Where do you get your News from?
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Topic: Where do you get your News from?
Posted By: Maximus Germanicus
Subject: Where do you get your News from?
Date Posted: 01-Jun-2010 at 03:38
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Just wondering Myself Broadcast: BBC America (I don't like most of the US cable news, because there is too much fluff) Local news CNBC/MSNBC Chris Matthews show and Joe Scarborough (only two I watch because of the in-depth political coverage even though CM is way mor liberal than me, at least he has common sense the rest of the channel is way too left) Online: Int Herald Trib (NY Times) Der Spiegel BBC online Print: Wall Street Journal Finc Times The Economist Politics: Politico Wash Post Sport: ESPN News (I am an addict) BBC and the Daily Mail for Rugby Union and Soccer For Fun News talk show Real time |
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Posted By: DreamWeaver
Date Posted: 01-Jun-2010 at 06:19
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The BBC and the Independt ------------- |
Posted By: DreamWeaver
Date Posted: 01-Jun-2010 at 06:19
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Al Jazira also every now and again ------------- |
Posted By: TheGreatSimba
Date Posted: 01-Jun-2010 at 07:28
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Broadcast: AlJazeera PBS Newshour Online: BBC online Mediamatters Huffington Post Washington Post New York Times Several other websites For Fun News talk show The Colbert Report ------------- I use CAPS for emphasis, not yelling. Just don't want to have to click the bold button every time. |
Posted By: opuslola
Date Posted: 02-Jun-2010 at 14:42
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Fox News baby!
I sometimes watch MSNBC, CNN, and ABC, CBS, and NBC to see how the "Hate America" and Israel crowd is doing? And, it seems if we look at the stats, that they are doing poorly! Yes, I sometimes read my local newspaper, as well as the Times Pycayune, and sometimes even the NY Times,but not often! I just hate to read hate speech! Regards, ------------- http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/history/ |
Posted By: TheGreatSimba
Date Posted: 02-Jun-2010 at 15:45
Why do you get your news from a channel that admits it only has 6 hours of news programming (biased news programming at that)? No wonder you're out of the loop on most if not all political issues, try diversifying a bit.
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Posted By: opuslola
Date Posted: 02-Jun-2010 at 18:01
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Dear TGS! Please do not get your panties in a wad? I thought I mentioned that I do let my eyes wonder about the "other side" on occasion!
Watch those panties, young lady! 
Sorry, as far as I know you could well be a woman! Regards, anyway! ------------- http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/history/ |
Posted By: TheGreatSimba
Date Posted: 02-Jun-2010 at 18:20
MSNBC, CNN, and ABC, CBS, and NBC are not the "other side". ------------- I use CAPS for emphasis, not yelling. Just don't want to have to click the bold button every time. |
Posted By: opuslola
Date Posted: 02-Jun-2010 at 18:44
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There goes your panties again! laugh!
Of course they are! One side is "right" as in correct, and the other side is "left" as in "gauche!" From Wikipedia; "In French, gauche generally means "left" or "awkward"" Ok, the rest of the news media are "awkward!", but that is as nice as I can write it! 
Regards, ------------- http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/history/ |
Posted By: TheGreatSimba
Date Posted: 02-Jun-2010 at 18:49
MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC are not "left". American Media consists of extreme right, Fox "News", and Moderate, which is MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC. Left media doesnt exist in the United States, except on the internet. ------------- I use CAPS for emphasis, not yelling. Just don't want to have to click the bold button every time. |
Posted By: Cryptic
Date Posted: 03-Jun-2010 at 14:50
Public Television is leftist. Under duress, they even let go one of their news anchors after he confused personal editorials with "news" and refused to give air time to conservative rebutals.
Even their new motto "fair and unbiased reporting" is a joke.
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Posted By: TheGreatSimba
Date Posted: 03-Jun-2010 at 15:36
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Public Television, NON-PROFIT, is a lot of the times neutral and very reliable precisely because its NON-PROFIT. Those who think its biased tend to be the same ones who watch Fox News and therefore have a skewed idea of the left-right political spectrum. Most media in in the US ranges from moderate to the extreme right (i.e Fox News). However, even public television (the News Hour on PBS for example) has a pro-Right bias:
The closest Liberal "news" shows on TV would probably be the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. ------------- I use CAPS for emphasis, not yelling. Just don't want to have to click the bold button every time. |
Posted By: warwolf1969
Date Posted: 17-Jul-2010 at 09:55
| Generally I get my News from the BBC. I also read the Times. Internet news is usually the BBC as well. For sport I watch which ever channel is broadcasting the sport I'm interested in. |
Posted By: opuslola
Date Posted: 17-Jul-2010 at 13:27
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A small red FOX, usually tells me what to think and what to say!
