Let’s put the 24-hour news cycle to the test. This poll is for all, American and International, Dopers.
Do you watch CNN in primetime? Then vote for the primetime hours. Do you watch the evening news at 6:30 PM (ABC World News, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News)? Then vote for 6:00 PM. Do you watch morning news such as Good Morning America? Then vote for that time block. Do you read the paper? In PDF or in print? Then vote for the earliest time you get the paper, whether online or at the newsstand, and indicate in your post what time it is when you get the paper and what paper you get.
Consider your daily news habits. Do you get the paper before work? Do you watch TV on your lunch break? Do you listen to the radio on your way to work? What do you do on your day off?
And don’t vote with a day like September 11, 2001 in mind. Vote as you would on an average day.
Pretty much whenever I’m awake and have access to the internet. I work all day in front of my computer and spend most of my free time in front of it too. There’s always Reddit, SDMB, CNN or some other source of news open in a tab and I check them multiple times per hour.
I’m heinously tired in the morning and sleep in as late as possible, shower, and drive to work at the last possible second. Normally I’m online all day at work (but just on the Dope, so news is sporadic). Then when I get home at 830, I might pop up my news sites. I don’t watch tv, so really it’s whenever I feel like it.
As of 2:00 AM with 11 voters, here are the results:
12 AM 2 18.18%
1 AM 1 9.09%
2 AM 0 0%
3 AM 0 0%
4 AM 0 0%
5 AM 2 18.18%
6 AM 3 27.27%
7 AM 4 36.36%
8 AM 3 27.27%
9 AM 4 36.36%
10 AM 2 18.18%
11 AM 2 18.18%
12 PM 4 36.36%
1 PM 2 18.18%
2 PM 2 18.18%
3 PM 2 18.18%
4 PM 4 36.36%
5 PM 3 27.27%
6 PM 4 36.36%
7 PM 2 18.18%
8 PM 2 18.18%
9 PM 3 27.27%
10 PM 5 45.45%
11 PM 4 36.36%
Notice that there are no votes for 2 AM - 4 AM. I’d be really interested in Dopers posting what news sources they go to between 2 AM and 5 AM. There’s Yahoo! News, Google News, Reuters, Associated Press, and TMZ. I’m not going to sleep. I’m going to go on those websites to see what people who check the news between 2 AM and 5 AM know.
As of 12:00 PM with 11 voters (and the 24-hour news cycle half-way through), here the results:
12 AM 2 18.18%
1 AM 1 9.09%
2 AM 0 0%
3 AM 0 0%
4 AM 0 0%
5 AM 2 18.18%
6 AM 3 27.27%
7 AM 4 36.36%
8 AM 3 27.27%
9 AM 4 36.36%
10 AM 2 18.18%
11 AM 2 18.18%
12 PM 4 36.36%
1 PM 2 18.18%
2 PM 2 18.18%
3 PM 2 18.18%
4 PM 4 36.36%
5 PM 3 27.27%
6 PM 4 36.36%
7 PM 2 18.18%
8 PM 2 18.18%
9 PM 3 27.27%
10 PM 5 45.45%
11 PM 4 36.36%
Still no votes for 2 AM - 4 AM. I’m still very interested in anyone who votes for the time between 2:00 AM and 5:00 AM. I stayed awake until around 3:30 AM. I went on those websites and here is what I found:
At 2:01 AM, one minute after I last posted, news about the Euro went up on Reuters. This is what I expected. There is probably “some guy” in Manhattan at 2:00 AM, checking Reuters for financial news and a minute later he gets an update on the Euro, and it’s important that he gets the news at 2:01 AM. He can’t wait until 7:00 AM. He’s getting a four hour head start on the day’s financial news.
Besides financial news, at 2:00 AM there was diplomatic news. US ambassador to Pakistan to step down, Yahoo! News reported shortly after 2:00 AM. There was not one but two news stories about Japan on Yahoo! News shortly after 2:00 AM.
Also political news. Before the President’s schedule was posted, there was a news report on Yahoo! News, from AP, on the President’s economic proposals to Congress and an upcoming visit to the state of New York. This is reported in The New York Times.
You are, of course, privileged to not divulge your Doper identity. It is, after all, an anonymous poll.
For anyone who votes for 2 AM - 4 AM, could you indicate in your post any information about what news you are getting at that time. Who gets their news at that time?
