where do you get your news

Please let us know how you get your news. I admit it, I am a news junkie and try to keep up daily
which local TV news do you like best?
do you watch national network news? which one is best?
do you like NPR?
what cable news do you like best, CNN? MSNBC? FOX?
what online news do you read daily?
what newspapers do you read?
do you avoid current events as much as possible?

my answers
which local TV news do you like best? KVUE, Kxan second
do you watch national network news? which one is best? I tivo all 3 networks and watch them all, like ABC best
do you like NPR? Yes listen daily on KUT
any other radio news? Texas Standard daily ( A one-hour daily news magazine, Texas Standard is produced in the state capital in collaboration with KUT Austin, KERA North Texas, Houston Public Media and Texas Public Radio San Antonio, as well as news organizations across Texas, Mexico and the United States. Visit TexasStandard.org to read our newest stories ...)
what cable news do you like best, CNN? MSNBC? FOX? CNN
what online news do you read daily? huff po
what newspapers do you read? Austin American stateman online
do you avoid current events as much as possible? no I try to keep up

where is the future of news reporting headed?

Journalism is dead. Nothing left but opinion.

Yep plus fake news too.

the value of a free press is a wide variety of opinions and allows one to make their own decisions on what is fake news. Yes there is fake news and opinion pieces but it is easily spot-able when u gather your news from many disparate sources. we need a free and varied media now more than ever. by watching news stories from so many sources, i feel i get a bigger picture of what is happening and can form opinions better with a variety of sources and not just the propaganda machine.

News sucks when all you see and hear about trump the dump!!!! Lol. Sorry I’m definitely not a trump fan.

Yeah. CNN has become the new weather channel... All stormy, all the time.

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Yeah. CNN has become the new weather channel... All stormy, all the time.

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And msnbc is pure conspiracy and fantasy reporting

I agree with gfejunkie....journalism is dead. You all remember Jim Cramer on CNBC (I think he still is the host for mad money). Before the' 08 financial collapse he was touted as a financial guru pitching stocks in a 30 minute frenzied cable show until he was outed as using his show to manipulate stocks for his benefit. His response? "the show was about entertainment". We don't have journalism any more, just entertainers....which isn't bad, but we shouldn't ever believe that we are getting all the facts, and in many cases none of the facts.

The cynical view of the uninformed is frightening.

And theball our assault on the truth is the first step toward a fascist state.

I would not say journalism is dead. The truth is still out there. But a vocal minority segment of the population is with too lazy or afraid to deal with the truth. And, as they have been for the last decade, they’ve been provided an easy way out by the likes of certain political/corporate forces. Don’t believe anything and you’ll never have to face the truth.

It’s a dangerous time, made more dangerous by the lazy.

I read everything I can online. Also read local papers; though they’re woefully late, they generally have enough time to check their facts. News is news. who, what, when, where, why and how. A building is on fire.

The rest of what many of you are reacting to is misnamed. A triumph of those who want to keep you misinformed, frustrated and angry.

There are no “versions” of the truth.

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News is news. who, what, when, where, why and how. A building is on fire.

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If they stuck with that I could believe them. What they're doing now is journalistic malpractice. Instead of reporting the news they make themselves the news.

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If they stuck with that I could believe them. What they're doing now is journalistic malpractice. Instead of reporting the news they make themselves the news.

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Walter Kronkite told Dan Rather when he was starting out " To report the news and not be the news" {paraphrased a little}!! Dan Rather was the first generation of reporters that did not follow this golden rule of journalism.... It's gone down hill ever sense......:guilotine:

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Walter Kronkite told Dan Rather when he was starting out " To report the news and not be the news" {paraphrased a little}!! Dan Rather was the first generation of reporters that did not follow this golden rule of journalism.... It's gone down hill ever sense......

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Exactly. He got just what he deserved too.

