Where do you go for the news?

[TruthIsAll]

Poll question: Where do you go for the news?

[rogerashton]

1. The Economist?

Crappy editorial politics, but good world coverage.

However, DU for what won't turn up in the routine coverage -- from newspapers I don't usually read.

[McCamy Taylor]

26. BUZZFLASH! Everyone I know Uses It as the Alt to TV News Now

They cull all the important stories that CBS, ABC and NBC should be pulling and have good editorials and links---including links to DU.

DU is for more in depth coverage, but Buzzflash is where I go first thing in the morning everyday to see what has been happening. It is rare that they are not on top of an important breaking story.

:bounce:

[McCamy Taylor]

Oops, Soory about the misfiling, was supposed to be a reply to the header.

[RC]

2. This place is great for filtering the spin back out of the

original facts. The knowledge here, backed up by sources is unbeatable.

[Bronco69]

3. Definately DU

I hate being lied to. I haven't watched tv news since 11/3 and I don't miss it a bit.

[BlueEyedSon]

4. If I know what I'm looking for, I use Google news.

[marions ghost]

5. DU followed by

other blogs and websites, occasionally air america and c-span.

That's it.

[Sporadicus]

6. I've Lost the Need for Any News Source Other than DU

With thousands of dedicated news junkies prowling the internet for late-breaking news, why go anywhere else? I used to visit BuzzFlash fairly frequently, but DU most often has the story posted before they do. If it's news, DU finds it!

[Sporadicus]

7. I Hope the Joker Who Voted for Faux News Isn't Serious! n/t

[Jensen]

8. Since Nov 3rd is DU

I no longer feel the need or want to watch TV news. TV news is nothing but propaganda!

[lonestarnot]

9. DU a rock'n!

:kick:

[MichaelHarris]

10. From

those HiLight kid's magazines in the doctors office, my wife is a doctor so she brings them to me. I need help finding the cowboy, maybe he's in the bark of the tree.

[KaliTracy]

11. NPR and DU

Sure they've had their problems of late, but it's a good place to get a large overview of things happening. AND they have responded to public outcry on certain issues...

DU is definitely my favorite source -- but I use both.

[Kansas Wyatt]

12. Complex methodology of....

DU, newspaper, and the exact opposite of whatever the MSM is reporting at the time.

[nashville_brook]

20. me too -- start here; propaganda check MSM; end here

[davidgmills]

13. Internet Exclusively

Buzzflash, Informationclearinghouse, OldAmericanCentury, Truthout, OpEdNews, CommonDreams, Counterpunch, DissidentVoice, Rense, Whatreallyhappened, then blogs beginning with DU.

Many many more.

[texpatriot2004]

14. I get my news from a combination of sources, DU for 1,

Free Speech TV (Democracy Now)
KPFT Radio (I used to be a faithful listener of NPR)
Blogs - The Brad Blog, What Really Happened, NaushuaAdvocate, and others

[IStriker]

15. Read newspapers online, listen to local TV and radio news.

[FogerRox]

16. Air America Radio, Pacifica radio, DU, Bushflash.com

Whats a news paper?

[IStriker]

23. I'm old. I have read several newspapers everyday since...

before I went to school (learned to read from the newspaper when I was 4) and until I got a computer and the internet, I spent a fortune getting day old newspapers mailed to me. I'm a news "junkie" and old habits are too hard to break.

[lostnfound]

27. Anything outside of American / British papers?

Because virtually all of those papers are filtered through a very specific lens.


I never would have believed it until I read Manufacturing Consent, and now I notice it everywhere.

[Up2Late]

17. Too all of you who clicked DU, I have a question for you

O.K., maybe 2, How can you possibly have anything interesting to talk or bitch about here, at DU, if this is your only source of news? :shrug:

And, How can you know what is NOT being covered (thus, giving you more to talk or bitch about), if this is the only place you get your News?

If everyone here, were to have this as their only source of news, this place will quickly become an "echo chamber" (sort of like a liberal version of the Pentagon):crazy:. You end up bitching and complaining about the folks here, which isn't good.

I find NPR to be a good (not great any more) source for most news. Combining NPR with DU was a great "Wake Up call" for me, this Election. By listening to NPR AND reading DU, I could see what was being covered up or glossed over, by even the "so called, Liberal Left," Which gave me some idea, what needs to change in this country and with the Democratic Party.

