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Anyone here a news junkie?

musicismylife78musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited August 2010 in A Moving Train
what sites do you visit, and how often?

What newspapers do you read? Physical hard copy, or online?

What 24 hour news stations do you watch? Do you only watch Colbert and Jon Stewart?
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  • South of SeattleSouth of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    musicismylife78 wrote:
    what sites do you visit, and how often?

    What newspapers do you read? Physical hard copy, or online?

    What 24 hour news stations do you watch? Do you only watch Colbert and Jon Stewart?
    I would take a gander and say most everyone on here is a news junkie since this forum is basically regurgitating news all the time.

    I myself am pretty much reading online news only at this point. All sites left, right, independent.

    Huffington, Fox, CNN, Infowars, etc . .
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  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,561
    Just refresh BBC news all day.
  • cajunkiwicajunkiwi Posts: 984
    As a former journalist I watch the news constantly - I learned quickly that most of the 24-hour media in the USA is biased, it's just a case of figuring out which direction they lean in (which doesn't take very long at all).

    Your options are sadly limited too. The talking heads on Fox are usually raving lunatics who will spout off any old nonsense to pander to the right. The ones on MSNBC seem to think they need to compensate for Fox and pander to the left. CNN doesn't seem to know where it's going, and tries to rely on flashy gimmicks and citizen journalism - and ends up appealing to hardly anyone (compared to Fox and MSNBC who, if nothing else, know their audience and exploit the hell out of it).

    It's a sad state of affairs when a comedy news show is the most reliable source of news on TV, but that's about what it's down to. The Daily Show and the Colbert Report certainly lean left, but they're not afraid to take on the left either - they are at least aware that ridiculousness exists on both sides of the aisle lol
    And I listen for the voice inside my head... nothing. I'll do this one myself.
  • FiveB247xFiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    In the US, no one is a "news junkie" but rather a fan of junkie news.
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  • blackredyellowblackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    I go in streaks... I'll watch/read it 24/7 for a few weeks, then get burned out because 90% of what is reported are worthless, sensationalist stories... and then I won't watch it at all for a while.

    It sucks you in to the point where you start wondering how story x, y or z will end (stuff you'd never usually care about)... mainstream media as a whole is sorta like the biggest reality show we have.
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  • JaneNYJaneNY Posts: 4,438
    Minor junkie I guess - Huffington post, Daily Beast, Slate, CNN, MSN, twitter and follow most of these, NPR, Jon Stewart on occasion, Bill Maher religiously (I know its comedy, but I enjoy it), Maddow on occasion, Olbeman on occasion. More in the winter - in the summer I'm outside more, but I still check my regular sites. Oh - also Slashdot, Techdirt, and Gizmodo. Maybe I'm not a 'minor' junkie after all :oops: I like to keep up with what's going on.
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  • Drowned OutDrowned Out Posts: 6,056
    Sites in my news favs:

    prison planet
    alternet
    americanempireproject
    antiwar
    AP
    CBC
    CNN
    commondreams
    counterpunch
    telegraph
    DemocracyNow!
    al-jazeera english
    DailyKos
    globalresearch
    infoshop
    indymedia
    mediamatters
    therealnews
    Reuters
    Worldnetdaily
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