Where do you get your 'News'

POSTED BY: pizmobeach
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 4, 2006 06:59
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PIZMOBEACH

Friday, March 31, 2006 11:14 PM

So many sources so little trust... participate in an FFF.net unscientific pole:
Where do you go to get information you believe?

1. Paper

2. Web site

3. TV program

What are your top 3 (or so) most trusted?

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MATTCOZ

Friday, March 31, 2006 11:24 PM

The Onion

ROLANDREYNOLDS

Friday, March 31, 2006 11:42 PM

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Fark (the WORST place for news if you have the least of inclinations to continue liking the human race).
CBC, and Globe and Mail very occasionally.

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PIRATENEWS

Friday, March 31, 2006 11:49 PM

I get my daily overdose of news from my own personal robots at www.piratenews.org, which include rss feeds from www.infowars.com , CNN and a dozen local, national and international news feeds, including Al Jazeera TV. I provide links to 100s of video downloads of censored news. The Media Mafia is paid for pathological lies. The trick to survival is to connect the dots between individual news stories, to see the Big Picture in the Real World. The Mainline Media is never allowed to do that, since USA does not have a national news media anymore - it's all mutlinational, and owned by the Military Industrial Complex that President Ike warned US about, dedicated to the overthrow of USA for the New World Order global dictatorship.

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MSCKAREN

Friday, March 31, 2006 11:55 PM

The Daily Show - I like my news blatantly fake and funny. (Of course, that would include Fox News for some...)

For serious news, I don't even trust my mother 100%. Everybody (including news agencies) have an agenda and their own perspective.

Because they try to overcome these things - I like BBC International and NPR. Of course, conservatives claim these agencies have a liberal agenda so maybe the question should be, "Who presents the news in a way that best reflects your world view?"

Or is that just another way of describing "trust". Hmmm, deep thoughts....

Now I need some chocolate!

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SEVENPERCENT

Saturday, April 1, 2006 1:19 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by RolandReynolds:
Fark (the WORST place for news if you have the least of inclinations to continue liking the human race).

True - sad, but true. But if you want the pulse of the infosphere, that's the vein right there. But it certainly makes you wish for the end of humanity some mornings, that's for sure.

I usually start off the day with the web. CNN is set as my homepage, then I hit Fark, then I hit a few of the more popular blogs.

Then, I turn on the television, and hit the morning national news (CNN Headline if I'm in a hurry, CNN or MSNBC if not) while I eat breakfast.

Then, I hit the local paper (not the neighborhood rag, but the big daily).

Takes me about 90 minutes, but that's my morning routine as I get ready for work. I usually hit the web again for news when I get home. I'm not much of an evening news person; I got tired long ago of a "breaking story" that had half the details corrected the next day once they got their

together. I'm also a big link-clicker; someone posts a link to a news story here or in a blog thread I'll usually track it down just to get all the info I can.

Now, let me just say that while I like the web for news, I'm very skeptical. I usually discount blog news unless it comes from a verified source; "insider" is usually code for "bullshit," IMO. Even though it's a lefty blog, HuffPo is very nice for linking to major news outlets (including quite a few of the international orgs - the Guardian, the Independent, Al-J, a few Chinese and an Indian paper or two).

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ROLANDREYNOLDS

Saturday, April 1, 2006 5:10 AM

Generally I'm very impressed with CBC radio 2. They cover things nobody else seems to, from angles nobody else seems to. Not to mention that time I heard about pirates attacking a cruise ship off the coast of Madagascar. CBC radio 2 is fricken shiny.

REAVERMAN

Saturday, April 1, 2006 9:20 AM

I look at all sorts of online sources. Ex: drudgereport.com, worldnetdaily.com, cnn.com, foxnews.com, etc...

I compare these sites, and whatever they all agree on, I take to be fact. If a lot of online only news sources agree on something, but the mainstream media doesn't, I also take it to be fact (or at least fact-like). Everything else is questionable at best.

Sites that have very obvious biases, like worldnetdaily(conservative), foxnews(republican), and rense.com(liberal), act as filters. Its like a venn diagram. Whatever they have in common simply has to be at least very close to the truth.

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GEEKMAFIA

Saturday, April 1, 2006 2:25 PM

Fark: Just like Rolandreynolds said "the WORST place for news if you have the least of inclinations to continue liking the human race"
The Irish Independent: or more specifically Ian O' dohery; not often right, always honest.
The BBC: can't help it i just trust 'em.

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CHRISISALL

Monday, April 3, 2006 3:48 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by pizmobeach:

Where do you go to get information you believe?

Rush Limbaugh.

If he says we're winning in Iraq, I know we're losing. If he says the sky is blue, I know I'll see the orange of a sunset.

Try it; it works.

'Dittos' Chrisisall

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