Where do you get your "news"??

arthurdent

Jeanwah wrote:

International news and HuffPost. I used to like NPR, but they're appearing to be very biased lately, much to my dismay.

he still stands wrote:

I don't. I stopped watching the news a few years ago. I don't even listen to NPR anymore.

All I have to do is remember that the headline will always read;

The Situation is Desperate as Usual

That's true, although there's always the alternate headline with it:

Entertainment Update

just remember, the media is only giving the audience what they want. Don't blame us. We're just the messenger.

Jeanwah

arthurdent wrote:

Jeanwah wrote:

International news and HuffPost. I used to like NPR, but they're appearing to be very biased lately, much to my dismay.

he still stands wrote:

I don't. I stopped watching the news a few years ago. I don't even listen to NPR anymore.

All I have to do is remember that the headline will always read;

The Situation is Desperate as Usual

That's true, although there's always the alternate headline with it:

Entertainment Update

just remember, the media is only giving the audience what they want. Don't blame us. We're just the messenger.

Which results in lackluster qualities (if you want to call them qualities) in the messenger. Entertainment Update includes reality show people desperate to stay in the news by having a helium balloon hoax involving thier kids and then calling the media. :roll:

pateljam

BBC and CNN International for the TV
Council on Foreign Affairs iphone App
And whatever pops up when I am checking my yahoo mail...

g under p

Democracy Now
NPR
Al Jazeera
BBC International
The Washington Post cause it's here in the nation's capital
Fox News for the shear amusement factor as much as I can bare it.

Anything else that is listener supported that keeps out the influence of the corporate entity.

Peace

catefrances

just like the mainstream media i make it up to suit myself and whatever my current agenda is.

JaneNY

twitter, cnn online, slate, huff post, msnbc... But usually catch breaking news on twitter first.

pateljam

catefrances wrote:

just like the mainstream media i make it up to suit myself and whatever my current agenda is.

LMAO!

kenny olav

Everywhere.

keeponrockin

aerial wrote:

he still stands wrote:

aerial wrote:

It's not how many czars that is the problem it's there ideology that is scary.

Bush had a fucking "Faith Czar"!!! (see Factcheck source listed above)

Is there something wrong with faith? I can see Fucking faith maybe...but faith?

Is there something wrong with the Environment?

blackredyellow

catefrances wrote:

just like the mainstream media i make it up to suit myself and whatever my current agenda is.

Jeanwah

catefrances wrote:

just like the mainstream media i make it up to suit myself and whatever my current agenda is.

Great answer!

arthurdent

catefrances wrote:

just like the mainstream media i make it up to suit myself and whatever my current agenda is.

you know, most people who talk like that have no freaking clue what goes on in the real world :roll:

he still stands

arthurdent wrote:

catefrances wrote:

just like the mainstream media i make it up to suit myself and whatever my current agenda is.

you know, most people who talk like that have no freaking clue what goes on in the real world :roll:

So, what happens in this singular, omnipresent, and finite "real world"? :roll:

Drowned Out

arthurdent wrote:

just remember, the media is only giving the audience what they want. Don't blame us. We're just the messenger.

arthurdent wrote:

catefrances wrote:

just like the mainstream media i make it up to suit myself and whatever my current agenda is.

you know, most people who talk like that have no freaking clue what goes on in the real world :roll:

ok, I've almost got my head wrapped around this logic...
You're just the messenger, reporting what we want you to report...and if we think you report news to fit an agenda, we don't know what's going on in the real world....other than the news we want you to tell us about. So, in other words, we're reporting to ourselves about a fantasy world that we know nothing about? I'm confused.

I kid, I kid.... There is no agenda in mainstream media coverage. Anything misleading, ignored, or falsified can be blamed on the audience, and has nothing to do with corporate ownership/censorship, nor appeasing advertisers.

catefrances

arthurdent wrote:

catefrances wrote:

just like the mainstream media i make it up to suit myself and whatever my current agenda is.

you know, most people who talk like that have no freaking clue what goes on in the real world :roll:

hmm clearly youve no clue that i am not most people.

lukin2006

I do watch Fox, I am a self confessed conservative, but not the type of conservative that is portrayed in the media. I am for smaller government, lower taxes and a government that knows it's roll. Probably a pipe dream that I'll ever see a government like that.

I am Canadian so I also get my news from the CBC and locally from a local station.

Commy

lukin2006 wrote:

I do watch Fox, I am a self confessed conservative, but not the type of conservative that is portrayed in the media. I am for smaller government, lower taxes and a government that knows it's roll. Probably a pipe dream that I'll ever see a government like that.

I am Canadian so I also get my news from the CBC and locally from a local station.

less gov't = more freedom yeah?

i agree.

i'm also socialist.



http://www.truthout.org/

catefrances

Commy wrote:

lukin2006 wrote:

I do watch Fox, I am a self confessed conservative, but not the type of conservative that is portrayed in the media. I am for smaller government, lower taxes and a government that knows it's roll. Probably a pipe dream that I'll ever see a government like that.

I am Canadian so I also get my news from the CBC and locally from a local station.

less gov't = more freedom yeah?

i agree.

i'm also socialist.



http://www.truthout.org/

so if we have less government then we have more freedom?? what was the responsibility of the government becomes the responsibility of private corporations(who are beholden to no one but their stockholders if theyre floated) that given time may well become homogenous and in all possibility a monopoly .. whats the difference??

less government=more freedom=flawed premise

Commy

catefrances wrote:

Commy wrote:

lukin2006 wrote:

I do watch Fox, I am a self confessed conservative, but not the type of conservative that is portrayed in the media. I am for smaller government, lower taxes and a government that knows it's roll. Probably a pipe dream that I'll ever see a government like that.

I am Canadian so I also get my news from the CBC and locally from a local station.

less gov't = more freedom yeah?

i agree.

i'm also socialist.



http://www.truthout.org/

so if we have less government then we have more freedom?? what was the responsibility of the government becomes the responsibility of private corporations(who are beholden to no one but their stockholders if theyre floated) that given time may well become homogenous and in all possibility a monopoly .. whats the difference??

less government=more freedom=flawed premise

good point. and i should clarify mine.

i see no difference between a gov't institution and a corporate.

i'm socialist but i'm also anarchist. no institution should exist on its own. the people can do what the authorities have claimed they are needed to do.


i see what your saying, its a good point. and i'm opposed to corporate authority as much as i'm opposed to gov't.

catefrances

Commy wrote:

catefrances wrote:

Commy wrote:

less gov't = more freedom yeah?

i agree.

i'm also socialist.



http://www.truthout.org/

so if we have less government then we have more freedom?? what was the responsibility of the government becomes the responsibility of private corporations(who are beholden to no one but their stockholders if theyre floated) that given time may well become homogenous and in all possibility a monopoly .. whats the difference??

less government=more freedom=flawed premise

good point. and i should clarify mine.

i see no difference between a gov't institution and a corporate.

i'm socialist but i'm also anarchist. no institution should exist on its own. the people can do what the authorities have claimed they are needed to do.


i see what your saying, its a good point. and i'm opposed to corporate authority as much as i'm opposed to gov't.

and you think the answer is maybe ......?