Where do you get your news?

Hilly wrote:

Louis Armstrong wrote:

CJB wrote:

The Australian, primarily.

Is it a paper, or is it one man - THE AUSTRALIAN - to whom all your countrymen turn?

THE AUSTRALIAN does sound like some small action movie starring George Lazenby.

Or indeed a porno starring George Lazenby.

TalkSport.

At least that way, when the latest f*cker who's raped and abused three kids only gets five years inside and a free namechange for it, there's far less risk of me smashing the television.

I believe the only way to gain truthful knowledge is by diversifying the repertoire. That means while I dabble in NPR, AP, BBC News, NYTimes, I sometimes turn to the more uncommon Western news sources. Al- Jazeera, The Moscow Times......Fox News.

Blows my mind all the activity in the world. Makes posting on a forum feel minuscule.

AL SHARPTON OFFICIALLY JOINS MSNBC AS HOST

http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/al-sharpton-officially-joins-msnbc/

Wow. Just wrong on so many levels. How to begin?

#1 Politics or past aside, he's very incoherent. He is not polished or articulate. This was the best black man that MSNBC could find to "diversify" their evening lineup? He has no more mental acumen or verbal agility than the shoe shine man at the airport. When I think of all the more qualified, more interesting black reporters or talk show hosts that MSNBC could have hired, it makes me want to vomit (by the way, do we have a vomit.gif available somewhere for use?)

#2 We all know how and why he got this job: because his organization blessed the NBC acquisition by Comcast, provided 8 black executives were hired, including a Chief Diversity Officer.

#3 His past alone should disqualify him. However, in a world where a hooker-buying Governor (Elliot Spitzer at CNN) or a presidential adviser (Dick Morris at FOX) can get regular gigs on television, Sharpton's hiring is no surprise. Why not Tamron Hall? She's intelligent, she's articulate, she's neat and clean, she's got a great rack, sexy legs...looks like a younger Halle Berry...and because she's a dame, MSNBC could claim a "two-fer": a double minority because she's black and a female.

I tell you, with an affirmative action hire like Sharpton, MSNBC's ratings are shirley going to go straight to #1

Mr. Brown wrote:

Do you choose one source? Or multiple?

I'm subscribed to CBS, CNN, FOX, NYT, NPR, and Reuters on Google Reader.

One outlet I refuse to watch or read from is MSNBC.

FOX: Jenna Lee from 11:00 to 1:00
Megyn Kelly from 1:00 to 3:00

MSNBC: Andrea Mitchell 1:00 to 2:00 (I flip back and forth between Andrea and Megyn until 2:00, and then it's all Megyn)

I then watch Tamron Hall on and off, along with Shepherd Smith's reporting.

CNN: The Situation Room at 5:00. Despite what some other people have loved to accuse me of elsewhere, I never watched Glen Beck (not that there's anything wrong with that). I watch TSR until.....

FOX: Special Report w/Brett Baier. That *IS* my favorite show on cable news. It's a must-watch. I like the variety of different people on the guest panel. Brett is a great, fair, sharp host..Favorite guest panelists: Nina Easton (Fortune Magazine), Mara Liasson (NPR), A.B. Stoddard (The Hill), Kirsten Powers and, of course, Charles Krauthammer.

News personalities I don't care for: Contessa Brewer (MSNBC), Sean Hannity (Fox), Rachel Maddow/Lawrence O'Donnell/Al Sharpton/Ed Shultz/Chris Matthews (essentially MSNBC's entire primetime lineup), Randy Kaye (CNN) and Frederika Whitfield (don't hate her, just find her bland).

News reporters I like: Chuck Todd and Luke Russert (NBC) are two of my favorites. My other big favorites are: Catherine Herridge, Jennifer Griffin, and Connor Powell, all from FOX NEWS. Catherine is the best reporter in the business.

I don't waste my time with the New York Times. If I want to read a physical newspaper I'll either get a copy of USA Today or The Atlanta Urinal and Constipation Journal and Constitution.

Talk radio I like: Rush Limbaugh, Tammy Bruce (now there's a fascinating woman!!! A gun-toting, lesbian, conservative feminist who used to run the L.A. chapter of NOW), Neal Boortz, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved...Laura Ingraham (most of the time, but she can get bogged down in the talking points like others)

Talk radio I don't like: Sean Hannity, Mike Gallagher

Online websites: DrudgeReport.com, TheHill.com, Politico.com, Rollcall.com, TheDailyCaller.com, CookPoliticalReport.com, and HuffingtonPost.com (where I am registered as GS, but don't post very much), Hotair.com and Mediaite.com

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

Mr. Brown wrote:

Do you choose one source? Or multiple?

