Where do you most often get your news? Please discuss below!
Posted May 22nd, 2008 by Corey W. deVos
Newspapers
6% (10 votes)
Magazines
0% (0 votes)
Radio (NPR, etc.)
15% (23 votes)
Television (Networks: ABC, NBC, FOX, etc.)
1% (2 votes)
Television (Cable News Networks: CNN, MSNBC, etc.)
12% (18 votes)
Television (Other)
3% (5 votes)
Internet (Blogs - please specify below)
9% (14 votes)
Internet (News Aggregators: Google News, Yahoo News, etc.)
24% (38 votes)
Internet (News Websites: Huffington Post, etc. - please specify below)
12% (18 votes)
Internet (Other - please specify below)
10% (16 votes)
Other (please specify below)
3% (4 votes)
I don't pay attention to the news
5% (8 votes)
Total votes: 156





I know it might be hard only
I know it might be hard only choosing one option, so pick your most frequent news source above, and describe your other sources here in the comments section!
For me, i get most of my political news from DailyKOS and Huffington Post--despite the obvious liberal bias these sites maintain, they really come up with some rather exceptional political commentary, with a (for the most part) very active and intelligent community.
Also, Google News is a great source--if the journalists can no longer be objective, at least the compilation algorithms can be ^_^
For television, i tend to switch between CNN and MSNBC for the latest breaking punditry while watching the primaries. Though, when CNN's John King starts playing with that hypnotic "magic wall" (essentially a massive iPhone interface) it can be damned difficult to change the channel....
Other than that, i admit a special love for Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Bill Maher--i think that, as comedians, they are allowed a certain removed sort of meta-media perspective which enables them some degree of space for some real insightful, off-the-cuff commentary--though the fact that they are able to perpetually keep their identities as "journalists" at arms length (due to the fact that they are indeed entertainers, and on stations like Comedy Central and HBO) means that their voices are easily marginalized as irrelevant political commentators.
For tech/geek culture, you can't beat BoingBoing.
For my hipster entertainment culture, i'm a fan of The Onion's AVclub.
And to keep in touch with the flotsam and jetsam of the collective stream of consciousness that is the internet, i am a huge fan of the social bookmarking browser add-on StumbleUpon, with every category of interest checked. But be careful--whatever precious free time you might have, will surely be sacrificed to the gaudy gods of web-based kitsch.
There's just so many
Does TMZ count? Does Celebrity gossip count.
World & national news is
World & national news is almost exclusively "news.bbc.co.uk"
Most other news is to do with my job & my hobby, so it's blogs, the register/inquirer, etc.
Several
I get my news on different channels. For daily update i take a look on the website from the Austrian Television orf.at,
and sometimes on spiegel.de (German weekly magazine), or nzz.ch and tagesanzeiger.ch (swiss newspapers).
In the morning when i am in the tram, than i take a short look in the paper called 20minutes. Sometimes when i get it in my hands i like to read the Herald Tribune or the spanish El Mundo.
News
I read the newspaper (SF Chronicle) daily and usually in depth. I like the skewed views from John Stewart and Stephen Colbert, so I'll tune those in when I get a chance, but I'll work a little harder to see Keith Olbermann. If the opportunity presents, I'll watch BBC news on BBC America, and on my nights off I do watch network news. Searching for an alternative to television during my son's breakfast time on schooldays I began listening to Stephanie Miller's radio show, which does offer a little news, but I find that I often will listen one or two hours into the Thom Hartmann show which follows it on "Green 960" in the SF Bay Area. Overview comes from Orion Magazine and internet news, usually Yahoo! news, but I do subscribe to Truthout and Internet Clearing House and will read the occasional article found there. Basically I don't trust blogs for news and don't read political or news blogs.
what the internet is good for ... widening our perspectives
I like Google News because I can read articles from all over the world and see the news through their eyes.
media ban.
About two years ago, I decided to completely ban all media from my life. It's truly amazing how the important stuff still reaches you. However it opens up space and time, for information that really matters, to come in. .
News
I am an avid reader of the Washington Post (paper edition) and have incorporated it into my morning ritual. Meditation, coffee/bfast, newspaper. On Sundays, I read the NY Times too. For me, it's always been a part of my waking day from the time I was a teenager and delivered the newspaper. A struggle w going on the net for news is that most people are purely consumers of news of news at that point. Actually holding the paper in hand and at least scanning the other article headlines brings me into greater awareness of things not on my radar. When I am going online I seem to hyper focus just on the thing/s that interest me. I use online sources for more context and for things I have deep interests in.
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