BBC World, and Pan African News
Democracy Now
Mosaic
Lehrer Report
Worst are Katie Couric (too smarmy)
and Gwen Ifill (on The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer) (always seems to not be following whatever her guest is talking about)
Nobody else watch the news? Or care which one they watch?
60 Minutes.
Always. I almost never miss it.
I also watch The CBS Sunday Morning Show.
I’ve been watching a little of Dan Rather’s new show on HDNET when I remember. I get all my news from the New York Times daily, though. When I do watch, I actually like Katie Couric’s broadcast. They’ve taken a much more serious, old-timey, newsy tone with the CBS Evening News since she started.
The News Hour with Jim Leher on PBS.
Then the local news-- gotta know the weather!
Countdown
Scarborough Country
The Situation Room
Don’t much care for any of the network news shows; the rest of the time I watch local news.
The one network news show I Tivo is World News Now, ABC’s irreverent early-morning news. More insomniacs watch World News Now, but now I can watch it any time with Tivo. I might watch others if I’m flipping.
60 Minutes does some important stuff as far as interviews, but they have a few things that bug me. They strike me as a bit manipulative sometimes with repeated questions, strategic pauses and super close-ups. The other thing is, a lot of their stories on science and other things, are taken from magazines or now the Internet. They often make things sound like they’re breaking a story when it was actually in Discover or online many months earlier.
CNN usually purrs in the background except when Lou Dobbs is on. I’ll switch to Canadian network news for breakfast and after work. I’d watch Canadian national news for late night but I’m now hooked on Jon Stewart. I think favourite show of all is Reliable Sources on CNN on Sunday morning. I liked On the Story, too. Don’t know why they canned it. Yes, I am a news junkie.
Internet: CNN.com, message boards. Magazines like Forbes, Fortune, the Economist. Newspapers: Wall Street Journal, local newspaper, Sunday NYT.
TV news is slow and boring for me, way too dependent on that which is easily shown - I’d rather read or browse. Much faster and more in depth, and can be done at my bidding w/o fumbling for a remote control.
If I am watching “the news” on TV, it’s because it’s happening live. For live events, TV is without parallel.
Weirdly enough, I’ve come to like Scarborough’s show quite a bit. Also like Olbermann but I’m worried he might become a parody of himself. And I kind of like Hardball. I think Chris Matthews is what Bill O’Reilly pretends to be. Someone who grills both sides and has no tolerance for talking points or spin.
Does The Daily Show count?
If not, the closest I have is listening to On Point on NPR.
The Daily Show FTW! A very selective news program, I guess, but the best angle out there.