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Old 03-23-2011, 11:44 AM

Where do you read the news more often? If at all. I really stuff when i get online on my home page MSN, sometimes their stuff seems a little off though and I like reading the comments on it so I find reading stuff on the web more fun.

I read video game news online too though I kinda miss getting magazines instead. D:

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Old 03-23-2011, 12:02 PM

I used to love magazines, but I haven't subscribed to one in ages. I used to buy more than one newspaper, and then I just switched to online things -- but if truth be told, I always preferred print -- having a hard copy is just a different experience. If feels like someone put something on the line that was meant to last. The Internet is great, but it's a long linear scroll, and I like turning the page...

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Old 03-23-2011, 12:18 PM

I actually really miss reading from paper. I like the feel of it and it's more comfortable because you can sit anywhere! XD

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Old 03-23-2011, 03:52 PM

It depends. Often the TV news, or I read the Saturday paper.

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Old 03-31-2011, 05:53 PM

I don't tend to follow the news really, I more or less casually pick up on things here and there, utilizing whatever happens to be handy at the time. It gets old quickly, hearing about all the war and death in the world, frankly I'd rather focus on the positive things I am working on in my "neck of the woods"...

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Old 03-31-2011, 06:02 PM

I don't focus on news in terms of what's shown on tv. I follow a number of science/technology journals on twitter so I tend to read their latest articles.

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Old 03-31-2011, 11:04 PM

I don't really read news.

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Old 03-31-2011, 11:09 PM


I wake up every morning at 6:00 to get ready, and I always find my father watching Channel 5 News. When the commercials come on, he reads the newspaper.
He's been doing this for about 3 years, and now I find myself starting to do the same thing. I am paticularly interested in the SPORTS section. =w=

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Old 04-01-2011, 01:16 AM

Magazines...I'm subscribed to 10 of them and they all come every Friday so I stay up all night reading them until Saturday morning. xD

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Old 04-01-2011, 02:44 AM

I get 95% of my news online (international, national, local, weather, etc.). Its usually more informative and more up to date/time sensitive that way. I also can check mutlple sources in case of bias/opposing views.

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Old 04-01-2011, 03:19 AM

I usually read all of my news on the internet. I don't like watching television that much, and I never think to grab a newspaper, so I just read the news as it shows up on places like Yahoo

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Old 04-01-2011, 03:44 AM

I'm still a newspaper girl. I can get the New York Times for free on my campus, so I'll grab a copy and read it before my class and during dinner. I mostly stick to International, Culture and Local sections, though.

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Old 04-01-2011, 04:47 PM

Magazines, internet, news papers, anywhere I can find anything useful. But not the TV. I prefer reading news over watching it.

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Old 04-10-2011, 11:14 PM

I Get My Daily News From The Internet. & Also Talk Radio.

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Old 04-11-2011, 04:52 PM

I get most of my news between the internet and the TV. I'm constantly checking Google News and my TV's default channel is the BBC International.

I don't really like physical newspapers as they are in the U.S. I'm short and have short arms. Holding the newspaper is a pain for me. That doesn't mean I don't try, though. :XD

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Old 04-11-2011, 06:18 PM

I get all my news from word-of-mouth.
I hate the news, it's either depressing, or filled with stupid information about politics or celebrities. I avoid those two at all costs.

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Old 04-11-2011, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Syraannabelle View Post
I get all my news from word-of-mouth.
I hate the news, it's either depressing.
I absolutely agree with you when you say the news has too much celebrity tripe, but...

[rant] This one I never understood as a reason for avoiding the news. Do people actually want to hear the school bus made it safely without incident? If that makes news, that means the norm is that kids are getting injured on a regular basis. It is news because it is something different than the usual.

And the news is hardly depressing. There is a lot more cheer-leading, propaganda, and public relations spin than real news. It doesn't even scratch the surface of the corruption that goes on unchallenged because people don't want to face it and rather pretend everything is good than do something about everything that's bad. We can actually make it better by facing up to the garbage we have to put up with for no good reason.

I used to work as a journalist -- you want depressing? What about people spending 20 plus years in jail for minor offenses? What about innocent tourists getting tortured and killed for kicks? How about people getting killed in war and their tormentors getting away with it because they have an expensive public relations firms sweeping their sins under the rug? And the worst thing is all of that could be avoided if people didn't run away from it because they don't want to imagine it could happen to them.

It's like cancer -- if you face it early on, you can beat it. If you avoid it because it's depressing, well, you know what happens.

When I used to teach college, I made my students get informed -- it's one thing to be an optimist, it's quite another to shirk your personal responsibility by being deliberately ignorant and then later griping when things go seriously wrong. I'd rather get angry and not go away until the problem is fixed than be apathetic and then make the world a worse place to live in. [/rant]

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Old 04-11-2011, 07:29 PM

alexandrakitty:
Why would I want to focus on hearing stories, that a)I don't care about. b) dont effect me. c)bore me.

yes I agree there are things way more depressing that the news doesn't reach, but I am so sick of hearing about natural disaster after natural disaster after killing after suicide after arrest after dead body found after this and that and this and that and this. Ad nauseum.

The thing is I don't gripe or complain. I don't get angry when I had a chance to change things. I don't vote because no one ever tells the truth in politics, you're just trying to see who lies less. And since I don't vote, I don't complain.

I send money to relief funds, I donate to those less fortunate.
But frankly, I don't care about the human race to actually read and pay attention to it's problems unless I'm (or those I love) are directly effected.

