Where do you get your 'News' by pizmobeach

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Where do you get your 'News'

POSTED BY: PIZMOBEACH
UPDATED: Monday, April 3, 2006 20:59
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Friday, March 31, 2006 1:14 PM

... fully loaded, safety off...

So many sources so little trust... participate in an FFF.net unscientific pole:
Where do you go to get information you believe?

1. Paper

2. Web site

3. TV program

What are your top 3 (or so) most trusted?

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Friday, March 31, 2006 1:24 PM

MATTCOZ

The Onion

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Friday, March 31, 2006 1:42 PM

ROLANDREYNOLDS

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Fark (the WORST place for news if you have the least of inclinations to continue liking the human race).
CBC, and Globe and Mail very occasionally.

“When peace comes to mean the absence of conflict on the one hand, and when conflict with an unjust and racist political order is a moral imperative on the other, then it is not difficult to understand that the better class of human beings are, in fact, deeply committed to disturbing the peace and creating conflict.”
~Farid Esack

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Friday, March 31, 2006 1:49 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

I get my daily overdose of news from my own personal robots at www.piratenews.org, which include rss feeds from www.infowars.com , CNN and a dozen local, national and international news feeds, including Al Jazeera TV. I provide links to 100s of video downloads of censored news. The Media Mafia is paid for pathological lies. The trick to survival is to connect the dots between individual news stories, to see the Big Picture in the Real World. The Mainline Media is never allowed to do that, since USA does not have a national news media anymore - it's all mutlinational, and owned by the Military Industrial Complex that President Ike warned US about, dedicated to the overthrow of USA for the New World Order global dictatorship.

"You can't stop the signal! He killed me with a sword. How weird is that?"
-Mr Universe, Pirate TV

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Tangerine Dream - Thief Soundtrack: Confrontation
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Pirate News TV
Winner Best Music Video
Los Angeles Music Awards 2005
http://piratenews.org/hollywood.html

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Friday, March 31, 2006 1:55 PM

MSCKAREN

The Daily Show - I like my news blatantly fake and funny. (Of course, that would include Fox News for some...)

For serious news, I don't even trust my mother 100%. Everybody (including news agencies) have an agenda and their own perspective.

Because they try to overcome these things - I like BBC International and NPR. Of course, conservatives claim these agencies have a liberal agenda so maybe the question should be, "Who presents the news in a way that best reflects your world view?"

Or is that just another way of describing "trust". Hmmm, deep thoughts....

Now I need some chocolate!

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Friday, March 31, 2006 3:19 PM

SEVENPERCENT

Quote:
Originally posted by RolandReynolds:
Fark (the WORST place for news if you have the least of inclinations to continue liking the human race).

True - sad, but true. But if you want the pulse of the infosphere, that's the vein right there. But it certainly makes you wish for the end of humanity some mornings, that's for sure.

I usually start off the day with the web. CNN is set as my homepage, then I hit Fark, then I hit a few of the more popular blogs.

Then, I turn on the television, and hit the morning national news (CNN Headline if I'm in a hurry, CNN or MSNBC if not) while I eat breakfast.

Then, I hit the local paper (not the neighborhood rag, but the big daily).

Takes me about 90 minutes, but that's my morning routine as I get ready for work. I usually hit the web again for news when I get home. I'm not much of an evening news person; I got tired long ago of a "breaking story" that had half the details corrected the next day once they got their

together. I'm also a big link-clicker; someone posts a link to a news story here or in a blog thread I'll usually track it down just to get all the info I can.

Now, let me just say that while I like the web for news, I'm very skeptical. I usually discount blog news unless it comes from a verified source; "insider" is usually code for "bullshit," IMO. Even though it's a lefty blog, HuffPo is very nice for linking to major news outlets (including quite a few of the international orgs - the Guardian, the Independent, Al-J, a few Chinese and an Indian paper or two).

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Friday, March 31, 2006 7:10 PM

ROLANDREYNOLDS

Generally I'm very impressed with CBC radio 2. They cover things nobody else seems to, from angles nobody else seems to. Not to mention that time I heard about pirates attacking a cruise ship off the coast of Madagascar. CBC radio 2 is fricken shiny.

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Friday, March 31, 2006 11:20 PM

REAVERMAN

I look at all sorts of online sources. Ex: drudgereport.com, worldnetdaily.com, cnn.com, foxnews.com, etc...

I compare these sites, and whatever they all agree on, I take to be fact. If a lot of online only news sources agree on something, but the mainstream media doesn't, I also take it to be fact (or at least fact-like). Everything else is questionable at best.

Sites that have very obvious biases, like worldnetdaily(conservative), foxnews(republican), and rense.com(liberal), act as filters. Its like a venn diagram. Whatever they have in common simply has to be at least very close to the truth.

You're welcome on my boat. God ain't.

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Saturday, April 1, 2006 4:25 AM

GEEKMAFIA

Fark: Just like Rolandreynolds said "the WORST place for news if you have the least of inclinations to continue liking the human race"
The Irish Independent: or more specifically Ian O' dohery; not often right, always honest.
The BBC: can't help it i just trust 'em.

"Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns." - Joss Whedon
Liu koushui de biaozi he houzi de ben erzi.

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Monday, April 3, 2006 5:48 AM

CHRISISALL

Quote:
Originally posted by pizmobeach:

Where do you go to get information you believe?

Rush Limbaugh.

If he says we're winning in Iraq, I know we're losing. If he says the sky is blue, I know I'll see the orange of a sunset.

Try it; it works.

