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How do you get your news? (1 Viewer)

Where do you get most of your reading news from

  • Certain sites I regularly visit

    Votes: 47 57.3%

  • Links from feeds I encounter (Google, Facebook, Twitter, here)

    Votes: 28 34.1%

  • I rarely/never read news online

    Votes: 7 8.5%
  • Total voters
    82
gianmarco said:
Curious how you keep up with current events.
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I mostly get it on my phone through updates through certain favorites. I also follow a ton of Independent news sources like Democracy Now and The Intercept. Very Rarely read CNN/FOXNEWS etc content anymore. Both the DN and TI do world news wise that Main Stream media refuses or won't cover either so I get a broader range on Current events world wide. I like it better and there's no agenda other then reporting actual news. 

 
Websites like Drudge allow you to skim headlines very quickly...the problem is that many times the headlines are not even remotely close to what is in the story or article or piece of trashy journalism. 

It's difficult to get folks united but one thing I wish everyone would fess up to is the News is Big Business and these corporations want you to watch, click and read at ALL COSTS. It works well for them that there are 2 jerseys to choose from and they build a narrative to cater to their audience and demographics. We're all getting played. 

I click and surf most of the major ones but I find Drudge and Daily balance each other a bit and then Fox and CNN again you have to look at both to understand how they pit us against each other. I've stopped watching almost all of the TV News, in fact TV in general isn't paying as much in our house these days. 

 
Prior to COVID, I avoided keeping up with the news aside from trade journals. Anything important would surely come up in conversation with friends/coworkers, or forums like this.

And my wife insists on watching the local TV news, but its mostly background noise for me. 

 
Stick to BBC and Reuters for the most part.  I'll listen to certain programs on NPR and I'll watch my local news from time to time.  That's it.  I don't even know what the channel numbers are on my cable box for our MSM.

 
A little bit of everything, a lot of nothing. I think this method minimizes potential for developing a bias and unintentionally ending up in an echo chamber. And I generally don't absorb anything outside of an hour or so block each day - any more and I don't retain as much. 

 
100% reading, 0% TV.

I subscribe to the NYT, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic. Much of my news comes from those sources. But I also read a bunch of stuff linked to from the FBG forums and Twitter.

 
I read NYT, listen to NPR.  CNN has been a bookmarked tab for a decade+ , but it only serves for a good laugh now.

 
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I have these apps in the "News" folder on my phone:  AP, BBC, Reuters, NYT, Guardian and my local newspaper's app.  Watch the local news only when the wife has it on.

 
matuski said:
I read NYT, listen to NPR.  CNN has been a bookmarked tab for a decade+ , but it only serves for a good laugh now.
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When 9/11 happened I watched CNN all the time. The coverage was serious and mostly good. 
 

A few years ago, I had jury duty, and the TV in the waiting room had on CNN, which I hadn’t watched in a very long time. It was painfully bad, with hysterical, screechy coverage about the same few topics, most of which were nonsense, over and over. What the hell happened to them?

To answer the question, I mainly peruse here, Facebook and a Phillies board I frequent to get a sense of what people are talking about, and click on the articles that look interesting to learn more. I haven’t watched TV news on purpose in a long time.

 
I have not watched TV For a long time.  I usually check Google News when my spidey sense tells me something is about To happen.  Then I may post here about a few days later if I see a thread about it.

 
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