CNN or FOX (plus other choices)

CNN no choice here, that is the only channel available at work. since i see the news all day long there, i usually only watch the local news at home

 

Newspaper (large local city) and some NPR - but these are mostly science podcasts and the short news summary podcasts that I listen to on my commute. I love Science Friday and the Naked Scientists. Not much TV time for me.

 

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\OOOHH... didnt know podcasts counted.

i am a huge fan of NPR's science friday with ira flato. NOVA science now, TWIT (this week in tech which is more enjoyable than imformative)

 

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Oh - I don't know if they do or not- but that's where I get my "news"

Yeah - Ira's pretty funny when things get a little out of his control. I haven't listened to the other two - I'll have to try them out. I like some of the other NPR ones like health & science, technology, and enviro, but I find them a little annoying, as they tend to overlap alot, and it's hard to "fast forward", especially while driving. I'm starting to see the appeal of the HK drive+play despite the hefty price tag.

 

I get most of my news from CNN.com. I usually listen to All Things Considered on NPR on the way home, and we do watch the NBC evening news most nights.

 

No TV. None. Zero. Worst news source there is. Absolutely choked with propaganda, and that's the stuff BETWEEN the ads.

So I listen to Pacifica Radio (KPFA in San Francisco/Berkeley) and other public radio, and look at assorted newspaper websites for a bite on the day.

My principal news sources are all periodicals (Issues in Science & Technology, The Progressive, etc. but not Time or Newsweek, which are so ad saturated it casts askance at their credibility) and books, lots of books, more than I actually get around to reading but they're there in my library to discover or seek out when a topic grabs my interest. It ain't "fresh" news, but it's about as close to "accurate" news as is possible to get. Books are where the last truly investigative journalists can be found. And they're the only place "The Rest Of The Story" will ever be found.

Haven't looked at Al Jazeera - have heard good things about it and perhaps that's TV news that can be stomached, but without a television in the house I probably won't get a chance to check it out.

 

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Same here, no TV for the past 10 years. I have a TV set used only for dvd viewing of my choice of entertainment not some corporate decision maker choice that perpetuates moronic cultural indoctrination of mediocrity via programming and selecting crap for our amusement. No satellite, no cable. I support local stand up comedians and theaters instead.

Whenever there is solicitation for re-installment of service, I tell them that I'd like to get one or two GOOD channels, otherwise they can take all those 400+ crap programming and watch themselves. I would be eager to pay them twice as much the current rates as long as the content would be up to par just for one or two channels. "It's not the quantity it's the quality stupid"

For me all news is being derived from internet and press (printed and online), periodicals, streaming audio of NPR, CBC - online + streaming, Deutsche Welle - online + streaming, BBC - online + streaming. Radio Netherlands streaming. TF1 streaming for French take on global affairs and news in France. More then enough to get news on global events and I will check news from many individual countries online periodically either streamed or read. NPR seems to be the only source one could trust for somewhat least biased info on domestic affairs. Blogs and podcasts of environmental and grass roots movements, consumer advocates etc.

CNN, NBC, ABC, FOX etc all the big networks are just another corporate entities that are own by major corporate players like General Electric etc, far from purveying journalistic truth and are controlled by corporate friendly producers that will go after any whistle blowing reporter with vengeance, remember the story of rGBH on FOX? All the lawyers of these networks when confronted in court always are using an excuse to jurors and judges that NEWS is not about TRUTH and is NOT ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT NEWS IS NOT -DISTORTED as there a no laws on the books dictating ethical adherence to the truth. They often claim that NEWS purveying is just an another form of business that shouldn't be scrutinized to some unquestionable moral and ethical parameters, which would ultimately be unfair to the corporation as such entity is treated like an individual in the eyes of the law, everybody has right to lie, in other words we are free to lie and distort and if endusers are stupid enough to believe it, it's their right to do so.

Big networks are corrupting, influencing and intimidating judges with lawyers and nice favors, so many cases known with reporters and journalists trying to stick to their guns but being penalized afterwards by layoffs and long lawsuits, unjust judgments by judges favoring corporations. The effects are acting like a scaring tactic, many reporters will just succumb to shutting up, they too have mortgages and kids in schools, why would they want to defend truth with so many odds against them?

Another aspect of big media is MARKETING, why would I want to expose myself to commercials willingly?
When every hour of my spare time is limited to 40 minutes of content and 20 minutes of commercials at average.
Agree no commercial on cable or satellite radio, therefore it's booming, people are tired of marketing BS.

Hey, check a documentary 'Control Room' it's on netflix, all on Al-Jezeera Network, it's eye opening!
Highly recommended, you can always watch it on your computer.

 

The only "TV-news" I watch is The Daily Show, because it is funny as hell. Otherwise I use the web on a daily basis.

 

I like "The Daily Show" as well, although I have to say that I don't think that the latest crop of "correspondents" is as good as the old-timers. And "The Colbert Report" is hilarious.
To get serious news about what's really going on it the US, though, you have to look abroad- The Guardian, the Independent, BBC, etc.

 

CNN for the real news...then comedy central for the irony of the news!!!

 

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A professor from Brown that I know (for all you evolution-haters at Priuschat, he's the guy who wrote the biology textbook they put the "warning sticker" on in Georgia) was on the Colbert Report, and he said it was a blast. He prepared by watching the show in advance, so he knew it was irony.