Where do you get your news?

In My Humble Opinion
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Well, there’s two schools of thought on this one:

  1. CNN, MSNBC and Fox News for on-going news coverage
  2. ABC World News and NBC Nightly News for daily news summary
    I guess with both 1) and 2) you’d have objective news since you’d have it from both ends. Of course, you need subjectivity, so that leaves all the other news sources out there.
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Thanks for the answers!

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All of them, any of them, that I’ve had in front of me over the years. I’ve had a vast variety of sources. My Firefox history is like a microcosm of America. :slight_smile:

Seriously, CNN.com, Digg.com and Reddit.com are my favorite sources.

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BBC Radio 4 specifically The Today Program. All newspapers (at least English ones) lean one way or the other - some drastically - and some are simply utter bollocks. If I see a headline in some papers I assume that the opposite is in fact the case, see the recent thread about the reliability of The Sun*

  • conclusion, they make shit up.
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I try to get my news from lots of different sources. For useless, fantastical and general headlines, it’s CNN. I also like to read the NYT and BBC sites, and listen to NPR frequently. All those guys tend to have some pretty decent content.

I also read the Washington Post and sometimes the Wall Street Journal. I read Fark a lot, but mostly just for fun. And the SDMB is often a good source.

I also get the New Yorker (but that’s generally just in-depth information about a few specific pieces of news and read my husband’s Economist.

Additionally, I have to read legislative news pretty frequently (okay, every work day) since I work on government programs. I’m just a readin’ machine.

I still consider myself biased, though, because I don’t read or watch FOX news or other super-right-wing news sources. And if I do happen to read or watch a snippet of something, I don’t take them seriously.

I rarely get my news from TV anymore - I prefer to listen to NPR or read it. I hate the commercials and I hate how the talking heads yak about the same damn thing over and over or completely overanalyze minutiae. “What did Obama’s placement of the word ‘the’ mean?” “Do you think he’ll overturn XYZ law?” I’d prefer that someone tell me when something actually happens instead of speculating on it, or at least summarize what might happen and move the hell on.

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I consider the Economist a sufficient source of right wing news. They have taken Obama to task quite often and I do take their opinions seriously.

FOX is not real news. It’s just speculation. I wouldn’t consider myself biased for not taking them seriously. I don’t care for MSNBC and CNN for the same reasons.