Moderates, which news station do you watch?

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Anonymous wrote:Bloomberg, BBC and PBS. They are the only news channels left. Everything else is opinion.

PBS fan here — I dunno about their news coverage. Their coverage of the inauguration was too overwrought for me.

Is The Hill considered balanced? What about The Hill TV?

The first tweet in a thread. . .

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Continuing that thread. . .

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Political scientists have known forever that news bias occurs not in a slanted presentation but in the topics they choose to cover. (Excepting opinion content, obviously.)

An easy example is Fox News cutting away from the impeachment managers presentation last week. Anyone just watching FOX couldn't possibly form their own opinion of what happened.

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I don't watch the news anymore. It's all about stirring the pot using the race card, or about Covid, and nonstop commercials. I am SO done.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't watch the news. Read newspapers.

So you haven't seen the video of the Jaunary 6 insurrection? Sometimes a video is worth a thousand words

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Anonymous wrote:Don't watch the news. Read newspapers.

So you haven't seen the video of the Jaunary 6 insurrection? Sometimes a video is worth a thousand words

Pro publica provided more than any filtered news source in terms of videos. The larger point for me is a diverse and unfiltered report to give a full picture, that requires reporting of many different types. Financial, science, tech, opinion, national/local, international.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't watch the news anymore. It's all about stirring the pot using the race card, or about Covid, and nonstop commercials. I am SO done.

Same. Curious. Are you under 45? Like me? No one in my graduating class watches the news. Social media has created an intolerance for some opinion, so it is just sound bites that they chop up all day. Some people are even over stimulated and shut all of it out (another issue). We are all college educated with advanced degrees. Also minorities.

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Anonymous wrote:NPR, The Daily Show, NBC Nightly News or ABC World News, and Fox News Sunday. Sometimes I'll watch Seth Meyers Closer Look segments on YouTube.

When did Trevor Noah and Seth Meyers become “news?”
They’re comedians who comments on politics/news. We need to stop conflating “media” and “news.”

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Anonymous wrote:NPR, The Daily Show, NBC Nightly News or ABC World News, and Fox News Sunday. Sometimes I'll watch Seth Meyers Closer Look segments on YouTube.

When did Trevor Noah and Seth Meyers become “news?”
They’re comedians who comments on politics/news. We need to stop conflating “media” and “news.”

They’re entertainment, but you would already have to understand the news to get satire about the news.

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Morning Joe, but I find his slant entertaining. He has republican background so I think he's somewhat moderate.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't watch television, but I listen to BBC and NPR. I also listen (when driving) to Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, whomever is filling in for Rush Limbaugh on a given day, and others on the local conservative station (like "Gun Talk").

I suppose I watch Stephen Colbert's show on YouTube when it is uploaded, but although it is topical, I don't consider it a news show.

Whether the conservative radio is actually news or not, I think it's useful to listen to it.

Hermann and Steyn are quite good.

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Anonymous wrote:Morning Joe, but I find his slant entertaining. He has republican background so I think he's somewhat moderate.

He’s only moderate by virtue of the GOP being fascist bat sht crazy. So - not a moderate.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NPR, The Daily Show, NBC Nightly News or ABC World News, and Fox News Sunday. Sometimes I'll watch Seth Meyers Closer Look segments on YouTube.

When did Trevor Noah and Seth Meyers become “news?”
They’re comedians who comments on politics/news. We need to stop conflating “media” and “news.”

They’re entertainment, but you would already have to understand the news to get satire about the news.

Yeah this is the BS card they pull out when they get called on their crap. Hi John Stewart!

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Anonymous wrote:None.

I'll check bland sites like yahoo news or apple news for general things, if something catches my eye I'll google for more info from a variety of sources. I go to the newspapers of certain countries whose politics I follow. I'll do quick glances at Twitter. I'll listen to WAMU on the radio for a few minutes while driving.

I cannot sit through anything from FOX, CNN, BBC. No longer read WaPo or NYT. I used to be a die hard NPR fan, but can't even hack that station for more than 10 minutes anymore. I will watch C-SPAN now, it's the only way to hear things first hand without the media turning things into a circus show.

There is so much vitriol and hate from both sides and so much biased reporting on both sides. I miss good journalism. I miss fact checking. I miss showing two sides to a story and allowing the reader/listener to form their own thoughts. I miss moderate thought altogether, while that may make for more 'boring' news stories over the sensational and emotionally catching ones, I would take boring in a heartbeat.

This x1000. I grew up with NPR playing in every room and every car. Today, I wouldn't dream of tuning. The Post is just as tendentious, and it goes without saying the major cable "news" channels profit by producing "products" designed to make their target demographic feel superior to an evil "other."

On this topic, Matt Taibbi's book "Hate, Inc" is an insightful read.