The Water Cooler – Where Do You Get Your National News?

The most important thing to me is the ability to distinguish between “actual news,” and “editorial content,” which will be biased towards the Right, or the Left. There are several news sources that adhere to journalism’s code of ethics, but it is critical for me to avoid opinions, and editorials. This is why I do not listen to talk shows, either on the radio, or on TV. Talk shows are influential, and can influence how we think and perceive the world. I see it all the time in the comment sections, people will repeat what they have heard on TV or the radio as if it is fact, and many of them probably believe it to be factual because they don’t know any better, and are lacking in critical thinking skills. To me, it’s usually obvious that what they are commenting on came from a biased news source and in all probability are not getting the full story.
There are various new sources that have solid, unbiased, and ethical journalism, but it’s important to stay away from the editorials, and opinions. The news source that I favor above all the rest is C-SPAN. It is the most reliable source of news in the country, especially for Congress and Senate hearings. C-SPAN doesn’t have any commentators that will try to sway our thoughts, or push any propaganda on us. It gives us the opportunity to hear both sides, the Right and the Left, and leave it up to us to decide.

A. variety of sources.
You can usually find a thread of truth by piecing stories together.

FOX News
Newsmax
CNN (with a grain of salt)
MSNBC (just for laughs)
Online… too many to list.

I’m a news junkie…. almost all the major TV stations, KCBS radio, EB Times (mainly for the comics and sports)

NY Times, Washington Post, PBS Newshour, AP

Do not watch bay area TV stations nor any of the cable news shows and same for any news cell phone displays, that is when I bother to turn the dang thing on.
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I go looking for news on web, trying to find multiple sources for each news event. Often go to news websites outside the U.S. Have between 30 – 40 sites bookmarked.
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On rare occasions just for S & G, will watch a few minutes of MS-LSD or cnn to hear current spin being spewed by propaganda wing of democrat party.
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$10,306,082 was spent crafting very specifically worded advertising tested on focus groups, then ads blanketed media and hand held devices to con voters into passing Prop 47.
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Many voters believe whatever they hear of see without checking facts for themselves.
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Last Century a mass murderer said
“The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small,
but their power of forgetting is enormous.
In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to
a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member
of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan”
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“All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself
to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach”
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Lacking In Basic Education, Reason And Logic

WION
NHK
Al Jazzera
BBC
Breitbart
X
Fox
Newsmax
Epoch Times
and of course Babylon Bee

my above comment was in reference to Pauls first comment

If you’re looking to any of the “news” entertainment companies, you’re doing it wrong.
You should get your information from an aggregate source. X is good because half the time it’s from the horses mouth. Anyone serving information and allows information to flow freely gives you a starting point. I don’t need to be told what to think. Just give me the information and I’ll determine if it checks out and how it makes me feel. Watching these politicians say what they say on video is what matters, not how the clowns on msnbc or fox news report on what was said. Allowing them to remove or add context is something I’ve never understood. Go dig on something if you want to know what’s going on.

FOX is not news, but entertainment. I try to avoid all corporate news, and even NPR now has many corporate sponsors. I try to follow independent news sources on the Internet such as Democracy Now, Truthout, Truthdig, the Intercept, Vox, Salon, and many more. Mainstream American news is mainly owned by 5 or 6 major corporate entities that have biased reporting.

Early morning online I check World news, WN.com — and SFGate… I read mostly just the headlines and spend time only on stories that really interest me. I also semi-trust the Turkiye TRT online site for both news in that continent(s) and for some counterbalance of our MSM political bs. For Infotainment-news, and an occasional chuckle, I listen to Fox stations.

Newsmax for Greg Kelly and Chris Salcedo, Fox for Maria Bartaromo and Mark Levin. I read Breitbart News on line and American Thinker. The local papers are biased against Republicans and never mention Biden’s open border.