Probably not the first instance of "making shit up". Certainly not the last. Beware when you see or hear "unnamed" or "anonymous" sources. They're either lying or making shit up or somebody's leaking shit they shouldn't be. No credibility whatsoever.

I listen to REAL NEWS! News sources that criticizes and investigates TRUMP'S OBVIOUS CORRUPTION!

Hook, line, and sinker.

I try to read both conservative and liberal news but I lean towards reading The Guardian UK, Reuters (which I've read is the most middle of the road news org out there) and like many, CNN.

As far as watching goes, I love VICE television which has a lot of articles about sexuality along with cutting edge news. VICE does have a very liberal bent at times and the news shows are directed at a much younger audience than myself. But I find the articles on the internet interesting and very informative. And sometimes the articles are just silly and/or fun.

I also feel that it's important to try to watch all types of news sources so that we can try, to the best of our ability, to make informed decisions that work for us. After being very conservative for the first portion of my adult life, I lean VERY liberal these days.

However, like others have mentioned above, I also have very strong feelings about certain issues going on. We all do. And with that being said, I still feel that we can debate without going for the jugular.

For those of you who have issues with Trump, and you're in good company with me, I saw a documentary that explained a lot to me.

"Get Me Roger Stone" was an eye opening watch for me. Really explained how some businessmen, politicians, etc., handle their business. And life. As the documentary was presented, felt a little bit sick that there are people out there who thrive on shit talking (excuse the vernacular), etc. But Stone's "method" is easy to recognize in others once you hear his MO.

Watched is a second time awhile back and had the same reaction. Very illuminating.

Happy Friday!!!
Elisabeth

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb...nds-correction

Like I said, beware "anonymous sources". They're just making shit up!

The problem is that truth no longer matters to the audience, thanks in great part to Trump and the Russians. The enemy has become the media. Vital part in the rise of fascism.

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article...uleId=10007655


THE PRESS IN THE THIRD REICH
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ESTABLISHING CONTROL OF THE PRESS

When Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, the Nazis controlled less than three percent of Germany’s 4,700 papers.

The elimination of the German multi-party political system not only brought about the demise of hundreds of newspapers produced by outlawed political parties; it also allowed the state to seize the printing plants and equipment of the Communist and Social Democratic Parties, which were often turned over directly to the Nazi Party. In the following months, the Nazis established control or exerted influence over independent press organs.

During the first weeks of 1933, the Nazi regime deployed the radio, press, and newsreels to stoke fears of a pending “Communist uprising,” then channeled popular anxieties into political measures that eradicated civil liberties and democracy. SA (storm troopers) and members of the Nazi elite paramilitary formation, the SS, took to the streets to brutalize or arrest political opponents and incarcerate them in hastily established detention centers and concentration camps. Nazi thugs broke into opposing political party offices, destroying printing presses and newspapers.

Sometimes using holding companies to disguise new ownership, executives of the Nazi Party-owned publishing house, Franz Eher, established a huge empire that drove out competition and purchased newspapers at below-market prices. Some independent newspapers, particularly conservative newspapers and non-political illustrated weeklies, accommodated to the regime through self-censorship or initiative in dealing with approved topics.

"ARYANIZATION"

Through measures to “Aryanize” businesses, the regime also assumed control of Jewish-owned publishing companies, notably Ullstein and Mosse.

Ullstein, which published the well-known Berlin daily the Vossische Zeitung, was the largest publishing house company in Europe by 1933, employing 10,000 people. In 1933, German officials forced the Ullstein family to resign from the board of the company and, a year later, to sell the company assets.

Owners of a worldwide advertising agency, the Mosse family owned and published a number of major liberal papers much hated by the Nazis, including the Berlin Tageblatt; the Mosse family fled Germany the day after Hitler took power. Fearing imprisonment or death, reputable journalists also began to flee the country in large numbers. German non-Jewish newspaper owners replaced them in part with ill-trained and inexperienced amateurs loyal to the Nazi Party, as well as with skilled and veteran journalists prepared to collaborate with the regime in order to maintain and even enhance their careers.

