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Bidoof FTW

Bidoof FTW

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    Title question

    Do you trust your source of news? Do you feel they're accurate? What themes/news stories have you been seeing most often?
     
    I used to read Vox and the New York Times a lot, but lately I don't want play-by-play updates of everything... It's just depressing.

    The Economist is good about only taking the most important stories each week and distilling them nicely. They definitely have strong opinions, but they're honest and upfront about them, instead of just letting it infect the way they present the facts. Would definitely recommend.
     
    When it comes to sources I don't really stick with one spot.
    Since sincere and the full story is hard to come by, I try to keep my eye on certain areas and look around other places. Basically I don't try to use one as a solid source since I either.
    1) Don't want to stay on a one side leaning only news source.
    2) Don't want to be put in an echo chamber.
     
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    CBC Canada, it's our main new station
     
    Well sadly all major news stations are propaganda machines or exaggerate stories for views.

    My favorite is the conservative saying "CNN is FAKE NEWS PROPAGANDA" and then they end up saying they "Watch RT" and I want to at that point headbutt a sword fish.

    I have BBC on my phone to browse new articles but it's no better than the rest. I also get breaking news from some app I never downloaded that pulls from a bunch of sources (as in will pull a story from one source, but has a wide pool from which to chose. Not that it takes into account multiple sources to produce a more correct story. That would be too good!)

    All in all

    Capitalism + News = Lies

    Communism + News = Lies

    Can't win!
     
    mainly Twitter just because i follow most of the news channels on there and usually the main news will be trending. BBC and Sky News are others that I use.
     
    Yahoo, NBC, BBC breaking news, NPR, and two local sources; WFMJ (the NBC affiliate) and The Vindicator, which just so happens to own the local NBC affiliate.
     
    I tend to avoid mainstream corporate media. Generally I watch the David Pakman Show and Secular Talk; they do admittedly come from a left-libertarian perspective, but they aren't biased in what they present. Pakman also does a lot of really informative and sometimes entertaining interviews. I'm also an occasional Drunken Peasants viewer, but they're more entertainment than news.
     
    NPR, FOX, and social media. I assume anything I hear could be false, but I don't go out of my way to investigate things unless I plan to discuss it or unless what's presented would influence my political or philosophical beliefs.

    Most stuff on NPR and FOX is just some news story presented and a bunch of people give their thoughts about it. NPR tends to present stories that fit a liberal narrative and have mostly liberals on to discuss those stories, FOX tends to present stories that fit a conservative narrative and have mostly conservatives on to discuss those stories. Both have programs I like and programs I dislike, but in general they're both far more tolerable than other media sources on their respective "sides." I have yet to find a news source that I would consider unbiased and I don't expect to find one; everyone has an agenda and I don't think unbiased news media exists. I think the best you can ask for is contrast. Social media is there to fill the gap on things that neither the left nor the right want to talk about.
     
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    I use reddit, the wikipedia current events page, and the "realclear" network as a portal to get me to the latest news updates. I tend to avoid "corporate" news as well, especially articles that are too opinionated or not fact-dense enough for my tastes. I enjoy reading opinion pieces, but I really prefer when they are explicitly presented as such. I like news agencies, like Reuters or AP, and specific newspapers/media such as the BBC, CBC, and the Globe and Mail. Social media is often editorialized, but it's good for exposing me to things and opinions I otherwise wouldn't know about.
     
    NPR and BBC pretty frequently. Al Jazeera, sometimes, local news sometimes. Really, lots of different places. I'll also scan Google news sometimes to get a sense of what's in the headlines and taking over the news discussion for the day.

    I also watch Last Week Tonight, subscribe to The Young Turks, and other things that I know are going to give me a mix of news and commentary, but they're ones I generally trust not to present blatantly false information and/or conflate facts with opinions. I only mention them because sometimes they bring up events and things I haven't otherwise heard about and that spurs me to look it up somewhere else.
     
    I try not to watch mainstream news channels anymore. They feel more like propaganda machines nowadays. I mainly watch Last Week Tonight and independent news channels on Youtube like The Young Turks, The Humanist Report, and The Ring of Fire. I also read news articles on my phone's News app.
     
    I try taking in most sides and takes on a story, so there's no source I avoid in particular.
     
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    Kanzler said:
    For those of you who watch TYT, do you get the sense that they're really liberally biased?
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    Well yeah, of course they are! TYT is a progressive news channel, so that's to be expected lol. 😆 But they at least talk about other stuff, rather than just talk about Trump 24 / 7. That's what I like about them.
     
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