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[Guest DragonflyKid]

Print: I live out in the country so the national newspapers aren't available here but I do pick up the local one. I also read newsmags when I get the chance.

 

Internet: I go to drudgereport.com because they offer links to many media outlets offering a wide range of headlines and some stories often not covered by the mainstream, corporate media.

 

Television: I never really sit down to watch a particular news program as I tend to channel surf, I do get draw to the 24-hour cable networks though. The Fox news channel is my favorite, I find their formats and on-air personalities the most entertaining and informative. They do go overboard with the "Fox Alerts" as seemingly uneventful stories are treated like serious,breaking news too often which becomes annoying.

 

What sources for news do you not like, which do you find unentertaining,biased or lacking in credibility?

[Guest areacode212]

Print: The New York Times, mainly. It's comprehensive in covering world, national and local events and they have really good writers. Even on slow news days, you can usually find something entertaining to read in their various weekly sections ("Science Times" on Tuesdays, "Circuits" on Thursdays, etc...). Elvis Mitchell, one of the paper's movie critics, is fucking hilarious, and his reviews are at times more entertaining than the movies themselves. One problem is that sometimes, it has a tendency to "stuff" or underplay stories that it deems unworthy, but gets wide coverage elsewhere. That doesn't happen too often, though. The other NYC dailies (Daily News and the New York Post) are interesting too, but not the must-read that the Times is.

 

Internet: news.yahoo.com and www.cnn.com are usually my first stops for late-breaking online news. Yahoo seems to get their stuff directly from the AP, and breaks them down into subjects (Entertainment, Sports, etc..). CNN, of course, exists to break hot news, so when there's something "big" going on (a war, a kidnapped journalist), I'll check there periodically to get the latest.

 

Salon has excellent writing and columnists, but I don't go there as often as I used to because many of their articles are in the "Salon Premium" section which require you to have a subscription. I may get a subscription anyway because it's not that expensive and I enjoy reading it.

 

Television: I don't get to watch much TV news nowadays. Not even the UPN 9 News that likes to feature a wrestling-related story after Smackdown on Thursdays. But once in a while, if I have a choice, I'll go with the local ABC news. The anchors have good chemistry and some of the female anchors are hot.

[Guest Tony149]

Print - I've never read a national newspaper like the N.Y. Times, etc. I mostly read my local newspaper.

 

 

Internet - I rarely read online news sites, but I mostly check out MSNBC.com.

 

TV - I won't have cable until Monday since it got cut off a week ago. When I had cable I watched a little bit of every news channel CNN, MSNBC, Fox News. I find myself watching MSNBC more due to them having Ashleigh Banfield (The girl with the glasses.) She's hot! I find a lot of female reporters hot.

[Guest areacode212]

Yeah, I did a Google search of her after you mentioned her in the word association thread (I think you associated her with "masturbating" or something like that) the other day. She is pretty hot, and the appeal of hot female reporters (to me) is that they're usually pretty smart, witty (sometimes they ask funny questions during a light-hearted, human interest-type interview), and well-dressed. It's like, what's under that pantsuit?

 

Though I thought that whole CNN/"Paula Zahn is just a little bit sexy" thing was pretty ridiculous because a) it was SO wildly inappropriate and b) I never thought Paula Zahn was especially sexy. Maybe "attractive" in a generic, fresh-faced way, but she's WAY too wholesome to be sexy.

[Guest theWCWRaider]

Print:  I really don't read newspapers that much due to my vision.

 

Internet:  msnbc.com, and drudgereport.com are to good ones.

 

Television:  I watch the cable news networks, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News.

I do not like the National Network News from CBS NBC or ABC at all.

[Guest Tony149]

I belive Anglesault was the one who mentioned Ashleigh Banfield in the Word Association thread not me. Although I think she's hot!

 

I think Paula Zahn is good looing. In a good wholesome family way. Which I like.

 

 

Somebody should start a "Hot female news reporters" thread.

[Guest J*ingus]

It's not print, net, or TV, but my favorite source is National Public Radio's newscasts.  They're about as unbiased as one can be.

[Guest DrTom]

First, I'll say that all  ews outlets are biased, no matter what they claim.

 

Print: I read the local paper (the Baltimore Sun) and that's about it.

 

Online: The local paper's web site, in addition to the Washington Times, WSJ, National Review, and The Economist.

 

Television: I tend to watch Fox, even though I find their claim of objectivity to be pretty laughable.  CNN used to suck, but they've improved a lot in the past few years, so I've been tuning them in more often, also.

 

Many times, the op/ed pages in papers are at least as good as the news reporting.

[Guest AaronMarco]

Print: local papers

 

Net: USATODAY.com, MSNBC, Salon, etc.

[Guest Kingpk]

Print: Boston Herald, Providence Journal, Time

 

Net: Don't really use net for news

 

TV: Fox News Channel, The O'Reilly Factor specifically.

[Guest AaronMarco]

Also mucho "talk radio" during my waking/working hours.

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Fox News.War O'Reilly.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

Newspaper: I subscribe to the Sunday Cincinnati Enquirer for the coupons. All the wire news was stuff I read from the night before.

 

Internet: Just about any outlet there is. Whenever something happens, I just visit that event's local media. (ex: Columbine -- Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News)

 

Radio: Talk radio. This is more of an entertainment escape than a news-gathering source, however.

 

TV: O'Reilly Factor. I graduated with a degree in print journalism, so I have a natural bias toward broadcast news. However, if I were to have a news/opinion show, it would be in a similar format that O'Reilly's is.

 

BTW: National Review, the brainchild of WFB 40+ years ago, is my fav. publication out there. I also get Newsweek. For what reason, I don't know why. I love their extended Olympic coverage. Could it be because NBC is television the Games and the two media organizations -- NBC and Newsweek -- are bum chums? Hmmmmm....

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

Newspaper: I subscribe to the Sunday Cincinnati Enquirer for the coupons. All the wire news was stuff I read from the night before.

 

Internet: Just about any outlet there is. Whenever something happens, I just visit that event's local media. (ex: Columbine -- Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News)

 

Radio: Talk radio. This is more of an entertainment escape than a news-gathering source, however.

 

TV: O'Reilly Factor. I graduated with a degree in print journalism, so I have a natural bias toward broadcast news. I am VERY disappointed in Mr. Keyes.

 

BTW: National Review, the brainchild of WFB 40+ years ago, is my fav. publication out there. I also get Newsweek. For what reason, I don't know why. I love their extended Olympic coverage. Could it be because NBC is televising the Games and the two media organizations -- NBC and Newsweek -- are bum chums? Hmmmmm....