# Pre-Poll Opinion Gathering: Who's your favorite "talking head"?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-opinion-gathering-whos-your-favorite-talking-head/737292>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 11, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-opinion-gathering-whos-your-favorite-talking-head/737292 "2015-11-11T15:01:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-opinion-gathering-whos-your-favorite-talking-head/737292/1 "2015-11-11T15:01:44Z")

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I don’t know about you but I miss the days of Tom Brokaw. He was the last of the “trustworthy” news commentators for me. Before that there were quite a few including Cronkite, Sevareid and maybe even Rather.

But I’d like to put up a poll to find the Dope’s preference(s) for whom to rely on for quality news.

My current list is rather short (pun intended) but might include:

Charlie Rose  
Lawrence O’Donnell  
Rachel Maddow

Name some others you even watch/listen to. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-opinion-gathering-whos-your-favorite-talking-head/737292/2 "2015-11-11T17:49:19Z")

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I was going to post Tina Weymouth, but never mind.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-opinion-gathering-whos-your-favorite-talking-head/737292/3 "2015-11-11T17:52:38Z")

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> [@Johanna](#):
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> I was going to post Tina Weymouth, but never mind.

I had to look her up! 😃

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**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-opinion-gathering-whos-your-favorite-talking-head/737292/4 "2015-11-11T18:04:10Z")

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Gwen Ifill  
Judy Woodruff

(PBS Newshour if you weren’t sure)

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**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-opinion-gathering-whos-your-favorite-talking-head/737292/5 "2015-11-11T18:05:11Z")

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Oh, and Hari Sreenivasan, while I’m at it.