Who doesn't read/watch the news?

[audreyh1]

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Originally Posted by Winemaker However, I am addicted to hearing their spin and bias.

Oh god, I can’t bear that part. How do you stand it?!?

[nativenewenglander]

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Originally Posted by HawkeyeNFO ABCNNBCBSPN .... it's all a bunch of crap. TV news these days is designed to scare the viewer, or else it's not going to be on TV. Mom's advice is still right on: turn that thing off and go outside!

My mom had a similar quote: Why don't boys go outside and get the stink blown off of you. She didn't mince words.........ever.

[Midpack]

I used to watch a lot of news. I used to record Charlie Rose PBS show only to watch a handful of guests, that’s gone - good riddance. Now I record PBS Newshour on Mon and Fri and watch some of it, though sadly they often have a clear bias. DW watches NBC news at 5:30p most days, and we both watch local news in the AM just long enough to see the weather. That’s pretty much it. I refuse to watch CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News or anything proudly partisan on television, radio or online.

I have a friend, very intelligent, who does not watch or listen to news.

Having unlimited news sources 24/7 sounded like a wonderful idea, so far I’d say it’s made us all more siloed and therefore hopelessly divided.

I don’t watch as much TV in general, don’t miss it. I know “get off my lawn...”

[SheitlQueen]

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Originally Posted by aja8888 Right before the last presidential election, I got so tired of the crap slinging and fake news that I have quit watching TV news and listening to news on radio.

This is also how I feel. I don't trust most of what I read on the news. I look at two news sites on the computer in the morning-one I don't trust but I like the interface, and one I do trust. I take a quick scan to see if there are either any earth shattering events I need to know about, or any stories of interest. Most of the time I find neither.

I'd rather spend my time reading forums such as this one

[Pilot2013]

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Originally Posted by Senator I read the news on the internet, where you know it's true.

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet."

-Benjamin Franklin

[RunningBum]

Shaking my head about those of you who say you get your news from "the internet" or twitter. Haven't you been paying attention to how much of that has been manipulated by Russians or other foreign entities? The major media outlets have issues, but at least you know who they are. Not saying anyone here is included because I don't know, but I wonder how many people who don't trust the major media outlets believe that Hilary ran a child sex ring out of an NYC restaurant.


I'd rather take news from a known source with a grain of salt than listen to a source that is essentially anonymous. I realize that the networks sometimes use those kind of sources but I truly believe they usually make a good effort to vet their sources. Occasionally they miss.

[Pilot2013]

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Originally Posted by RunningBum Shaking my head about those of you who say you get your news from "the internet" or twitter. Haven't you been paying attention to how much of that has been manipulated by Russians or other foreign entities? The major media outlets have issues, but at least you know who they are. Not saying anyone here is included because I don't know, but I wonder how many people who don't trust the major media outlets believe that Hilary ran a child sex ring out of an NYC restaurant. I'd rather take news from a known source with a grain of salt than listen to a source that is essentially anonymous. I realize that the networks sometimes use those kind of sources but I truly believe they usually make a good effort to vet their sources. Occasionally they miss.

Like Brian Ross?

No thanks....

[Nemo2]

Something about "....and the horse(s) they rode in on.." keeps coming to mind.

(We don't watch TV, other than vids from the library, and when the breakfast preparation time radio interrupts music with some misinterpreted/misrepresented drivel I often yell to DW "Did you hear THAT?)

Pass.

[SteveNU]

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Originally Posted by Pilot2013 "Don't believe everything you read on the internet." -Benjamin Franklin

Um, I believe it was Abraham Lincoln that said that. 😎

[RunningBum]

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Originally Posted by Pilot2013 Like Brian Ross? No thanks....

That's the guy who was held accountable and suspended without pay, right?

[dasranger]

Haven’t watched the news or commercials for two years. I get my info from like minded individuals.

[Bir48die]

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Originally Posted by Pilot2013 Like Brian Ross? No thanks....

+1

[audreyh1]

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Originally Posted by RunningBum Shaking my head about those of you who say you get your news from "the internet" or twitter. Haven't you been paying attention to how much of that has been manipulated by Russians or other foreign entities? The major media outlets have issues, but at least you know who they are. Not saying anyone here is included because I don't know, but I wonder how many people who don't trust the major media outlets believe that Hilary ran a child sex ring out of an NYC restaurant. I'd rather take news from a known source with a grain of salt than listen to a source that is essentially anonymous. I realize that the networks sometimes use those kind of sources but I truly believe they usually make a good effort to vet their sources. Occasionally they miss.

For some of us it’s more like - oh, folks are all in a huff over/horrified by X, and then we investigate to attempt to extract the “really story of X”. If we care.

That filters out a heck of a lot of fluff.

“Real” news sources publish on the internet too.

[Pilot2013]

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Originally Posted by RunningBum That's the guy who was held accountable and suspended without pay, right?

And not a moment too late....

[marko]

I've long held that the only two places left where there is any truth is in the mid-term stock market pricing (the market generally knows what is really going on) and sport statistics.

We have a personal experience with CNN that soured us on "journalism".

I do like to watch the news and observe how they can twist one's perception either by implication or omission.

[Car-Guy]

In junior high school, my history teacher had a slogan posted on the wall that I've always remembered.

A smart man only believes half of what he reads and hears, a wise man knows which half to believe.

"Now" I know he was referring to more than just our history books. Unfortunately today, I don't think it's only half.

[marko]

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Originally Posted by RunningBum That's the guy who was held accountable and suspended without pay, right?

Suspended? Having made the markets drop 350 points he should be fired outright. How many at ABC made $$$ shorting on Friday?

[VanWinkle]

I only watch the news while at the gym 3 days a week. That gives me about 3-4 hours a week of news. It helps pass the time. I don't watch financial porn, just the political porn. If it frustrates me, that is good for the exercise speed as I take out my frustration on the stair step machine.

VW

[RunningBum]

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Originally Posted by marko Suspended? Having made the markets drop 350 points he should be fired outright. How many at ABC made $$$ shorting on Friday?

I agree he should've been fired.

[Nemo2]

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"It has become a sarcastic proverb that a thing must be true if you saw it in a newspaper. That is the opinion intelligent people have of that lying vehicle in a nutshell. But the trouble is that the stupid people -- who constitute the grand overwhelming majority of this and all other nations -- do believe and are moulded and convinced by what they get out of a newspaper, and there is where the harm lies."

Mark Twain.....- "License of the Press," speech, 31 March 1873