Where do you get your news?

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Not 3DS news, but current events and stuff. Like the name of the newspaper or site or TV show, or what not?

For me, it's still mainly the BBC, although I only check the news once in a blue moon.
 
MSNBC or my local Channel 9, WCPO news station. Either will do, depending on the scale of the news I'm interested in.
 
I have this channel (HLN. Like CNN but better.) that I occaisionaly watch. It goes from one news story to another at a nice pace. It keeps me updated on the news.
 
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Mostly the newspaper, but once I'm on the computer during the day I use that.
 
wsoxfan1214 said:
FOX News is such a biased, crazy right-wing news channel that it's ridiculous. Bill O'Reilly is a ******* idiot.
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And MSNBC isn't left-winged biased? Lollllllll.


Also--I listen to Fox News, CNN, WMUR and a few other sources such as talk radio 96.9 WTKK (mainly for Jay Severin and Michael Graham).
 
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Before everyone goes raging on about MSNBC and FOX, I want to state my own thoughts. The journalists and broadcasters of those stations do probably lean more left and right, respectively. However, the news itself is meant to be and should always be objective. The political ideology comes into play with what is reported and why it's being covered, but not the how. News is news and no credible news station will overly-distort a story in order to maintain credibility. Will they perhaps lend it a liberal or conservative layer? A vantage point from a particular political ideology? Yes. But the very essence of the news will remain untainted.
 
Zexis said:
Before everyone goes raging on about MSNBC and FOX, I want to state my own thoughts. The journalists and broadcasters of those stations do probably lean more left and right, respectively. However, the news itself is meant to be and should always be objective. The political ideology comes into play with what is reported and why it's being covered, but not the how. News is news and no credible news station will overly-distort a story in order to maintain credibility. Will they perhaps lend it a liberal or conservative layer? A vantage point from a particular political ideology? Yes. But the very essence of the news will remain untainted.
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Umm...The world was thrown into khaos by the swine flu. It wasn't a problem.
 
Cosmos Ruler Dev said:
Cosmic Ruler Dev Defended and Counterattacked!

Umm...The world was thrown into khaos by the swine flu. It wasn't a problem.
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They covered it accurately. What you're referring to is sometimes known as the magnifying glass effect. The media chose to focus on that topic extensively because it was interesting. Again, this is the effect of the vantage point of the media. The timing of the reporting and the extent of it is what caused the panic. Did they say it was going to wipe us out? No. Did they say it was deadly? Yes. That it had the potential to spread? Yes. It's all very sneaky, but still true. The media is often misunderstood as full of lies, but that isn't usually true; it's just manipulative of our minds. It doesn't direct how we think, but what we think about.
 
Zexis said:
They covered it accurately. What you're referring to is sometimes known as the magnifying glass effect. The media chose to focus on that topic extensively because it was interesting. Again, this is the effect of the vantage point of the media. The timing of the reporting and the extent of it is what caused the panic. Did they say it was going to wipe us out? No. Did they say it was deadly? Yes. That it had the potential to spread? Yes. It's all very sneaky, but still true. The media is often misunderstood as full of lies, but that isn't usually true; it's just manipulative of our minds. It doesn't direct how we think, but what we think about.
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So, if the media just focuses on that thing it gives the feeling of Exaggeration?
What about Marketing? There's been floods here and every channel's been covering it saying 'We feel sorry for the people that died etc. etc. etc.'
Do they actually truly care?
 
Cosmos Ruler Dev said:
So, if the media just focuses on that thing it gives the feeling of Exaggeration?
What about Marketing? There's been floods here and every channel's been covering it saying 'We feel sorry for the people that died etc. etc. etc.'
Do they actually truly care?
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Generally, yes. Do you remember the Bird Flu crisis? Mad cow? All hit with the magnifying glass effect. This presents a very unfortunate problem for viewers: they have to decide what is and what isn't being over-exploited for news-casting. The 9/11 terrorist attacks, obviously, were worthy of the attention they deserved. But swine flu? It boiled down to an easy story for the broadcasters. Essentially, they inflate what they want to and downplay issues that they don't think the public will find interesting, but the facts remain intact.

Marketing is a little different. The primary motive for expressing condolences for lost souls is generally genuine empathy. However, the broadcasters also realize that if they don't share the concerns of the public that they may appear to be detached and indifferent towards such national tragedies. And that's bad for ratings.
 
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