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Where do you hatrackers get your news from?
I get most of mine from the internet and newspapers, and recently have been getting very little of it from television.
I get my news from:
1. New York Times - supplied to me on campus, as well as from the online version
2. You guys, being a member keeps me pretty up to date on the important topics
3. Daily Show and Colbert Report. I am honestly getting to think this is a better source of TV news than most of the other stations.
4. BBC News Online
It this a good enough balance to get the news that matters? I'm trying not to filter out the news that I don't particularly care about. Should I add some more sources? What do y'all do?
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3. Other internet sources (forums, discussion etc.)
4. The Toronto Star (local news)
EDIT: To answer your question, I think that I get fairly well balanced, non-extremified news from these sources.
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Hatrack and my Friends list on LiveJournal. I do sometimes check news.google.com, but not very often. I subscribe to the feed for Broadsheet and do click through to read the articles there fairly often.
I sometimes feel a vague sense of guilt about not keeping up with news very much, but honestly, at this point in my life it's not very important to me. I'm starting to get more interested, though, and I'm hoping that trend will continue as I get older. I'd probably still get most of my news from Internet sources.
edit As to whether your sources are balanced enough... well, since I don't follow the news very closely I can't say for sure. Personally, when I'm interested in a particular news topic I tend to go to news.google.com to do a search and read as many articles as I can find, which gives me a good idea of the various things everyone's saying. That still doesn't guarentee that my sources are balanced, but it works well enough for my needs.
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2. Daily Show/Colbert Report (I do think that these two shows are better sources of news often times than the national news shows. Sometimes they miss the mark a bit, but more than not I think they hit both parties evenly, and I think they hit things that need to be hit that the networks just let sail by. I don't think Colbert's interviews have a lot of value a lot of the time (though he has gotten a LOT better at them), but Stewart usually does a good job).
3. NPR (radio)
4. Various Green websites that I get updates from on environmental updates.
I think I have a very good mix. I don't read international news as often as I probably should, but at least once a week I read both the BBC and Al Jazeera's English website.
Getting your news from the internet and newspapers is actually better for your brain. When you read the news, it filters through the part of your brain that deals with logical, reasoned thinking. When you watch it on tv, it filters through the part of your brain that deals with raw emotion, which is why we're so easily swayed by fear mongering from politicians, you only see them on tv. There're studies to back this up. Brains are funky.
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quote:Originally posted by Lyrhawn: Sometimes they miss the mark a bit, but more than not I think they hit both parties evenly, and I think they hit things that need to be hit that the networks just let sail by.
That's very true. I was impressed how last week, John Stewart was able to point out that in a previous interview, he really had no idea what he was talking about. The ability to make fun of oneself is IMO crucial for stability, and most interviewers / anchorpeople do not have that ability.
The show states what people are thinking, politically incorrect or not. That is awesome, because it is how people think about the daily events.
And I got sick of the CNN homepage, I kept seeing Paris Hilton et al. up there with the world news, and that disgusted me.
BBC is better, but again, not perfect. I really don't want to spend any of my brainpower thinking about the trials and tribulations of prissy media stars.
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Oh yeah! The thing with Blackwater, that was hysterical, and frankly, I was impressed by his honesty. I think that mainly comes from not taking himself too seriously.
I heard Chris Matthews on an interview on NPR the other day and they brought up the Daily Show interview. Matthews seemed pretty good natured about it, but he felt Stewart was slightly misrepresenting the book in order to score points against politicians and a system he clearly hates. Stewart might have been a little hard on him, but I haven't read the book. Still the basic premise about listening was important. Matthews says be like Clinton and listen and remember. But Stewart says they aren't REALLY listening, they're filing away information to meet their own ends. Frankly I'm on Stewart's side on that one.
There've been a couple books that I've bought or looked at because of Stewart. I love it, by the way, when he and Colbert have the astrophysicist on their shows. He blows my mind every time.
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