Anonymous
Post 01/27/2021 16:10     Subject: Moderates, which news station do you watch?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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 Hill leans right.


If you want to check, this is a group that runs an interactive Media Bias chart that they update regularly. Here is the January 2021 MBC. As you can see, "The Hill" (blue box) is near the top and slightly to the right (just to the left of the WSJ).

https://www.adfontesmedia.com/static-mbc/

Anonymous
Post 01/27/2021 16:09     Subject: Moderates, which news station do you watch?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:FoxNews Sunday and Meet the Press are the only news shows I watch.

Chuck Todd is pretty awful.


+1. I wish they would bring in someone like former host Tim Russert. It was a real news show back in the day, now it's just cringe-worthy to watch.


Russert benefits from nostalgia. I remember his performances during the run up to the Iraq War. He was terrible. He gave Cheney and his cronies a platform to lie about WMDs without seriously questioning them. He was like the straight man on an infomercial, tepidly raising questions then allowing the pitchman to pretend to have answered them satisfactorily.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2021 16:01     Subject: Moderates, which news station do you watch?
some of you appear to be oblivious to how news shows differ from commentary and infotainment/outrage porn.

i find that bizarre for posters in this forum.


Anonymous
Post 01/27/2021 15:58     Subject: Moderates, which news station do you watch?
I don’t watch the news. NBC nightly is ok.

I read WAPO as a paper- it’s really not as bad as the web version and you cannot doomscroll a paper. The front page is generally just news. For Internet news- APNews app is good. I highly recommend it.

Lately, I’ve been listening to podcasts though- nothing about the news. I enjoy Brene Brown and Ted talks.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2021 15:56     Subject: Moderates, which news station do you watch?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:FoxNews Sunday and Meet the Press are the only news shows I watch.

Chuck Todd is pretty awful.


+1. I wish they would bring in someone like former host Tim Russert. It was a real news show back in the day, now it's just cringe-worthy to watch.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2021 15:49     Subject: Moderates, which news station do you watch?
I’m not the most liberal out there but have drifted more to the left as I’ve gotten older. I cannot watch CNN. I watch ABC for national coverage of events like the election, etc., but mostly don’t watch TV. I read WaPo and NYT and used to listen to NPR Morning Edition and All Things Considered, but since I’m at home and supervising learning much of the day don’t listen to that anymore.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2021 15:46     Subject: Moderates, which news station do you watch?
Anonymous wrote:Nothing on TV. TV news all sucks.


+1. I read -- you can read in about 1/2 hour what it takes cable news 24 hours to blather about. When I'm going to watch TV, it's usually Netflix, and it's not going to be breaking news.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2021 15:42     Subject: Re:Moderates, which news station do you watch?
CNN is NOT liberal. I watch it and I'm a moderate.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2021 15:03     Subject: Moderates, which news station do you watch?
Anonymous wrote:Nothing on TV. TV news all sucks.


Bingo.

Print media only, for me. WaPo, NYT, and WSJ.

Oh, and I guess John Oliver, does that count?
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2021 14:40     Subject: Moderates, which news station do you watch?
Anonymous wrote:
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 Hill leans right.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2021 14:39     Subject: Moderates, which news station do you watch?
Anonymous wrote:I watch NBC News — the old fashioned nightly 1/2 hour news cast— on occasion, and I watch 60 Minutes. Otherwise I get my news from the Washington Post and New York Times.


+1. We must be twins except that we watch 60 minutes almost every week.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2021 14:37     Subject: Moderates, which news station do you watch?
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?
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2021 13:51     Subject: Re:Moderates, which news station do you watch?
I don't watch much television news, but, when I do, i watch ABC. (I don't have cable.)

I mostly listen to NPR and read the Washington Post, both of which seem reasonably fair in their presentation of factual news items.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2021 13:34     Subject: Moderates, which news station do you watch?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.

Why would you listen to propaganda?

Christian Science Monitor to the PP who asked about web news. I don’t watch TV news, but if I did it would be PBS News Hour.


I listen so that I know what people who believe differently than I do are getting in terms of information and incitement. This is why I was aware that things were going to be bad.

I didn't say you have to listen, too, or imply there was something wrong with you. I will now say that if you never listen to alt-right sources, you will be unaware of a lot of what is going on, and people's opinions and actions (somewhere around 30-50% of our fellow Americans) will not have context for you.


DP, but I also check foxnews.com daily. When you see their editorial decisions, you understand why some of your fellow Americans have a completely different version of reality than you do. Dismiss it as propaganda at your own peril.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2021 13:15     Subject: Moderates, which news station do you watch?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Nothing on TV. TV news all sucks.


Mostly this, but if forced to choose, PBS, C-SPAN, BBC or RTE.


+1


+3 I mostly use Google News to get aggregated stories and then supplement with Twitter & YouTube to watch specific video clips. I don't need talking heads to tell me what to think. I prefer to find direct sources, compare multiple viewpoints, and draw my own conclusions.