For several years, I have been in the habit of turning on MSNBC when I first get up. I am usually up early enough to catch Way Too Early and then Morning Joe. I’m a very early riser, it’s ridiculous, I know.
But I have recently been unable to watch them. They are just irritating the shit out of me. They go on and on about how bad Joe is doing in the polls, which prompts me to yell at my tv at 2:00 in the morning. Maybe if they would stop telling us how awful he’s doing, he wouldn’t be doing so awful. If he is even doing awful. ugh, It’s just become tiresome to me.
So I’m watching more CBS, but they don’t have news in the early morning. So I come here and unfortunately, I still check twitter. Twitter is becoming a real shithole, but it is good for breaking news stories. I am trying to love threads, but it’s a slow go. Twitter was too for me at first though, if I remember correctly.
But I’d like more options. So how about you guys? Where are you getting your news?
Not television.
Minimal radio - NPR occasionally. I read (or at least skim) the WaPo and NYT most mornings, and occasionally again in the evening if there’s something going on.
I get a lot of it here, especially news about Trump and his insurrectionist cohorts. I find that it is better filtered and documented here.
I still check out CNN for other stuff, but have to remember that they are left leaning and are often what amounts to a clutching of pearls response to whatever opposes their worldviews. Also get a lot information from my YouTube feeds, but that is more about diet and health news along with Entertainment updates.
About the only thing local I follow is the weather.
Well, none of what you’ve listed so far (Morning Joe and MSNBC in general, Fox, Twitter, et cetera) is anything I would consider to be ‘news’, so it seems as if that isn’t what you are looking for.
Even that is being generous. CNN is mostly about advertising their own hosts side projects; Fox is a propaganda machine (and MSNBC would like to be but just can’t figure out what platform they are trying to push), and every time I see Jim Cramer I think this is a bad SNL sketch that escaped into the real world.
Most of my news I get here, and some through my Google news feed. I follow almost no political news anymore. I have cut my news consumption way down, such that I learn about a lot of things much after the fact. If it’s important enough, my husband tells me.
Yeh, I read most of my news, since as mentioned, cable news is mostly op-ed BS on repeat, hour after hour. I’ll tune in every now and then, or maybe turn it on for background noise while I work, but it’s been more annoying than anything else lately.
I just use a news aggregator (on my phone; Apple News App) to read the current headlines. I like to see a range from different ends of the spectrum to see how each side reports on an issue, topic or event. Everything from Reuters, NYT, WSJ, CNN, MSNBC, BBC, NPR, Aljezeera, AP, to Politico, Fox News, USA, CBS, etc.
Vox is one of my favs. Their explanation-style journalism is what I think a lot of Americans need to get a better handle on deeper topics and issues.
Left-leaning. < grimace > I stopped watching them at least 15 years ago because they were becoming so much like Fox, leaving out critical facts in reporting their stories. I got tired of throwing my dog’s soft toys at the screen while yelling, “What about (insert-unreported-fact here)???”
MSNBC is opinion for some shows, but more and more, it’s right wing opinion. Joe Scarborough: Republican. Nicole Wallace: Former Republican who played a big part in GWB’s administration – including babysitting Sarah Palin. Lots of Republican guests with lots of Republican points of view. I laugh when I hear people refer to it as Fox for liberals. It’s just not.
I do watch MSNBC and while there are a lot of opinion reporters, their opinions are based in actual fact, not “alternative facts” (read made-up bullshit). I trust Rachel Maddow, Ari Melber and Lawrence O’Donnell for fair-minded if opinionated reporting.
Also NPR.
In print or online: BBC, The Associated Press and Reuters.
I also subscribe to the New York Times online and The New Yorker magazine in print. Both are good news sources whose reports are based on actual facts.
I think you have to take your news from a lot of sources to get at something approximating the truth.
The accusations that CNN is “left-leaning” aren’t really valid, unless you are using the post-modern interpretation of ‘left’ as being “mostly based in reality” and ‘right’/‘conservative’ as “a constructed reality based upon false nostalgia”. Certain CNN personalities are definitely left of center, and do a lot of editorializing, but in terms of what actual news CNN does report, it is primarily a propaganda aggregator for whatever political administration is in power. It isn’t particularly good reporting, and they often fail to check basic facts, but any net bias is toward ignorance.
MSNBC would like to be the ‘liberal’ counterpart to Fox News, but they actually want to be seen as “fair and balanced” instead of repeating a trademarked slogan so evidently at odds with the actual content that it has become a self-parody. As a result, they invite all sorts of kooks who can’t even get much airtime on Fox to espouse nonsense, and then feebly protest against the falsehoods to the point that it is difficult to distinguish between an actual show like “Morning Joe” and the SNL parody.
NYT and WaPo would be main ones for me. Like others I do watch MSNBC but it is largely opinion with some reporting mixed in. The idea that it is a liberal version of FOX is a total joke. MSNBC actually backs up what they report with verifiable facts, even when they are doing the opinion shows.
Me too. I have subscriptions to both of these. These are my main two sources of news.
I also have a subscription to Apple News to catch up on anything else. It includes highlights from The Atlantic (which I like a lot) and the Wall Street Journal (which skews a bit more right, but is at least reputable and factual). I also see snippets from CNN, Politico, The Guardian, The New Yorker, Slate, Vox, and a dozen or so other sources. Apple News also includes a feed from Fox News, but I blocked it years ago.
I still get a hard copy of Time magazine, but don’t read it as much as I used to.
Finally, I occasionally watch MSNBC on TV or listen to it on Sirius XM.
I used to watch the CBS Evening News fairly regularly, but I can’t stand Norah O’Donnell so I stopped. I was also ticked off when Scott Pelley was abruptly removed from the anchor chair.
Any impression I have of CNN is past its use-by date, since I haven’t watched it in so long.
No argument with parodying Morning Joe. It’s horrible. On the rare days when it happens to catch me (i.e., mornings when I awaken from having fallen asleep in front of the tee vee), I can’t change the channel fast enough to get away from Joe Scarborough’s endless preaching and ranting. I mean, I’m glad he’s a Never Trumper and spends time taking Trump Republicans to task, especially those who know better and don’t care, but he wears his Evangelical bullshit on his sleeve and I can’t stand it. Plus he makes a lot of misstatements of fact that suit his preferred agenda, and I find that despicable.
I’ll say again that a wide variety of news sources is imperative.
Here.
Anything newsworthy enough will have a breaking news thread posted. I have zero interest in listening to talking heads on TV blather on about the outrage of the day.
