Where do you get your news?

[Sunday21]

Where do you get your news? I have added a few choices but I have probably missed a lot! Let me know and if the system allows I will add. (You can only have so many questions.) 

By the way, there are free apps for news: CBC, Guardian, BBC. Most news apps only allow you to use them for about 10 days and then demand payment but the previous are free. If you know of any free news apps for national/international news, could you let me know? Thanks!

i think that it is possible to live in the same neighbourhood and live in completely different world politically depending on where you get your news.

Edited January 12, 2018 by Sunday21

[Sunday21]

My response: I read a physical local paper, watch CBC news on line, watch Seth Meyers & Fallon ocassionally, I am quitting actually because the language/sexual references can be bad, look at CBC/BBC/Guardian news apps. What about you?

[Guest LiterateParakeet]

I only read the news, I don't watch any news programs. I try to read from a variety of sources, US and international.  For example, I like to check out BBC, Dawn and another one I can't spell, Lol. 

For the US, Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Deseret News, Salt Lake Tribune, and sometimes Fox.  

I don't read all of these on any given day!  What I mean is if a story catches my interest I'll likely look it up in different sources to attempt to get to the closest proximity of the truth.

[Guest MormonGator]

I follow the news obsessively. I used to read three newspapers a day-the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Boston Herald. Now, I read the Sunday NY Times/Sunday NY Post and the the only daily I read through is the Journal. All online, but I'll buy the physical papers sometimes on Sunday. The moment I wake up in the morning I flip on the business stations and right now I have the Drudge Report and Huff post open in my browsers. 

I can't stand to be without the news, thank God we live in a time where I can get it on the go. 

[Guest]

3 hours ago, Sunday21 said:

Where do you get your news?

Mormon Newsroom.

[NeuroTypical]

Drive to work: Whatever my favorite AM talk radio host is talking about, plus non-tragedyesque headline/local news on another station.

Then it's a various smattering of BBC.com, WSJ, occasionally Google News headlines.  Usually reading the headlines is enough to find out what people are talking about.  When I hear people mentioning or talking about a news item, I'll occasionally Google News it, and find the most local reporting I can.  The general principle is to drink water close to the spring's source, because the further down the river you drink, the more cows have wallowed through it.  In-depth analyses are ok too.

For urgent breaking news (like the California fires for example), they're best covered by local reporters on the ground, and the occasional law-enforcement twitter account.  There are live-access weather stations dotting the country.  

Hugh Hewitt is the absolute hands-down level-best politics show on radio.  I'm bummed out they moved him from my drive home, to the middle of the day. 

Oh - for geopolitical trends, stratfor.org is most best.  They make money by correctly forecasting, not by pushing their agenda.  

Oh - also, I try hard to keep good relations with a handful of facebook arguing buddies, because they share links and opinions and news that I just can't get anywhere else.  Because other than online, I really don't run in anarchist/transgender/left wing/lds-critical circles.

Edited January 11, 2018 by NeuroTypical

[zil]

1 minute ago, NeuroTypical said:

Drive to work

I used to have that.  Then they stopped having work for me to do at work, and after long enough of that, I've lost my drive to work.  Now, if I just didn't have to drive to work I could get paid to stay home.  Then I might find my own stuff to do and I could regain my drive to work without having to drive to work.

[Fether]

I really enjoy Steve Crowder, Ben Shapiro, Milo Yianoppolis on occasion, National Review, NPR, Daily wire and other strongly right winged sources. I watch Phillip Defranco sometimes as well as follow KOS, NOW THIS, and other leftist news sights to see what they are saying. I’ll also sometimes watch the whitehouse page on YouTube.

Edited January 11, 2018 by Fether

[anatess2]

I grew up in a political family.  Politics is life for us.  "You can't do that!  What will the newspapers say!".  So I read every newspaper that was relevant in those days trying to see what they are saying...

