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.
0% TV news of any kind
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)
Morning news TV (local and network)
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. ?
I usually watch the local news and network news while cooking dinner and local news again at 11 PM (different channel). I also read a hard copy local newspaper along with the WSJ but I check in online to both of those during the day, along with both CNN and Fox News websites.
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.
I will browse the news app on my phone once a day, I can’t avoid the news posted on FB- which often leads to deeper google dives for accuracy and balance, and I watch Last Week Tonight, which has taught me a number of things over the years even though I know it’s a comedy show.
A variety of sources but I primarily get local news from radio/social media/local tv news. For national and world news then it is mainly radio and then I will browse different news websites. I try to look at opposing sites to see their take on things and then I will also check out Reuters and AP as well.
To clarify, what do you mean by ‘news’? Daily happenings or other types of news that might have made the nightly news the day it happened, but is now a Dateline show?
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
I described the topic as being “news/current events” - so that could mean political news, entertainment news, weather news, etc. So everything from big happenings in Washington to which chicken sandwich is better (which was a big current event/media controversy this week).
No you don’t have to list %. My mind likes structuring that way. Also for me it showed the mediums I don’t use at all.
I was curious to know how many people still watch local/national news on tv - especially outside of morning shows.
We’re sorta news junkies, so we watch morning and evening news on TV (altho rarely paying full attention), some cable news shows, newspapers (digital editions) and their online updates. DH is also on Twitter alot; I’m not.
I am up before anyone else, so I watch the CBS morning news uninterrupted by anything but the cats and whatever I am reading online while the TV is on.
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.
No TV of any kind here. We have online subscriptions to NYT and our local paper. I drop in on the sites for local network affiliates here and where our two kids live (creepy stalker mom). If something comes in on my Facebook feed I’ll use it as a starting point to check elsewhere. Husband listens to NPR on his commute. Kids sometimes send me things.
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!!
I get the local paper and the New York Times delivered every day and read both cover to cover. I check the Weather Channel app if there’s weather brewing. I’ll check the nyt website occasionally during the day. I watch opinion tv in the evening (guess which side.). I haven’t watched morning news since 9/11. I no longer watch any local news on tv but will sometimes check a local news website.
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
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.
Mostly on the web, but it is important to take care to know what is news versus opinion, with the latter being much less reliable and often intentionally misleading or false. Also, within what is news, what is reliable and carefully researched, versus breaking news where the reported information is incomplete, or sometimes just incorrect due to the speed at which it is passed around (like the “game of telephone”).
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.
(which was a big current event/media controversy this week).