Where do you get your news?

Favorite News Source?

  • CNN

    Votes: 8 9.8%

  • Fox News

    Votes: 41 50.0%

  • ABC/NBC/CBS Network News

    Votes: 3 3.7%

  • PBS

    Votes: 4 4.9%

  • BBC

    Votes: 3 3.7%

  • Rush Limbaugh

    Votes: 11 13.4%

  • NPR

    Votes: 7 8.5%

  • Internet news outlet of *major* news service

    Votes: 18 22.0%

  • Internet blogs

    Votes: 10 12.2%

  • Other (please specify)

    Votes: 29 35.4%
  • Total voters
    82
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CarbineCaleb

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What electronic outlet is your favorite source of news? (only 10 choices so I restricted it to that - can always roll a newspaper into "other")
 
Despite the rabid hatred of the liberal/left towards FNC, I find it to be indeed "fair and balanced". I do hate when they jump on a story to the exclusion of anything else, but that happens with every other channel too.
 
As far as cable goes, MSN. They seem the least biased compared to CNN and Fox. I really can't stand Fox. I find it to be as biased as CNN was in Clinton's firts term, just in the opposite direction. It has been a real disappointment. The McNeil-Lehrer Newshour on PBS is pretty good too.
 
I really can't stand Fox. I find it to be as biased as CNN was in Clinton's firts term, just in the opposite direction.
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I haven't watched Fox in a long time (at least 3 years)... back when I used to watch it, I saw them get guests on there, and the news host would go after them like a prosecutor, not a judge... I wondered why even invite someone on and ask them questions if you will just cut them off and then put words in their mouth when they try to answer? After I saw that maybe 4-5 times, I wrote a letter of complaint to Fox News and stopped watching.

In general, I think there is too much editorializing in today's news (almost all of them). I don't care to hear what the newscaster, any newscaster, thinks of it. IMO their job is to provide facts, not their view on the facts.

If they have guests, they should ideally bring on several points of view. It is good to ask probing questions, and to push a guest to actually answer the question asked and not the one they'd like to, if they try that old trick. But the news rep should ask open honest questions (not leading questions), and should absolutely not provide the answers for their own questions.
 
I dont wtch any of the Network News...... FNC is about as fair and balanced as CNN is.

I go to various sources on the Internet

then do a cross reference with other news articles on important stuff.
 
It's not just the bias and editorializing - the network news programs spend so little time on a story (often on the order of 1-2 mins), that you really can't learn anything other than the fact that something happened, and what the dimwitted newscaster thinks of the players in the story.

I usually go for McNeil-Lehrer (they spend 45 mins on 3-4 stories) on PBS, OnPoint/TheConnection on NPR (same kind of in-depth coverage), or go to the internet, with Google News as my portal. On Google News, I do give preference to links from Reuters, Christian Science Monitor, and Voice of America.

From the name, you'd think Voice of America would be some kind of Yankee version of Joseph Goebels... but from my limited forays over there so far, it actually seems pretty good. They have lots of international coverage, they go into pretty good depth, and they seem to be pretty neutral in their coverage. They don't really go in much for either Democrat *or* Republican bashing domestically... or even foreigner bashing. What's up with that??? :p
 
I chose "other"...

I do watch Fox, at least they have liberals on, whereas one has to really look to find a conservative on the liberal side of the MSM. Rather watch both sides than see a Potemkin version, for example when ABC has Stephanopolis "moderate" a panel made up of David Gergan, Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts. And I can't stand O'Rielly, so don't go there if you're gonna flame me.
But for what I consider the absolute pinnacle of journalism, I always, every single day, read the Wall Street Journal, front to end. Not a complete day if I miss it. And for political opinion I love the Wall St Journal Online, especailly James Taranto's Best of the Web, a crisp and witty blog/breakdown of the day's news.
Then there's radio. Today during my commute home, I got Ed Schultz on Air America. Man, you have to be wearing a beret to get your head around some of the things I was hearing - all presented by him and his callers in earnest sincerity. A montage: "Katrina is a super hurricane, caused by global warming, which we are responsible for because we refused to sign the Kyoto Treaty, even though every other Industrial nation on the planet is abiding by it, and we all drive SUVs, so we are causing these super hurricanes. They proved it! NOAA came out and said that 9 of the past 11 years have had above normal super hurricanes!!!! So what Bush should do is ask for gas from Venezuela, because Hugo Chavez is a good man who offered to give us food and gas, but no! Bush had to cancel his vacation and run home and save his oil buddies, so they can gouge us at $3 a gallon, which is a historical record, and now I can't even fill up my Escalade!!!!!!"
Man, the lies, the ignorance, the half truths, the logical loopiness - great entertainment, all for free on my radio. Thank God for the First Amendment!
 
I do watch Fox since it is closer to may values and I think BO is a pinhead. I do my best to get my news from various sources. I use this a lot.
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I watch BBC and the alphabet bunch when I feel the need to hate America.
 
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I watch Fox News for the comedy factor..."Fox News - We Decide!"

CNN isn't much better but there are fewer overdramatizations of news stories. Unfortunately since it's an all news channel they have to fill air time so like idiots they actually read blogs. Now, I think getting news from a blog is stupid enough to begin with - about as smart as getting your news from The Daily Show (despite it being the best place to get good social commentary) - but when a news channel stoops to reading blogs over the air...credibility goes right down the drain.

I read the websites of both the BBC and CNN as well as Reuters. If you want "fair and balanced" your only option is to use multiple sources because no media source is completely unbiased. If you want social commentary on real news interspersed with comedy and some fake news, watch Jon Stewart. :D
 
I like to hop the web and skate over the country in question and real its english paper. BBC for internation stuff. Pretty much ignore MSM. I'm overdoing the salt when listening to talk radio. Dr. told me too much salt is bad.

The all lie.
 
For national news TV: Fox/MSNBC

Local News: KVEL (here in Eugene)

For national news net: News Max, Drudge, WND, Google, Washington Post

For local on radio: Lars Larson (for indepth)

For national on radio: Rush and Lars.

Now, I know that many will point and say, "SEE, HE'S A CONSERVATIVE!!!!"

Yes, yes I am. But give me some points for at least trying to listen to Franken and others on Air America. It's not that I wouldn't think about what they said but I can't because they say the same dang thing, on every show, with the same tone, every 15 minutes. I may try again one day if they are still around.

Wayne
 
Have to listen to Rush, though I don't like him as much as Neal Boortz.

I have zero use for CNN after they were caught showing stock footage and passing it off as current news. Same with network news after NBC got busted for rigging a GM truck with model rocket engines to cause it to burst into flames during an impact "test".

For dead-accurate social commentary you absolutely cannot beat "South Park".
 
Dang ... I have to pick ONE?

I'm a news junkie - I picked CNN just because I turn on Headline News first in the morning. I still call them the Communist News Network.

Ironically, I hate most news organizations. As a gun owner, I have almost never seen even what I'd describe as "fair" treatment of gun ownership. Fox news has, on a few occasions, been an exception.

Depending where I am at the moment and/or what I'm doing, I get my "news" from CNN, Fox, NPR, NBC Nightly News, CNBC. I read blogs, but I don't consider them to be "news".

When it comes right down to it, I usually put "news" in quotation marks, because I don't really believe most modern media provides "news". They tell "stories" because they want ratings. Real news would be too boring.
 
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