# Your favorite news show? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 13, 2007, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-news-show/387778 "2007-01-13T01:07:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-news-show/387778/1 "2007-01-13T01:07:20Z")
BBC World, and Pan African News ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-news-show/387778/2 "2007-01-13T02:13:54Z")
Democracy Now Mosaic Lehrer Report ---
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-news-show/387778/3 "2007-01-15T01:06:39Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-news-show/387778/4 "2007-01-19T19:47:50Z")
šŸ˜• Nobody else watch the news? Or care which one they watch? ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-news-show/387778/5 "2007-01-19T19:57:17Z")
60 Minutes. Always. I almost never miss it. I also watch The CBS Sunday Morning Show. Iā€™ve been watching a little of Dan Ratherā€™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 Couricā€™s broadcast. Theyā€™ve taken a much more serious, old-timey, newsy tone with the CBS Evening News since she started. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-news-show/387778/6 "2007-01-19T19:58:42Z")
The News Hour with Jim Leher on PBS. Then the local news-- gotta know the weather! ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-news-show/387778/7 "2007-01-20T02:00:16Z")
_Countdown_ _Scarborough Country_ _The Situation Room_ Donā€™t much care for any of the network news shows; the rest of the time I watch local news. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-news-show/387778/8 "2007-01-20T02:46:15Z")
The one network news show I Tivo is World News Now, ABCā€™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 Iā€™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 theyā€™re breaking a story when it was actually in Discover or online many months earlier. ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-news-show/387778/9 "2007-01-20T04:56:53Z")
CNN usually purrs in the background except when Lou Dobbs is on. Iā€™ll switch to Canadian network news for breakfast and after work. Iā€™d watch Canadian national news for late night but Iā€™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. Donā€™t know why they canned it. Yes, I am a news junkie. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-news-show/387778/10 "2007-01-20T05:04:10Z")
[QUOTE=According to Pliny] šŸ˜• Nobody else watch the news? Or care which one they watch? [/QUOTE] Internet: [CNN.com](http://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 - Iā€™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 ā€œthe newsā€ on TV, itā€™s because itā€™s happening live. For live events, TV is without parallel. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-news-show/387778/11 "2007-01-20T05:04:28Z")
Weirdly enough, Iā€™ve come to like Scarboroughā€™s show quite a bit. Also like Olbermann but Iā€™m worried he might become a parody of himself. And I kind of like Hardball. I think Chris Matthews is what Bill Oā€™Reilly pretends to be. Someone who grills both sides and has no tolerance for talking points or spin. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-news-show/387778/12 "2007-01-20T07:46:14Z")
Does _The Daily Show_ count? If not, the closest I have is listening to _On Point_ on NPR. ---
**Author:** ![Windwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-news-show/387778/13 "2007-01-20T10:00:19Z")
The Daily Show FTW! A very selective news program, I guess, but the best angle out there.