Originally Posted by Seismosaur
The Internet and Dr. Phil.
I know you're joking about Dr. Phil, but any particular outlets, on the Internet, or just anything you come across?
Originally Posted by Kushna Mufeed
I've been thinking of looking into Al Jazeera, just to see what kind of shit they're talking about. Thanks for the link.
Originally Posted by Alextanium
CNN.
Digg.com
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (haha)
'Faux News' should be watched for entertainment (and infuriation) value only.
Haha. Jon Stewart is awesome (as a comedian, of course - not a news source).
Originally Posted by Universal Mind
Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, Yahoo! News, talk radio, other.
Fox News' most popular commentators are conservative, but their straight news reporters are good at being neutral, usually. Also, even their commentators are constantly having liberal guests on their shows to give the other sides of the arguments. The network is still overall more conservative than liberal. I highly recommend that liberals watch it so they can at least know what the other side of the arguments are and to see what news stories the other sources are leaving out.
MSNBC, on the other hand, is all out liberal. They should call themselves the Anti-Fox News Network. Keith Olberman should call his show the Anti-O'Reilly Show since O'Reilly is clearly the most important person in Olberman's life. Their commentators most often never have guests who represent the other side (except Chris Matthews), and their straight news reporters are viciously left wing. Some of them even admit it. I watch them just to catch the places where Fox News was a bit too biased to show all of the truth. I find it hilarious when I watch actual video clips on Fox News that disprove the slants of MSNBC. I watch CNN for even more perspective, and the same is true of the other sources I listed. NPR is the most laughably biased of all of them, but I like knowing all of the angles. I don't think any of the straight news reporters of any of them flat out lie. That would destroy them. Capitalism has a way of creating competition that keeps people acting right when they are being watched by the public.
You and I will probably always disagree on FOX News. I think it's the most one-sided network out there, if not the polar opposite of MSNBC. All of their democratic guests seem to be the most unqualified, weakly-spoken, most often irrational punching bags they can find. Whenever I watch them, I'm always shaking my head at how weakly they make their points, and are dog-piled on by the republican speakers that usually out-number them. With the regular newscasts, it's not so much the anchors that are conservative, it's the stories they decide to run, and the lengths at which they run them.
Just my opinion, of course.
I think CNN is the most neutral (out of FOX, MSNBC and CNN at least). I like how they have very competent speakers from both sides - like democratic and republican strategists, instead of just columnists and such - and everyone (even the anchors at times) are equally critical of both sides of the spectrum.
What's NPR?
Originally Posted by SolSkye
Because honestly, I believe and feel that no real "news" traveling on or trickling off from those mainstream outlets actually exists outside of one's first-hand experience of it so one should pay second or third party information no more mind than a dream they had last night...
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Do you mean to say that you don't believe that the "news" doesn't really happen? News like the typhoon in Myanmar and the earthquake in China, etc?
Oh, and as for mine, I usually watch CNN or read CNN.com and Reuters, but I like to switch up and watch/read FOX and MSNBC for perspective.
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