PROPAGANDA MINISTRY AND THE REICH PRESS CHAMBER

The Propaganda Ministry, through its Reich Press Chamber, assumed control over the Reich Association of the German Press, the guild which regulated entry into the profession. Under the new Editors Law of October 4, 1933, the association kept registries of “racially pure” editors and journalists, and excluded Jews and those married to Jews from the profession. Propaganda Ministry officials expected editors and journalists, who had to register with the Reich Press Chamber to work in the field, to follow the mandates and instructions handed down by the ministry. In paragraph 14 of the law, the regime required editors to omit anything “calculated to weaken the strength of the Reich abroad or at home.”

The Propaganda Ministry aimed further to control the content of news and editorial pages through directives distributed in daily conferences in Berlin and transmitted via the Party propaganda offices to regional or local papers. Detailed guidelines stated what stories could or could not be reported and how to report the news. Journalists or editors who failed to follow these instructions could be fired or, if believed to be acting with intent to harm Germany, sent to a concentration camp. Rather than suppressing news, the Nazi propaganda apparatus instead sought to tightly control its flow and interpretation and to deny access to alternative sources of news.

TOWARD THE END OF WORLD WAR II

By 1944, a shortage of newspaper and ink forced the Nazi government to limit all newspapers first to eight, then four, and finally, two pages. Of the 4,700 newspapers published in Germany when the Nazis took power in 1933, no more that 1,100 remained. Approximately half were still in the hands of private or institutional owners, but these newspapers operated in strict compliance with government press laws and published material only in accordance with directives issued by the Ministry of Propaganda. While the circulation of these newspapers was approximately 4.4 million, the circulation of the 325 newspapers and their multiple regional editions owned by the Nazi Party was 21 million. Many of these newspapers continued to publish until the end of the war.

Upon occupying Germany, Allied authorities shut down and confiscated presses owned by Nazi Party organs. The last surviving German radio station, located in Flensberg, near the Danish border, made its final broadcast in the name of the National Socialist state on May 9, 1945. After reporting the news of the unconditional capitulation of German forces to the Allies, it went off the air.

POSTWAR

In the postwar US occupation zone of Germany, the military administration believed that the reestablishment of a free press was vital to the denazification and reeducation of Germans, and essential to the creation of democracy in Germany. Therefore, the first German newspaper approved for publication by the US military high command appeared on January 24, 1945, in Aachen, three months after the US forces captured the city.

Among those tried by the Allies as major war criminals at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg were Hans F****sche, head of the Radio Division of the Propaganda Ministry, and Julius Streicher, editor of Der Stürmer.

Journalism (and journalists) of old is dead and gone. Now all everyone wants to be is a fuckin' celebrity.

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Journalism (and journalists) of old is dead and gone. Now all everyone wants to be is a fuckin' celebrity.

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Agreed.

What changed it?

Besides the advent of FOX News of course?

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Agreed.

What changed it?

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The problem is that truth no longer matters to the audience, thanks in great part to Trump and the Russians. The enemy has become the media. Vital part in the rise of fascism.

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Actually, the media has become the propaganda wing of the dimocrap party. Is this what you mean by fascism?

"Unprecedented hostility: Broadcast coverage of President Trump still 90% negative, says study."




https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...ays-new-study/

"... says study."

Nuff said.

And what is the "dimocrap party?"

You know, never mind.

And here is some positive news from CNN,no less. Trump is rockin the economy!

http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/08/news...ril/index.html

They always hate to admit such things...

http://ourhome2.net/vb/showthread.ph...their-own-poll!

as this is my thread and we are labeled a politics free zone here , I respectfully request y'all keep politics out of this thread and go to the Houston one to argue. I was talking about media you use and feel that this thread has been hijacked for politics talk which was not my intention here. I was wanting to talk about the newspapers, internet sites, tv networks and cable news sources you watch, not your politics which sadly, we ALL KNOW ALREADY. let's keep Austin politics free in here.

