|
|
|
|
|
Users viewing this topic:
none
|
|
|
[Poll]
|
Where do you find out about current events
|
| Major TV "Nightly" or "Morning" Programs (ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS) |
|
| Cable Networks (i.e. CNN, FOX, MSNBC, C-SPAN) |
|
| Major Newspapers (i.e. USA Today, NY Times, Wall Street Journal) |
|
| Blogs (i.e. Daily KOS, Worldnet Daily, Huffington Post) |
|
| Radio (i.e NPR, Rush Limbaugh, Janet Parshall's America, Air America) |
|
| Other Internet Sources (i.e. Yahoo News, Washington Post Online) |
|
| Local News Programming or Local Papers |
|
| Syndicated shows (i.e. 700 Club, Oprah) |
|
| International Papers or News Sources (BBC, Al-Jazeera) |
|
| Other |
|
Total Votes : 127
|
(last vote on : 11/26/2008 10:02:41 AM)
(Poll will run till: -- )
|
|
Login  | |
|
RE: Where do you find out about current events - 11/8/2008 4:18:15 PM
|
|
|
small_creation
Posts: 200
Joined: 10/30/2007
From: midwest
Status: offline
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: dramagal
We don't get cable news anymore. I miss Brit Hume.
Favorite sites: Drudge, Newsbusters.org.
What happened to Brit Hume? I can hear his voice in my head now...
j
_____________________________
Pay no mind to me. I'm just a small town hick in fly-over country.
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Where do you find out about current events - 11/8/2008 4:21:25 PM
|
|
|
small_creation
Posts: 200
Joined: 10/30/2007
From: midwest
Status: offline
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: MrFribbles
I get all my news from two men - Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. ; )
Oh Mr. Fribbles! You scutt you!
And either would be perfectly comfortable in the rennaisance wig there in your avatar pic.
j
_____________________________
Pay no mind to me. I'm just a small town hick in fly-over country.
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Where do you find out about current events - 11/8/2008 10:38:23 PM
|
|
|
gigigirrl
Posts: 26
Joined: 3/27/2006
Status: offline
|
quote:
I was wondering if some of the differences people have on these boards have to do with what news sources they feel are authoritative.
Definition authoritative
1. having due authority; having the sanction or weight of authority: an authoritative opinion.
2. substantiated or supported by documentary evidence and accepted by most authorities in a field: an authoritative edition of Shakespeare; an authoritative treatment of a subject.
3. having an air of authority; accustomed to exercising authority; positive; peremptory; dictatorial: said with an authoritative air.
Actually I don't really think of the media as authoritative. Its mostly opinions at best. I do look for news in a lot of different places but for one I cannot stomach the local news, either TV or paper. The bias is quite noticeable. I do keep up with local news by reading a local on line news source (ie articles) in a blog format. He is libertarian and covers a lot of issues. Now of course I don't have a handle on the latest murders, accidents and generally negative happenings. Nationally I read, World Magazine, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, TownHall.com, CNS News.com, Newsmax, American Policy Roundtable (really makes me think), Free Republic, Michelle Malkin, Hotair, The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, Pajamas Media, WorldnetDaily, News Busted, and last i Google the news.
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Where do you find out about current events - 11/9/2008 2:58:03 PM
|
|
|
rnershigh
Posts: 271
Joined: 7/15/2005
From: somewhere over the rainbow
Status: offline
|
The American Spectator
The Washington Times
Yahoo news
National Review Online
Blogs, Hot Air
I google the news a lot too.
_____________________________
O Grave! where is thy Victory?
O Death! where is thy Sting?
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Where do you find out about current events - 11/25/2008 10:53:53 PM
|
|
|
John_O
Posts: 7800
Joined: 9/5/2006
Status: offline
|
www.freerepublic.com
It's a conservative news discussion site. The news unspun.
Since most mass media is incredibly liberal biased we unspin the news and get to the truth of things. 100,000 members disecting the news usually leads to getting rid of the mass media bias and finding what the facts are.
_____________________________
Psalms 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Where do you find out about current events - 11/25/2008 11:56:47 PM
|
|
|
tacitus
Posts: 1310
Joined: 5/12/2005
Status: offline
|
I included blog, but want to expressly exclude WorldNutDaily. It's not a blog, it's an extreme right wing tabloid prone to flights of fancy on a daily basis. It gives the National Enquirer a run for it's money.
And just you know, I do read more serious conservative websites, like the NRO and the conservative bloggers at the Atlantic -- my bias in the case of WND is against utterly trashy tabloid journalism.
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Where do you find out about current events - 11/26/2008 12:04:36 AM
|
|
|
tacitus
Posts: 1310
Joined: 5/12/2005
Status: offline
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: John_O
www.freerepublic.com
It's a conservative news discussion site. The news unspun.
FR can be very entertaining, I even have an account name there (but I'm not going to tell you what it is -- and it's not tacitus!) and have engaged in some interesting discussions on things like the Fair Tax, evolution etc.
Conservative, absolutely, but "unspun"? Please. The AP news articles they post may be unspun, but all the commentary, comments, and original posts on that site are about as "spun" to the right as you can get. There's nothing wrong with that at all, but let's not be in denial about it. If I were to claim that the Democratic Underground site (the left-wing equivalent of FR) was unspun you would say I was off my rocker, and you would be right. The same holds true for FR.
P.S. You should tell your fellow freepers that they need to stop blaming every single election defeat the Republicans suffer on ACORN. Might help with their long term sanity a little.
|
|
|
|
 New Messages |
 No New Messages |
 Hot Topic w/ New Messages |
 Hot Topic w/o New Messages |
 Locked w/ New Messages |
 Locked w/o New Messages |
|
 Post New Thread
Reply to Message
Post New Poll
Submit Vote
Delete My Own Post
Delete My Own Thread
Rate Posts |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Forum Tools
Printable Version