Anyway, I've remained a political junkie throughout my life reading whatever is available to read.  Then CNN started and we're like... WHOA!  An entire TV Station doing nothing but news!  It was exciting and I was glued to CNN.  And then it became very obvious that CNN was the propaganda arm of the Clinton Presidency and that un-glued me from CNN and I started going back to my - read whatever I get my hands on thing.

The past few years... my news comes from the internet.  The information is sooooo vast and varied that it is difficult to get your hands on every perspective of the news cycle so that you can form an independent opinion.  So I subscribe to a few varying personalities on youTube and Reddit to see what everyone is talking about and then I use my search bar to find news articles about them.  I know that if the news article is from NYT then it has this bias, or if the news article is from Brietbart then it has that bias, etc. etc.  I watch TV news now just for the entertainment value.

My favorite go-to to see what's happening in US politics is Jamie Dupree.  I start from his blog and then use the search bar for what I find interesting.

P.S. - I don't use just Google for my search engine either.  I use different engines to see which bubbles up on each one.

Edited January 11, 2018 by anatess2

[Guest]

I read three main sources: IGN, PC Gamer, and Gamespot.

[anatess2]

8 minutes ago, Fether said:

I really enjoy Steve Crowder, Ben Shapiro, Milo Yianoppolis on occasion, National Review, NPR, Daily wire and other strongly right winged sources. I watch Phillip Defranco sometimes as well as follow KOS, NOW THIS, and other leftist news sights to see what they are saying. I’ll also sometimes watch the whitehouse page on YouTube.

What?  No Infowars? 

 

[Fether]

3 minutes ago, anatess2 said:

What?  No Infowars? 

 

Not yet! Are they also emotion driven politics!? If so that is right down my alley!

 

also, I forgot the most important one! The Babylon Bee! https://m.facebook.com/TheBabylonBee/

[anatess2]

11 minutes ago, Fether said:

Not yet! Are they also emotion driven politics!? If so that is right down my alley!

 

also, I forgot the most important one! The Babylon Bee! https://m.facebook.com/TheBabylonBee/

Alex Jones is hilarious to watch... is this emotion driven enough? 

 

[anatess2]

28 minutes ago, DoctorLemon said:

I read three main sources: IGN, PC Gamer, and Gamespot.

At least watch Pewdepie!  You need veggies on that meat! 

 

[Guest]

Seriously speaking, I get my news primarily from a balance of Fox, CNN, and Yahoo.

Kind of disappointed that CNN  is losing any objectivity it may (or may not) have once had ever since Trump got elected . . . 

[anatess2]

1 minute ago, DoctorLemon said:

Seriously speaking, I get my news primarily from a balance of Fox, CNN, and Yahoo.

Kind of disappointed that CNN  is losing any objectivity it may (or may not) have once had ever since Trump got elected . . . 

CNN has always been biased in their political coverage.  But it wasn't as bad before Trump because at least they covered other news that was not tainted by politics.  The past 3 years... man.  Every single hour of CNN is politics.  Even stuff like New Year's Eve is politicized.  Entertainment news, politicized.  Etc. etc.  

[JohnsonJones]

Hmm, I tend to get news from a Variety of places.  Strictly online would be Yahoo and Fox News.  Occasionally I read CNN.  I also read Forbes occasionally, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and USA.  IF I'm really wanting to read more, I'll even read the New York Post.   Occasionally when reading online they have a link takes me to the Guardian.

I also listen to the BBC and Public Radio.

If the News is on the TV it is normally FoxNews or CNN.  If elsewhere it would be via the BBC or Skynews (outside the US normally on the otherside of the world).  If there is nothing else I have watched JSC/Al Jezeera.

Edited January 11, 2018 by JohnsonJones

[NeuroTypical]

Back in the day, I liked to go to arabnews.com and haaretz.com.  Their front pages often had the same stories, covered about as differently as you could possibly imagine, with both news sources would start with stating the same facts.  News sources from opposing enemies who have been immersed in bloody and non-bloody war with each other for generations.

