Where do you go for news?

[Coral Rhedd]

And what news source does not ask for money? Bandwidth' date=' research, and general operation costs money. Major media like CNN and Fox News don't operate for free, they get money from advertising as well as from cable and satellite monthly fees. Likewise, the sites I posted also cost money to operate, so they request donations.

 

But, it all comes down to who you trust. Do you trust the CEO of Fox News and CNN in producing unbiased and truthful information? Do you trust the owners of the sites I posted? Most of us don't have the time or money to actually verify everything we read, so an element of trust is required in the news source. I trust my sources a lot more than the major media, that is all I can say.[/quote']

 

That is advertising you refer to and not a plea for donations to promote racial purity.

 

No further comments!

[Asian Guy]

That is advertising you refer to and not a plea for donations to promote racial purity.

 

No further comments!

 

The bias and hypocracy in your posts are already showing, which proves my point that humans are all biased and irrational. Your last post is an emotional rant, not an objective analysis.

[Skye]

What's the difference?

One is an effort to tell you what happened, the other is an effort to tell you what to think about it.

[dan19_83]

I usually watch sky news myself. can't really go wrong there.

on the web I use http://www.rte.ie/aertel but unless your from Ireland, i wouldn't adivse using it!

[Asian Guy]

One is an effort to tell you what happened, the other is an effort to tell you what to think about it.

 

Based on this, pretty much every mainstream news source would then be propaganda.

[YT2095]

Based on this, pretty much every mainstream news source would then be propaganda.

 

to greater or lesser degrees, yes.

although "propaganda" is a bit strong of a word to use, "Bias(ed)" would be a little better

[darth tater]

I get most of me news from reading the online editions of the major newspapers in the US, plus the online edition of the Telegraph in the UK.

 

For my video news I watch Foxnews. I agree that Fox is biased toward the conservative side, but after watching the other 3 networks for many years and enduring their bias toward the liberal side, I kind of enjoy Fox.

 

You do have to do your own editing however, but I am used to that from, as I said, watching CBS, NBC, ABC and lately CNN.

[Hellbender]

Anyway, this comes up a lot in discussions, and it seemed relevent here. I don't know which one Hellbender was referring to above, for example.

 

Fox news at 6 and 11. sorry for not making that clear.

[Hellbender]

OH! You poor young man!

 

LOL no I don't really watch Tv with the exception of shows like Seinfeld reruns, scifi movies, national geo or the simpsons. The news isn't something I am all that interested in. If it is important, I will inevitabley hear about it sooner or later, but like similar to waht Mokele said, if it isn't about animals, I don't get too interested.

[Douglas]

Got this idea from Flareon's post in the USA thread. I thought about making this a poll' date=' but really I'm more interested in hearing what people think about their sources and why they chose them, rather than getting some numbers on which sources are most popular.

 

Thoughts?[/quote']You might try this web site ....

 

Discover What the World Thinks About U.S. at

http://www.watchingamerica.com/ Views of America from about 200 newspapers across the globe....very interesting.

 

I subscribe to the Boston Globe where I get my daily dose of liberalism and the Manchester Union Leader for the counterpoint.

 

On TV, I watch Jennings, followed by Fox.

 

On the web, I check out the above site, the guardian, Drudge and newsmax.

[ku]

But, it all comes down to who you trust. Do you trust the CEO of Fox News and CNN in producing unbiased and truthful information? Do you trust the owners of the sites I posted? Most of us don't have the time or money to actually verify everything we read, so an element of trust is required in the news source. I trust my sources a lot more than the major media, that is all I can say.

Big media companies usually have reputations on the line, so to protect themselves they should be honest. Small internet sites can costlessly get away with propaganda.

 

The bias and hypocracy in your posts are already showing, which proves my point that humans are all biased and irrational. Your last post is an emotional rant, not an objective analysis.

I've seen the links you've posted. They were racist sites.

[Aardvark]

I mainly get my news from the BBC world news website and newspapers. I find alternating between the Independent and the Telegraph gives a fairly balanced perspective.

 

I find TV news too superfical, it just depresses me.

[Pangloss]

This is no great relevation of course, but one of the most prominent commonalities I see in this thread is the idea that mainstream news sources are too superficial. This seems to be a common agreement amongst people who either work in scientific or engineering areas, or follow them as a hobby.

 

It's interesting how the Web has filled that niche need so fully. These general feelings had to pre-exist the Web, but the scientist/intellectual was always restricted to traditional social structures, which the stereotype tends to avoid. Now we have places to go to talk about this stuff and really explore and investigate the detail that isn't available in a 30-minute network news broadcast.

 

So this post won't be a total wash, let me toss out a few more favorite niche-market news sites:

 

Aviation Week News:

http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/

 

Scientific American:

http://www.sciam.com

 

Federation of American Scientists:

http://www.fas.org/main/home.jsp

 

Global Security:

http://globalsecurity.org/

 

How Stuff Works:

http://www.howstuffworks.com/index.htm

 

Electronic Privacy Information Center:

http://www.epic.org/

 

Centrist Policy Network:

http://www.centrists.org/

[Mokele]

Aha, I have found it! A news resource of such caliber that you can *know*, with 100% certainty, just how accurate every article is!

 

I guarantee you will have *no* trouble determining the accuracy of any of these articles!

 

Mokele

[Dave]

rofl.

 

Funniest thing I've read all week

[Ophiolite]

BBC News 24 on TV

BBC Radio 4 morning news with John Humphreys and six o'clock evening news, both when commuting.

The Economist for in depth reading

The Herald-Tribune when I am travelling Internationally

http://www.spacedaily.com for astronomy/astronautics news

Local on-line papers for a different perspective on International Events. e.g. The Houston Chronicle for a take on current oil prices; La Stampa for an Italian view on the Pope's funeral; etc

[donkey]

BBC News (mainly online, i watch a lot of the TV shows online (like the 1 o'clock and 10 o'clock news programmes) and News 24)

Google News -> wherever

[revprez]

Any News Corps stuff--best consistent open source intelligence anywhere. Pretty much all the major newspapers in a week, CNBC, occasionally MSNBC and CNN, followed by the news analysis and opinion periodicals.

 

Rev Prez