Where do you get your news from?
Where do you get your news from?
In AppleOutsider's history of grand debates, I don't think this general question has ever been asked. solo asked two years ago Where Do You Get Your Cable News?, but I'm thinking of a more inclusive thread where AppleOutsider participants could discuss where everyone generally gets their news. Every medium applies. My intent is to foster better communication among us, not to divide each other over (legitimate) questions of liberal vs. conservative. I don't necessarily want to restrict discussion in that regard, but that's not the focus of this thread.
I rarely get my news from broadcast or cable television. I don't watch "The Big Three" on CBS, NBC, and ABC. I don't watch CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN Headline News or Fox News. The only exception is that I occasionally watch NOW with Bill Moyers on PBS because I think it's exceptional broadcast journalism. I'd like to watch Frontline on PBS if I had the time.
I get most of my hard news from the The New York Times online. I might read the Washington Post occasionally and The Village Voice even less frequently. The Scranton Times for local news.
I have to mention Atrios and Josh Marshall as the best blogs on the left. Those two people have a bit more legitimacy than your average blogger and seem to nail issues that matter much to me.
I get Newsweek and US News but rarely read them anymore because the content just seems old by the time the magazines hit the newstand-- and not particularly interesting at that. But I never miss a New Yorker issue. A lot more in depth content than you'd find elsewhere. Great articles by Seymour Hersch, Ken Auletta, and others.
"Fourth tier" sources for me include Salon.com, The Nation, and Common Dreams.org. Not particularly "fourth tier" for content- just for time spent reading articles there.
Gotta mention The Onion and the Daily Show too!
In AppleOutsider's history of grand debates, I don't think this general question has ever been asked. solo asked two years ago Where Do You Get Your Cable News?, but I'm thinking of a more inclusive thread where AppleOutsider participants could discuss where everyone generally gets their news. Every medium applies. My intent is to foster better communication among us, not to divide each other over (legitimate) questions of liberal vs. conservative. I don't necessarily want to restrict discussion in that regard, but that's not the focus of this thread.
I rarely get my news from broadcast or cable television. I don't watch "The Big Three" on CBS, NBC, and ABC. I don't watch CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN Headline News or Fox News. The only exception is that I occasionally watch NOW with Bill Moyers on PBS because I think it's exceptional broadcast journalism. I'd like to watch Frontline on PBS if I had the time.
I get most of my hard news from the The New York Times online. I might read the Washington Post occasionally and The Village Voice even less frequently. The Scranton Times for local news.
I have to mention Atrios and Josh Marshall as the best blogs on the left. Those two people have a bit more legitimacy than your average blogger and seem to nail issues that matter much to me.
I get Newsweek and US News but rarely read them anymore because the content just seems old by the time the magazines hit the newstand-- and not particularly interesting at that. But I never miss a New Yorker issue. A lot more in depth content than you'd find elsewhere. Great articles by Seymour Hersch, Ken Auletta, and others.
"Fourth tier" sources for me include Salon.com, The Nation, and Common Dreams.org. Not particularly "fourth tier" for content- just for time spent reading articles there.
Gotta mention The Onion and the Daily Show too!
Comments
Originally posted by shetline
I rely completely on posts by SDW2001 and trumptman to find out what's going on in the world around me.
I'm a complete failure.
Originally posted by ShawnJ
I'm a complete failure.
aww, that's what the scarecrow thought and he ended up being in charge of oz!
Originally posted by Akumulator
I get pretty much all my news from my employer.
work for cnn?
Originally posted by superkarate monkeydeathcar
aww, that's what the scarecrow thought and he ended up being in charge of oz!
wonder where he got his news from?
Originally posted by superkarate monkeydeathcar
work for cnn?
Originally posted by Akumulator
i'm hip brother!
Online/Publications:
NY Times
Chicago Tribune
LA Times
Detroit Free Press
BBC News
Radio:
NPR
Television:
Fox News
CNN
NOW (PBS)
60 minutes (CBS)
International NewsFirst
I read drudge, cnn, foxnews, LA Times. I get links from newshub. Tech stuff from macsurfer, arstechnica and a couple others. Educational stuff from edweek. I've added talkingpointsmemo, fair.org, and spinsanity from people here. I go to Time.com and read what is current and available. I read Thomas Sowell, George Will, Walter Williams, and David Limbaugh online a bit. Newsmax is something I have been hitting a bit, but they would definately be third tier stuff.
I'll add anything interesting posted here. I'm an info nut.
Nick
Physical papers that I read from time to time include the NY Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. Occasionally I'll read the NY Post (although I'm not proud of this fact).
I read the Guardian, the Observer and the Economist online editions (I had a subscription to the Economist that expired two years ago, but it still seems to get me all their articles on the website). I visit the Telegraph site every now and then and occasionally check out CNN.com and FoxNews.com. Google News has become a huge source of info for me, I like that it provides a wide range of perspectives.
Other online media sources that I check regularly include Indymedia, Drudge and BuzzFlash. For tech news I read Slashdot, The Register, Need to Know and Wired news / Wired Magazine.
What with posting here it's a wonder I ever actually get any work done...oh wait, I don't.
I avoid TV almost at all costs. I don't like watching it, and can find much better things to do with my time. I would say that most of my news comes from the radio, talk radio, NPR that type of thing (I bet you've never met any 18 year old guys who listen to NPR
Originally posted by Scott
No one mentioned slashdot?
Oh yeah! Daily.