Where do you get your national news from and why?

Answer 1

Great question.
I get mine from all media sources including tv, radio, newspapers, internet and magazines.
I ocassionally watch CNN, MSNBC and Fox (yes Fox), to get balanced spins on the news.
Sort it out and find your truths. Some is the truth and others are obvious stretches.

Answer 2

I pay $ 10.00 a month to get 100 channels, 90% are junk. The collection comes with 5 "all news" channels and various local with occasional news. This gives me some headlines, to go some place else for the whole story. Also when commuting to work & I see US flag at half mast, I check on-line news to find out what now? Also I subscribe to various National Security Alert services, so when the intelligence community sends out warnings to local communities, I am seeing that also.

I like the Google Top News page & sometimes browse there http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn but more often use it as a start point to search for latest stories on some topic of interest, where I saw headline, key words from the "all news" TV channels.

Occasionally I have a sit down meal in a restaurant & on the way in, I pick up newspaper ... either local or USA Today.

I have found the above sources generally reliable for most news, however many local events become national stories. I find that newsmedia on the scene to have more detail, more up to date, than what we are hearing from the national news, so when something serious happens in some part of the USA, or the world, I seek out news media, in English from that part of the world.

I am also well aware
* We cannot trust what the Democrats say about the Republicans
* We cannot trust what the Republicans say about the Democrats
* We cannot trust what the Democrats say about the Democrats
* We cannot trust what the Republicans say about the Republicans

and this is in a free press democracy where it is a straightforward process to check out the facts

in other nations, the cultural and other bias can be less obvious to an outsider, so I make an effort to get diversity of opinion

... e.g. I am following some story out of Asia
I can trust India and Pakistan news media to give totally different slant on things, except that which they quote from elsewhere in world ... I do not know if these two slants are equally distorted

I try to follow same principle around the world
Ok, this is a Muslim newspaper, Christian newspaper, Jewish etc or published in Communist state... can I find one that has a different ownership bias & see what they have to say on the same topic

Answer 3

I read my local paper's web edition, then move on to the New York Sun's web edition and wrap up with Pacific Stars & Stripes web edition. That is all supplemented by my reading the web editions of eight other English language papers throughout the world, as well as the BBC World Service web site and the Voice of America's web site.
I've been a regular listener to English language shortwave radio since 1949. I don't rely on TV news at all for national news items.

Answer 4

Local Newspaper, Newsweek, Time, New York Times, and 6 PM national news

Answer 5

Well, I get most of my national news here

www.welt.de

(-: but since you are probably talking about US national news, I like the Washington Post, New York times, the Hartford Courant, Drudge Report for the fun bits, and Slate and Salon for analysis and magazine-type stories.

Answer 6

The dead Mummy risen from the graveyards of different ghostly ancestor's culture and custom. of failures and horrors of the past.
Eerily wailing in ghostly kitchen's dialect with ghostly and deadly words getting kick on the butts as casualty of the dead Mummy in not worshiping God.
In scaring the hell and living daylights out of the misery of living human kind getting kick on the butts by the dead Mummy.
Luke 9.55-56

Answer 7

Radio, Cable/Local News on television. Internet.

FoxNews, HeadlineNews, ABCRadioNEWS, FoxRadioNEws.

I get it from various sources and then try to figure out what is getting omitted or highlighted and then try to make an educated guess as to who is telling me the whole story.

Answer 8

channel 4 news if from the tv
the independent if from a news paper
the internet john pilger or robert fisk

all because every other news is biased in one way or another!
true un spun journalism is dying

Answer 9

Various sources: Newspapers, cable news (usually MSNBC) and on line (like yahoo)

Answer 10

news 24 from my TV set why to save me going to the newsagent