What are your 3 (or more) TOP NEWS SOURCES?? Do they confirm or challenge your views?

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What are your 3 (or more) TOP NEWS SOURCES?? Do they confirm or challenge your views?​


Reuters

BBC

PBS

Which I would say, in general confirm.

In seeking news I prob use them about 30% +/- of the time..

Often times when someone posts a link & I check the source, I will lurk around, eventhough it's going to challenge my views.

I feel I see/learn a much rounder view.

I do the same w/ several of the Market/business sites I go to as well.

I would also add JPP also/other posters here..
 
BBC,NPR,CNN and I scan through others. I read local paper. I often watch Maddow too. She is smart and cleans the right-wing dust from the news. I watch Frontline and 60 Minutes too.
 
Bill said:
What are your 3 (or more) TOP NEWS SOURCES?? Do they confirm or challenge your views?​


Reuters

BBC

PBS

Which I would say, in general confirm.

In seeking news I prob use them about 30% +/- of the time..

Often times when someone posts a link & I check the source, I will lurk around, eventhough it's going to challenge my views.

I feel I see/learn a much rounder view.

I do the same w/ several of the Market/business sites I go to as well.

I would also add JPP also/other posters here..
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I don't really have a go to. CBS news was a mainstay growing up though and Mom likes to check out the news my brother produces.
 
Gonzomin said:
BBC,NPR,CNN and I scan through others. I read local paper. I often watch Maddow too. She is smart and cleans the right-wing dust from the news. I watch Frontline and 60 Minutes too.
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I like frontline & don't watch 60 mins anymore, not for any particular reason though..

I never watch her, although I have seen many clips of her points.

Do you ever watch programs etc w/ contrarian views?? Views that you don't necessarily hold?
 
SF Chronicle & Wall St Journal. Used to read the Economist on a weekly basis, not as much now.

Will listen to NPR in the car. Sometimes I'll even listen to KPFA free speech radio (the station that hosts Amy Goodwin and Democracy Now and makes NPR look right wing).
 
Bill said:
I like frontline & don't watch 60 mins anymore, not for any particular reason though..

I never watch her, although I have seen many clips of her points.

Do you ever watch programs etc w/ contrarian views?? Views that you don't necessarily hold?
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I try to. When I watch Fox they are so absurd that it is unwatchable. I can get Fox by listening to Trump. Their function is backing Trump.
 
Bill said:
I like frontline & don't watch 60 mins anymore, not for any particular reason though..

I never watch her, although I have seen many clips of her points.

Do you ever watch programs etc w/ contrarian views?? Views that you don't necessarily hold?
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Twitter is a cess poll but I do follow some folks with left leaning political and cultural views. Admittedly at times I find myself getting p*ssed reading them but I do it to get out of the echo chamber.
 
Bill said:
What are your 3 (or more) TOP NEWS SOURCES?? Do they confirm or challenge your views?​



Reuters

BBC

PBS

Which I would say, in general confirm.

In seeking news I prob use them about 30% +/- of the time..

Often times when someone posts a link & I check the source, I will lurk around, eventhough it's going to challenge my views.

I feel I see/learn a much rounder view.

I do the same w/ several of the Market/business sites I go to as well.

I would also add JPP also/other posters here..
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I read those as well. I also read the National Review and The Weekly Standard as well as Al Jazeera and Electric Infitada for news on foreign issues.
 
cawacko said:
SF Chronicle & Wall St Journal. Used to read the Economist on a weekly basis, not as much now.

Will listen to NPR in the car. Sometimes I'll even listen to KPFA free speech radio (the station that hosts Amy Goodwin and Democracy Now and makes NPR look right wing).
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LOL, the original-Pacficia-I would listen to it when it first came out, I was in NYC then, that was before Amy...

I have always thought you fair minded & well rounded, well except when you disagreed w/ me..:| lol
 
Phantasmal said:
I read those as well. I also read the National Review and The Weekly Standard as well as Al Jazeera and Electric Infitada for news on foreign issues.
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Great, I have read them as well but not very often any more.. I don't read Al Jazeera much but I have found them as honest as any other source & carrying lots of stories not being told elsewhere..
 
Bill said:
Great, I have read them as well but not very often any more.. I don't read Al Jazeera much but I have found them as honest as any other source & carrying lots of stories not being told elsewhere..
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I do as well. Electric Intifada, allows me to read another prospective on Gaza. Our news here is pretty slanted.
 
Bill said:
What are your 3 (or more) TOP NEWS SOURCES?? Do they confirm or challenge your views?​


Reuters

BBC

PBS

Which I would say, in general confirm.

