Fair and balanced - how do you get your news?

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<p>Me, I listen to NPR for several hours. Starting with the BBC World Report at 5:00 am and on to Morning Edition etc. I watch one (1) hour of Fox news in the evening - specifically Special Report with Brit Hume because (a) he does not foam at the mouth and (b) always has a panel with some variation in viewpoint, usually Fred Barnes, Morton Kondracke and Mara Liasson. Can’t tolerate anything else on that station. And I love the humor minute at the end.</p>

<p>I figure I cover a few bases that way. My local metro daily is relatively worthless for world and national news. I pick up the NYTimes when I really want a full story and read the WSJ when an article grabs my attention.</p>

<p>I used to listen to Imus in the car occasionally because I liked his guest commentators, historians, etc.*</p>

<p>*and, yes, I read Playboy for the articles ;).</p>

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<p>NPR, Wall Street Journal (online), NYTimes (print on Sunday and top 25-most-emailed articles the rest of the week), Washington Post (online headlines only), Google News as my home page, BBC World News (I tivo it and check the first three minutes). Oh, and I subscribe to the Seattle PI because my father would haunt me if I didn’t have a subscription to the local paper.</p>

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<p>from the voices in my head.</p>

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<p>NPR in the car, CNN on the treadmill, NY Times and Time mag walking the dog, Fox News in the PM…conservative talk radio on XM in car-line…talk about fair and balanced!</p>

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<p>Liberals get their news from unbiased sources such as the NYTimes, NPR, BBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, Newsweek and MSNBC.</p>

<p>Conservatives get their news from two biased sources: Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.</p>

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<p>you missed drudge</p>

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<p>Long ago, I used to do a nice mix of CNN, Fox, NPR, and various newspapers. </p>

<p>Now I just come to the parent’s cafe here. Everyone does an awesome job reporting the important news, and also telling me what I should think and do. :)</p>

<p>As a conservative, I HATE Rush Limbaugh. I cannot stand the sound of his voice, so, I have no idea what he ever says about anything because I cannot bear listening to him long enough to find out. I also hate the layout of the Fox News website, so, I never go there unless desperate.</p>

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<p>News from BBC, Comedy from Fox :D</p>

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<p>Fair and balanced?</p>

<p>Hmmm… 1.) Listening to Radio Talk shows and, 2.) Reading through anonymous college informational chat rooms full of completely unbiased posters… :eek:</p>

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<p>Is dke’s dog the seeing eye type? Because somebody needs to watch where they’re going while one of them is reading the NYTimes and Time mag.</p>

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<p>BBC online, Jon Stewart’s Daily Show and The Colbert Report.</p>

<p>What’s happening jmmom?</p>

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<p>I try to catch the second half of Britt Hume during dinner…just to get the Republican talking points for the day. It is a VERY biased news channel. For example, the big news in Iraq yesterday was a pitched battle, complete with Apache attack helicopters and F-16 close air support. Major military fighting right in the center of the city. Fox News didn’t mention it period…just a crawl across the bottom of the screen citing that 16 US soldiers had been wounded.</p>

<p>I love the way they quote “the Washington Post, on its editorial page…” as news…almost always written by Deputy White House press secretary Charles Krautheimer.</p>

<p>BTW, I find it kind of interesting that the Democratic Presidential candidates are refusing to debate on Fox News.</p>

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<p>You just contradicted yourself ID. FOXNEWS is the Republican talking points channel but it wants to broadcast a DEMOCRAT debate. Fair and balanced means both points of view and giving Democrats the forum looks pretty balanced to me.</p>

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<p>M. Savage & AlJazeerah?</p>

<p>OK… JK. I second LTS.</p>

<p>and why is everybody joking about this? (As though “fair & balance” never fits with “news”)</p>

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<p>My friend ctymomteacher gets her news from the same place as DS. When someone suggested he read the NYTimes regularly in late high school, as a great vocabulary booster, he didn’t see the point. “I get my news from The Daily Show.”</p>

<p>That same someone also suggested the New Yorker and The Economist. I guess he substituted The Simpsons for those. :rolleyes:</p>

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<p>The local news, always good for a “Huh!?”, and The Daily Show/Colbert. You gotta admit those guys don’t play favorites, and Jon Stewart does good book recs, too.</p>

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<p>Mostly NPR (which now comes with more BBC than I need), our daily paper (Gannett), and the New York Times on Saturday and Sunday. I occasionally listen to Air America, but mostly it’s too shrill. I miss Al Franken, he was very low key. I never watch news on TV except at the gym which often seems to be tuned to Fox.</p>

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<p>I read the county newspaper and the LA Times in the morning, then switch to online (CNN, Google news and NY Times) in the afternoon. I sometimes catch Katie Couric in the evening.</p>

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<p>NPR to and from work. NYT online, also CNN online. PBS news in the evening (Leher). Local paper for obits and comics and the occasional laugh at the editorials and the strange headlines (had one about a local “Pubic School” a while back).</p>

<p>and John Stewart (!) for Fake News, especially the on-site correspondents.</p>

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<p>NBC evening news on the computer about 6 a.m. here, BBC if I turn on my t.v. which is not very often, the internet news sites, and IHT when I get to work combined with a local paper.</p>