These days, CNN and Fox are a lot like that.  

[prisonchaplain]

I rely almost totally on news websites:

thehill.com

washingtimes.com

mynorthwest.com (local)

realclearpolitics, realclearreligion, realcleareducation

townhall.com (commentaries)

drudgereport (conservative headlining, but usually links to mainstream sources)

For a physical news magazine, we receive The Week.

[Sunday21]

6 hours ago, Fether said:

I really enjoy Steve Crowder, Ben Shapiro, Milo Yianoppolis on occasion, National Review, NPR, Daily wire and other strongly right winged sources. I watch Phillip Defranco sometimes as well as follow KOS, NOW THIS, and other leftist news sights to see what they are saying. I’ll also sometimes watch the whitehouse page on YouTube.

NPR? Rightwing? National Public Radio? 

I would also like to declare that I listen to NPR and read the Economist

[anatess2]

43 minutes ago, Sunday21 said:

NPR? Rightwing? National Public Radio? 

I would also like to declare that I listen to NPR and read the Economist

I know, right?  NPR is not right-wing.  They try to say they are un-affiliated but most of the people there are clearly left-leaning and can't help it but taint the news in that direction.

I personally do not believe it is important to declare non-bias.  I'd rather you say - we're the news and we're blooming liberals.  That way you don't have to twist yourself into a pretzel trying to show non-bias when you clearly are.  

For example, when Dave Rubin does his interviews he tries his best to be very objective.  But, he still declares clearly that he is a classic liberal (different from the Democrat Liberal) and holds a lot of American Libertarian principles.  So we know where he is coming from.

Jamie Dupree goes to extreme lengths to be objective.  He even abstains from voting on elections just so he can maintain objectivity.  But even Jamie has personal principles that seeps into his reporting.

Edited January 12, 2018 by anatess2

[Sunday21]

9 minutes ago, anatess2 said:

I know, right?  NPR is not right-wing.  They try to say they are un-affiliated but most of the people there are clearly left-leaning and can't help it but taint the news in that direction.

I personally do not believe it is important to declare non-bias.  I'd rather you say - we're the news and we're blooming liberals.  That way you don't have to twist yourself into a pretzel trying to show non-bias when you clearly are.  

For example, when Dave Rubin does his interviews he tries his best to be very objective.  But, he still declares clearly that he is a classic liberal (different from the Democrat Liberal) and holds a lot of American Libertarian principles.  So we know where he is coming from.

Jamie Dupree goes to extreme lengths to be objective.  He even abstains from voting on elections just so he can maintain objectivity.  But even Jamie has personal principles that seeps into his reporting.

Agreed. NPR does not appear to be right wing to me. I need to find out about Dave Rubin. Thanks!

[classylady]

13 hours ago, Sunday21 said:

Where do you get your news? I have added a few choices but I have probably missed a lot! Let me know and if the system allows I will add. (You can only have so many questions.) 

By the way, there are free apps for news: CBC, Guardian, BBC. Most news apps only allow you to use them for about 10 days and then demand payment but the previous are free. If you know of any free news apps for national/international news, could you let me know? Thanks!

i think that it is possible to live in the same neighbourhood and live in completely different world politically depending on where you get your news.

I think you need to put FaceBook down as a news source.?  Seriously, there are a lot of people that only get their news off of FaceBook posts.  Sad.

[Sunday21]

37 minutes ago, classylady said:

I think you need to put FaceBook down as a news source.?  Seriously, there are a lot of people that only get their news off of FaceBook posts.  Sad.

Done! As you wish!

[anatess2]

5 minutes ago, Sunday21 said:

Done! As you wish!

You're too fast.

It's better I think to expand this to all social media sites and not just Facebook the same way you had the first options  - TV/Internet, specify which ones...

I don't do news from Facebook at all (I rarely check FB).  I sometimes get news from Reddit or /pol/.  And, of course, I get the POTUS tweets.

Edited January 12, 2018 by anatess2