All news stations talk about politics. President Trump - God, I love saying that - is the topic of every news station. I have no clue what news station would not have news about President Trump. I mean what else is there!!!!

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as this is my thread and we are labeled a politics free zone here , I respectfully request y'all keep politics out of this thread and go to the Houston one to argue. I was talking about media you use and feel that this thread has been hijacked for politics talk which was not my intention here. I was wanting to talk about the newspapers, internet sites, tv networks and cable news sources you watch, not your politics which sadly, we ALL KNOW ALREADY. let's keep Austin politics free in here.

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Just about all "news/media" outlets have become political agenda machines.. All slanting leftward.. But to the question on record I get my news from all outlets.. Then I let Fox News give me the truth......

Wait!! What about Alex Jones?

Or Michael Cohen’s client, Sean Hannity?

THAT DAMNED MEDIA!!! Always telling us shit we don’t want to hear.

How many lies will Trump tell today?

:jaw:

How many will YOU tell?

Well, the media got it right today - 3 Americans coming on home from N. Korea - Trump has rocket man just where he wants him and the media is finally getting it right. For the sensitive folks - this is a response to the media question.

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as this is my thread and we are labeled a politics free zone here , I respectfully request y'all keep politics out of this thread and go to the Houston one to argue. I was talking about media you use and feel that this thread has been hijacked for politics talk which was not my intention here. I was wanting to talk about the newspapers, internet sites, tv networks and cable news sources you watch, not your politics which sadly, we ALL KNOW ALREADY. let's keep Austin politics free in here.

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Amen, sister!!!

The designated political forum in Houston is lame at best. Keep Austin weird.

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Well, the media got it right today - 3 Americans coming on home from N. Korea - Trump has rocket man just where he wants him and the media is finally getting it right. For the sensitive folks - this is a response to the media question.

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Indeed it is a good news day. Thank you, President Trump!

Speaking of news - I don't know if you heard but - The keep Austin Weird and that gang went out with the 70's. It's Hipsterville Central now.

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Amen, sister!!!

The designated political forum in Houston is lame at best. Keep Austin weird.

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Speaking of news - I don't know if you heard but - The keep Austin Weird and that gang went out with the 70's. It's Hipsterville Central now.

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The term might be considered out of date, but us here in Dallas still hear it on a regular basis.

Yssup was just restating what the topic was about: Where do you get your news?

I'm (painfully) aware of how emotionally charged ANY discussion of Trump can be. And while it's fine that some of the posters here are supporters of the current administration, it's not difficult to understand how many people would not be.

So let's leave it at that.

And what are other popular new sources for the readers here? Think that I've already made my list!!!

(Oh, I also read Tits and Sass! And they have a lot of political commentary!)

Hugs everyone,
Elisabeth

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Speaking of news - I don't know if you heard but - The keep Austin Weird and that gang went out with the 70's. It's Hipsterville Central now.

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Somebody tell the WORLD that, Ellen! Lol!

https://youtu.be/3_I2kZix6eE

Oh I'm gonna try Tits and Sass! I already love the name!!

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The term might be considered out of date, but us here in Dallas still hear it on a regular basis.

Yssup was just restating what the topic was about: Where do you get your news?

I'm (painfully) aware of how emotionally charged ANY discussion of Trump can be. And while it's fine that some of the posters here are supporters of the current administration, it's not difficult to understand how many people would not be.

So let's leave it at that.

And what are other popular new sources for the readers here? Think that I've already made my list!!!








(Oh, I also read Tits and Sass! And they have a lot of political commentary!)

Hugs everyone,
Elisabeth

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I will tell you where I DON'T get my news. That would be the New York Times. They can't put their hate on hold for five friggin' minutes...

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...americans.html

Uhhh... I think he was kinda busy.