I voted 2-3 AM, 7-8 AM, and 9 PM. I work third shift, so I’m one of the voters for that mysterious block.
My day begin at 9 PM. I wake up and quickly check the headlines on the mobile websites of CNN and the local paper, then listen to NPR as I get ready for work. I take lunch from 2-3 AM, and check the mobile CNN and local paper sites again, this time reading more articles in depth rather than skimming. Many times the breakroom TV is on and tuned to one of the local 24-hour news stations, so I’ll also watch that during lunch. Finally, it’s back to NPR on the radio (often while reading full-version news sites) for a couple of hours when I get home at 7 in the morning to wind my “day” down before bed.
So there’s nothing special about that 2-4 block you mentioned. I’d say my pattern is just the nighttime reflection of most people’s news consumption schedules during the day. News at breakfast, lunch, and before bed.
I imagined some guy in Manhattan starting the day like this, noticing that it’s 12:00 AM, getting psyched for the 24-hour news cycle, and then sitting back down, waiting for the day to unfold.
I’m going to work. When I get back from work, it will be the end of the 24-hour news cycle. My lunch is scheduled for 7:00 PM. I’ll post when I get back from work.
When I get back from work, it will be the end of the 24-hour news cycle.
I’m also interested to see when Dopers get the news later in the 24-hour news cycle, when I’m at work. Except for my lunch hour at 7:00 PM, I will be busy with work and won’t have time for news.
I was forced to check every option, because I get my news at all hours of the day and night. I have a very disordered sleeping pattern, so I’m just as likely to be up at 2 a.m. as at 2 p.m. When I’m up and online, I hop around between several message boards and multiple news sources. I usually only check the larger sites (Yahoo!, Google, HuffPost) once every 24 hours or so, and there are several regional newspapers I check daily too. I also visit a bunch of small town newspaper sites according to their publishing schedules. I look at TV news sites if there’s any interesting weather going on.
As far as what news I’m getting, it’s the same news all of you normally scheduled people get, just earlier or later. I’m not sure I’m understanding why you think the news is different at 2-4 a.m. It’s pretty much a 24-hour world, y’know :D.
Anywhere between 6 AM, when I get up, to say 10 PM, when I go to bed. I get almost all of my news from the Internet in one fashion or another. Working in IT I’m online pretty much all day long, and being an IT geek I’m online or near-line most of the time at home as well
I check those websites also. Google News, Yahoo! News, Associated Press, Reuters, and, even, TMZ.
Then why doesn’t CNN go LIVE until 5:00 AM? (Right now, it’s reruns from yesterday.)
When Good Morning America goes LIVE on ABC at 7:00 AM, Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos will have 7 hours of news to report on. When CNN goes LIVE with Early Start at 5:00 AM, Ashleigh Banfield and Zoraida Sambolin will have 5 hours of news to report on? What about 4 hours of news to report on? Or 3? Or 2? Or 1? Or…
For others who check every option (and even if you don’t check every option), could you make a table like this:
This table is the 24-hour news cycle as I experience it, even though I was asleep when there was just literally Google News updates and even though I am going to work later today. Theoretically, if I do not sleep and if I am off work then I could experience the 24-hour news cycle.
How would you experience (not taking work or sleep into account) the 24-hour news cycle?
I don’t watch TV news because there isn’t much news on TV news. I don’t care about consumer information or the latest glurgy “heroic military mom reunites with her kids” garbage or video of the news station’s pet charity walkathon. I can pick and choose what I read online, and online news sources update important stories 24 hours a day, so checking them at 2 a.m. makes as much sense as checking them at 9 a.m. or noon.
I appreciate your desire to get some “general data” on “newstime” but my habits are so tied to online sources that I’d have to check the hours I’m on the web, which (in general) run from 6AM to 11PM every day of the week! But only a small fraction of those hours are randomly spent checking the news as such.
I don’t take a newspaper, but read their website’s contents (skimming is more like it) from time to time – not on any regular schedule.
Maybe once or twice a week (more often if there’s “breaking news” of the crisis variety) I will watch local TV news. I rarely if ever listen to radio news.
Aside from what’s on Yahoo!'s main page, which does include stories of the local variety along with national and international items, the SDMB provides me with clues to go look up other things I care about or am interested in.
