I read the local paper in the mornings while I eat my breakfast and also get Twitter feed from the local paper. I get the WSJ every day. I get a lot of news from Twitter in general. I watch cable news while I’m on my treadmill in the evening after work and also listen to it in the car to and from work until I get depressed and put on music.
I get a variety of news from the daily WaPo. mostly the hard copy but sometimes online. Being retired and home frequently, I often keep cable news on in the background, mostly CNN but sometimes different shows with a different story or different spin. The actual real new-news on cable is a small part of the time spent on any particular story! I also read a couple of local weeklies and listen to the radio on car trips. I sometimes think I should watch more local TV news in the evening, but that usually doesn’t work out.
The only social media that I trust for news is CC! I often trade tidbits with DH for info he gets on his news feed.
LOL!!! (also truth and sad!)
0 morning news
0 evening news
10 radio
70 internet websites
20 social media
If the news is something I’m interested in, I do like above people have mentioned and seek out other sources to verify facts vs. opinion. (If it’s not something I’m interested in I still don’t assume it’s true.)
I know when I’m watching opinion tv. I’m watching it because it’s opinion tv. It doesn’t pretend to be straight news. It says it’s opinion tv. It doesn’t hide its bias, it celebrates it. Are there opinion tv channels that are pretending to be straight news? And are viewers confused about what they are?
I get about 10 percent from television news shows and the other 90 percent from online newspapers or CNN online.
As for social media I ( AND I WISH EVERYONE WOULD DO THIS) use it ONLY as a jumping off point, ESPECIALLY if it’s a story that plays to my personal biases. This means that if I see a story like “President just said immigrant babies should only be fed Big Macs and fries” I never click on the linked story but rather use google to see if legitimate news sources ( major papers) are reporting this story. If not, I ignore it.
I subscribe to digital versions of the NYTimes, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, LATimes, Miami Herald and the Wall Street Journal.
I still get the NYTimes daily and read it.
Breaking news I get online (outlets such as MSNBC, CNN, BBC)
Comic relief take on the news (often much needed) from Stephen Colbert
I wake up and switch on the radio (NPR), then stumble out to get the paper (local and WSJ), then scan the WaPo headlines online, then a quick look at the Twitter feed (NYT and a few foreign papers).
I don’t watch much TV news anymore. If I am running on the tm, I’ll watch CNN.
Like abasket and others, if there is something interesting on Twitter or FB that people are talking about, I’ll read more.
I used to watch the morning shows while getting dressed, but have fallen out of that habit.
I am a regular newspaper reader. I have subscribed to the LA Times since moving to Southern CA 36 years ago and read it every morning while I eat breakfast. I use my FB feed as a jumping off point for other news stories from the NY Times, the Washington Post and other news outlets. I regularly watch our local evening news and the national news, usually ABC. We don’t have cable so I don’t watch any of the cable news channels, except when I’m visiting my mom who has either MSNBC or CNN on all the time (way more news than I care to see and depressing most of the time). I never watch morning news shows.
NYT and cruddy local paper every morning (but it has comics)
Online
Cable shows at the gym
Radio in the car
For some reason, Time Magazine appears occasionally in my mailbox
And just for fun, Daily Show and Samantha Bee
I have subscriptions to two newspapers- local in hard copy and WA Post online.
Apple news summaries of multiple news sources - BBC, CNN, NYT, WSJ, etc, going further into subjects as needed
Online viewing - local community/city news, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The New Yorker
NPR & local public radio
Carefully curated twitter feed
H has the local news & national news on daily. I watch/listen if I’m in the mood
I read an old fashioned paper newspaper that gets delivered to my house. I also listen to the radio, and read several online news publications everyday.
I listen to NPR Morning Edition and All Things Considered for at least an hour each most weekdays. I watch the PBS Newshour most weekday evenings. I subscribe to the online versions of the NY Times and Washington Post and take a look at their home page several times per day, and get news alerts from both on my phone. But my favorite news source for NYC and national news is the Brian Lehrer Show, 10-noon (and posted online immediately thereafter) on WNYC, the local public radio station.
Oh, and I listen to the Slate Political Gabfest most weeks, plus On the Media and the New Yorker Radio Hour, both NPR shows from WNYC–good for my visits to Planet Fitness and for subway rides. And I get The New Yorker magazine–expensive and definitely worth it.
This is embarrassing, but Twitter.
I tend to have it on in one of the many windows on my computer, and if I click over there and see something unexpected trending (like, say, “Denmark” yesterday), I’ll find out why.
My undergrad provided free online access to NYT so I try to take advantage of that while I can still get into it, but most of our news comes through BBC World Service on our Alexa. We tried our local NPR but it was way too locally/US (read: Trump) focused, so we changed to BBC and like the international stories. They’ll still cover breaking US stories but that never takes up the whole hour. I try to stay away from news except when we listen while cooking breakfast and dinner. We also get and read The New Yorker for more essays and opinion.
@Marian no need to be embarrassed by Twitter! That is part of the purpose of that venue - to give you snippets of info, opinions, etc. - then you can do a deeper dive.
I wonder if people who have public transportation commute read more news (or read more in general) by making use of that travel time. I suppose people who are driving can “listen” to news on the radio. I just never use my radio.
We can listen to the BBC news every day on one of our WNYC stations. Sometimes I like it better, sometimes I get tired of obscure world news.
@oldmom4896 I agree Brian Lehrer is fabulous.
I’d forgotten that I now subscribe to the WaPo after having clicked on so many facebook links to their stories. It always feels a bit like my hometown paper since I spent all my teen years in DC.
I overlooked gossip as a news source. I’m on one of our small city’s many committees, and word of mouth gives very rich backstories to public outcomes.
But care must be taken to consider whether the gossip is the actual backstory that people just do not want to say publicly, or something like speculation, conspiracy theories, or smear campaigns of falsehoods.
I have a news aggregator site bookmarked ( memeorandum.com ) that I check a few times a day and follow the links from there. At night I might (but not always) watch one local news program and/or CNN while multitasking.
Watching Dateline too much would convince almost anyone their spouse is about to “off” them. 