'Dittos' Chrisisall

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Monday, April 3, 2006 6:56 AM

PIZMOBEACH

... fully loaded, safety off...

Quote:
Originally posted by mattcoz:
The Onion

and

See, I was hoping to avoid that because I keep going there philosophically myself naturally and sometimes it feels like it must be a sign of my not caring. I mean I was trying (one last time... for now) to be a responsible citizen and find a few trusted sources - Browncoat Tested Tough! - for news to keep me from sliding back toward that same conclusion; "This world is so out of control we might as well laugh at it."

All time Onion Headline fav, next to a picture of a lunar lander: "Holy Shit! Man Lands on Fucking Moon!"

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Monday, April 3, 2006 7:08 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

1 Radio

2 T.V. ( Doesn't matter which channel. If something big happens, I'll watch which ever.

3 Internet

And FYI Chris, if Rush says it, he's far more right ( accurate ) than Stewart Smalley. But then, neither have news programs. One's an entertainer, and the other is a has been , washed up comedian from SNL.

I like to hold up different sources and then compare them to get a more composite view of the news.

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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Monday, April 3, 2006 8:32 AM

HERO

Quote:
Originally posted by pizmobeach:
So many sources so little trust... participate in an FFF.net unscientific pole:
Where do you go to get information you believe?

I get all my news from PirateNews. If you take everything he says...assume the opposite is true, squint really hard and turn away from your computer screen...the result is Edward R. Murrow.

H

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Monday, April 3, 2006 9:22 AM

CHRISISALL

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:

And FYI Chris, if Rush says it, he's far more right ( accurate ) than Stewart Smalley.

BWAhahahahahahahahahahah
Are you kidding? He's the flipside of Michael Moore to the 100th power!
At least Moore brings up facts, Rush makes most of his up...
That anti-drug druggie.
Do as I say, not as I self-medicate. He's no better than Clinton as far as truth and self-control go.

Gimme Howard Stern before Limbaugh Chrisisall

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Monday, April 3, 2006 9:33 AM

UNREGISTEREDCOMPANION

Fox News, The Colbert Report and the Onion.

I used to love CNN when it first went on the air, but then I began to notice this disturbing trend of stories MUTATING from their original airing at night to the day shift. By leaving out a comment or two, the whole meaning of a piece was changed.

I bet most people never even noticed it, but since my work hours were weird, there were times I would watch it at midnight, some times at 6 am.

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Monday, April 3, 2006 10:12 AM

FLETCH2

Quote:
Originally posted by Hero:
Quote:
Originally posted by pizmobeach:
So many sources so little trust... participate in an FFF.net unscientific pole:
Where do you go to get information you believe?

I get all my news from PirateNews. If you take everything he says...assume the opposite is true, squint really hard and turn away from your computer screen...the result is Edward R. Murrow.

H

lol

Tell me as a presecutor is there such a crime as "Use of a humourous phrase or saying with the intent of forcing the victim to inhale his own carbonated beverage?"

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Monday, April 3, 2006 10:19 AM

FLETCH2

I "surf" news on the bbc website. If a news story interests me I go to other sites as appropriate. So a UK news story would probably have me look at two or more UK newspapers that I know have differing political biases. If it's US I'd probably do CNN and Fox news and then go to newspapers only as a secondary source but that's mainly because I know the various POV of UK papers and so have filters set up for them, I don't have that for US papers.

Economic opinion and forcasting I used to get from Cato and Brookings, but when they both started going doom and gloom it kind of dulled my interest.

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Monday, April 3, 2006 11:52 AM

DARKJESTER

Google News. They pull stories from hundreds of sources. Fox News to Aljazeera, Christian Science Monitor to Jerusalem Post, The BBC to The Chinese People's Daily. They'll run the headlines for a story beside other news services' headlines for the same story/topic. I like seeing the bias various entities and countries put into their news coverage (including the US).

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JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

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Monday, April 3, 2006 3:12 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:

And FYI Chris, if Rush says it, he's far more right ( accurate ) than Stewart Smalley.
BWAhahahahahahahahahahah
Are you kidding? He's the flipside of Michael Moore to the 100th power!
At least Moore brings up facts, Rush makes most of his up...
That anti-drug druggie.
Do as I say, not as I self-medicate. He's no better than Clinton as far as truth and self-control go.

Gimme Howard Stern before Limbaugh Chrisisall

You could not be more wrong if you tried. I'm assuming you tried to be wrong the 1st time, but even if you tried harder, it wouldn't make any difference.

I find it funny that I bring up Stewart Smalley ,who has a radio show, and you counter w/ Michael Moore, who does not.

I guess on Howard Stern we can split the difference, cause I don't see him as all right or left. He's ..well, he's Howard, right ?

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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Monday, April 3, 2006 8:59 PM

BREWSKI

I tend to get my news... from everywhere.

CNN has completely turned me off ever since Faux News got on the air... I simply think they're more entertaining. MSNBC can be fun sometimes to watch simply because they tend to throw extreme political guests on there.

And as far as the Daily Show/Colbert Report, they can stick it. Last time I heard either show on the air, I audibly groaned at it's lameness...

Rush Limbaugh is good in small doses... but really only 75% of his topics bear fruit to mentioning... and then half that time he's simply reiterating the same statements over and over again.

I actually will occasionally listen to Radio Talk stations as well, and Boston has a good one - WRKO. However, at night if I'm driving home I'll alternate between music and Laura Ingraham.

Heck I may have to say I get more News out of South Park than anything. Such is life of a South Park conservative...

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