Where do you get your news?

tempe8 · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 66 Location: Tempe, AZ

I've all but given up on "local" news except to hear a weather report...maybe. I see the major networks if there's a major story. But I get most of my news while I'm driving to work listening to NPR. It's got a badge of being slightly liberal, but I think their news reporting is fairly even. I think maybe it's also influenced by the markets that NPR serves since there is local content, in Phoenix it doesn't seem to be too liberal.

On TV, I've got to say that I've become so tired of the ranting and arguing between guests on news "talk" shows...it's unbearable. Really TV seems more and more catered to the 'casual' political or news viewer that is more interested in the 'visual' aspect of the news (i.e. fires, bombs, crashes, killings, etc.). Not to mention the endless parade of "breaking news" alerts.

That's why I've gone almost completely to radio and / or newspaper. I can listen or read "intelligent" conversation without all of the hype / sensationalism of a TV. There's just something about listening or reading that allows you to focus more fully and objectively think about a topic...without somebody else filing your mind with images.

plummer150 · Posted: 7/16/2004, 6:34 pm Post subject: re:

Big fan of Foxs' Oreilly Factor followed by Hanity and Colmes. Probably didnt spell anything right but you get the idea.
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samiam · Joined: 04 May 2004 Posts: 171 Location: Casagrande

I personally think the best way to get all the news is to
1 read the paper
watch the news
3 listen to the radio
4 talk to friend's
If you combine all that you will surly get the biggest part of news,and with all the bias networks and one sided stuff you will better be able to form your own judgment without the so called brain washing that comes with one source all the time...
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ghoster · Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 152 Location: Scottsdale

Well I try to balance the whole spectrum sort of. I watch common dreams.org, Alternet.com and Guerilla news network. I just like to see the other side of the news, as opposed the mass media corporations spewing what they consider the news. There are other things going on in the world besides the topics they choose. Too bad that we lost the broad spectrum news program and got a propaganda system instead. well, not much I can do about that. I just wish Mark Twain was still alive and was a news anchor. That would be worth watching. Or maybe Will Rogers, that too might have been something to see. Well, just fantasy sort of what the news is these days.

Shihiyea · Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Posts: 1135

I listen to NPR, avoid t.v., and realize if something really BIG is happening in the world that I will hear about it from co-workers or standing in a line somewhere. Mary