What are your news sources?

liah · 15-03-2011 11:34PM #1

Where do you get updated on the world? Do you watch the news on TV? Have a website you check (or a few)? Get it all from Boards? Word of mouth? Radio? Make it up as you go along? And what news do you refuse to trust?

I use Digg and Reddit for the most part, as I love social news projects, but I also follow BBC, Spiegel and Reuters.. and, admittedly, Boards for my Irish news :pac: Will stream Al Jazeera if there's something heavy going on in the East, but otherwise don't watch much news and prefer it written down.

I always steer clear of Daily Mail, Fox News and other typically hysteria-ridden and liberal-with-the-truth sources, other than for entertainment purposes I suppose. Also tend not to believe much 'til I've cross-checked on different sources, but there's only so much you can do, every source has some bias.

So, where do you get your news? And what's your bias?

Daegerty · 15-03-2011 11:37PM

Boards.ie

If there is something worth knowing about there will surely be a thread in AH

Sonics2k · 15-03-2011 11:37PM

Fox news, because it's fair and honest.

i think i just threw up in my mouth

brummytom · 15-03-2011 11:38PM

BBC News online and BBC News 24. They're easily the most reliable and least biased of the major news stations around.

I'd stay well clear of right-wing papers (and tabloids).

Star Bingo · 15-03-2011 11:40PM

Rte/Sky/BBC/Euronews/FRANCE 24/CNN/Russia Today/Al J-roc

starviewadams · 15-03-2011 11:40PM

Al Jazeera on TV,The Guardian and Washington Post for world stuff (and Charlie Brooker!)
Evening Herald,Boards and RTE for Irish stuff aswell as the Echo,our weekly local paper.

OPENROAD · 15-03-2011 11:41PM

liah wrote: »

Where do you get updated on the world? Do you watch the news on TV? Have a website you check (or a few)? Get it all from Boards? Word of mouth? Radio? Make it up as you go along? And what news do you refuse to trust?

I use Digg and Reddit for the most part, as I love social news projects, but I also follow BBC, Spiegel and Reuters.. and, admittedly, Boards for my Irish news :pac: Will stream Al Jazeera if there's something heavy going on in the East, but otherwise don't watch much news and prefer it written down.

I always steer clear of Daily Mail, Fox News and other typically hysteria-ridden and liberal-with-the-truth sources, other than for entertainment purposes I suppose. Also tend not to believe much 'til I've cross-checked on different sources, but there's only so much you can do, every source has some bias.

So, where do you get your news? And what's your bias?

:eek::eek: newspaper of choice for AH

gosuckonalemon · 15-03-2011 11:42PM

FOX News, Daily Mail and Sindo...breakfast, dinner and tea.;..

AnonoBoy · 15-03-2011 11:43PM

Weekly World News.

Did you know there was a Bat Boy Found in a Cave? :eek:

TPD · 15-03-2011 11:43PM

The Onion. If I'm going to be lied to and fed opinion, it may as well be funny :pac:

Saila · 15-03-2011 11:45PM

I try to steer clear, if its that bad and worth hearing Ill hear about it anyway, folks LOVE the news :rolleyes:

liah · 15-03-2011 11:45PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Weekly World News.

Did you know there was a Bat Boy Found in a Cave? :eek:

I swear I saw that kid on the cover about 10 years ago. Maybe he's immortal, too :eek:

Links234 · 15-03-2011 11:46PM

gosuckonalemon · 15-03-2011 11:46PM

Saila wrote: »

I try to steer clear, if its that bad and worth hearing Ill hear about it anyway, folks LOVE the news :rolleyes:

Totally agree, why would anybody possibly want to educate themselves on what's happening in the world around them?

Pauleta · 15-03-2011 11:47PM

Mainly Sky News and Fox News. I use the Irish times website for my token fill of center-left reporting.

Tonyandthewhale · 15-03-2011 11:47PM

I just make it up myself, more fun that way. Say, did you hear they've invented sentient marshmallow?

Also watch Glen Beck for the truth on what's going on in American politics.

