Best source to get news?

[PlaysLikeMyung]

What do you think is the best source of news?

Personally, I feel that the print media is probably the most objective source out there.

[Chino]

Barto

[SixDegrees]

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[El Barto]

All of those sources, and then learn to use your god damned brain. 

[Tick]

All of those sources, and then learn to use your god damned brain. 

Barto is a wise man, even if I don't agree with everything he says.
Best possible advise.

[EPICVIEW]

I like reading as much of the international papers, a lot of the ME papers and a few of the domestic papers, as I can ( online )

that way I can piece it together, and I feel I have a pretty good view of a story..and you can get a tone of whats going on and whats news to certain countries

I like blogs that link to the original article, so I can read it in context, and see if I agree or not

but I voted for "internet"

[Adami]

Fox News.

The Telegraph.

Blogs.


Those are the only trust worthy sources.

[eric42434224]

Never blogs for me.....that just adds another layer of bias to wade through to get to the real story.

[PlaysLikeMyung]

Fox News.

The Telegraph.

Blogs.


Those are the only trust worthy sources.

It's like you read my mind

[ehra]

Blogs.

Only some of them, though. If they're claiming something crazy like a birth certificate existing then that's just internet nonsense. Got to be objective, after all.


edit: Barto's right. No single source is good enough.

[El Barto]

Blogs actually are pretty useful.  While you've got to be able to decipher the various spins, there are often times when there are angles that don't automatically jump out at you.  Even people who are stunningly FoS will occasionally throw out an insightful point of view.  Often times when figuring out how they're spinning something or trying to be deceitful,   you'll see something from a different angle.  Challenging your own preconceptions, after all, is how you really learn things. 

[EPICVIEW]

Blogs actually are pretty useful.  While you've got to be able to decipher the various spins, there are often times when there are angles that don't automatically jump out at you.  Even people who are stunningly FoS will occasionally throw out an insightful point of view.  Often times when figuring out how they're spinning something or trying to be deceitful,   you'll see something from a different angle.  Challenging your own preconceptions, after all, is how you really learn things. 

whats blogs do you enjoy EB?

[Durg]

ESPN - that's the only news I care about.

[El Barto]

Blogs actually are pretty useful.  While you've got to be able to decipher the various spins, there are often times when there are angles that don't automatically jump out at you.  Even people who are stunningly FoS will occasionally throw out an insightful point of view.  Often times when figuring out how they're spinning something or trying to be deceitful,   you'll see something from a different angle.  Challenging your own preconceptions, after all, is how you really learn things. 

whats blogs do you enjoy EB?

I couldn't tell you.  There isn't any one thing that I read consistently.

[EPICVIEW]

I like Drudge for a quick overview of news feeds etc( is that a blog to you? Im not  sure what Drudge would be called)


I like some ME bloggers as as far as getting their POV

[7StringedBeast]

I stay tuned into CNN's website.  It's not great by any means.  I actually hate the way they choose what stories to run.

For example, I think they ran about 3 stories today depicting Marijuana in a negative light.  This is right after prop 19 gets voted down.  But before it got voted down, and it was looking like it had a good chance, they were reporting all stories showing it in a positive light. 

They were doing the same things when the whole "Islamaphobia" BS was going down.  Remember that term, "Islamaphobia".  Yeah that lasted about a month before everyone forgot about it and went back to their sane lives.

[XJDenton]

Out of the major sites, the BBC will always be my first point of call.

[rumborak]

BBC is pretty good, I would agree. I also read German news about international events because they aren't hyped up.

rumborak

[ack44]

Al Jazeera English.

[Nigerius Rex]

Google news and the p/r board.

[zerogravityfat]

i get my news from fox news only.

[j]

Sean Hannity.

But seriously, multiple sources.

-J

[Plasmastrike]

The best source? The more the better.

[skydivingninja]

Multiple sources are best, but BBC usually comes first for me.

[PlaysLikeMyung]

I guess I should have clarified and asked what is the SINGLE best source. As in, which source is less likely to have tons of spin/bias, more accuracy, etc

[GuineaPig]

I'm pretty sure the BBC is the gold standard for journalism.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

Blogs actually are pretty useful.  While you've got to be able to decipher the various spins, there are often times when there are angles that don't automatically jump out at you.  Even people who are stunningly FoS will occasionally throw out an insightful point of view.  Often times when figuring out how they're spinning something or trying to be deceitful,   you'll see something from a different angle.  Challenging your own preconceptions, after all, is how you really learn things. 

whats blogs do you enjoy EB?

"All of them"

[Implode]

I'd say that a combination of many sources is the best way to go.

Fox News.

I can't enjoy watching Fox News. It just makes me horribly enraged. 

[ZKX-2099]

Keith Olberman... oh shit...

[pogoowner]

Keith Olberman... oh shit...

I laughed when I heard about his suspension.

[Perpetual Change]

Yeah, is ANYONE　surprised?

[ZKX-2099]

Anybody wanna join me in assuming the Comcast merger had a lot to do with that?

[HarlequinForest]

Pretty anything you find on any of those other sources you will find on the Internet, and much, much more.

[William Wallace]

The best thing to do is to create a google news feed for yourself. Mine contains feeds from my favorite political commentary sources, a series of California newspapers (including two local papers), and one source for science news. I also developed a habit of signing up for emailed press releases. I originally did it for work and just continued for personal use. Just about ever organization, publication issues them. That's a pretty healthy combination, I think. 

[Ħ]

All three of them have their weaknesses.

TV - the worst bias...I don't think I need to explain why
Newspaper - very good, but you can only read about something the day after it happens.  It's very slow.
Internet - great resource, but easily abused.  You have to make sure you find a consistent source you can trust.

If you have a phone that can support it, I think the best way to get news is to download an application that constantly gives you the top news stories...I believe the major news sources will support it.  I would recommend LA Times and Wall Street Journal.