I'm just curious where do you get it from...Could be Mainstream networks (NBC,ABC,CBS, Fox,CNN, local stations .....ect) Newspapers (National rags, Local rags...ect) or Online..(Huffington post, Bloggers, Info wars...etc) or all of the above?
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Nice!...How the hell did I forget NPR and BBC
Where I live ( South Jersey) We have Ocean County College TV 20...where they show International News shows from around the World... Hong Kong, Japan, Germany, France..ect ....It's amazing what The US "Mainstream news misses out
All of the above with heavy duty industrial bias filter in place and change filter often as the filters tend to plug up with sludge rather quick.
I find everyone omits details that do not jive with their bias on most any news item now-a-days. Simple fact based reporting is a thing of the past. I have to watch/read/listen to a story while filtering out the parts of the report that are telling me what I should think about it and then watch/read/listen to other reports doing the same until all the true facts are gleaned.
I find everyone omits details that do not jive with their bias on most any news item now-a-days. Simple fact based reporting is a thing of the past. I have to watch/read/listen to a story while filtering out the parts of the report that are telling me what I should think about it and then watch/read/listen to other reports doing the same until all the true facts are gleaned.
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Nice!...How the hell did I forget NPR and BBC
Sadly IMHO, BBC covers our news better than we do.
And they are not telling their audience how to think either.
But any news concerning the Royal Family is of course suspect.
I found this from 1982 and remember the show when I was a kid in the UK...This was a News Show for Kids...Looks like The mainstream news for adults today in the US
You forgot Entertainment Tonight Sadly, I think many do use that for their news source
Mainly twitter, but also RT, PressTV (both with a grain of salt), and other alternative media online. I do sometimes watch CBS News,but usually they're at least a day behind. That is, for those times that they actually cover the story.
Sadly, I think many do use that for their news source Mainly twitter, but also RT, PressTV (both with a grain of salt), and other alternative media online. I do sometimes watch CBS News,but usually they're at least a day behind. That is, for those times that they actually cover the story.
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Mostly local and some of the big networks, but I take it all with boulder sized grain of salt.
Theres always an angle from which our information is disseminated. For example, why in the hell is CNN giving donald trump all this free publicity? Because they think he'll piss off more people than he'll impress.
99% of news coverage and content is based upon the political, social, and financial biases of network owners and their contributers. There are very few places to get 'real news' and when we do, its hard to tell whats been left out.
I listen to the freedom feens. worms. http://www.freedomfeens.com/
Theres always an angle from which our information is disseminated. For example, why in the hell is CNN giving donald trump all this free publicity? Because they think he'll piss off more people than he'll impress.
99% of news coverage and content is based upon the political, social, and financial biases of network owners and their contributers. There are very few places to get 'real news' and when we do, its hard to tell whats been left out.
I listen to the freedom feens. worms. http://www.freedomfeens.com/
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I mainly get them only and usually check several sources before believe anything. Media and especially mainstream media has turned into a "feel good" idiocy ( "look at these kittens", " this woman lost 1023923423 pounds" ) pieces and news playing on our fears, when in the same time ignoring major stuff.
I use http://www.newsola.com/#/us/ - leave it open in a tab for most of the day, hit refresh every now and then. I think it's pretty decent.
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I dont get depressed by watching the news. The reason is, its typically sensationalized bullshit, which is not to be taken as absolute.
The news should inform you, not by thinking what you see is factual truth, but to find out what the the particular news organization WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE.
When you start to see how many different sides want you to believe something different, you are better armored against their lies.
The news should inform you, not by thinking what you see is factual truth, but to find out what the the particular news organization WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE.
When you start to see how many different sides want you to believe something different, you are better armored against their lies.
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The same photo used to describe a Russian attack on civilian targets, an Ukrainian attack on civilian targets and of course an Israeli attack on in Gaza. And the only thing that is for sure is that this picture was taken somewhere around Donbas in Ukraine.
I try to view news from different sources. I am aware of the bias that they all have and try to adjust accordingly. Oh, I'll add I never view anything from al jazeera. Case in point is the image shown above. They are not alone in biased reporting, God knows -- but I'd rather see biased reporting from sources other than the mouthpiece of alqaeda.
Haven't been watching the news much lately. I understand the value of maintaining awareness of the events taking place in the world around you... ...to see where we're headed... ...and hell, where we're at now, both culturally and economically. I'm especially interested in hearing what sort of ideas our prospective new leaders have to bring to the table.
I just think the world is depressing enough without watching something that only draws more credence to the fact, albeit in a contrived and convoluted manner. I DO get depressed by watching the news, not because I find what's depicted to be depressing, but rather because the way the major networks operate is so incorrigibly farcical. So many games are being played. So many connections to unravel.
