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

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!
Yes, I go through phases where I avoid the news which isn't hard to do.. Tomorrow something will happen & all the YUGE trauma today will not be discussed & by the end of the week mostly forgotten..

I have several rss feeds on the cover page of my email & @ a quick glance can have several options~or not........

I have taken several months off & then come back on & off as interest & life events allow.. But even after away from the news/message boards etc for months when you return it is pretty much the same stuff.....

Same ppl fighting w/ the same ppl, same fools trolling etc etc etc......
 
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:

I think many of us now days get most of our info via the internet but I also like the radio (NPR) when I am traveling.
 
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

I would pretty much agree, although from time to time the Daily Mail & NY post have some stpudity & crazy that just gotta come out..:rofl2:

I really use to like TYT but the show is boring now....... I have no idea of those others that have been there a while, they are boring as hell & your brain knows what cliche' they'll say before they do.......
 
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..

Those are good choices.
 
I also watch a lot of CSPAN. It shows house investigations as they happen. They also have the audio from Supreme Court cases. You can hear the questions of the judges and lawyers responses. You will not hear Thomas's voice.
 
I also watch a lot of CSPAN. It shows house investigations as they happen. They also have the audio from Supreme Court cases. You can hear the questions of the judges and lawyers responses. You will not hear Thomas's voice.

I use to try to listen, you have more patience than I.:)
 
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..

If you are talking politics, read Politico and the Hill, one slightly left of center, the other slightly right, both legitimate, then you can compare on the same topic and get a better picture
 
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

I agree with most of this except I would have both MSNBC and Mother Jones below 32 and put Huffington Post above MSNBC.
 
If you are talking politics, read Politico and the Hill, one slightly left of center, the other slightly right, both legitimate, then you can compare on the same topic and get a better picture

Thnx, You are correct, I have read the Hill quite a bit lately...hats-off-salute-smiley-emoticon.gif
 
I would pretty much agree, although from time to time the Daily Mail & NY post have some stpudity & crazy that just gotta come out..:rofl2:

I really use to like TYT but the show is boring now....... I have no idea of those others that have been there a while, they are boring as hell & your brain knows what cliche' they'll say before they do.......

You should note the location on the chart of the sources most used by rightys on this board. Infowars, Breitbart, Gateway, Blaze and Daily Caller are the most common righty sources used on this board. The rightys proudly show the stories from them as things we should respect. When we don't, they are offended.
 
You should note the location on the chart of the sources most used by rightys on this board. Infowars, Breitbart, Gateway, Blaze and Daily Caller are the most common righty sources used on this board. The rightys proudly show the stories from them as things we should respect. When we don't, they are offended.

Unfortunately most ppl, not just folks on the right seek out sources which conform to their biases- there is even a fancy name for it CONFIRMATION BIAS....

It is unfortunate but this seems to be our default human setting
 
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