Do you watch the news?

[Ryanh1801]

Simple poll, do you watch the news or read the news everyday?

I brought this up because in class today in a little debate, I got pretty pissed when non of the class had any knowledge of any of the big news stories happening past and present(Professor included). I think its pretty bad when people have no knowledge of anything going on, but yet seem to hold strong convections on subjects. Anyways I'm interested to see what this poll shows.

 

[Blender]

I get 2 papers for my news. The local news on television has got to the worst and most national news isn't far behind. They go what they call "in depth" and are done in less than 2 minutes. I am so sick of campaign news that lately I just turn it off or change the channel.

I find the best news to be The News Hour on the PBS station.

 

[ArcaneXor]

I get my news online, mostly via Yahoo! News (which is mostly Associated Press), but also from the BBC and various other international sources. For specialty areas of interest, I subscribe to RSS news feeds from sources like SPACE.com, Imdb, etc.
I find TV news pretty useless, since they tend to be extremely US-centric and spend way too much time on entertainment and human interest stories. I can't stand "talking head"-style "news", so I tend to avoid CNN, Fox News, etc - I like to make up my own opinion rather than have some extremists do so for me.

I used to love All Things Considered, but haven't got around to listening to that show in about 10 years - I wish they had a Podcast to download.

 

[Ryanh1801]

I get 2 papers for my news. The local news on television has got to the worst and most national news isn't far behind. They go what they call "in depth" and are done in less than 2 minutes. I am so sick of campaign news that lately I just turn it off or change the channel.

I find the best news to be The News Hour on the PBS station.

I have to agree with the national news. It has been pretty hard watching it lately. So I have been going to the internet to look at stuff.

 

[the_bird]

Internet all day.
Bloomberg terminal all day.
WSJ.
NPR.
Local newpaper.
Various other stuff.

 

[RodfatherX]

Simple poll, do you watch the news or read the news everyday?

I brought this up because in class today in a little debate, I got pretty pissed when non of the class had any knowledge of any of the big news stories happening past and present(Professor included). I think its pretty bad when people have no knowledge of anything going on, but yet seem to hold strong convections on subjects. Anyways I'm interested to see what this poll shows.

HA .........thats most of my college also. I use to do model UN in college and we would have a club recruiting day once a semester at college. 90% of the people asked if they wanted to join had no idea what the heck the United Nations was, or what it does.

 

[Yooper]

Our "local" news TV channel is 90 miles away and mostly fluff, so I catch the national news and some CNN and read Msnbc every day.

I'm disgusted by people (including teenagers) who have no clue about the world around them. I also dislike "news" stories about pseudo-celebrities and that nonsense. I'm old enough to remember respecting Walter Cronkight for unbiased news.

Tonight at dinner, my 16 year old son, my husband and I discussed the news and world events, including politics. This is important.

 

[Professor Frink]

I try to watch the news, or listen to NPR, in the morning when I'm getting ready for lab. But when I'm at work, I check the news religiously online.

 

[Tenchiro]

I get the vast majority of my news off the internet, from various sources. A lot of it from Fark, Wired, Slashdot, Boingboing & Gizmodo. Occasionally I peek into Reuters & the AP feeds. The sources vary wildly depending on the subject.

Fark is good to find a little of everything. Wired, Slashdot and Gizmodo are good for the Tech/Gadget news items. Wired, Slashdot & Boingboing are good sources of copyright news when the RIAA, MPAA, DMCA & Net Neutrality are concerned. And 99% of all corporate new is taken directly from the Reuters & AP feeds, so I just go to the source for them.

The only thing I watch on TV that could be considered news is the Daily Show and Colbert Report, admittedly that is stretching it by calling that news. Anything on the local/national TV news is frequently a week old, so they are pretty worthless.

 

[EdWort]

National Enquirer. What else is there?

 

[olllllo]

As a GOPer, Ryan, how could you have missed the radio?

Anyway
NPR
A local radio station with Glenn Beck, one with Hannity
TV
Newspaper
Internet
Daily Show

 

[Fingers]

I catch the news every morning on one of those breakfast shows, but I check two different news sources online many times a day. SWMBO is a TV nut so I mostly let her pick her shows while I surf and yack with you guys. We'll watch the evening news sometimes, but with the exception of local news, there's little 'new' stuff on there for me.

 

[Ryanh1801]

As a GOPer, Ryan, how could you have missed the radio?

Anyway
NPR
A local radio station with Glenn Beck, one with Hannity
TV
Newspaper
Internet
Daily Show

**** forgot that one. Knew I would miss something. I don't listen to the radio to much though. I'm not in my car enough.

 

[Beerrific]

Drudge.
Anyone else?

 

[brauhaus]

I try to watch the news, or listen to NPR, in the morning when I'm getting ready for lab. But when I'm at work, I check the news religiously online.

I listen to NPR on my commute to work, or KYW1060 on the AM dial... I don't watch much news on the tube, if I do watch news it's usually the first 5 mins of the 10 or 11 o'clock news...

altho, I prefer the radio.

 

[maltMonkey]

I'm disgusted by people (including teenagers) who have no clue about the world around them.

