The paper? Online news? Magazines? Friends? Forums (similar to DA)? More 'independent' sources?

Which ones do you use, how much do you trust them?

I rely on a little of everything. I seldom watch TV News and usually when I do its News World International. I love the internatinal programming on that station, along with Mosaic news of the middle east (on World Link).

Mostly I listen to the Radio. I like NPR Radio. I also listen to some talk radio though most of that is sensationally biased. I listen to Sean Hennity on occasion.

Occasionally I will get some info on the Net. That is where DA comes in.

mostly my.yahoo.com for news and here. I watch the local news from time to time.

When I'm at my parents, I watch CNN Headline news, simply because they have Satellite and no local channels, and I can't find any of the regular news channels

The Daily Show.

And yes, I trust it, they're very good at reporting the truth. :|

Originally posted by igofast
The Daily Show.

And yes, I trust it, they're very good at reporting the truth. :|
Y'know. I probably respect their reports more than any of the news networks. Sad as it may be. And I say that without exaggeration. They tell me what issues are significant, truly significant. If it makes the Daily Show headlines, it's probably worth paying attention to.

I use www.csmonitor.com (Christian Science Monitor) for most of my international news, and DA is my primary source for watercooler stories.

I flip through MSNBCFNCNN when sitting in front of the teevee, but that's getting to be a rarer and rarer amount of time.

Originally posted by Unrepresented
Y'know. I probably respect their reports more than any of the news networks. Sad as it may be. And I say that without exaggeration. They tell me what issues are significant, truly significant. If it makes the Daily Show headlines, it's probably worth paying attention to.
I agree. I actually do trust them. I was just making a joke.

Originally posted by igofast
I agree. I actually do trust them. I was just making a joke.
Yeah, I understood, I just didn't want to be misunderstood as being just cynical for sarcasm's sake.:)

I'm cynical for far more depressing reasons.:|

1. Online news. Multiple sources.

2. Radio. (to and from work)

3. TV. Infrequent.


I don't trust any one of them. They all have their own weaknesses.

Here's a challenge to the media that has sold out to you kno who...

DERELICTION of DUTY
THE EXODUS OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
A TVNL CHALLENGE
Feb-2004

In another time, there would have been questions. In another time, there might have been answers. But then again, in another time there were independent journalists.

In another time, there would have been outrage. In another time, there would have been headlines. But then again, in another time, there were relentless reporters.

But in our time, in the media, there are very few questions. In our time, in the media, there are even fewer answers. There is no outrage, and there are no blaring headlines. In our time, the government has a free hand to act with impunity and without accountability. But then again, in our time, George Bush and his PNAC cohorts are in power.

In our time, the public remains shamefully uninformed. In our time, the distractions, diversions, deceptions and delusions permeate the media. In our time, not asking is patriotic, and not knowing is the norm. If that continues, we will run out of time, in our time.

In our time, someone has to pick up the gauntlet. In that hope, TvNewsLies will review some of the questions that demand answers. We challenge the corporate media to openly and vigorously publicize the secrecy and stonewalling that have surrounded each of them. We challenge the media to pursue the answers to any or all of these questions, so that we may know the truth before the next presidential election. We also challenge the media to explain why we will not know the answers, at least not in our time.

THE QUESTIONS.....

http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/dereliction_of_duty.html

I used to read the Tampa Tribune (great newspaper) back home, but now I have no source of news, since I have no TV and internet sources seem stupid.

You can't just live in a cocoon. The Internet has more real news than any paper, because the good sites cull the best news from all the top sources, and link to the original articles.

Do yourself a favor....sign up for email headlines and links FREE from tvnl- and see how much you get that you wouldn't get from a single paper or any tv news.

Here's where to go. Then click on their 'current news" - and go to any category: war, poltics, international, etc. See what you get.

http://tvnewslies.org/html/mailing_list.html

i watch NBC and CNN... i know the news producer at NBC in NYC so i guess i'm too trusting...

Here's an analysis of CNN's approach to the news. It's being included in a book someone is doing on consumerism. Just check out the way this editor calculated that in a full hour of prime time 'news' - what you really get is less than FIVE MINUTES of news. The unreported stories could fill the Grand Canyon...

http://tvnewslies.org/html/cnn___contains_no_news.html

Originally posted by Manu
The paper? Online news? Magazines? Friends? Forums (similar to DA)? More 'independent' sources?

Which ones do you use, how much do you trust them?
i like usa today, the economist, and los angeles times or orange county register, though seems more so now than ever most stories are bought from associated press or reuters. doesnt seem very fair and balanced to me :|

i also like npr for radio. on television i suppose cnn or bbc. never, never, ever watch local stations for my news.

Originally posted by rascal
Here's an analysis of CNN's approach to the news. It's being included in a book someone is doing on consumerism. Just check out the way this editor calculated that in a full hour of prime time 'news' - what you really get is less than FIVE MINUTES of news. The unreported stories could fill the Grand Canyon...

http://tvnewslies.org/html/cnn___contains_no_news.html


I agree that the major TV news sources don't give very much in the way of substantial news, but tvnewslies? Come on, they claim that everyone else is biased yet at the bottom of the page they have Bush, Cheney, etc. on a modified 'Most Wanted' deck of cards. I guess this is the unbiased, respectable journalism they're talking about :rolleyes:
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

TVNL is openly anti Bush. They make no bones about that. What they do say, however, is that the media has not exposed Bush-Cheney-PNAC for what they are, and have not given the public the truth about the people in power in this country.

TVNL is filling in the gaps for those who don't have the facts. They are working hard to unseat Bush, and make no attempt to hide that. What you have to question is whether the news they offer is factual, and whether the people know these things.

Read this editorial to understand more clearly:
http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/dereliction_of_duty.html

The bbc, the guardian, fox news, cnn, yahoo, local channels, things that I find posted on the net.

I don't trust any of them. They all have an agenda. I try to take it from all sides and form an opinion.

That's one of the reasons you post on the Internet. Maybe the circle of friends you hang out with are the same, but trust me, MOST people get their news from FOX or CNN...or a local news station that gives nothing but the material they're fed.

Why do you think that the majority of Americans still connect Saddam to 9/11? That was no accident. But.. hang in there. If all Americans were as skeptical as you, and willing to look at 'news' as something to be questioned, we'd be in far less trouble.