lets talk about the news coverage?

[cleveramerican]

I have noticed it has become standard for the left and the right to attack the lazy, biased, selective-in their coverage, news media.

I just want to come out as an enthusiastic consumer of news. I love the news. I follow current events religiously.

I see loads of utterly worthless crap, but if I am aware its crap, it doesn't bother me much.

I am not bothered much by bias, I can see it, and recognize it when I see it, especially when another news outlet tells the same story differently.

Accuracy is king,I'll accept bias if it comes along with accuracy, accuracy is all that matters in news.


here are some good sources of news from my perspective:

BBC America- Nice even handed alternate view from the Brits.

PBS/Newshour/Frontline- I just love these for basic coverage.

NHK news- Nippon News/ the news from America in English for Japanese TV- I catch it off the web/ very good second look at every major news story.

I watch ABC the most out of the majors
I watch MSNBC for Hardball and Keith Olberman
I watch CNN And FOX when I need a change.
I watch NBC and CBS seldom but not never.


who do you like?
do you trust them?
who's your go-to second source?

[barbtries]

1. basically i don't watch

i read, almost exclusively on the web, almost always with DU as my jumping off point. on the web, i do watch bill moyers, democracy now (not every day but often) and the daily show.

[cleveramerican]

4. don't you worry that DU is too small a crosssection?

I like to hear what those from the other side think too.

even if its bull, it broadens my perspective

[barbtries]

10. no, not really

DU has constant threads about what's going on "on the other side." it's usually plenty enough to piss me off.

[thunder rising]

2. The only time my TV is used for broadcast is for the Superbowl, Presidential Inauguration

IOW: only events that speak for themselves. The only active wires to my house supply electricity. All communications route through my cell phone (Sprint with tethering)

All news is off the web. And all punditry is filtered by the likes of the DK abbreviated punditry roundup.

I simply cannot deal with straight doses of MSM punditry. That shit is bad for a person. I don't want to stay hyperventilated and adrenaline spiked forever.

[GCP]

3. BBC America for international news

Because basically, it's ignored by American networks.
The first 10 minutes of ABC "World" News Tonight - because after that, it's just infotainment.

THe 'news' fed to the public in this country is awful - 10 minutes at best of straight news - no analysis or context given. Al Jazeera is better IMHO. They were trained by the Brits.

[cleveramerican]

5. Check out NHK

you'll like it, I'd bet

[GCP]

9. I don't think DirecTV offer it

I don't remember seeing it on their line-up

[cleveramerican]

12. on the web

[Johonny]

6. I watch CNN And FOX when I need a change.

a change from the truth?

[HughMoran]

8. I almost fell out of my chair when I read that.

:wtf: you mean when you want to see how the "other side" is getting corrupted from the truth?

[cleveramerican]

13. I enjoy comparing how they all differ slightly

[saltpoint]

7. I like Bill Moyers and Amy Goodman. Air America runs RING OF FIRE,

which is more in-depth than a lot of news programming, and Thom Hartman is very good, so is Mark Green whenever he's on.

The BBC does better than U.S. mainstream news, and The Guardian is a very solid paper.

[theophilus]

11. I have stopped watching almost entirely. I got tired of yelling at the teevee.

It just makes me so sad that the Corporations own the News, for the most part. There are exceptions but those exceptions are relatively small and go unwatched by the mass of the masses. You know that "the more you watch Fox the less you know" is a true saying and sometimes, lately, I have thought that they were better in their general reporting than CNN. There is not much hope for America with the News media we now have. Everyone should turn them off and then maybe they would change. Probably not......imo.