Guard Dog Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 This came up in the election discussion. I thought it might be worth a look. Where do you get your news every day? Is it the same sites or do you jump around? What newspapers do you read? What news magazines do you read? What web sites do you rely on? For me, I read the local newspaper The Commercial Appeal everyday. There is a paper box at the end of the dirt road that leads to my place. I get it delivered every day. I'm old school like that I guess. I like to read an actual newspaper at night. Plus it makes good charcoal starter. It doesn't leave the petroleum taste on your food the way lighter fluid does. I also have a USA Today & Washington Post app on my Kindle and at I least look through those two everyday. I only get two magazines. I wouldn't call National Geographic a news mag but I've been reading it since I was a kid. I get both the print & electronic versions. I also read Reason magazine pretty regularly. As for web sites I check Drudge Report sever times a day. It has many different news sources linked to one page. I also spend at least an hour a day reading the RealClear sites (RealClear Politics, Sports, World, Books, History, Science & Technology). They are really well put together. "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoonDing Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 Muhammad from the local kebab. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrath of Dagon Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 Breitbart and https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/ "Moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity." Marshall McLuhan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volourn Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 Pretty much everywhere. 1 DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ganrich Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 Pretty much everywhere. Same here. @Wrath of Dagon- I like pjmedia a lot. I really like Bill Whittle. He is a passionate man, and although I don't agree with everything he says... His points are always compelling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oerwinde Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 Mostly Globe and Mail, National Post, and Breitbart now. Used to use CBC and HuffPo but they have gotten less and less useful as news sources and are more sources of attacking men and white people. The area between the balls and the butt is a hotbed of terrorist activity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 Well I start with my local NBC news channel for all my local stuff. I tend to skim yahoo for some easy fluff in the morning, but that is getting worse every day and I need a better casual news source. Once I get to work I check BBC and follow up with any stories that seem worth it. I use CNN student news for the kids once or twice a week, but it's not my cup of tea for the main news. On the way home I listen to a few different radio guys, mostly a local guy named Gil Gross, a conservative guy named Mark Levin, and the local sports guy Tom Tolbert. It's a long commute. Once home I tend to avoid news for the rest of the day. Of course, this forum is probably one of the better ways I get my news. It's amazing how many diverse sources people tend to post here, and I appreciate getting a bunch of different viewpoints on the major topics of the day. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agiel Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 (edited) Associated Press, Reuters, the Atlantic, New York Times, Washington Post, Le Monde, Al Jazeera, BBC. I also have a subscription to Stratfor. Edited August 20, 2016 by Agiel Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leferd Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 (edited) Shouldn't be a problem avoiding terrible echo chambers if you know what to look for. I follow individual journalists I respect. There are plenty of good journalists out there -- whether as generalists or specialists in their field. I also listen to NPR and APM on the radio. My go-to television news source is PBS. Adding to the above from the politics thread... For election news and analysis I follow Nate Silver, Clare Malone, and Harry Enten from FiveThirtyEight; David Wasserman from the Cook Political Report; and Sean Trende from Real Clear Politics. David Axelrod and Jon Favreau are former Obama Administration staffers and serve as my Democratic shills. Republican consultants Tim Miller and and Karl Rove cover the right. I follow Sopan Deb of CBS News and Katy Tur of NBC News covering Trump on the campaign trail. My national NBA reads are Zach Lowe of ESPN; Adrian Wojnarowski of the Vertical/Yahoo!; Marc Spears (The Undefeated/ESPN); Sam Amick (USA Today); Marc Stein (ESPN); Matt Moore (CBS Sports); Kurt Helin (NBC Sports); David Aldridge (TNT); Ramona Shelbourne (ESPN); and Rachel Nichols (ESPN). For baseball, I read Rob Neyer, Peter Gammons, Bill James, Rany Jazayerli, Jonah Keri, Jon Heyman, Jayson Stark, and Ben Lindbergh. My football follow is Bill Barnwell, hockey is Katie Baker, and the Men in Blazers got me covered for soccer. Bill Simmons' Grantland is dead and left a deep void in intelligent sports and pop culture writing. Good thing Simmons is now back with The Ringer. FiveThirtyEight is the gold standard when it comes to data journalism. I read The Ringer and FiveThirtyEight quasi-religiously. Father James Martin S.J., gives me the Jesuit perspective on current events and Reza Aslan from progressive Islam. Malcolm Gladwell is an automatic read and podcast listen. I read a lot more people for different things, but they may be a bit esoteric. Google News is my news aggregator. Edited August 20, 2016 by Leferd "Things are funny...are comedic, because they mix the real with the absurd." - Buzz Aldrin."P-O-T-A-T-O-E" - Dan Quayle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 Google News I like 538 when they stick to numbers but I don't visit it often Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
213374U Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 A site called forums.obsidian.net. You guys heard of it? 3 - When he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blarghagh Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 nu.nl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosbjerg Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 I read 2 local newspapers online, a very left leaning and a right-center leaning. Both very indepth and with imo great journalistic traditions. My feed on facebook is basically only information sites by now (unsubscribed from all but my closest friends' updates) For more analyctic global news I mostly have you guys and a household subsription to The Economist. 1 Fortune favors the bald. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceVC Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 The news networks I watch are CNN, Sky, BBC and Al-Jazeera At work my customers always have the financial channels on like CNBC, Bloomberg or Reuters so I watch a fair amount of that at work I read the Economist, Time and local newspapers And I follow several local radio talk shows but thats more for domestic news around political developments "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chippy Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 (edited) 'Alternative media' on Youtube. Mainstream media has an agenda, and only reports on anything that goes against that agenda when it must, and then in a totally neutral manner. The alternative press might have their own opinions, but reports on highly important world news that is just considered "irrelevant" by the BBC, ITC, etc. Edited September 12, 2016 by Chippy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosbjerg Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 Everyone has an agenda... 1 Fortune favors the bald. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quidproquo Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 Yeah, but always better to have your agenda up front. I get all my news online and I go through a bunch of places. AOL, Huffington Post, Fox, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, facebook. Have a bunch of sources and don't trust a damned one of em. As a bear in winter, so must I too hibernate soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orogun01 Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 8chan I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"* *If you can't tell, it's you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 A site called forums.obsidian.net. You guys heard of it? Full of shills man. 1 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quidproquo Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 A site called forums.obsidian.net. You guys heard of it?Full of shills man.too many blokes with an agenda. 1 As a bear in winter, so must I too hibernate soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgon Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 No one place in particular. BBC and the Danish equivalent are regulars i guess. It's free and I'm a cheap bastard. Yes you do get what you pay for I don't deny it. Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted September 13, 2016 Author Share Posted September 13, 2016 3 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chippy Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 Everyone has an agenda... I suppose it depends on how the agenda is put forward - if its about "behave as we behave and say what we say, or be on the wrong side of history" then I will refuse that agenda on principle. If it's Alex Jones saying "Hey! they said Trump is the racist backed by the KKK, but here's a video of Hillary Clinton going the the funeral of the grand master/maester (whatever) of the KKK, and her husband talking about what a great influence he was on him... and by the way buy these man pills, they'll boost your performance in bed by 900%". You can still see the agenda there, but he has still brought forward facts you otherwise wouldn't know. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volourn Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 (edited) I love Pepsi way more than Cola. Obama is stilla racist,s exist douchebag who loves to murder Amerikans and suck the weiner of mass murderers like the Iranian and North korean governments while bashing Amerikan allies like Kanada, Britian, Isreal, and Amerika. Edited September 13, 2016 by Volourn DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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