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Who do you get your news fix from local or national tv and radio?
- Thread starter Mido3737
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I concur with you about NPR; now I know some that say it’s way too liberal and then about an equal number say that NPR is too conservative , so I think that puts them in the middle; they do try their best to present opposing views on controversial topics (which seems to be everything these days); then the local NPR stations, I listen to (Tampa and Orlando) have plenty of locally inserted news during morning drive times. During other portions of the day, when I’m not home, I listen on the car radio to CNN International, CNN, BBC and some NPR programming. For TV, the PBS News Hour is good at going in depth on the top stories on the day and on Friday’s PBS has Washington Week in Review; which is also very informative .
NPR even has entertainment content. Some time ago, still somewhat thinking NPR was a bastion of liberal politics, I turned on the Chattanooga affiliate and they're doing a panel on The Wizard of Oz.
I've always liked ABC Radio news, from the time I started in radio and worked at an ABC affiliate. I thought it made us seem a little "bigger" than Mutual (which most small stations had.....until they flipped to UPI Audio). No doubt the biggest reason we had ABC was Paul Harvey. I still like their breaking news coverage
Our news/talker does pretty much the only news in town, but it is all farmed out to one if the TV stations. There's an anchor employed by the station, but they do no reporting
No doubt about it the BBC coverage is very good and they feed into the 24 hour news channel all the time.Watch it here in Ireland every day on Freesat dish and we'll worth dipping in and out every few hours .
If I am in the car, chances are it will be Fox News Radio (no apparent bias) on the oldies station I listen to more than any other. The classic country station quit airing CBS News.
On Saturday Giles Snyder at 10 AM or whoever takes over a 11 if I didn't turn it off first.
WERT had a full network newscast but KTUC has only a couple of stories each hour.
I read The Charlotte Observer but not until at least a few days after the stories ran. If it was a story in the Sunday paper it's at least a week later. That goes back to when I was in college and saw the papers on the next weekend when I was home.
On Saturday Giles Snyder at 10 AM or whoever takes over a 11 if I didn't turn it off first.
WERT had a full network newscast but KTUC has only a couple of stories each hour.
I read The Charlotte Observer but not until at least a few days after the stories ran. If it was a story in the Sunday paper it's at least a week later. That goes back to when I was in college and saw the papers on the next weekend when I was home.
The pace is slow, the delivery is condescending, the music interludes are unnecessary and the "storytelling" narrative is annoying. Other than that there might be some value to it.
People often say they're in the middle, many say they're too liberal, but I've NEVER heard anyone accuse NPR of being too conservative!!
I listen to radio news, top of the hour news broadcasts, on local or regional (AM) stations, usually CBS Radio News, ABC, Fox Radio News (nothing like the Fox Cable News Channel), or sometimes NPR, BBC (plays overnights here on the local NPR station), or the CBC if one of their stations is coming in well at night (CBR Calgary, CBU Vancouver, CBX Edmonton).
Of the American radio news broadcasts, I like CBS Radio News the best.
Otherwise it's a mixed bag of internet news sites (Yahoo or MSN's news aggregator services) or the BBC news site. I used to check Reuters' headlines daily but they seem to have slammed up a paywall. Sometimes I check out CBS and NBC News' websites, which are pretty good overall.
Sometimes the CBC or BBC put news clips on YouTube, and I'll watch some of those. WION out of India has some good news clips, and although they're looking at the world from an Indian perspective, it's pretty interesting.
I don't watch TV. Never have, really, aside from a 5 year stretch in the late 2000s.
Of the American radio news broadcasts, I like CBS Radio News the best.
Otherwise it's a mixed bag of internet news sites (Yahoo or MSN's news aggregator services) or the BBC news site. I used to check Reuters' headlines daily but they seem to have slammed up a paywall. Sometimes I check out CBS and NBC News' websites, which are pretty good overall.
Sometimes the CBC or BBC put news clips on YouTube, and I'll watch some of those. WION out of India has some good news clips, and although they're looking at the world from an Indian perspective, it's pretty interesting.
I don't watch TV. Never have, really, aside from a 5 year stretch in the late 2000s.
For the most part, I don't watch national TV news. Too East Coast-centric, although CBS News online is the best of a bad lot. ABC has its moments as well. I have no use whatsoever for anything from Fox, CNN, or NBC. CNN used to be the go-to channel for breaking news, but they blew that years ago with Sandy Hook and the Boston Marathon bombings. Not to mention their election returns which rely on polls before actual voter results, but all the networks are guilty of that. It has to stop.
Radio is either NPR or right wing redneck talk. NPR is getting better but still has an East Coast bias.
I tend to stick to print media, namely AZCentral for local news (although they have a habit of keeping stories "above the virtual fold" for a week at a time. The Washington Post plays it down the middle for news, and their opinion columnists are clearly shown as liberal or conservative.
But for straight news, it's the AP, Reuters, the BBC, and even the gummint-owned VOA. Trump, like Nixon 50 years ago, tried to turn VOA into his own personal propaganda outlet, but they seem to have righted the ship now that he's gone.
Here is a chart showing the major (and a few minor) news organizations and their biases: https://adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart
Radio is either NPR or right wing redneck talk. NPR is getting better but still has an East Coast bias.
I tend to stick to print media, namely AZCentral for local news (although they have a habit of keeping stories "above the virtual fold" for a week at a time. The Washington Post plays it down the middle for news, and their opinion columnists are clearly shown as liberal or conservative.
But for straight news, it's the AP, Reuters, the BBC, and even the gummint-owned VOA. Trump, like Nixon 50 years ago, tried to turn VOA into his own personal propaganda outlet, but they seem to have righted the ship now that he's gone.
Here is a chart showing the major (and a few minor) news organizations and their biases: https://adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart
Great insight thank you for sharing.Just goes to show how we all consume news it not just TV and radio but online too.Can I just ask if you don't mind which source is your go to source for news please ?
My "go to" source for news varies between the sources I just listed. I'll often use a couple different search engines and check out several different sources if I want to verify anything I've heard in a radio news story or to verify a news story I have seen mentioned on social media.
If it's something like a news story about a law, I'll try to find a copy of the actual law somewhere.
Sometimes you have to do that to get a better understanding of what's behind a news story.
But for most stories, I usually hear about it on the radio news at the top of the hour, and most of the time it's CBS Radio News, the BBC overnights, or the CBC. NPR is OK except sometimes their delivery is dry, and a lot of times they cover national events I don't care about, instead of international ones that I care about more.
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