Where do you prefer to get your News from?

From the least biased sources I can find. Usually PBS, BBC, NPR, The Economist, Politico, and Politifact.

Did I not mention NPR? Damn, thanks for that! I listen to that every morning on my way to work too…

The ones you list, although entertaining, are really biased.

Sure they are, but they actually make sense even when they are being ridiculous…. and I’m all about being entertained…

Yes, but since they want you to agree with a certain point, frequently the punchline, it distracts you from thinking for yourself and you may not get all the facts. I’m not saying I don’t love the Daily Show, I just don’t think of it as a source for news. I think of it as commentary on the news I already read somewhere else that day.

I like Daily Show.

But I focus mostly on economic news. I go to Bloomberg for that. Bloomberg also has a calendar of economic announcements and I can go read the original announcements when theycome out.

That it is ( a commentary on other News) and most of the time I would prefer that then the crap the regular media spew out…. The ones you listed are def. the better if I’m in a serious mood to really get caught up on certain events and I would go with any of them over most regular media anyday.

Daily Intel, NPR, BBC, The Daily Show (for a bit of fun…).

I enjoy watching The Daily Show and Keith Obermann, but I don’t rely on either to get the news. I prefer to get my news online via BBC, The Economist, and my local paper.

Discussion forums.

Televised news is almost always terrible.

I watch the local news or BBC America. Cable news networks always have too much going on for me to pay attention to.

I’ll watch Fox News for a good laugh. Watch Jihad Monkey, Fox News is hilarious.

Seriously, BBC online is one of my sources.

As many sources as possible. I start each morning perusing Google’s news aggregator, then my local ABC Affiliate’s news website for local affairs, then Yahoo’s news aggregator. I subscribe to the Washington Post. and New York Times newsletters and well as a far right news and email alert feed from Human Events. I do my best to catch the 6:00 PM local newscast and the 6:30 National News on ABC TV. To cover the non-right, I watch Kieth Olberman’s Countdown and Rachel Maddow’s The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC each evening. And I occasionally see what Faux News is up to.

And you know what I routinely get when I debate with a right winger who gets virtually all their news from Fox or Rush? “Your [sic] obviously biased.” or “You’ve drunk the Koolaid.”

Google News and NPR

www.rawstory.com They carry both syndicated news and high production value breaking original investigations
www.consortiumnews.com They tend to carry stuff not mentioned in other sites
www.slate.com , and within Slate… I enjoy their wrapups of What’s in the Papers, What’s in the Magazines, and their Explainer.
www.drudgereport.com , a trashy republican-leaning edited site, but simple to use, and links to interesting news stories
www.infowars.com , an over-the-top alarmist site, with heavy slant towards conspiracy, and a site that paradoxically falls victim to occasional psy op BS, while thinking its being against psy-op BS, but they also carry truthful informative articles not mentioned in regular news or education… things like informative backgrounds on Operations Ajax and Northwoods

@Kraigmo Great links. Thanks. I forgot to mention I get the Slate.com email newsletter too. They show links to their top 12 stories.

FOX news…the only trusted source there is. The rest are all made up B.S.! ;)

Fox “News” is the only US media claiming to distribute the news that has actually gone to court to defend their right to fire reporters who refuse to knowingly lie to the public. They are a propaganda arm of the RNC and simply regurgitate Republican talking points. They edit video footage routinely to deliberately reverse its real meaning, showing only bits and pieces out of context.

@ETpro Thanks for all that and confirms that if media is going to manipulate and influence the news of the day you may as well do it right and nobody does it better than my good ol’ FOX news! The rest are just wannabies! ;)

@Cruiser Just depends in what you want news to be. The main stream media actually try to get the story right. They employ investigative journalists and researchers to fact check things before they run with them. When they do mess up, and they do, they print retractions. But if you want ideological purity and would prefer to omitt any truth that conflicts with it, Fox is your baby. All you will get is pure propaganda.

@ETpro The problem is, mainstream is, by definition, the most watched. Fox is the most watched. Fox is the mainstream media.

@ETpro Just give me the details and I can draw my own conclusions. As you probably know, I am just funning and almost never go to FOX unless I really need a laugh and that is the last place I go for that!! Wiki has all the answers I need! ;)

@papayalily According to Pew Research Center Fox has 23% of the cable market share for news. CNN has 18%. MSNBC has 11%. That doesn’t even factor the millions who routinely watch either ABC, CBS or NBC nightly news. Fox has the largest cable market share, but their far from being America’s number 1 news source. CNN and MSNBC combined have a 29% share compared to Fox’s 23%.

And wouldn’t it be really scary if they were America’s #1 News source? Gives me the chills just thinking about it! The only time I watch Fox is if The Daily Show or Stephen Colbert is running clips and making fun of them, which it doesn’t take much since everyone on Fox says the damndest things and either have me laughing or cussing at the tv screen.

@Fairylover78 If the country keeps lurching ever further to the right, they will. Even more likely is Rupert Murdoch and News Corp will just take over control of the majority of the nation’s media. The only thing that may stop that is to let the inmates run the asylum long enough to discover what a train wreck their ideas create when they are in charge. Of course, the Great Depression of 1929, the two Savings and Loan bailouts of the 1980s, and the Great Recession of 2007 have yet to sink in, so I am not sure reality has any impact on the thinking of an ideologue.