And if you use LBN here as your only News source (and I've already complained to Skinner about this in the "Ask the Admins" Forum) I seems that if more than one "story" (i.e. point of view) on the same "News" subject, is posted, that differing "News" P.O.V. is quickly Locked or move to some obscure place on DU.

For a more complete explanation of what I'm talking about (or to express your agreement with my position) read my post to Skinner at
<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=120x28266>
and yes, you can chime in on comments to the Admins, it does seem like they are getting a LOT of complaints about the new Moderators:hi:

[El Fuego]

22. I agree with that.

A "closed system" only leads to stagnation. To me, the echo chamber effect is only a short term fix, a feel-good thing.

During the Clinton administration, the righties were all deeply into the Internet echo chamber thing. And they all truly believed (and still believe) that Clinton was personally responsible for murdering hundreds of political enemies (with Vince Foster being only the tip of the iceberg). Righties solemnly truly believed that Clinton was godfather mafioso figure, and that his arrest as a mass murderer was imminent. I think the Internet was responsible for breeding a new strain of right wing wacko.

The moral is, be wary of the echo chamber. We all know it drove THEM loony-toons.
:crazy:

[IStriker]

24. I am amazed at the number of DUers who believe ANYTHING...

posted on here with no link to anything. I read stuff from the left and stuff from the right because I want ALL the facts that I can get. In the end, I'll make up my own mind and very often it's someplace between the spin from each side, but if I didn't avail myself of everything, I wouldn't know what each side doesn't want me to hear or see.

[elizm]

29. But there wasn't a choice for both...

DU and NPR. I think most people get their news from more than one source, but you had to choose for the poll. I get mine from DU, NPR, Air America Radio, Truthout.Org, Raw Story, and any number of other places. But I'd have to say I spend most of my time reading DU and it often leads me to other sources as well.

[LeeB]

32. Right on!

I clicked on DU, then tried to add some others but the poll allowed just one vote. :P I check BuzzFlash every day, DU, TableTalk, Truthout, Raw Story, Velvet Revolution, and much more (don't anybody here be offended if I didn't mention your site - the list is too long for my feeble brain to contain the URLs), CSpan, as well as SCLM - NBC, CBS, ABC - to see if anything is piercing their consciousness and to "monitor" the propaganda.

Countdown has replaced the local TV news for me, because here on the left coast it airs at 5:00 and the past few months my schedule has allowed that. I've been a news junkie since I was just a pup but now the newspaper is just a source of coupons and other money-saving info for necessities. As long as it continues to save me more than it costs, I'll continue to buy it, but they shouldn't get too cocky about their influence on my vote.

My thanks, BTW, to everyone on this board. The research, analysis, and general picky discussion is invaluable!

[helderheid]

18. Free Speech TV and Link TV

www.freespeechtv.org channel 9415 on Dish
www.linktv.org channel 9410 on Dish and channel 375 on Direct TV

[gkhouston]

19. I get it from a variety of places...

I check DU pretty frequently and I always watch Countdown. I listen to NPR almost every day. I still watch CNN fairly often, although that's more to see what they're reporting than to get news. (Same goes for Yahoo.) I usually bop over to the Washington Post because I lived in DC for a while, but the news content there is, uh, variable. I visit buzzflash sometimes, but it's usually behind the DU curve. I live in Houston, so the local paper is only good for the grocery coupons and the comics.

G.

[livvy]

21. I use a variety of sources.

If I'm short on time, I'll scan the Times and Post headings. I come here several times a day. In the evenings I'll Google areas of interest, follow the links here,various blogs, or go to government sites. I used to watch MSNBC, but I've gotten so disgusted with their coverage, I don't watch them anymore, so I've switched to CSpan.

edit -The link in the signature doesn't go anywhere. I tried to add a special smilie, but it didn't work out! Oh, well!
2nd edit- all gone!:D

[skids]

25. As far as TV goes.

Occassionally Jennings (every once and a while ABC will just rip on the establishment for one whole show, then go back to lazy skrill coverage for a week or two), more often Lou Dobbs (who is sometimes just wrong, often awkwardly self-righteous, but always seems to give some minimal amount of depth to a lot of perspectives that the rest of the media gloss over and cuts straight through party lines as if they don't exist, whether his own premise is good or not.) But not as much anymore from TV since before the election fraud.

[troubleinwinter]

28. Raw Story, daily

[dzika]

30. DU, PBS, BBC, DemocracyNow!, Blogs, Google News. n/t

[MoonRiver]

31. DU and Buzzflash

I leave the room if my husband has CNN.coN or MSRNC on. He's still addicted, sigh.