Where do you get your news?

Daddee · Posted: 6/12/2004, 7:54 pm Post subject: Where do you get your news?

I'm very curious, where do you get your news?

And, more importantly, how much do you trust your news sources?

BTW: I'm talking about general news - not weather reports or hiking news.

Also, if you use different sources for different types of news, I'd like to hear what those sources are.
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mike · What box? Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 3134

Foxnews.com, primarily. Followed, in no particular order, by Yahoo news, myway.com, wnd.com, drudgereport.com, and locally, azcentral.com. I also check jpost.com fairly frequently for middle east news.
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dennisbench · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 275 Location: El Mirage

I usually check the NY Times and Washington Post for US News. I check the World Press Review for international news.
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maryphyl · Posted: 6/13/2004, 10:09 am Post subject:

I am a junkie--I get my news from all of those places in any given week so I did not vote in the poll. I don't like Fox..
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matt gilbert · Joined: 28 Jul 2003 Posts: 698 Location: Mesa

I get my news almost exclusivley from NPR and PRI. They seem to take a somewhat liberal slant on the news but I would say the coverage is fair and relatively balanced. The thing I really like about it is that it's not so hyped up as the TV network news shows. I can't stand those, everything is so sensationalized, I just end up getting mad.
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samiam · Joined: 04 May 2004 Posts: 171 Location: Casagrande

the slant in the media to me is verry visable,to bad we cant just get the real news as it is without the slant. I try to listen to Radio most of the time. Still get a slant but its easyer to turn the channel. One of my favorite programs is the dennis prager show .
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AZBrad123 · Joined: 29 Jan 2004 Posts: 196

Wow, interesting poll. Never realized that the internet had taken such a large roll in new distribution. I still read the NYTimes, and rarely, grudingly, pick up a AZ paper.

grrlscout · Posted: 6/14/2004, 9:36 am Post subject:

When I'm in my morning half dead state (the clock radio is going off and I'm too tired to get up and turn it off) I listen to the local radio station - KAZM. It's about the only place to hear the scoop on local stuff. The Red Rock News only comes out twice a week, and I almost never have time to sit down and read the paper.

On the way to and from work, I listen to NPR. Though I'm kind of election and iraq'ed out, so I've been listening to music more lately.

Occasionally, I'll check out the Washington Post website for more news.

evenstar · Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 5548 Location: SCW by way of CA

I read Doonesbury in order to keep a proper perspective on the political scene.
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Davis2001R6 · Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 5591 Location: Italy

The Onion!

samiam · Joined: 04 May 2004 Posts: 171 Location: Casagrande

ck1 · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 1331 Location: Mesa

National Public Radio has been the best news source for me. I listen to it throughout the day. I like that there aren't commercials persay, and that the local news get's indepth when necessary. Internationally, I've been tremendously impressed with their Middle East reporter Ivan Watson...he's done a wonderful job.

My homepage is set to FARK, more for fun than news, but it does post late breaking news...

As for local tv reports...they're all terrible. Is it just me, or does it seem like at least one story a night has to do with a television program airing later in the week on that same channel? It seems like there's less news and more promotion.

On the plus side...there's nothing better than seeing Katie first thing in the morning on Today!
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samiam · Joined: 04 May 2004 Posts: 171 Location: Casagrande

katie

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Daddee · Posted: 6/15/2004, 5:49 pm Post subject:

Local news is completely unwatchable. Finding the "local angle" to every breaking story just makes me want to scream.

Does ESPN count as news?
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paintninaz · Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 3515

I thought all the news I needed to know I could find right here on AZH!...you mean there's MORE out there? Shocked

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