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Title: Where do you get your news?
Post by: Eamonnca1 on August 03, 2011, 06:15:21 PM
Belfast Telegraph
The Economist
BBC
RTE
Channel 4 News (UK)
Al Jazeera English

For American news I usually avoid the US networks and get it from the sources above or The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.  It's a shame that a comedy show has become a better source of journalism than most of the news networks. Local news around here is a load of rubbish that's long on style and short on substance.

For GAA news or any other specific topic I'm interested in I go to Google news and get it from all sources.
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: Tyrones own on August 03, 2011, 08:17:59 PM
Pretty much where most here seem to get it;

Jon Stewart  ::)
NY Times
The Guardian, self proclaimed "the world's leading liberal voice".
Al Jazeera
MSLSD

And one wonders why I laugh out loud at the mere mention of Fox news
and how it's not balanced on here  :D
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: Eamonnca1 on August 03, 2011, 08:52:15 PM
Quote from: Tyrones own on August 03, 2011, 08:17:59 PM
Pretty much where most here seem to get it;

Jon Stewart  ::)
NY Times
The Guardian, self proclaimed "the world's leading liberal voice".
Al Jazeera
MSLSD

And one wonders why I laugh out loud at the mere mention of Fox news
and how it's not balanced on here  :D

Thank you, TO, I'm sure the others are quite capable of speaking for themselves.

Where do you get your news? 
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: screenexile on August 03, 2011, 09:03:35 PM
Quote from: Eamonnca1 on August 03, 2011, 08:52:15 PM
Quote from: Tyrones own on August 03, 2011, 08:17:59 PM
Pretty much where most here seem to get it;

Jon Stewart  ::)
NY Times
The Guardian, self proclaimed "the world's leading liberal voice".
Al Jazeera
MSLSD

And one wonders why I laugh out loud at the mere mention of Fox news
and how it's not balanced on here  :D

Thank you, TO, I'm sure the others are quite capable of speaking for themselves.

Where do you get your news?

Sure he's a Republican . . . the only news or insight he will ever need is here

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Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: dec on August 03, 2011, 09:05:52 PM
Quote from: Eamonnca1 on August 03, 2011, 08:52:15 PM
Quote from: Tyrones own on August 03, 2011, 08:17:59 PM
Pretty much where most here seem to get it;

Jon Stewart  ::)
NY Times
The Guardian, self proclaimed "the world's leading liberal voice".
Al Jazeera
MSLSD

And one wonders why I laugh out loud at the mere mention of Fox news
and how it's not balanced on here  :D

Thank you, TO, I'm sure the others are quite capable of speaking for themselves.

Where do you get your news? 

You must be new here, TO won't be answering a question like that.
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: Eamonnca1 on August 03, 2011, 09:08:45 PM
Oh I'll be nice to him and give him the benefit of the doubt.  Sure even people like him have to get their news from somewhere, even if it's hate radio up and down the AM dial.
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: Tony Baloney on August 03, 2011, 11:44:37 PM
Rarely home on time to see any news between 6 and 7 so mainly get the news via various news outlets on Twitter, BBC News online and the good old gaaboard!
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: comethekingdom on August 03, 2011, 11:50:45 PM
RTE online and the Indo online as well. The Kerryman and Kerry's Eye too.
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: deiseach on August 04, 2011, 08:11:20 AM
RTÉ - I know it's customary to trash the D4 dicks but their phone app is really good
The Guardian
The Beeb
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: deiseach on August 04, 2011, 08:37:02 AM
Quote from: Eamonnca1 on August 03, 2011, 08:52:15 PM
Quote from: Tyrones own on August 03, 2011, 08:17:59 PM
Pretty much where most here seem to get it;

Jon Stewart  ::)
NY Times
The Guardian, self proclaimed "the world's leading liberal voice".
Al Jazeera
MSLSD

And one wonders why I laugh out loud at the mere mention of Fox news
and how it's not balanced on here  :D

Thank you, TO, I'm sure the others are quite capable of speaking for themselves.

