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Where do you get your information about world and current events, and why do you trust those sources.

I get all my news from legitimate news sources such as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and even more so, The Colbert Report. I find both programs provide a real-life view and literal application of all news stories with no bias, judgement or editorializing whatsoever.

:) Just kidding.

I do watch those two shows, but I also watch my local news, browse news websites, etc. I "trust" those sources because they are more accurate than Star Magazine, National Enquirer and tmz.com. I don't think there is such a thing as an "un-biased news source", so I take what I can get, read both sides to the issues I care about and make a decision from there.

AMHD!

The people here know everything. :)

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Originally Posted by Skell

AMHD!!

The people here know everything. :)

:rolleyes: Not bad

To be serious I get my information from a wide range of sources. Tabloids, broadsheets, television, talk back radio etc. I take it all in and to be quite truthful believe very little of it. I find it hard to trust any media completely.

That is why I refrain from making comment based on media links a see posted here.

I am quite cynical though.

I believe nothing that I hear or read and only half of what I see with my own eyes. Even that can be warped into something its not.

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Originally Posted by Skell

To be serious i get my information from a wide range of sources. Tabloids, broadsheets, television, talk back radio etc. I take it all in and to be quite truthful believe very little of it. I find it hard to trust any media completely.

That is why i refrain from making comment based on media links a see posted here.

I am quite cynical though.

I believe nothing that i hear or read and only half of what i see with my own eyes. Even that can be warped into something its not.

This is a question that will be ask of Democrats in tonight’s debates…I can hardly wait for this one; the spin should be fun.:)

I wish I could watch! Sounds interesting.

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Originally Posted by Skell

I wish i could watch!! Sounds interesting.

My guess is that there will be plenty of commentary later on the responses by the politicos.

I'm down under in Australia and we get quite a good coverage of American politics. As I'm sure most of the western world does.

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Originally Posted by Skell

I'm down under in Australia and we get quite a good coverage of American politics. As i'm sure most of the western world does.

Hell, you’re already in tomorrow!

Fox News, Bill O'Reilly, BBC News, USA Today, the local newspaper, and I listen to a few other radio show hosts. CNN is okay but if I want the truth, I will look elsewhere.

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Originally Posted by shygrneyzs

Fox News, Bill O'Reilly, BBC News, USA Today, the local newspaper, and I listen to a few other radio show hosts. CNN is okay but if I want the truth, I will look elsewhere.

I’ll bet dollars to donuts that not one Democrat mentions Bill O'Reilly:D

LOL. You would win that bet too.

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Originally Posted by Dark_crow

Where do you get your information about world and current events, and why do you trust those sources.

Hello DC:

I read 4 to 5 newspapers every day. I read 4 or 5 books at a time. I read 3 or 4 newsmagazines a week. I listen to the radio. I watch the news channels. I don't trust any of them.

excon

PS> Skell is right too. I get an awfully lot from my right wing AMHD friends, but don't tell them that.

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Originally Posted by Dark_crow

My guess is that there will be plenty of commentary later on the responses by the politicos.

Stay tuned :D

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Originally Posted by excon

Hello DC:

I read 4 to 5 newspapers every day. I read 4 or 5 books at a time. I read 3 or 4 newsmagazines a week. I listen to the radio. I watch the news channels. I don't trust any of them.

excon

PS> Skell is right too. I get an awfully lot from my right wing AMHD friends, but don't tell them that.

Aha, you're revealing more all the time. :D

DC

I thought these comments I found on Belmont Club today interesting :

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Large parts of the public live in hermetic belief systems which maintain for example, that steel doesn't melt when subjected to fire, the September 11 attacks were a Jewish plot, that the Moon Landings were faked, and that the sea level has risen ten feet in the Andaman Islands. That Muslims should believe that Allah created the world is distinctly possible.

The Balkanization of fact and the disparagement of consensus reality has been going on for some time now. Hence, the astonishment of people who live within closed groups to discover the existence of people "out there" who believe in something else.

It was commentary about a creationist book(in this case written by a Muslim ) called "Atlas of Creation"; but I think the comments applies generally today about information access . People can create their own reality and find facts to back it up.

I believe I spend a disproportionate time researching blanket statements I know to be false just to present a rebuttal . Therefore I not only read the MSM periodicals and watch the dinosaur networks but also have become a pretty competent researcher on the web. Others have mentioned the cable networks but except for a couple of the shows that I watch primarily for entertainment value ,I steer clear of them . Sometimes I will alternate between the Evening News on ABC and Brit Hume's roundtable section of his show. I sometimes check out Softball with Chris Matthews . Then it is Jon Stewart and Steve Colbert on the Comedy Channel for some perspective.

I have so far read 3 news responses to Democratic Presidential Debates (Which of course was not a debate at all.) and nowhere was there a comment to the question I ask, “Where do you get your information about world and current events, and why do you trust those sources.” Which makes me wonder if it was ask? So again it appears I was wrong in expecting something more than entertainment; which was all that YouTube provided.

There was however one comment that I liked about the debates:

Obama seems too slippery. Clinton is too managed. Edwards seems real and I like him.

That is a comment you read and not your opinion of Edwards... correct ?

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Originally Posted by tomder55

DC

I thought these comments I found on Belmont Club today interesting :

It was commentary about a creationist book(in this case written by a Muslim ) called "Atlas of Creation"; but I think the comments applies generally today about information access . People can create their own reality and find facts to back it up.

I believe I spend a disproportionate time researching blanket statements I know to be false just to present a rebuttal . Therefore I not only read the MSM periodicals and watch the dinosaur networks but also have become a pretty competent researcher on the web. Others have mentioned the cable networks but except for a couple of the shows that I watch primarily for entertainment value ,I steer clear of them . Sometimes I will alternate between the Evening News on ABC and Brit Hume's roundtable section of his show. I sometimes check out Softball with Chris Matthews . Then it is Jon Stewart and Steve Colbert on the Comedy Channel for some perspective.

Myself, I primarily only use “Google News” as I have found that I can get from it varied news sources from around the world, and in short time. Local news just does not appeal to me; it’s extremely naïve and boring unless it’s from a wire service, and then it is simply redundant.

I agree with you whole-heartily, I too spend a disproportionate time researching illogical conclusions and bad arguments.