In seeking news I prob use them about 30% +/- of the time..

Often times when someone posts a link & I check the source, I will lurk around, eventhough it's going to challenge my views.

I feel I see/learn a much rounder view.

I do the same w/ several of the Market/business sites I go to as well.

I would also add JPP also/other posters here..
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I have reached the point in life where I do not want to clutter up my brain with the day-to-day minutia of the 24 hour news cycle, the current score on the political horse race, nor do I think it even matters that much.

I pretty much can get as much as I need about the day-to-day horse race just through osmosis. On a sidebar, I do think it is important to not just rely on domestic American sources of information.

The only print media I read on a regular basis are National Geographic and Smithsonian. I believe one could actually lead a well-lived life just consistently reading those two.

I have consciously shifted my mind from the ephemeral and temporal, towards the philosophical and all-encompassing. I am interested in absorbing information about racism. Social justice. Economic justice. Temperance versus retribution and vengeance. Democracy versus oligarchy. Capitalism versus democratic socialism. How is a well-ordered, virtuous society constructed, and what it the best form of government – aka, questions in the intellectual traditions of Confucius and Plato.

To that end, I spend considerable time with books, novellas, and other medium of scholarly knowledge. But I try to leave plenty of time for comic books and cartoons as well!
 
I get a lot of my news from the Internet. On TV, I watch FOX and the local news, sometimes CNN or CNBC. I read some of the overseas publications online.

Of course, I have to turn to MSNBC whenever things like Mueller time occurs, just to witness the meltdowns. :laugh:
 
Bill said:
What are your 3 (or more) TOP NEWS SOURCES?? Do they confirm or challenge your views?​


Reuters

BBC

PBS

Which I would say, in general confirm.

In seeking news I prob use them about 30% +/- of the time..

Often times when someone posts a link & I check the source, I will lurk around, eventhough it's going to challenge my views.

I feel I see/learn a much rounder view.

I do the same w/ several of the Market/business sites I go to as well.

I would also add JPP also/other posters here..
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See the attached Bias Chart. There is a “Quality Line” at 32.

Unlike the RW nuts that stay in the lower right quadrant, I don’t rely on anything below that 32 line, left or right. When challenged with an article, I also research the claims. When the challenge comes from a far right source, I always find lies, distortions or just plain bullshit.

Media-Bias-Chart_4.0_8_28_2018-min.jpg
 
Bill said:
What are your 3 (or more) TOP NEWS SOURCES?? Do they confirm or challenge your views?​


Reuters

BBC

PBS

Which I would say, in general confirm.

In seeking news I prob use them about 30% +/- of the time..

Often times when someone posts a link & I check the source, I will lurk around, eventhough it's going to challenge my views.

I feel I see/learn a much rounder view.

I do the same w/ several of the Market/business sites I go to as well.

I would also add JPP also/other posters here..
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I don't have any "top" news sources... I get my news from a little bit of everywhere.
 
Bill said:
What are your 3 (or more) TOP NEWS SOURCES?? Do they confirm or challenge your views?​


Reuters

BBC

PBS

Which I would say, in general confirm.

In seeking news I prob use them about 30% +/- of the time..

Often times when someone posts a link & I check the source, I will lurk around, eventhough it's going to challenge my views.

I feel I see/learn a much rounder view.

I do the same w/ several of the Market/business sites I go to as well.

I would also add JPP also/other posters here..
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Phantasmal said:
I do as well. Electric Intifada, allows me to read another prospective on Gaza. Our news here is pretty slanted.
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Yep, even the BBC isn't very good in that regard..

My fav correspondent from the ME was always Robert Fisk now I am so jaded w/ that place I don't have much interest any more..
 
Bill said:
What are your 3 (or more) TOP NEWS SOURCES?? Do they confirm or challenge your views?​


Reuters

BBC

PBS

Which I would say, in general confirm.

In seeking news I prob use them about 30% +/- of the time..

Often times when someone posts a link & I check the source, I will lurk around, eventhough it's going to challenge my views.

I feel I see/learn a much rounder view.

I do the same w/ several of the Market/business sites I go to as well.

I would also add JPP also/other posters here..
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It kind of depends on the type of news. If it's world news, BBC/Guardian/Al Jazeera are fairly good. For breaking news events I think that CNN does a credible job; for one thing they aren't the first to rush into a story before more details are known. Unfortunately they're also obsessed with Trump and lean more towards reporting his every fart than covering other stuff. You're right about JPP posters -- I've read a lot of great articles posted here, on both sides.
 
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