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Where do you get your news from?

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  • 22-02-2016 7:11pm
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    DareGod
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    Personally my main source of news is The Journal.ie, but that's out of an addiction to the site rather than because of it being of value. It's atrocious. How exactly do you get a job as a "journalist" on that site, collect ten crisp packets and send away? I swear, most of their "articles" have been thrown together by their employees while sitting on the loo. I'd rather admit to working for The Sun than for that heap.

    Next up we have Sky News. More trash, although the reporting style isn't quite as bad. But still, trash, and only good for a general sense of the main incidents throughout the world that day. Well, the ones Murdoch wants us to hear anyway, right after his minions have put their spin on it.

    Finally, RTE News. It seems to be of a higher standard and less trashy, so I trust it more than most. Not that any one news source is to be trusted.

    Where do you get your news from? I need recommendations.


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    #2
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Various sources. I hear about most big breaking news stories on here as I don't use things like Twitter.


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    ardinn
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    After Hours
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    http://slaneyfishing.com




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    recylingbin
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    An oul lad in the pub. He even let's me know whether its a disgrace or a good thing. Usually a disgrace.


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    Andy-Pandy
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    The Guardian, huffington post, boards.ie and breaking news. In that order. I check the first two every morning first thing.


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    Skylinehead
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    BBC News is number one usually. World news is so much better than Irish news, and they're one of the best at it.

    RTE is the crappy Irish version of that.

    Indo sometimes for the entertainment value, but I'm under no illusions - it's crap.

    Then the Guardian, as long as I stay away from the opinion pieces.


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    ScumLord
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    Intense dairy fuelled dreams. I'm not sure if I'm getting the news from this planet though. I had this dream last night that this fella called Enda called all his voters whingers and then laughed at them while nuking their planet from orbit.


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    Lady is a tramp
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    Boards, Independent, and the Daily Mail (not sure which of the latter two I'm more ashamed of. :o )


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    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    The Daily Prophet.


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    Sunnyisland
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    All sorts types and sizes .


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    Harry Palmr
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    That monolith, I touch it every morning.


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    PARlance
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    I generally stay away from the news, by and large, it's depressing. If something important happens, you tend to find out.

    I read the Sunday Business Post every week and that's mainly work related.

    After Hours answer: Your Ma.


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    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    That monolith, I touch it every morning.

    I hear those things are awfully loud


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    Akrasia
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    I use the feedly app on Android. I get the news I care about and put all the celeb gossip and other nonsense on ignore


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    RobertKK
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    Twitter - various sources as I follow a lot of news media.

    On radio - Newstalk and RTE.

    On TV, RTE, BBC, CNN, Sky News, CNBC, Fox news, France 24, RT.

    Then Google news, if I want to find out what is happening somewhere not in the news.


    Yesterday on twitter came across a news item saying Saudi Arabia has nuclear weapons for the past two years, as it was said on Saudi TV.
    Yet nothing in the mainstream media.

    By having various sources, you can come to a more balanced opinion. You often hear of stories before they break and become more mainstream news.


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    mariaalice
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    RTE and Newstalk followed by news feeds only get the papers on Saturday now, although I do and get a good English newspaper now and then and occasionally I get the Economist.


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    lc180
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    Diane from Accounts


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    ancapailldorcha
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    Primarily The Economist. I also use the BBC and Guardian's websites.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    NomadicGray
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    DareGod wrote: »

    Next up we have Sky News. More trash

    That's an insult to actual trash


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    Robsweezie
    Registered Users Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    facebook and twitter mostly, I don't often visit any news sites.

    on tv I have a glance at rte six one every few days.

    for the major stuff its sky news, like world disasters, celebrity deaths etc.

    I never read the paper nowadays.


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    Iwasfrozen
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    An poblacht and rt. Exclusively.


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    Junkyard Tom
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    From various locations, on a wax-sealed scroll, delivered by a trusted associate on horseback.


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    LordSutch
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    Local news RTE, Newstalk.
    World News BBC News, Sky, RT.


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    DareGod
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    BBC sounds like it might be good.

    I've heard a lot of good things about The Guardian, but are they true?

    I'm trying to break my read+refresh+read+refresh habit, and keeping the junk sites away from my brain should assist with that.
    Akrasia wrote: »
    I use the feedly app on Android. I get the news I care about and put all the celeb gossip and other nonsense on ignore

    Interesting! I'm going to check this app out now.


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    DareGod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭DareGod


    Oh, also, there's a news site called The Real News which claims to be completely independent and has no advertising, government funding or corporation funding.

    It probably won't give you the news that your friends and colleagues will be posting about on Facebook or waffling on about at the water cooler, but it'll probably give you actual news that matters. Worth checking out if you're interested.


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    colossus-x
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    I think Sky News is a lot better than it's being credited for. Sky News is every bit as good as BBC News. They have a 'tabloidy' look and feel to their output but for live events they are excellent. They are always very up to date with political events. I love their newspaper review and I quite like their presenters in comparison to other outlets that come across as a bit stiff and pompous.


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    El_Duderino 09
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    Guardian is great for analysis and context of events rather than breaking news. Sky news is only headlines without any analysis so you could pick up as much information by listening to propel chatting on the bus.

    I have a financial times subscription through work. To be fair it's the best news source by a long way. Short and to the point. No celebs, no sport, no rubbish. News and analysis or gtfo.


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    MadDog76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    My wife ........ she knows everything. :rolleyes:


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    #29
    ygolometsipe
    Registered Users Posts: 882 ✭✭✭ygolometsipe


    reddit.com/r/news
    reddit.com/r/worldnews

    mainly because the comments help me identify the bullpoop from the
    fact.


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    El_Duderino 09
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    colossus-x wrote:
    I think Sky News is a lot better than it's being credited for. Sky News is every bit as good as BBC News. They have a 'tabloidy' look and feel to their output but for live events they are excellent. They are always very up to date with political events. I love their newspaper review and I quite like their presenters in comparison to other outlets that come across as a bit stiff and pompous.

    They give a tiny bit of information and repeat it so many times that you might think that's all there us to know about the story. In fact they barely skim the surface of any if the issues they touch. The newspaper review is an apt analogy fir the whole organisation. Imagine the headline was the whole story and they will explain that headline 5 times, but they won't go into any real detail.

    It's not as bad as Fox News but the format is the same


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    Cee-Jay-Cee
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    My mum.

    She rings me anytime anything major is reported on the news, be it someone famous dying or some natural disaster etc although I have had to previously warn her not to ring me with political news as I simply couldnt care less.


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