What do you read? Where do you get your news?

[chocolategirl74]

I don't understand people who don't read books. I read about 8 books a week for work and for pleasure. I'm a speed reader.



Here in Iowa we get inundated with POTUS stuff much earlier and more intensely than the rest of the country. It's easy to get caught up in all of the hoopla and in my house the news was on constantly.

After the election, however, I took a news break. I had to get away from all of it to keep my sanity. I haven't watched a single minute of CNN, Today, etc. since election day.

Now I read Raw Story, the Guardian, and USA Today. I watch MSNBC sometimes, but that's about it. Self care.

cg74

 

[Wrong Element]

I usually watch MSNBC for breaking news and to catch up on big stories, but their problem continues to be that they are good on politics but barely cover anything else in depth. I like to see what Rachel is up to most nights, but the election of Trump seems to have robbed her of her sense of humor, which is probably the wrong approach to be taking.

CNN is unwatchable most of the time.

I read the Times and the Post pretty regularly; despite their annoying qualities, they (and the Wall Street Journal) simply have more reach than any other American papers. Think Progress is excellent. I don't follow The Intercept because Greenwald is an asshat.

My main news source has to be Twitter, however -- if it's a must-read, I assume somebody I follow is going to tweet about it during the course of the day.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Pod Save America


New site set up by four ex-Obama people

Looks great

 

[Carnal_Flower]

I can't watch CNN but their reporting on their web site has been great, I think. Always check in nowadays.

I usually watch MSNBC for breaking news and to catch up on big stories, but their problem continues to be that they are good on politics but barely cover anything else in depth. I like to see what Rachel is up to most nights, but the election of Trump seems to have robbed her of her sense of humor, which is probably the wrong approach to be taking.

CNN is unwatchable most of the time.

I read the Times and the Post pretty regularly; despite their annoying qualities, they (and the Wall Street Journal) simply have more reach than any other American papers. Think Progress is excellent. I don't follow The Intercept because Greenwald is an asshat.

My main news source has to be Twitter, however -- if it's a must-read, I assume somebody I follow is going to tweet about it during the course of the day.

 

[EternalFantasies]

CBC, BBC, London Free Press, MSN and Yahoo pages. The LFP being our local. No blogs, no podcasts, not even late show monologues. Pretty much mainstream flow. I watch every day in that order cbc, bbc, lfp... I check Humberside news by way of the BBC.

Now that is funny.

 

[dan_c00000]

I don't understand people who don't read books. I read about 8 books a week for work and for pleasure. I'm a speed reader.

Are you an every word reader? I can't speed read because I have to read every word.

I can't watch CNN but their reporting on their web site has been great, I think. Always check in nowadays.

CNN, MSNBC, Fox "News" they're all so awful because everything is breathless reporting. It seems like forever ago but CNN was literally unwatchable for weeks with that disappearing plane.

 

[chocolategirl74]

Are you an every word reader? I can't speed read because I have to read every word.

Yes, I read every word. I've never been a skimmer. If I find myself skipping parts of a book then I stop, because it's not good enough to hold my attention.

cg74

 

[Hard_Rom]

Are you an every word reader? I can't speed read because I have to read every word.

Try looking at words as if they were pictures. That works for me. You can probably recognize a picture of a German Shepard faster than the words.

Lots of techniques to improve reading speed. Like don't vocalize or sub-vocalize the word as you read it. Use your finger as a pointer.

Skimming works for most news articles. Generally the headline says it all.

 

[LadyVer]

Pod Save America


New site set up by four ex-Obama people

Looks great

Brought to us via Crooked Media.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Now that is funny.

Why funny? No lefty or righty fringe stuff. Just old school news flow. Don't even read the opinion articles on CBC. Which I will admit does have a lefty bent but hardly hardcore socialist.

I do read Macleans, the Walrus and found the New Internationalist at the library. The NI is the most pointed reading material. Also the Economist which has always been considered conservative.

 

[ishtat]

Lots of techniques to improve reading speed. Like don't vocalize or sub-vocalize the word as you read it.
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When St Augustine 354 - 430 AD first met Bishop Ambrose of Milan, he was astonished that the Bishop read without saying the words out loud. Apparently silent reading was unheard of at that time.

And there's your utterly useless fact for today!

 

[Phelia]

Listened to Chris Constantly Startled Cuomo v Kellyanne Fuckface in the shower. God, cable news is garbage. I was yelling in frustration. If you can't shut her shit down, you shouldn't be a journalist on TV. Jesus.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Stick to Stephen Colbert. He speaks with people that write their own books. (Books that are not written by bonkers, Right-Wing nutcases.)

 

[LearningToLOVEAgain]

Usually I will read and watch the news from the major sources, like CNN, CBS, the major newspapers. In the end, however, it has to be dealt with comedy shows like Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyer's segment on the news. Its the only way I can get through the day.