"OPEN THE POD BAY, HAL! Sorry Dave!" Sorry I meant TGS! ------------- http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/history/ |
Posted By: Patryk
Date Posted: 22-Jul-2010 at 18:13
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I don't watch the news. I create it! I live the world as it happens!
But I do need intel briefings so:
http://www.debka.com - www.debka.com
I use Drudge to keep aware of the news hour by hour ( http://www.drudgerport.com - www.drudgerport.com )
I like real clear politics for analysis ( http://www.realcrealpolitics.com - www.realcrealpolitics.com )
I will monitor places like Deutsche Welle just to make sure I am not too biased toward English-language sources and also to practice my greatly under-utilized German.
From the news stands, I will pick up The Economist, the South China Morning Post, or even splurge and get Foreign Affairs Quarterly.
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Posted By: TheGreatSimba
Date Posted: 22-Jul-2010 at 20:39
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I find this the best combination of World News: BBC News International (Western viewpoint, plus they are pretty neutral), and Aljazeera English (Eastern viewpoint, also pretty neutral). Also occasionally Russia Today (to see what another world power has to say about things). Does anyone know of a Chinese English language channel? I've also been checking out these websites to get my facts straight regarding the US: www.politifact.com www.factcheck.org Very useful, especially when there is so much propaganda and misinformation being spread here in the US. ------------- I use CAPS for emphasis, not yelling. Just don't want to have to click the bold button every time. |
Posted By: red clay
Date Posted: 23-Jul-2010 at 05:49
In philly, you get the media version, then you go here-
 To get it all sorted out and properly "splained".
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Posted By: Patryk
Date Posted: 23-Jul-2010 at 17:32
And much of it comes from Robert Gibbs' mouth ...
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Posted By: opuslola
Date Posted: 23-Jul-2010 at 17:39
Maybe Bob, is really a "Glibb?" ------------- http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/history/ |
Posted By: opuslola
Date Posted: 23-Jul-2010 at 18:03
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From Fox and Glenn Beck;
Will Rangle, wrangle his way out of this, or will MSNBC fire its correspondent? See; http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/43389/ ------------- http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/history/ |
Posted By: TheGreatSimba
Date Posted: 23-Jul-2010 at 18:09
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Sure it does. Once again, I will refer you to two non-partisan websites which have been very useful to me: www.politifact.com www.factcheck.org They are two websites founded for and dedicated to filtering out the lies and determining the truth. You can even submit questions to them and they will answer. Politifact is quite interesting is because they have a "truthometer" and they'll tell you when a politician is lying or telling the truth. Check them out, cant hurt. ------------- I use CAPS for emphasis, not yelling. Just don't want to have to click the bold button every time. |
Posted By: opuslola
Date Posted: 23-Jul-2010 at 18:15
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Are you saying that Charlie baby actually paid all of his taxes, on time?
Are you saying that he is innocent as a lamb? ------------- http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/history/ |
Posted By: Patryk
Date Posted: 23-Jul-2010 at 21:16
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http://www.politifact.com - www.politifact.com looked pretty biased. Come on! They actually gave Joe Biden a "1/2 true." Joe Biden doesn't even believe Joe Biden! |
Posted By: Patryk
Date Posted: 23-Jul-2010 at 21:28
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If you get your news form MSNBC, you will be misinformed. If you get your news from Fox, you will be misinformed. If you get your news from Aljazeera, you too will be misinformed. The point is; there is no TRUTH out there. Other than Einstein's and Kepler's Laws of Motion and other points made by the hard sciences; IT IS ALL SPIN. I could see it in politifact.com and I see it in Glenn Beck (who I see only on youtube since I work in Asia).
It boils down to which group already supports your existing Weltanschauung. Maybe it's Maddow maybe it Beck. Either way, if you are looking for "facts" study mathematics or chemistry.
