.google.com 4/1/2010 2:58:16 PM |
BobbyDigital Thots and Prayers 41777 Posts user info edit post |
41% Consumption Junction 37% Collier's Encyclopedia (circa 1987) 12% The Onion 10% TWW
[Edited on April 1, 2010 at 3:08 PM. Reason : a] 4/1/2010 3:07:38 PM |
Spontaneous All American 27372 Posts user info edit post |
Internet and The Daily Show 4/1/2010 5:52:09 PM |
Supplanter supple anteater 21831 Posts user info edit post |
I check out the Carrboro Citizen once every couple of weeks (a local paper over this way), and I used to have a subscription to Newsweek. 4/1/2010 6:16:12 PM |
sarijoul All American 14208 Posts user info edit post |
i can't believe people actually get news from drudge.
but for me: blogs 40% - andrew sullivan, ezra klein, balloon-juice mostly google news 25% (so i can get multiple takes on the same story) npr 30% cnn 5%
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aimorris All American 15213 Posts user info edit post |
100% TWW 4/1/2010 10:11:10 PM |
iphotou All American 13047 Posts user info edit post |
50% websites 50% tv 4/1/2010 10:30:40 PM |
modlin All American 2642 Posts user info edit post |
50% News and observer - the paper version 15% here and PP 15% fark.com 20% wral TV, wral.com, other assorted internet 4/1/2010 10:50:11 PM |
Supplanter supple anteater 21831 Posts user info edit post |
bump 7/22/2010 12:25:05 AM |
smc All American 9221 Posts user info edit post |
The demons whisper to me as I sleep. Sometimes when I'm awake, too. 7/22/2010 12:31:34 AM |
lewisje All American 9196 Posts user info edit post |
NPR only appears to have a liberal bias because that's what reality has
anyway I get about 70% from NPR and (overnight) the BBC World Service (Cincinnati has the most amazing NPR station ever) 25% from the blogosphere, mostly FiveThirtyEight, FactCheck, Politifact, Electoral Vote, The Huffington Post, Crooks & Liars, and whatever they link to 5% from more suspect parts of the Internets, like TWW, Facebook and Twitter status updates, and æ
I only get my news from the cable commentators to the extent to which they are linked to or embedded from the blogs, but I'll watch Washington Journal, Q&A, and The Rachel Maddow Show more if I get cable again. 7/22/2010 12:45:04 AM |
bobster All American 2298 Posts user info edit post |
ranked: cnn.com foxnews.com wral.com The Economist (magazine and website) WSJ (paper and website) npr rush radio (occasionally worth listening to, usually complete bullshit)
I don't watch tv news very often, I'll put news 14 on in the background sometimes. 7/22/2010 1:26:04 AM |
lewisje All American 9196 Posts user info edit post |
Back when I lived in a land where the NPR station didn't have anything good on from 3-6p I listened to Rush then
he was worth a lawl 7/22/2010 1:57:11 AM |
RedGuard All American 5596 Posts user info edit post |
50% Internet - Drudge Report, Washington Post, NY Times, BBC, Al Jazeera, Chosun Ilbo 35% Radio - NPR 10% Magazines - Economist, AWST 5% Message Board - TWW 7/22/2010 1:31:20 PM |
Socks`` All American 11792 Posts user info edit post |
Blogs - 30% Magazines (Scientific American, Discover, Wired, Atlantic, Harpers, Slate) - 30% TWW - 15% Google News - 15% Other - 10%
Most of the news I actually follow any more is science, technology, and culture. I'm not really a "front page" kinda guy any more. Newspapers and News-feeds are basically all just facts anyways, which are actually less useful than you might think.
[Edited on July 22, 2010 at 4:01 PM. Reason : ``] 7/22/2010 4:00:49 PM |
DaBird All American 7551 Posts user info edit post |
print - the wall street journal and news and observer TV - watch oreilly and local news most nights internet - TWW, cnn.com and foxnews.com during the day radio - boortz 7/22/2010 5:13:21 PM |
DaBird All American 7551 Posts user info edit post |
probably 25% each 7/22/2010 11:36:18 PM |
HOOPS MALONE Suspended 2258 Posts user info edit post |
espn, dig, facebook, i also google up a lot of stuff to find out information. i put in a topic i want to learn about to google and learn that wy. 7/23/2010 12:35:34 PM |
TreeTwista10 minisoldr 148440 Posts user info edit post |
I get most of my news from HOOPS MALONE 7/23/2010 12:38:58 PM |
moonman All American 8685 Posts user info edit post |
mostly Uncyclopedia 7/23/2010 3:31:19 PM |