Where Do You Get Your News?

TRIFORCE89

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    As newspapers collapse and we increasingly become interconnected, old fogies think we young folk are uninformed. Getting our news through comedians and Twitter. But how can we be uninformed in an era of 24-hour instant news?

    Where do you get your news? What outlets? What forms of media? What bias, if any?

    For me...

    I mostly pay attention to The Globe & Mail newspaper (only, not as a newspaper. I follow them on Twitter and I'm subscribed to their RSS feed) and CTV News (on the TV, RSS feed, Twitter feed) for both local and national news. I find both these to be pretty balanced and fair. And CP24 for local news, as a kind of default channel for the TV when nothing is on XD

    I also follow The National Post on the national and international level. They're more of a fiscally centre-right, business perspective kind of paper. RSS feed again.

    For international news, I like CNN. But I supplement that with the Washington Post as well sometimes. Again, all RSS XD And I watch CNN on the TV.

    And then for opinion pieces, I follow some blogs of media personalities: John Moore (a local Liberal-libertarian radio host), Fareed Zakaria (from CNN), Michael Coren (Canadian Conservative personality), John Tory (a local Progressive Conservative radio host, former politician, and community organizer), Matt Gurney and Christie Blatchford (two reporters from the National Post), Steve Paikin (TV host, moderates political debates), and Michael Moore

    And I do watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report too. I also watch a local program called "The Agenda", which airs on TVO - our Province's public broadcaster. Basically an educational / informative show, hosted by Steve Paikin - one of the people I listed above. More about learning about a topic, then reporting it or debating it.

    TV, Twitter, RSS, Internet, Radio. I think I'm pretty well-informed. I use a variety of media, and try to take into consideration various viewpoints
     
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    I check the BBC news website usually once a day. That lets me know generally what's going on in the world, and it gives me the big news stories happening in America without all the WHAM! POW! sensationalism you get from most major American news sources when talking about news in America.

    I used to put on MSNBC in the background and watch Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, and/or Ed Schultz depending on what time it was, but after a while I saw that Lawrence and Ed were kinda those gasbag-type commentators who had trouble being objective so I don't watch them anymore.

    I also have a few sites I check that aggregate various news articles by content so I can follow particular issues whenever something newsworthy regarding them comes up, but isn't "big" enough to make it to big news media.

    And if there is some major event in particular going on I'll just google it and read through a lot of different sources for that.
     
    Yaaaaayyy YouTube :D

    I usually get my news from ABC's YT channel but yeah, I don't follow the news much, apart from Readers Digest and Times or whatnot.
     
    I don't make intentionally follow news most of the time, but I'll occasionally check the BBC news website. Then I'll sometimes flick the news on tv and add in what you pick up from random sites you browse and talking to people and suddenly you're fairly brushed up on the daily news.

    BBC Sport is the first thing I check when I open my browser though so I definitely keep track of sports (mainly football) news.
     
    Surprisingly enough, I get quite a lot of information from Tumblr, lol. Though the majority of it is American news, I get rapid-fire updates that keep me up to date on whats going on rather having going on twitter or whatever, I can't stand that site. But by no means is Tumblr my main source, no. I use CNN whenever i'm on the internet or the local papers for whenever I want a more in-depth coverage of the news, as biased as those sources are.
     
    diab_low said:
    Well I get my News everywhere. I like ABC News 24 on TV. I also read newspapers if they are around, the Internet is another medium for my news and sometimes the radio.
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    Yeah, same with me... I watch the ABC non-stop because of that, it's pretty convenient news in Australia.

    I also read news on the internet, particularly the ABC.
     
    For the most part, I tend to get a lot of my news from what people retweet on Twitter. Often they'll provide a variety of different sources - especially if it's a big event, like the recent shootings in Colorado - which is great as I like to read a lot of viewpoints on the big stuff. Often I hear about stuff on Twitter before a lot of the big news outlets pick up on them (or, at least devote large parts of the airspace/websites to them), which is also great.

    In terms of more traditional media, I really dislike watching TV news, for the most part. Although I'd argue that the UK TV news media are a lot better than their American brethren, I'm still not a massive fan of their reporting styles. The BBC's is too concerned with not upsetting the status quo, and ITV has become ridiculously tabloid. As for newspapers, the only one I'd think to read would be the Financial Times. The rest are too obviously under the thumb of their executive culture, and end up being ridiculously politicised as a result. While the FT is, of course, biased towards the financial world, it reads a lot more objectively than most of the bigger newspapers in the UK.

    As for non-Twitter internet news reading, I actually like the BBC's website. I find that a lot of the problems that affect the TV version don't really make it into the website version. As well as this, the New York Times has one of the better news websites. I just wish it wasn't under paywall! I'd homepage that shizz if not for the dang paywall.
     
    I get most of my information from Twitter and Tumblr honestly. Sometimes from friends on Facebook. But most of it comes from the first two medias I mentioned. I sometimes get stuff from TV/the newspaper but they're usually a day later. :P

    If I get it from a news outlet it's usually the Huffington Post or Yahoo! News (while ignoring the awful comment sections of course).
     
    I get my news mostly from the newspaper, which I read everyday at work.

    Other than that, I make occasional forays into MSNBC and BBC. I also get news from Facebook and from people making posts about news stories in forums.

    I don't get my news or politics from the television on account of the fact that I rarely even watch TV.
     
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