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  • macgyver06
    macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    DPrival78 wrote:
    hannity and colmes.


    this is part of the problem...this isnt a news source...its entertainment...
  • macgyver06
    macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    slightofjeff wrote:
    If I'm looking for "news," I pretty much stay off of politicians' own web pages.


    nice!
  • Bu2
    Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    Thank you, everybody, for turning me on to new websites to get my news from. As always, I agree with some, and disagree with others. But at least, this way, I'm getting fair and balanced news for once.

    Anyone else want to pitch in with some of their favorite news sources?
    Feels Good Inc.
  • jlew24asu
    jlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    Bu2 wrote:
    I'm getting fair and balanced news for once.


    http://www.foxnews.com



    :D I'm sorry I couldnt resist
  • Bu2
    Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    jlew24asu wrote:
    http://www.foxnews.com



    :D I'm sorry I couldnt resist

    LOL!! Yeah....I kinda figured that would be coming.
    Feels Good Inc.
  • sweetpotato
    sweetpotato Posts: 1,278
    alternet
    utne
    daily show :)
    bbc
    npr
    "Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, Barack Obama."

    "Obama's main opponent in this election on November 4th (was) not John McCain, it (was) ignorance."~Michael Moore

    "i'm feeling kinda righteous right now. with my badass motherfuckin' ukulele!"
    ~ed, 8/7
  • IAmMyself
    IAmMyself Posts: 671
    Jon Stewart
    "Please help me to help you, help yourself." EV
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,540
    from the drunk at the corner store ....
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,656
    It might be a good time to revisit this thread.  I would suggest we all (me included) take more time to research an issue before declaring something we read as "fact". 

    Let's start with places least likely to give accurate information:

    -FaceBook memes.  The Bible of news for a huge number of people with a reliability factor of practically nil.  This is news blasphemy.

    -Websites 90% of us have never heard of.  If it's not familiar, it's probably not reliable.  On the other hand, some are actually quite good if they focus on single issues like weather.  realweather.org, a site not widely known,  is an example of reliable, science based information regarding significant weather-related topics.

    -CNN/ NBC/ MSNBC/ ABC/ CBC.  Viewer beware, I say!

    Some places I find more reliable than others:

    -The Guardian.  A news source with a longstanding large degree of respect.

    -Huffington Post.  Written off by some as "liberal" but Arianna Huffington is a business woman who has written a several business books so she is not just simply a social issues person and though not totally reliable, HuffPost does a fair job of covering a lot of news.

    -National Geographic.  The world isn't just about humans and National Geo gets that.

    -Ten Club Forums, AMT.  I once mentioned that I get some of my news here and I was severely berated for saying that. The fact is, there are often news items that I hear about here first.  That doesn't mean it stops there.  In fact, some items that come up here end up tying up a lot of my time doing research.  I appreciate it when I learn of something here.

    I'm open to other suggestions!  

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni











  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    Its all fake news ... I heard that somewhere ... 
    Give Peas A Chance…
  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    I was being sarcastic.

    Windsor Star - Local News
    National Post 
    CBC
    CTV
    CNN
    Global
    ABC
    CBS
    NBC
    Detroit Free Press 
    Mlive


    Give Peas A Chance…
  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    No Faux News ...
    Give Peas A Chance…
  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,394
    I'm going to guess that the people who get their news from "Facebook memes" are the same people who believe that.....

    Hillary did it
    Obama did it
    Bill did it
    Democrats are to blame
    The press is the enemy of the people
    Newtown didn't happen
    9/11 was a govt. plot
    Jews run the worlds financial systems
    Obama is coming to take your guns
    Etc etc etc
  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    My limited time is probably spent mostly on Drudge.  I don't have TV, and my only internet is my data plan on my phone.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,656
    unsung said:
    My limited time is probably spent mostly on Drudge.  I don't have TV, and my only internet is my data plan on my phone.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drudge_Report

    Origins

     The Drudge Report started in 1995 as a gossip column focusing on Hollywood and Washington D.C.


    They've come a long way, right?


    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni











  • Moonpig
    Moonpig Posts: 659
    I get my news from the only credible source left: Q
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,445
    Moonpig said:
    I get my news from the only credible source left: Q

    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,540
    npr car radio to&from work 30mnts ea way during week .
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    Honestly, I get most of it from here and the AP and then I vet it here.

    I'm lazy and the good folks on this forum do my due diligence for me lol

    It's really nice being liberal, no matter how many times conservatives cry about fake news, the plain truth is that far, far less fake and false news circulates in leftist circles, even the extreme ones.
    Conservatives are constantly having to fact check and can't share a meme or image without it blowing up in their face as a photoshopped lie.  
    The de facto head of conservatism lies dozens of times a day and it isn't even permissable to use fact checking sites as they all suffer from the liberal bias of reality.

    It's tough to be a conservative and be informed.
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,656

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni











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