I'm subscribed to CBS, CNN, FOX, NYT, NPR, and Reuters on Google Reader.

One outlet I refuse to watch or read from is MSNBC.

FOX: Jenna Lee from 11:00 to 1:00

FOX's most bangable anchor.

Next to Greta, of course...

I mostly get my news from NPR, which I listen to during my commute to work.

Mr. Brown wrote:

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

Mr. Brown wrote:

Do you choose one source? Or multiple?

I'm subscribed to CBS, CNN, FOX, NYT, NPR, and Reuters on Google Reader.

One outlet I refuse to watch or read from is MSNBC.

FOX: Jenna Lee from 11:00 to 1:00

FOX's most bangable anchor.

Yeah, too bad John Scott constantly gets in the way. I'd prefer to see Jenna Lee anchor the show solo.

Greg Jarrett, Newt Gingrich, and Sarah Palin (as irregular as she is) are anchors/contributors that irritate me. Just don't care for them all that much.

However, Harris Faulkner, Dana Perrino...YOWSERS!

And even ol' Bob Beckel has grown on me now that he's doing THE FIVE and is allowed to show a bit more personality.

Oh, and by the way, I watch RED EYE w/Greg Gutfeld religiously. I've even sent in some material that they've used on the air.

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

(by the way, do we have a vomit.gif available somewhere for use?)

:pale:

Closest we've got at the minute.

Anyone else watching THE FIVE on Fox News? It's got a rather generic title, and I think it's a bit off-balance at times because you've essentially got a minimum of 3 people who think alike vs 1 who doesn't (Bob Beckel), with Greg Gutfeld the Libertarian thrown in as a wild card, but.........

The show has started to grow on me. I've been a fan of Greg Gutfeld and his Red Eye program for several years (even gotten a few of my quips and lines of dialogue used on the show) so initially he was the draw for me on THE FIVE. But lately I've really started to like Bob Beckel and Dana Perrino. I think they are the standouts on the show, with Eric Bolling(?) being the absolute pits.

I try to stay away from the Libera controlled News Media


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Yes, bunch of damned liars those Liberians.

Malaysian newspapers: New Straits Times, The Star.

Otherwise, anything that pops up in google.com/news (with additional tab on James Bond related news).

j7wild wrote:

I try to stay away from the Libera controlled News Media

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Fucking kikes!

I removed your link, J7.

We can't have B&B being linked to a white supremacist forum. B&B already gets in enough shit from Forum Motion as it is.

Must have missed it. Did j7 post a link to Stormfront?

Yep.

Sharky wrote:

Must have missed it. Did j7 post a link to Stormfront?

Yup. An insightful and original article about how all of life's woes can be traced back to a singular entity known as The Heebs.

Mr. Brown wrote:

I removed your link, J7.

We can't have B&B being linked to a white supremacist forum. B&B already gets in enough shit from Forum Motion as it is.

And just in case B&B gets shut down suddenly, does anyone have a master list of email addresses so that we can find each other again and create a new forum somewhere?

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

Mr. Brown wrote:

I removed your link, J7.

We can't have B&B being linked to a white supremacist forum. B&B already gets in enough shit from Forum Motion as it is.

Why did J7 link to a white supremacist forum?

Because it had a post or article about a Jewish/liberal conspiracy. Pretty irrational IFAM, since the Beeb and NBC tend to favour the Palestinians.

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

And just in case B&B gets shut down suddenly, does anyone have a master list of email addresses so that we can find each other again and create a new forum somewhere?

I doubt it, since M hasn't received any complaints since that last lot. If anything does happen, he has everybody's email and IP address.

CJB wrote:

j7wild wrote:

I try to stay away from the Libera controlled News Media

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Fucking *****!

I find this insult rather racist and am surprised that the wording hasn't been removed.

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

Why did J7 link to a white supremacist forum?

It's a mystery to me, too ... it's not as if his posting style suggests someone who's not too bright or anything.

saint mark wrote:

CJB wrote:

j7wild wrote:

I try to stay away from the Libera controlled News Media

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Fucking *****!

I find this insult rather racist and am surprised that the wording hasn't been removed.

Because we're allowed to use naughty words in a non-pejorative, sarcastic and/or humourous manner.

CJB wrote:

saint mark wrote:

CJB wrote:

j7wild wrote:

I try to stay away from the Libera controlled News Media

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Fucking *****!

I find this insult rather racist and am surprised that the wording hasn't been removed.

Because we're allowed to use naughty words in a non-pejorative, sarcastic and/or humourous manner.

This is not sarcastic of humerous just a plain old fashioned racist remark.

I dislike PC behavious but also dislike certain words to discribe groups of people.

You're right, it wasn't sarcasm. I was actually agreeing rapturously with J7's article.