Sonics2k · 15-03-2011 11:47PM

liah wrote: »

I swear I saw that kid on the cover about 10 years ago. Maybe he's immortal, too :eek:

Nah that's his grandson by now I'd say.

I remember reading about Batboy when I was like 6.... I had an odd choice of reading as a child.

Sykk · 15-03-2011 11:48PM

Sky and CNN

AnonoBoy · 15-03-2011 11:50PM

liah wrote: »

I swear I saw that kid on the cover about 10 years ago. Maybe he's immortal, too :eek:

Do newspapers publish more often than that?

gosuckonalemon · 15-03-2011 11:50PM

Pauleta wrote: »

Mainly Sky News and Fox News. I use the Irish times website for my token fill of center-left reporting.

:eek:

Sonics2k · 15-03-2011 11:53PM

gosuckonalemon wrote: »

:eek:

It's fair and balanced.

If you disagree you're most likely a cross-dressing communist-terrorist supporter with connections to the North Koreans.

AnonoBoy · 15-03-2011 11:54PM

Sonics2k wrote: »

It's fair and balanced.

If you disagree you're most likely a cross-dressing communist-terrorist supporter with connections to the North Koreans.

And you hate freedom!

squod · 15-03-2011 11:54PM

Read the examiner thrice a week, watch France 24 and Channel 4 (UK) news. Always turn over news when it comes on the radio. When will they respect the public and put a watershed on certain news articles?

Bykobap · 15-03-2011 11:56PM

95% of news are politically assorted, corporate ****e/propaganda, which corrupts my scenic ignorance.
Feck that.
I comb my own news.

Pascal Sheehy...
RTE News...
Cork.

Ruu_Old · 16-03-2011 12:00AM

Anne Doyle in bed every night. :cool:

/day dream.

hondasam · 16-03-2011 12:03AM

RTE, sky news, cnn, daily mail.

After Hours and joe duffy

Captain_Generic · 16-03-2011 12:10AM

liah wrote: »

I use Digg and Reddit for the most part,

Digg went arseways after the redesign, half the articles are either spam, advertising or some just bollox that was dug by groups of spammers for political reasons

liah · 16-03-2011 12:17AM

Captain_Generic wrote: »

Digg went arseways after the redesign, half the articles are either spam, advertising or some just bollox that was dug by groups of spammers for political reasons

Ah, so you're one of the whiny little bolloxes who finally left.

The place is better without ye lot tbh, it was a freaking website redesign and everyone threw a tantrum as if they'd murdered a baby. Digg is still fine and is regaining its userbase, and frankly, the quality of discussion has gone up now that all the kids left. If you ignore the spam-- I'll give you that one. There really isn't much, though.

Cool_CM · 16-03-2011 12:19AM

On an average day I will check:
BBC, Irish Times, Spiegel, Breakingnews.ie, Guardian, Independent(ugh!), swissinfo, After Hours, Nein 11 and Twitter amongst others.

Read: 20 Minutes(Metro type paper),Tages Anzeiger, NZZ and Blick am Abend.

Watch: RTE Player and BBC world.

Listen to: The Right Hook/Last Word.

Have to come up with new topics and articles for conversation classes everyday. That and the fact that I like to know what's going on!

Some sources are better than others....

PandyAndy · 16-03-2011 12:25AM

I just make up the news as I go along. "All's well, Ireland is ok! There's no major catastrophe happening right now! And here's Tom with the weather" "Thanks, Tom! It'll be sunny forever!"

BBC and Reuters, mainly only check online when I'm at work

Captain_Generic · 16-03-2011 12:28AM

liah wrote: »

Ah, so you're one of the whiny little bolloxes who finally left. The place is better without ye lot tbh, it was a freaking website redesign and everyone threw a tantrum as if they'd murdered a baby. Digg is still fine and is regaining its userbase, and frankly, the quality of discussion has gone up now that all the kids left. If you ignore the spam-- I'll give you that one. There really isn't much, though.

Ah the comments are a shadow of their former selves, they used to be a goldmine of intelligent wit, now the most dugg comments are just general observations

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