Who doesn't read/watch the news?

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.
 
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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.
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Like Brian Ross?

No thanks....
 
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.
 
Haven’t watched the news or commercials for two years. I get my info from like minded individuals.
 
RunningBum said:
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
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.:(
 
RunningBum said:
That's the guy who was held accountable and suspended without pay, right?
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Suspended? Having made the markets drop 350 points he should be fired outright. How many at ABC made $$$ shorting on Friday?
 
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
 
marko said:
Suspended? Having made the markets drop 350 points he should be fired outright. How many at ABC made $$$ shorting on Friday?
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I agree he should've been fired.
 
"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."
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Mark Twain.....- "License of the Press," speech, 31 March 1873
 
I was a news junkie too, but I stopped watching network(s) and local news a few years ago. Haven't missed it. In fact, I think it has helped my overall disposition on life in general. I am continually surprised by our friends immersion in "the news" and social media. During our discussions of current topics, I'm often accused of being out of touch. I'm just not interested in what some infamous celebrity did to arouse attention.

Our friends suggested that now that we are ER we should at least know what is going on in our community and persuaded me to watch the local morning news with my coffee. I've been doing that for a few weeks, too long in my opinion, but I agreed to give it a fair assessment. All I can say is:

1) It's all the same crimes, drug busts, breakins, shootings. etc.
2) The after crime interviews are the "tornado variety". Find some disheveled individual and ask him/her if it sounded like a freight train.:facepalm:
3) The news talking heads all deliver the narrative in a breathless, urgent, shocked tone that I find disingenuous, irritating, and condescending.
4) You can replay the news commentary on a weekly loop with maybe slight modifications in sequence of delivery and nobody would notice.
5) I've lasted watching this long only because I find it a bit funny.

I'll give it a few more weeks to say I tried, but I'm done with it. I'll go back to being out of touch.
 
The news media - ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, yes, even PBS - today are all poor shadows of what a quality, responsible news media should be.

They know very little about Economics and Math, and even less about Science and Religion.

Most of all they have a very inflated opinion of their own abilities. and importance.
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I am with those who don't listen to the news.
 
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Don’t watch or listen. Was down to PBS New Hour, but have shut it off as well. Anyone on Facebook who spews noise gets hidden or unfriended.

I do have three news apps, upon which I glance to get a quick synapsis of the daily bullshite. That’s more than enough...
 
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Oh god, I can’t bear that part. How do you stand it?!?
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To me it reinforces the fact that newscasters are biased and allows me to read between the lines. I like catching the lies and deceit.

Just like a headline that says "Low Interest Rates are Bad for Seniors". Well, they're good for the Seniors (and Juniors) that borrow money. Or a chart or graph that shows the "reported trend" but the graph is an entirely different monkey.

Back when my son was in high school playing on a winning team, the team members were always interviewed after the victory. One of the newspapers is within sight of the school, and the reporter couldn't even get a kid's name right 2 games in a row. Here are 10 kids, wanting to read about the "Big Game" and have their 15 minutes of glory, and the newspaper gives the wrong name, and quotes the wrong person. It severely alienated the students and parents, alerting them to sloppy and careless reporting, and inept editing.
 
I like Fareed Zakaria GPS. Only CNN I watch.

Also watch Bill Maher, although he is now all-Trump every show!

Used to watch Bill O'Reilly on Fox once in a while. Now I have no reason to watch Fox.

I do like football once December arrives.
 
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/19/violent-media-anxiety_n_6671732.html
It’s nearly impossible to turn on the TV, open up a web browser, or scroll through Twitter without being assaulted with notifications of a new world disaster (or two, or three...). Thanks to the 24-hour news cycle, alerts of shootings, plane crashes, ISIS beheadings, crime, war and human rights violations are constant — and this incessant news of violence and destruction may be messing with our heads.

The world isn’t falling apart, but it can sure feel like it. The news can be violent, depressing and emotionally-charged.
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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli
We are not rational enough to be exposed to the press. Watching an airplane crash on television is going to change your attitude toward that risk, regardless of its real probability. If you think you can compensate with the strength of your own inner contemplation, you are wrong.

News is irrelevant. Out of the approximately 10,000 news stories you have read in the last 12 months, name one that – because you consumed it – allowed you to make a better decision about a serious matter affecting your life, your career or your business. The point is: the consumption of news is irrelevant to you. But people find it very difficult to recognise what's relevant. It's much easier to recognise what's new. The relevant versus the new is the fundamental battle of the current age. Media organisations want you to believe that news offers you some sort of a competitive advantage. Many fall for that. We get anxious when we're cut off from the flow of news. In reality, news consumption is a competitive disadvantage. The less news you consume, the bigger the advantage you have.
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News has no explanatory power. News items are bubbles popping on the surface of a deeper world. Will accumulating facts help you understand the world? Sadly, no. The relationship is inverted. The important stories are non-stories: slow, powerful movements that develop below journalists' radar but have a transforming effect. The more "news factoids" you digest, the less of the big picture you will understand. If more information leads to higher economic success, we'd expect journalists to be at the top of the pyramid. That's not the case.
News is toxic to your body...
News increases cognitive errors...
News inhibits thinking...
News works like a drug...
News wastes time...
News makes us passive...
News kills creativity...
Society needs journalism – but in a different way. Investigative journalism is always relevant. We need reporting that polices our institutions and uncovers truth. But important findings don't have to arrive in the form of news. Long journal articles and in-depth books are good, too.

I have now gone without news for four years, so I can see, feel and report the effects of this freedom first-hand: less disruption, less anxiety, deeper thinking, more time, more insights. It's not easy, but it's worth it.
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And the collective we is largely to blame? Newspapers, books and magazines (in depth articles), are dying off - while superficial sound byte TV, radio, social media and other online sources, even memes, are taking over...

No news is clearly NOT the answer, how to consume from today’s unchecked firehose of “news” is the question?
 
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We cut cable TV a while back, so we don’t have access to cable news networks. And we don’t watch local news. We don’t have satellite radio either. So no watching or listening to news ever. Yet I still manage to know what’s going on in the world somehow...
 
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