Where do you get your news?

[Angryjeff]

Okay since everyone can admit that CNN and the other news stations are well, pretty much useless when it comes to being impartial when it comes to reporting on goverment news. Where do you get your news from? local papers? internet sites?

[BWS]

At 7/11/03 02:43 AM, Angryjeff wrote: Okay since everyone can admit that CNN and the other news stations are well, pretty much useless when it comes to being impartial when it comes to reporting on goverment news. Where do you get your news from? local papers? internet sites?

C-SPAN is good. If you want a good resourse, look for scholarly reports. If its from a scholarly journal/website then its most likey legit and factual.

[Ninja-Scientist]

Actually, CNN isn't that bad. At least they're not FOX. lol.

What I do is I first hear about issues on TV or wherever, then I just look up more information on it so that I can understand the "whole truth."

I mostly like reading political magazines or newspapers for my news, however. Harpers and the Progressive are good, for example.
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A lot of people call Harper's "liberal" but it's really not. In fact, they dig up dirt on a lot of liberal leaders (like Gore) and liberal groups (like PETA). They're actually more of a literary magazine (it's founder was Edgar Allen Poe @_o'). But they have a lot of muckracking news, which makes them good. ^_^

[Lyddiechu]

i like to listen to NPR (national public radio), but many right wingers think that they are notoriously liberal. also when i have time i read teh NYtimes and watch bbc. seriously my favorite has to be korean news on late night public television back home that comes on after the korean feudal soap operas.. i dont care how reliable it is since i cant even understand it at all!! sahweet!

[JMHX]

Recently I've been shying away from the NYT...I'm listening more to National Public Radio, reading the International Herald Tribune, The Guardian, Independent News...different world papers in an attempt to branch out my views. I've hardly had any coverage of the events in Hong Kong in The Indianapolis Star, but it's all over the IHT.

[mrpopenfresh]

My favorite newsource is probably CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporationp). It does a good job being impartial, even if its government funded. They deal news without all the edutainment, somehing that I really like about this station.

[karasz]

i enjoy getting my political news from CNN... i watch cnn a lot... but cant fucking stand the damn stupid shit... if im watching the news i want to know NEWS of the WORLD not fucking celeb bull shit...

cnn.com, economist.com, council of foreign relations (cfr.org) and for the paranoid guy in me whatreallyhappened.com (although i never quote from it... and its really getting to be too anti-israel and us...)

[Vero993]

I never started reading the NYTimes until the jayson blair thing went down. After that, I was drawn to it like watching a train wreck or something. All credibility issues aside, they do have a good style of writing, and have a knack for explaining complex issues and political subtleties to backwater hicks like me.

As for other media, I absolutely hate watching television. There isn't a single network/station that doesn't have its own agenda. The new drive in journalism is the "people" story - hook the reader in to a story by telling the story of a little guy affected by the topic. For example, in my area the police recently were involved in a beating, which was caught on tape by the arrestee's wife. Now, regardless of wether or not the arrestee deserved it for resisting arrest and swallowing his drugs, one of the local papers went and lead the story with an exclusive interview with the guy's wife. She, of course, sobbing and crying about how her husband was really innocent in all this, how all he'd done was run a stop sign. the fact that the guy had swallowed a baggie full of crack and refused to cooperate with the police, plus had a criminal history longer than my arm, never figured into the story until halfway down the column.

Does anyone else see stuff like this happening?

[karasz]

At 7/13/03 01:34 PM, Vero993 wrote: Does anyone else see stuff like this happening?

nope... i never EVER see any news organizations try to take sides on issues... yup down here in philly its all integrity first