I'm one of the disgusting ones 31 years old, but I just don't really care what's going on for the most part. I'm not political, I don't vote, and the news (when it's the real news--you know, 2% of what is actually on news channels) is really nothing more than a series of conversation starters for a lot of people.

 

[uglygoat]

interweb thingy and radio.

i cruise a few forums that whacko's and commies, and die hard usa types post numerous articles for consumption and discussion.

i'm pretty much apolitical though. wake me up when we're manning the barricades.

 

[mrkristofo]

I get the NY Times, read Google's news headlines, BBC.co.uk & lemonde.fr, and listen to NPR.

Maybe I should start looking at Fox News, too, just to balance it out.

EDIT: How did I possibly forget the Daily show and Colbert report...

 

[the_bird]

I'm about to re-subscribe to Foreign Affairs, too. It used to be that there was a big difference between www.foreignaffairs.org (the mag) and www.foreignaffairs.com, but it looks like they've bought out the porn site.

 

[njnear76]

I get most of my news from the internet and NPR. I also read a great news magazine called the Week, which is excellent in printed form (few advertisements, loads of content, and thin size).

The week is great since it contains content from every major newspaper in the world so it gives you a balanced view.

 

[the_bird]

Oh, I forgot; I've been starting to re-read The New Republic on occassion. Tends to be very well-writen. The movie from a few years back about the young TNR "journalist" who basically made stuff up - Shattered Glass - I highly recommend.

 

[njnear76]

Drudge.
Anyone else?

Yikes. I don't mean to offend anyone, but I don't consider Drudge, Al Franken, Rush, Air America, the Daily Show, Colbert Report, editorials in newspapers, etc... as new sources. They are commentators on the news and should be considered as a form of entertainment.

Journalism, which is just about dead in this country should only contain facts and never display any bias.

Interestingly enough bias does not stop there. Only a few articles make it to print. Selection is a form of bias as well.

I don't want to be a conspiracy nut, but I think it is important to realize that corporations, individuals, politicians, and so on have an agenda. They can and do choose to report the stories, which will further their cause.

A well informed citizenry in my opinion is important to preventing corruption. Our founding fathers believed in a free press primarily for that reason.

It's a shame that most of the crap on the news is entertainment related and contains very little, which could better ourselves as a society.

 

[ohiobrewtus]

Local news is worthless....

"It's 6:00, here's a list of people who tragically died today. Now here's the weather. We have 10 doppler thingy majiggers that tell us there's a 10 percent chance of rain tomorrow and remember, we give you the same weather report every 5 minutes because we need to justify the money we spent on all this crap."

Do I really need news at 5:00, 5:30, 6:00, 6:30, 10:00, 10:30 and 11:00?

Is a dog biting an adult neighbor really air worthy? And did you really need to send a location reporter there?

I despise TV news. It's worthless programming presented by a bunch of pretentious egomaniacs.

I'd read the local newspaper if they would ever hire someone to spell/grammar check.

 

[ArcaneXor]

I'm one of the disgusting ones 31 years old, but I just don't really care what's going on for the most part. I'm not political, I don't vote, and the news (when it's the real news--you know, 2% of what is actually on news channels) is really nothing more than a series of conversation starters for a lot of people.

Communist!

 

[Beerrific]

Yikes. I don't mean to offend anyone, but I don't consider Drudge, Al Franken, Rush, Air America, the Daily Show, Colbert Report, editorials in newspapers, etc... as new sources. They are commentators on the news and should be considered as a form of entertainment.

Well drudgereport is just a compilation of news stories with links to the stories with very little personal commentary. I like it as a quick way to check the headlines. The way the links are presented and which are presented are of course subject to Drudge's bias but it is not much worse than any other news website.

 

[the_bird]

I'd read the local newspaper if they would ever hire someone to spell/grammar check.

I loved the headline in the local paper after the bank next door to my office was robbed.

"Local Residents Express Fear, Indifference Over Robbery"



Regarding weather reports, the NPR station does a phenomenally detailed weather report every morning that gets into so much mind-numbing detail (do I *really* need to know the weather on top of Mt. Washington - three states away!), by the time they get to the point where they tell me what the weather's going to actually BE like, nine times out of ten I've completely spaced out.

 

[zoebisch01]

It's too depressing, manipulated and incomplete for me. I figure if it is important enough, I'll hear about it.

 

[FlyingHorse]

Internet (random blog cruises, Slate, cnn for headlines), daily paper, Atlantic, Economist. Weather channel.

Can't bear the fluff of local TV news, and the 24-hour TV news stations are absolutely unbearable.

 

[njnear76]

Well drudgereport is just a compilation of news stories with links to the stories with very little personal commentary. I like it as a quick way to check the headlines. The way the links are presented and which are presented are of course subject to Drudge's bias but it is not much worse than any other news website.

I agree. Corporations and individuals have an agenda. The NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and so forth are not immune. They select the stories, which will get printed.

In regards to the Drudge Report, I think news stories should be separated from editorials. A mixing of the two can be a bit dangerous.

 

[arturo7]

Internet, mostly New York Times and Slate, as well as the Economist magazine in print form.