It opens you up to a way of thinking that is unhealthy for cultures and the individuals residing alike. By the time you figure out the truth, you've already gone insane from traversing the vast stream of tedium and inanity and are thus unable to communicate it. It's either that, or you're drinking the kool-aid and just floating, complacently-insane, down the stream of bullshit in the comfy inner tube that is your lofty sense of worldly knowledge. You're either obsessed or ignorant when it comes to what's on the news.
And of course both camps will argue over who is right - all over the bits of info we get from our respective points in the chain of the world's largest, longest-running game of "telephone." I'm tired of it. Telephone's a shitty game meant to teach children about an inherent flaw in human communication, specifically regarding how accurately we can realistically expect to convey information to one another.
I also do not wish to watch monkeys dance for our affection. I don't care much for flowery ideologues - talk policy with me. The mark of any successful politician is that he either doubts himself or he doubts his people. Don't assume your voters/viewers aren't capable of understanding the subject matter at hand. Most people, or so my goddamn faith in humanity tells me, want tangible facts. They watch the news for information. And not the sort that can be construed or must be interpreted. Objective, meaningful conclusions and observations.
Perhaps now, more than ever before, it's a shame that the mainstream media is looking to protect its own financial and ideological interests by doing what it sees fit to keep viewership up. It's something you see a lot of in movies, music, and games too. In some ways, it's our own faults that the news is what it is. They're simply doing what they know will produce results.
Its just so much nonsense to sift through that its hardly worth the time. My life seems to pass by just the same regardless of whether I watch/read the news, so I tend not to, unless I happen to be researching something of interest to me. At best, you get an approximation of the real image. At worst, you become completely mislead.
I'm sorry, I forgot this was a thread about where people get their news. Don't mind me...
I just think the world is depressing enough without watching something that only draws more credence to the fact, albeit in a contrived and convoluted manner. I DO get depressed by watching the news, not because I find what's depicted to be depressing, but rather because the way the major networks operate is so incorrigibly farcical. So many games are being played. So many connections to unravel.
It opens you up to a way of thinking that is unhealthy for cultures and the individuals residing alike. By the time you figure out the truth, you've already gone insane from traversing the vast stream of tedium and inanity and are thus unable to communicate it. It's either that, or you're drinking the kool-aid and just floating, complacently-insane, down the stream of bullshit in the comfy inner tube that is your lofty sense of worldly knowledge. You're either obsessed or ignorant when it comes to what's on the news.
And of course both camps will argue over who is right - all over the bits of info we get from our respective points in the chain of the world's largest, longest-running game of "telephone." I'm tired of it. Telephone's a shitty game meant to teach children about an inherent flaw in human communication, specifically regarding how accurately we can realistically expect to convey information to one another.
I also do not wish to watch monkeys dance for our affection. I don't care much for flowery ideologues - talk policy with me. The mark of any successful politician is that he either doubts himself or he doubts his people. Don't assume your voters/viewers aren't capable of understanding the subject matter at hand. Most people, or so my goddamn faith in humanity tells me, want tangible facts. They watch the news for information. And not the sort that can be construed or must be interpreted. Objective, meaningful conclusions and observations.
Perhaps now, more than ever before, it's a shame that the mainstream media is looking to protect its own financial and ideological interests by doing what it sees fit to keep viewership up. It's something you see a lot of in movies, music, and games too. In some ways, it's our own faults that the news is what it is. They're simply doing what they know will produce results.
Its just so much nonsense to sift through that its hardly worth the time. My life seems to pass by just the same regardless of whether I watch/read the news, so I tend not to, unless I happen to be researching something of interest to me. At best, you get an approximation of the real image. At worst, you become completely mislead.
I'm sorry, I forgot this was a thread about where people get their news. Don't mind me...
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No,no, that was an excellent assessment....Johnathan Gruber Obama's healthcare aauthor was caught on tape several times saying the law was written in a convoluted and nonsensical way in order to hide the truth and to discouraged people from reading it...that is why it is 3,000 pages long. Going through it would be mind numbing, that's why none of our so called representives read the damn thing.
The politacls class has done all it can to discourage the people participating in the governing of the nation by creating a Gordian's knot of beuacracy,and the media has been their most usefull tool doing it...they have done what the oligarchies of europe did..instill in the people's mind that they are not fit to goveren themselves, but need a class of annointed leaders who are more suited to the task......it is important to beware of the mass unconciousness of the time you live in, but you are right...it is also vitally important to be seperate and apart from it.....you can't argue with lunatics.
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