 

[Hypoxia]

I don't watch TV -- except at food+drink establishments with screens silently blabbing. I rarely listen to radio news and it's usually NPR or CBC. I receive email bulletins from international news sources. The ThinkPad in my lap is my portal to world events.

 

[urguyscott]

I usually watch MSNBC for breaking news and to catch up on big stories, but their problem continues to be that they are good on politics but barely cover anything else in depth. I like to see what Rachel is up to most nights, but the election of Trump seems to have robbed her of her sense of humor, which is probably the wrong approach to be taking.

CNN is unwatchable most of the time.

I read the Times and the Post pretty regularly; despite their annoying qualities, they (and the Wall Street Journal) simply have more reach than any other American papers. Think Progress is excellent. I don't follow The Intercept because Greenwald is an asshat.

My main news source has to be Twitter, however -- if it's a must-read, I assume somebody I follow is going to tweet about it during the course of the day.

The path to being brain washed. There is no news on MSNBC or CNN. They just cover the Soros party line. No matter when you turn on CNN they are always talking about the fake "Russia" bit. Any yet they never say a word about the Clinton's taking over $150 million dollars from the Russians or Obama making deals on East Europe with the Russians and the deals with Iran and Cuba, etc. And the newspapers are no longer a source of news. Rag sheets and yellow journalism at their worst. And getting your info off the net (mostly left wing Wall Street fat cats) is like getting it from a comic book. Just because some uneducated fool can start a blog doesn't make them someone you can accept as telling the truth and facts. Mostly they are just repeating some b.s. they got from some other fool.

Watch news from outside the U. S. Like Japan and sometimes even England and you will see what it use to be like when they didn't make their "political" agenda more important than the people and facts that are happening everyday in the world. As far as the U. S. goes, our so called media thinks the world is flat. That reality shows in Hollywood at one end of the world and the lies in Washington at the other end of the world. Try looking at a map some day and see how many countries there are in the world. And according to our great media nothing is happening in any of them. Duh.

Not one so called a U. S. reporter could tell you what the five W's are, or how to state and triple check sources and report only the facts. A good story tells the facts and lets the people decide what to think, not try and feed lies and b.s. to us.

A so called reporter on CNN explained why they don't care (and this was also stated on MSNBC) that they have low ratings and no one in the U. S. really cares what they say. Their purpose is not the U. S. but undermining the U. S. overseas by feeding them nothing but rotten things about us. And us means you.

The fools who believe the left wing lies some how thing that when Iran or North Korea or China say they will destroy us, they don't mean them. After all if you are nice to a mad dog he won't bite you. If you help him kill and destroy those around you, the mad dog will be your friend. Look at how many sharks have not taken bites out of people who are their friends while dining on the swimmers around them. So it must be true. The elite so called media says so.

I get my news from outside the U. S. where even the worst are better than our own.

 

[PrincepsCyberius]

I read for enjoyment, mostly biographies and history.

I get most of my news from NPR.

 

[LanguageOfLove]

I try to read from different sources, I don't rely on just one. The only one I don't read/watch is FnF. They are more of a talk show program with their own opinions. Some other news stations are like that as well. Variety is best for me.

 

[ericahope]

I've found that since the U.S. election I consume a lot less news for two reasons: 1) I can't stand Trump and 2) all the news is about Trump because the media is so lazy they go to the easiest stories out there, which usually range from reporting on what totally outrageous thing Trump did today to what mildly annoying thing Trump did today. You'd think nothing else was going on in the world other than Donald Trump being President of the U.S.

I exaggerate slightly.

Is anyone in the same boat as me?

I wish there was a news source that I could spend an hour or two with at the end of the week that would tell me what were the truly important things that happened versus the petty, unimportant things that people in the media were talking about for 8-12 hours before moving on to the next "outrage."

Erica

 

[BotanyBoy]

Mostly bio-journals about various cultivation, and all the relevant bullshit pouring out of Sacramento on the regular.

Sac Bee, SF Chronicle and the North Coast Journal for local whatever.

For national news it's whatever I run into on the internet which ranges from Salon to The Daily Wire and occasionally a run through the fake news the MSM is pushing.

I don't really trust any of the fuckers, they are all full of shit more often than not and almost always pushing their agendas.

 

[JackLuis]

I get most all of my news off the webs. Generally leftist sites but on occasion I look at the dark side, but it is too weird for me.
I like the Guardian, and WP, NYT, Reuters and McClachy, Amy Goodman, Matt Taibbi, oh and Al-Jazz for some light foreign news. All have their slants but generally they are consistently slanted.

Oh Counterpoint and Buzzflash, Truthout and Wonkette.