Where do you get your news?

"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" - Matthew 7:3
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: AZOffaly on August 04, 2011, 10:22:33 AM
I get my news from the GAABoard. Then I go looking at RTE, BBC, Sky News or whatever.

I get my American Sports News from having ESPN radio on most of the day :)
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: Bingo on August 04, 2011, 10:25:30 AM
The National Enquirer
World Weekly News
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: robertemmet on August 04, 2011, 10:34:32 AM
Twitter, as most of the other channels feed into it
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: ziggysego on August 04, 2011, 11:22:25 AM
Television:

BBC News
UTV Live
Sky News
RTE News
France24

Online:
Bel Tel
Guardian
BBCi
RTE.ie
Twitter feeds
CNN
Fox News

Press
Irish News
Newletter
Ulster Herald
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: AbbeySider on August 04, 2011, 11:23:17 AM
www.breakingnews.ie
www.ft.com
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: winghalfun on August 04, 2011, 02:50:03 PM
The next door neighbour.
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: the Deel Rover on August 04, 2011, 02:58:33 PM
carrier pigeon
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: J70 on August 04, 2011, 03:40:17 PM
National Public Radio - excellent local NYC coverage. Actual fairness/balance on US national issues. Good coverage of international issues.
Google News - excellent for compiling news from all types of sources
NY Times - Comprehensive coverage of just about everything. Liberal opinion page.
Wall Street Journal - conservative opinion page
Fox 5 and NY1 for local NY tv news
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: AQMP on August 04, 2011, 04:00:27 PM
I hack people's voicemail.
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: ross4life on August 04, 2011, 04:12:09 PM
The barber or the taxi driver.
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: ONeill on August 04, 2011, 04:32:27 PM
Seedy brothels in Galbally.
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: Eamonnca1 on August 04, 2011, 05:44:32 PM
I forgot to mention NPR. I have it on most of the time so I probably don't think of it.

Looks like I'm the only one here who watches Al Jazeera.  I once took a look at it out of curiosity and I have to say I'm very impressed by it.  Very similar to the BBC but with more of a world outlook. Not much in the way of commentary, mostly just reporting. Any editorial line that you can detect seems to lean slightly in favour of the revolutions that are sweeping the arab world.

Even the graphics and music are similar to BBC News. I wonder if that's deliberate.
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: laoislad on August 04, 2011, 05:52:54 PM
RTE News for the Deaf.
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: J70 on August 04, 2011, 06:19:29 PM
Think Al Jazeera is just being introduced in NYC at the moment. They've bought space off some other station a as they've been having trouble getting their own from cable companies. I saw about ten mins of coverage on Sky satellite on a trip home a few years back, but I don't know much about them except that there was a serious propaganda campaign against them from certain sections of the US media back in the early-mid 2000s.
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: Maguire01 on August 04, 2011, 07:14:21 PM
TheJournal.ie is one i've started following, particularly on Twitter. Seems to be very up to date on news - regularly ahead of RTÉ.
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: dec on August 04, 2011, 07:20:21 PM
Quote from: J70 on August 04, 2011, 06:19:29 PM
Think Al Jazeera is just being introduced in NYC at the moment. They've bought space off some other station a as they've been having trouble getting their own from cable companies. I saw about ten mins of coverage on Sky satellite on a trip home a few years back, but I don't know much about them except that there was a serious propaganda campaign against them from certain sections of the US media back in the early-mid 2000s.

Channel 92 on Time Warner, stated this week but I haven't watched it yet. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2011/08/01/2011-08-01_al_jazeera_english_news_network_finds_home_on_new_york_cable_channel.html
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: Eamonnca1 on August 04, 2011, 07:37:08 PM
AJ has a free live stream, I watch it on my Roku internet downloader TV box contraption thing (I wish someone would think of a name for these devices).
Title: Re: Where do you get your news?
Post by: theskull1 on August 04, 2011, 08:26:28 PM
Anybody watch RT (Russia Today)? I think it provides a different perspective on global politics