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Posted By: DreamWeaver
Date Posted: 24-Jul-2010 at 07:50
Are they? Your pushing it with that, but that would be for a different discussion. ------------- |
Posted By: TheGreatSimba
Date Posted: 24-Jul-2010 at 08:40
I think you're confused. What that side does is take statements that people make, evaluate them to see how true they are. If you read their explanation (there is a link under the meter), it would explain why they gave him a 1/2 true for that political statement. Here is where they explained why they gave him a 1/2 truth for that statement regarding nation building in Afghanistan: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/jul/20/joe-biden/joe-biden-says-us-not-engaged-nation-building-afgh/
A 1/2 means that not everything he says is precisely correct but is not completely wrong either. I believe a half truth is a very reasonable rating for that statement based on their assessment. politifact and factcheck are not biased at all, they merely report the truth, that is why they were created, to cut out all the crap thats spewed out by cable news networks. I suggest you check both of them out, you'll learn a lot, I know I have. ------------- I use CAPS for emphasis, not yelling. Just don't want to have to click the bold button every time. |
Posted By: Patryk
Date Posted: 24-Jul-2010 at 21:49
| I know how politifact ranked the Biden comment. That's why I was so incredulous. Giving him 1/2 credit just because the WH doesn't use the term "nation-building" is like giving Biden partial credit because he used a complete sentence or because Afghanistan does indeed exist. On the key point of "nation-building" whatever you want to call it, Biden obfuscated. He gets a "0" from me. That's not to say I don't like the guy. I liked him for years ... going back to his Apartheid Divestment days (1986). I think he is the most honest person in this administration. |
Posted By: TheGreatSimba
Date Posted: 25-Jul-2010 at 10:07
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so do you or do you not think we are nation building in Afghanistan? I'm confused regarding your stance. I have to agree with politifact here, we are doing some things consistent with nation building, on the other hand, we are not committed to staying there for a long period of time and not investing as much effort into building up the nation. So in my opinion, I think a half is very justified. I think you're just biased here, their assessment is pretty fair. Like I said, its a non-partisan website dedicated to being fair and reporting the facts. ------------- I use CAPS for emphasis, not yelling. Just don't want to have to click the bold button every time. |
Posted By: Patryk
Date Posted: 27-Jul-2010 at 18:45
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We are doing Nation-Building in Afghanistan whether we call it that or call it "lovely flower cultivation." We are doing Nation-Building.
One of my buddies from the Army picked up the nick-name from the local Iraqis or "Abu Falooz" (father of the money) because he was part of a Civil Affairs team that wandered around Iraq handing out money to anybody who wanted to build a bridge or upgrade a town's electical grid. Much of the money disappeared and no work was ever done. He said his group started the threaten Iraqis if they didn't do the promised for which they had been given thousands of US dollars ("I need to see a bridge her in 30 days or some of my friends will come at night" -- he used to tell them). Anyway, the Americans were more pro-active. He said the Italians and Poles in his sector just gave the money and hurried back to base because their were under strict orders from home not to get killed.
YES, Bush started that. We have flushed billions down those Arabian and Aryan toilets. Trying to make those people in the smiliing, turbaned versions of Danes or Australians isn't going to happen. The best case scenario in almost any country is a dictator who just so happens to be friendly towards us. They are not going to do pluralistic democracies.
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Posted By: TheGreatSimba
Date Posted: 27-Jul-2010 at 19:04
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You did say you were a Tea Partier right?
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Posted By: opuslola
Date Posted: 27-Jul-2010 at 19:10
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I especially like Orange-Pekoe!
Yummy! ------------- http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/history/ |
Posted By: SilverTungsten
Date Posted: 21-Sep-2010 at 16:09
| I get news from mostly TV and the internet. I don't really follow one specific news site, I just browse a few and read what interests me. |
Posted By: eaglecap
Date Posted: 21-Sep-2010 at 16:45
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Radio:
Savage Nation, Rusty Humphrey, Laura Ingram, NPR and coast to coast am Internet: Jihadwatch, Gates of Vienna, Savage Nation, and Walid Shoebat TV: None ------------- Λοιπόν, αδελφοί και οι συμπολίτες και οι στρατιώτες, να θυμάστε αυτό ώστε μνημόσυνο σας, φήμη και ελευθερία σας θα ε |
Posted By: TheGreatSimba
Date Posted: 22-Sep-2010 at 14:09
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isnt "Gates of Vienna" your own blog?
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Posted By: Patryk
Date Posted: 23-Sep-2010 at 04:37
| I have read Gates of Vienna. I think I read it a few times. It's good. I also like Jihadwatch. Robert Spencer knows his stuff! |
Posted By: opuslola
Date Posted: 08-Oct-2010 at 20:52
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Well some of my news comes from this site;
http://mail.aol.com/32783-111/aol-1/en-us/Suite.aspx Perhaps all of you should read it? Regards, ------------- http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/history/ |