Where to get news?

[Akita Suggagaki]

Left? Right? Main Stream?

I am liking this particular graphic of our options.

AP, Christian Science Monitor and The Wall Street Journal are among my favorites. After that it is quite clear how Fox and MSNBC give a certain drift to current events.

What is you preferred news source?

Here is another version.

 

[Albion]

Very interesting charts and basically accurate IMO except for the final one shown.

 

[Valletta]

Left? Right? Main Stream?

I am liking this particular graphic of our options.

AP, Christian Science Monitor and The Wall Street Journal are among my favorites. After that it is quite clear how Fox and MSNBC give a certain drift to current events.

What is you preferred news source?

Here is another version.

In the U.S. the news has gone from bad to unreliable. Newsmax is seeing incredible growth, they will print news that many networks want to conceal. For example, their article on the recent Pew Poll about fake news:
Pew Poll: 72 Percent of Americans Saw 'Made-Up News' About Election

 

[hedrick]

I think the chart has some issues. I see no difference between The NY Times and the center sources, particularly BBC (which I follow enough to be able to evaluate). I don’t think WSJ is center anymore. It’s absurd to equate the NYTimes and CNN. CNN is definitely left, almost as much as Fox straight news is right.

I tend to use NYTimes and BBC. Both put the effort into real investigation, and deal with topics other than the obvious headlines. I use CNN to see what’s breaking, but find the fact that half their stories are attacks on Trump irritating, even though everything they say is true.

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

In the U.S. the news has gone from bad to unreliable. Newsmax is seeing incredible growth, they will print news that many networks want to conceal. For example, their article on the recent Pew Poll about fake news:
Pew Poll: 72 Percent of Americans Saw 'Made-Up News' About Election

Newsmax not too far right for you?

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

I think the chart has some issues. I see no difference between The NY Times and the center sources, particularly BBC (which I follow enough to be able to evaluate). I don’t think WSJ is center anymore. It’s absurd to equate the NYTimes and CNN. CNN is definitely left, almost as much as Fox straight news is right.

I tend to use NYTimes and BBC. Both put the effort into real investigation, and deal with topics other than the obvious headlines. I use CNN to see what’s breaking, but find the fact that half their stories are attacks on Trump irritating, even though everything they say is true.

I appreciate that and agree about CNN.

I will spend more time with BBC and Christian Science Monitor, Reuters and Associated Press. I have been following PBS.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Left? Right? Main Stream?

I am liking this particular graphic of our options.

What is you preferred news source?

Back about 1980 China and Vietnam were at war with each other. I could listen on Short Wave to Voice of Vietnam and hear one side of the day's battles. But then Radio Bejing gave an almost totally contradictory side. Who could know if only one side was lying or both sides were. It's like that now with American news. I don't trust a one of them any more.

 

[Valletta]

Newsmax not too far right for you?

It's pretty straight news. Most of the major media has forced out those reporters who disagree with their agenda. Who was that guy who left the New York Times a few years back and wrote about the experience?

 

[public hermit]

is you preferred news source?

AP and Reuters for me.

The charts track pretty close to my observation. I think we know the bias of sources, which if true tells me we have no excuse for own biases if they keep us from being reasonable.

 

[Valletta]

Back about 1980 China and Vietnam were at war with each other. I could listen on Short Wave to Voice of Vietnam and hear one side of the day's battles. But then Radio Bejing gave an almost totally contradictory side. Who could know if only one side was lying or both sides were. It's like that now with American news. I don't trust a one of them any more.

As I recall it was in 1979 Vietnam was worried China would invade northern Vietnam, I remember the reports were the Vietnamese moved American prisoners from a prison on the border. They left the prison, stopped once where a villager said the train never stopped before, then were taken by truck to Dong Vai prison according to the truck driver.