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How do you get the news?

How do you get the news?

  • Internet news sites

    Votes: 60 80.0%

  • Television

    Votes: 20 26.7%

  • Newspaper

    Votes: 16 21.3%

  • The Daily Show ;-)

    Votes: 5 6.7%

  • A mix of all of the above

    Votes: 14 18.7%

  • I don't care about the news

    Votes: 1 1.3%

  • Radio

    Votes: 3 4.0%
  • Total voters
    75
njmac

njmac

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I get my news almost exclusively from the internet.

I check (online):

NY Times
LA Times
Google News

When my local freeby paper comes on a Thursday, I catch up on what's happening in my town.


EDIT: When there is breaking news, I usually check out wikipedia.
 
Mostly online for me too - I tend to look fairly frequently at the BBC and Guardian websites. I'll watch TV news in the morning when I'm getting ready (again BBC), and maybe pick up a newspaper.
 
A lot of RSS subscriptions which I browse through with Google Reader.

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Then the occasional TV news... if I know something worth seeing has happened. 🙂

Regular newspapers, or analogue newspapers as I call them, I read maybe once or twice a month...
 
Kernow said:
Mostly online for me too - I tend to look fairly frequently at the BBC and Guardian websites. I'll watch TV news in the morning when I'm getting ready (again BBC), and maybe pick up a newspaper.
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Same here, BBC and Guardian online for me. I went through a phase of watching BBC Breakfast news a couple of years ago, but I don't any more, mainly because I know I can get it more quickly and tailored to what I'm interested in online. I miss that little Declan chap who did the Business news though, he always cheered me up, even though I couldn't give a toss about stocks and shares. 😛 I've got the BBC and Guardian Unlimited headlines on my Google homepage thing, so I usually see them first and go and get lost on the news sites for a bit.

I get weekend newspapers, but that's mainly because they give me immense pleasure wallowing in them and all the other bits and pieces. I don't really get news from them though — I've usually read that morning's headlines online before I've got dressed and gone out to get the paper.
 
I miss the Radio option. At work the radio is running all the time, so when anything happens, I'll hear it there first. Other options would be Internet, TV and newspapers, I use them all.
 
Veldek said:
I miss the Radio option. At work the radio is running all the time, so when anything happens, I'll hear it there first. Other options would be Internet, TV and newspapers, I use them all.
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damn 😡 sorry, I forgot the radio option. I knew I was leaving something out...
 
Lau said:
I miss that little Declan chap who did the Business news though, he always cheered me up, even though I couldn't give a toss about stocks and shares. 😛
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He's still there, but they've got him doing all kinds of exciting things now, like working in shops and interviewing farmers and stuff. He is kind of endearing in a weird kind of way. 🙂
 
I'm also in the almost-exclusively online category. Mostly NYT, but also Google News to see a variety of news sources, and a few others on occasion. For certain things I will turn to the telivision, though. I do listen to NPR sometimes, but less for the news than for enjoyment. 🙂
 
I use news.bbc.co.uk a lot, as well as BBC News 24 on TV and BBC Radio Five Live, usually streamed online or on DAB.

I then use many other websites for news on more specific interests and these sites include MacRumors, The Register, Trusted Reviews, ZDNet, Slashdot, Google News etc.
 
Does MR count for a news website. Sometimes I'll catch things on the radio or watch them on the evening news, but usually, it's right here in the community discussion forums of MacRumors.
 
I watch the TV news twice a day and check it in the middle on the internet. I like being kept up to date especially at school, all the major events happen and no one knows so i have now learnt (9/11 and 7/7).
 
Guardian, Indie, Times. (Observer, Sindie, Sunday Times at weekends).

I do use the BBC News website as well, but I'm increasingly becomming disenchanted with it's frequently, and often biased approach to reporting.
 
I pitty the fool who only watches the Daily Show for his/her source of news.

TV, Internet, and Radio. Where is radio?

EDIT: Crap, didn't see radio option. and I can't revote 🙁
 
KingYaba said:
I pitty the fool who only watches the Daily Show for his/her source of news.

TV, Internet, and Radio. Where is radio?

EDIT: Crap, didn't see radio option. and I can't revote 🙁
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Yeah, I forgot to add the radio option so Rower_CPU just added it.

I put the Daily Show on there because I heard people really believe that that's a news show 🙄
 
KingYaba said:
I pitty the fool who only watches the Daily Show for his/her source of news.
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It's not bad. I realize that it's "fake news" but still, the information on it isn't all crap.

I normally get my news from.. AOL. Just because it's my homepage. Otherwise the newspaper (which I now realize I forgot to check off up there) does it. I normally don't like the news on TV because it's irritatingly exaggerated.
 
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