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    What are your 3 (or more) TOP NEWS SOURCES?? Do they confirm or challenge your views?



    Reuters

    BBC

    PBS

    Which I would say, in general confirm.

    In seeking news I prob use them about 30% +/- of the time..

    Often times when someone posts a link & I check the source, I will lurk around, eventhough it's going to challenge my views.

    I feel I see/learn a much rounder view.

    I do the same w/ several of the Market/business sites I go to as well.

    I would also add JPP also/other posters here..
    "There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."



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    BBC

    NPR


    CBS
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    BBC,NPR,CNN and I scan through others. I read local paper. I often watch Maddow too. She is smart and cleans the right-wing dust from the news. I watch Frontline and 60 Minutes too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill View Post
    What are your 3 (or more) TOP NEWS SOURCES?? Do they confirm or challenge your views?



    Reuters

    BBC

    PBS

    Which I would say, in general confirm.

    In seeking news I prob use them about 30% +/- of the time..

    Often times when someone posts a link & I check the source, I will lurk around, eventhough it's going to challenge my views.

    I feel I see/learn a much rounder view.

    I do the same w/ several of the Market/business sites I go to as well.

    I would also add JPP also/other posters here..
    I don't really have a go to. CBS news was a mainstay growing up though and Mom likes to check out the news my brother produces.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gonzomin View Post
    BBC,NPR,CNN and I scan through others. I read local paper. I often watch Maddow too. She is smart and cleans the right-wing dust from the news. I watch Frontline and 60 Minutes too.
    I like frontline & don't watch 60 mins anymore, not for any particular reason though..

    I never watch her, although I have seen many clips of her points.

    Do you ever watch programs etc w/ contrarian views?? Views that you don't necessarily hold?
    "There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."



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    SF Chronicle & Wall St Journal. Used to read the Economist on a weekly basis, not as much now.

    Will listen to NPR in the car. Sometimes I'll even listen to KPFA free speech radio (the station that hosts Amy Goodwin and Democracy Now and makes NPR look right wing).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill View Post
    I like frontline & don't watch 60 mins anymore, not for any particular reason though..

    I never watch her, although I have seen many clips of her points.

    Do you ever watch programs etc w/ contrarian views?? Views that you don't necessarily hold?
    I try to. When I watch Fox they are so absurd that it is unwatchable. I can get Fox by listening to Trump. Their function is backing Trump.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill View Post
    I like frontline & don't watch 60 mins anymore, not for any particular reason though..

    I never watch her, although I have seen many clips of her points.

    Do you ever watch programs etc w/ contrarian views?? Views that you don't necessarily hold?
    Twitter is a cess poll but I do follow some folks with left leaning political and cultural views. Admittedly at times I find myself getting p*ssed reading them but I do it to get out of the echo chamber.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill View Post
    What are your 3 (or more) TOP NEWS SOURCES?? Do they confirm or challenge your views?



    Reuters

    BBC

    PBS

    Which I would say, in general confirm.

    In seeking news I prob use them about 30% +/- of the time..

    Often times when someone posts a link & I check the source, I will lurk around, eventhough it's going to challenge my views.

    I feel I see/learn a much rounder view.

    I do the same w/ several of the Market/business sites I go to as well.

    I would also add JPP also/other posters here..
    I read those as well. I also read the National Review and The Weekly Standard as well as Al Jazeera and Electric Infitada for news on foreign issues.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    SF Chronicle & Wall St Journal. Used to read the Economist on a weekly basis, not as much now.

    Will listen to NPR in the car. Sometimes I'll even listen to KPFA free speech radio (the station that hosts Amy Goodwin and Democracy Now and makes NPR look right wing).
    LOL, the original-Pacficia-I would listen to it when it first came out, I was in NYC then, that was before Amy...

    I have always thought you fair minded & well rounded, well except when you disagreed w/ me.. lol
    "There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."



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    Quote Originally Posted by Gonzomin View Post
    I try to. When I watch Fox they are so absurd that it is unwatchable. I can get Fox by listening to Trump. Their function is backing Trump.
    That is true, but reading it/browsing/seeing the rational etc is easier IMHO..
    "There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."



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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    I read those as well. I also read the National Review and The Weekly Standard as well as Al Jazeera and Electric Infitada for news on foreign issues.
    Great, I have read them as well but not very often any more.. I don't read Al Jazeera much but I have found them as honest as any other source & carrying lots of stories not being told elsewhere..
    "There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."



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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill View Post
    Great, I have read them as well but not very often any more.. I don't read Al Jazeera much but I have found them as honest as any other source & carrying lots of stories not being told elsewhere..
    I do as well. Electric Intifada, allows me to read another prospective on Gaza. Our news here is pretty slanted.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill View Post
    What are your 3 (or more) TOP NEWS SOURCES?? Do they confirm or challenge your views?



    Reuters

    BBC

    PBS

    Which I would say, in general confirm.

    In seeking news I prob use them about 30% +/- of the time..

    Often times when someone posts a link & I check the source, I will lurk around, eventhough it's going to challenge my views.

    I feel I see/learn a much rounder view.

    I do the same w/ several of the Market/business sites I go to as well.

    I would also add JPP also/other posters here..
    I have reached the point in life where I do not want to clutter up my brain with the day-to-day minutia of the 24 hour news cycle, the current score on the political horse race, nor do I think it even matters that much.

    I pretty much can get as much as I need about the day-to-day horse race just through osmosis. On a sidebar, I do think it is important to not just rely on domestic American sources of information.

    The only print media I read on a regular basis are National Geographic and Smithsonian. I believe one could actually lead a well-lived life just consistently reading those two.

    I have consciously shifted my mind from the ephemeral and temporal, towards the philosophical and all-encompassing. I am interested in absorbing information about racism. Social justice. Economic justice. Temperance versus retribution and vengeance. Democracy versus oligarchy. Capitalism versus democratic socialism. How is a well-ordered, virtuous society constructed, and what it the best form of government – aka, questions in the intellectual traditions of Confucius and Plato.

    To that end, I spend considerable time with books, novellas, and other medium of scholarly knowledge. But I try to leave plenty of time for comic books and cartoons as well!

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    I get a lot of my news from the Internet. On TV, I watch FOX and the local news, sometimes CNN or CNBC. I read some of the overseas publications online.

    Of course, I have to turn to MSNBC whenever things like Mueller time occurs, just to witness the meltdowns.

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