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Old 04-11-2011, 07:50 PM

I watch the news on TV, mostly. But since it's just focused on my country, I watch Jon Stewart to get a grasp of what's happening around USA politics. Also it's funny, so it doesn't bore me like my country's politics. I also read the newspapers when people have it on the Metro and I'm sitting beside them. It's a pain to read, but better than grabbing a copy myself. Economical crisis, people! Don't judge me. XP

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Old 04-11-2011, 11:37 PM

I usually watch the news on TV, but sometimes read it online. I don't get a newspaper or read magizines all that much.

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Old 04-12-2011, 03:37 AM

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alexandrakitty:
Why would I want to focus on hearing stories, that a)I don't care about. b) dont effect me. c)bore me.
All right:

A. Why are you so apathetic that you don't care? It's not all about you. How would you like, for example, to be running away from someone who wishes you harm and you are in front of a crowd and everyone there could help you, but don't care and let that person get away with it?

B. How do you know it does not effect you? For example, gas prices are going through the roof. You might not care because you don't have a car, but all the prices go up because of transportation costs, people start losing jobs and travel less, and then you can't get a job and find yourself in serious financial trouble, but no one cares about you because it doesn't effect them. Everything effects you. The crisis in Japan will effect the entire planet and already has. How a single farmer fertilizes his crops can make the difference between life and death around the world.

C. It's the boring things in life that are the things that can change the course of your life, not the exciting stuff. People are bored by government, but who they tax, what they tax, who they give money to makes the difference between living well and starving. People sleepwalk and then get shocked when it hits them square in the face.

Right now, there are companies selling deadstock to customers who eat meat that can make them seriously and permanently ill. There are doctors who are so stoned out of their minds, they operate on wrong body parts, kill patients, turn them into vegetables, and give them the wrong medication -- repeatedly. There are people in jail for crimes they did not commit. There are cities dying because governments are giving money to companies who close up shop and skip the country. There are dangerous pollutants being dumped in drinking water. There are teachers who molest their students. There are sadists who get a slap on the wrist and keep right on harming people. There are con artists who are fleecing people out of millions of dollars. There are sham companies that hire thousands of people and then leave them -- and investors in debt they can never get out of. There are hospitals whose slipshod methods are causing patients serious health problems. There are buildings that are dangerous to live and work in, but the owners get away with their negligence. There are nuclear power plants that are a ticking time bomb and they are hiding what they are doing. There are wars being started so that a few thugs can get rich. There are companies who incompetence is causing permanent damage to the environment.

Are all those stories boring you? You think none of that will come to haunt you one day?

I hate to tell you, all of them already are.

People think they are entitled to good and happy news, but that stuff is earned only after you face the ugly stuff first.

It's like not wanting to hear the house you are living in is on fire because you can't deal with the danger. When you hear the bad news, you can turn it into good news by getting out of the house and saving yourself.

Because of all that has solutions -- but you can't expect other people to clean up the mess or do it all by themselves and then expect to reap the benefits of their work...

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Old 04-12-2011, 04:18 AM

okay you know what, get off my back, I'm almost feeling insulted and attacked by how your approaching me. I don't want to hear about this stuff, thats all there is too it. It's not like your walls of text are going to magically change who I am, so please stop. It's not like I'm stopping anyone else from doing what they want. Why eat me out? All I did was state my opinion of the news on a topic in the General Discussion. Now had this been the debate forum, I would've cared because then I'm actually arguing my point for a reason. But here, theres no point to your arguments against me.
No insult or offense meant Alexandrakitty. This is just who I am. If you don't want to read anything I have to say, then just put me on your ignore list and we'll peacefully go our separate ways.

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Old 04-12-2011, 05:51 AM

*Let's all calm down and have fun okay folks*

Soooo, I admit, I rarely read news. I get some on my facebook page, because I love NPR and MSNBC.

I am an avid Rachel Maddow fan, so I get a lot of my "news" from her nightly show on MSNBC. I also listen to a lot of NPR (National public radio). I sometimes watch John Stewart and the Colbert Report, however, they consider themselves comedians and not news casters.

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Old 04-12-2011, 07:42 AM

I read the news online. Yahoo, BBC, Daily Mail & Daily Rotten.

I don't buy papers. I used to get the Telegraph, but I find it much easier to read online than from a paper, newspapers are kind of unwieldy and you need a lot of space to read them (especially the broad sheets). Online just seems more practical and has the bonus of being free. I know some places charge, but there are enough that don't to keep me going for now.

I only watch the local News on TV, and sometimes the BBC headlines (usually only if there's something I'm particularly interested in that I've read about online).


Internet news just seems much more accessible so that's the route I go.

Yahoo tends to give me stuff that's happening now. The breaking news, as well as what's going on in the entertainment world. Plus it's on the way to my e-mail, so it's just something I check out multiple times a day.

BBC gives the more in depth serious side of things. Grown up news if you like. If I see a headline on yahoo that interests me, I'll go to BBC and see if there's a better written article about it there. Although I have noticed them dumbing it down a little recently.

Daily Mail's just because the articles are so poorly written and biased beyond belief, and the readers comments are so small minded, petty and ignorant. It's almost car crash reading, where you want to pretend it's not happening and ignore it, but the slightly twisted part of you can't bear to look away. I do feel kind of dirty (and not in a good way), after reading that paper online, but I still do it every night. There are a few decent things on there amongst the trash, but not that often. Mostly it caters for the lowest common denominator, but it is fascinating to see how low they're going to go next.

Daily Rotten, well after the headlines, the serious news and the trashy news it's time for a dose of the weird. All the gory, rude, bizarre and downright odd news in one place... who can resist that? :o

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