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How Do You Get Your News?
abasket
19204 replies855 threadsRegistered User Senior Member
in Parent Cafe
Taking off on the morning show thread (which I never watch) I'm wondering how people get their news/current events. These are the main options I'm thinking:
Morning Television News
Evening Television News
Radio
Hard Copy Newspaper
Social Media (Twitter, FB, Instagram)
Internet websites (CNN, Newspaper Websites, etc.)
Podcasts
What am I missing?
For me, my news source breakdown:
0% Morning Television News
5% Evening Television News
0% Radio
15% Hard Copy Newspaper
50% Social Media (Twitter, FB, Instagram)
25% Internet websites (CNN, Newspaper Websites, etc.)
5% Podcasts
Now some of these options are how I discover news - I often will then take a deeper dive for things I'm interested in.
46 replies Morning Television News
Evening Television News
Radio
Hard Copy Newspaper
Social Media (Twitter, FB, Instagram)
Internet websites (CNN, Newspaper Websites, etc.)
Podcasts
What am I missing?
For me, my news source breakdown:
0% Morning Television News
5% Evening Television News
0% Radio
15% Hard Copy Newspaper
50% Social Media (Twitter, FB, Instagram)
25% Internet websites (CNN, Newspaper Websites, etc.)
5% Podcasts
Now some of these options are how I discover news - I often will then take a deeper dive for things I'm interested in.
Replies to: How Do You Get Your News?
20% hard copy newspaper
20% newspaper websites
2% social media - but that really just drives me to look things up on real sites (to discover news, as @abasket says)
8% magazines (more for the deep dives)
50% radio news (primarily NPR and its local affiliate)
Local daily newspaper (hard copy, online, and their Facebook page)
Husband (he gets regular updates online)
Daughters (they follow twitter and alert me to the big breaking news stories, such as the Notre Dame fire)
For the most part, I don’t want to keep up with the National and world news anymore. 😱
No social media news, radio news, magazines or podcasts.
I read the email I get every AM around 6:00 from the New York Times, called The Daily Briefing. We also get the NYT delivered every day (DH is from the juracic period) and browse through some of the non-news sections.
I often watch the morning news shows on cable.
I have CNN.com on my computer all day, every day, and go there every few hours. (I also use that site to check how the markets are doing throughout the day.)
And I watch several cable news shows in the later afternoon and evening, plus the PBS News Hour most days.
Some days I get too much news, especially when it's particularly crazy and upsetting, so I just turn it all off.
For my daily news:
20% Evening Television News
30% Hard Copy Newspaper
50% Internet websites (CNN, Newspaper Websites, etc.)
Other 'news"
I watch 60 minutes many weeks
I watch Dateline periodically
I listen to Podcasts which I find informative, but not traditional news podcasts
No you don't have to list %.
I was curious to know how many people still watch local/national news on tv - especially outside of morning shows.
Here on the west coast my local stations gives us ABC national news at 5:30 pm and CBS or NBC national news at 6:30. H watches both. I zone out by making dinner and igorning it while I eat and catch up on line. I hate paying attention to the TV news with H. He yells at the TV and has a running commentary.
I also get CNN headlines in my email and on FB, so get breaking news through out the day.
I'm guilty of sending my kids cool-things-I-read-online, the equivalent of the newspaper clippings some moms used to mail. They're usually in the form of human interest ("Is this your alpaca?" to our son in third-story walkup apartment when his local station said animal control found one) or NYT Science articles (anyone else stunned at just how FAR maggots jump???).
@VeryHappy I thought first line in your post contained profanity with the %s??, I feel that way about the news a lot!!
No idea of percentages.
For me, my news source breakdown:
0% Morning Television News
0% Evening Television News
Radio - varies, I rarely listen to it when I am working, but NPR is on in the car, and I generally listen to All Things Considered, and another hour or so when we are cleaning up after dinner. And of course Wait, wait don't Tell me on the weekend.
Hard Copy Newspaper - I read the paper version local paper every day. (Gannett) New York Times on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I very occasionally read parts of the NYT during the week - usually thanks to FB
Social Media (Twitter, FB, Instagram) I don't use Instagram for news, only read Twitter via links from FB. I see some news on FB, and often read more in-depth stories from the Guardian and The Atlantic thanks to FB.
Internet websites (CNN, Newspaper Websites, etc.) I don't go looking for this stuff. I only see what my friends link
0% Podcasts
I listen to NPR in the car.
I watch PBS NewsHour while making dinner (on nights I cook.)
I listen to a ton of podcasts but none are news ones.
Otherwise, I read online news sources and listen to local radio.
Read the Washington Post and my local paper online daily (prefer hard copy but delivery person was so unreliable I had to cancel)
DC local news on TV in background while starting my day and while making dinner
We record the CBS Evening News every night but probably only watch it about 4x per week
I find out a lot of breaking news or pop culture stuff on social media. I rarely go to CNN or other news outlets online
Due to the nature of dh’s job, he gets alerts on his phone from a variety of sources for any breaking news so sometimes he then alerts me and I’ll go online or turn on TV for more info.
Social media is basically all opinion of the one sharing it, and most shares are from "news" sources that heavily inject opinion into their news stories, so it may only be useful to let you know that some news may exist, rather than give a reliable news story.
Television news is usually overhyped and sensationalized, and the three main national cable news networks tend to inject opinions and opinionated guest speakers into the broadcast, so reliability can be poor. News articles that you read on their own web sites are often much better, although they may not be as high quality as from other news sources.
Many print newspapers stick to the traditional broadsheet model of having editorials and opinions in a separate section, making it easy to know what you are reading, though quality of news reporting does vary. Their web sites tend to reflect their print versions, but the "editorial" or "opinion" notation for such pieces may be less obvious than in the print version.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ can be helpful in getting an idea of the general political leaning of a media source.