News is what they tell ya to distract you from the really important E36 M3.
News is what they tell ya to distract you from the really important E36 M3.
The Philly ABC affiliate for the local news/weather. Anything else usually here.
Greenpeace and the NRA 
friedgreencorrado wrote: BBC. NPR, Deutsche Welle, Radio Netherlands, NHK, and ABC (the Australian Broadcasting Company). I once worked in TV news. All the news kind of went away when the suits said the department had to become a profit center (i.e., bigger ratings). "Network" came true. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUhNEbag-NQ
I was actually in the radio news business for a while, sorta.
Many years ago before there was an internet, I was the overnight guy at a small FM radio station. Since I was the only guy at the station at the wee hours of morning, I did the hourly newscast. There was no writing, reporting or investigative journalism involved. It was a 'rip and read'. I would rip the news off of a big, ugly teletype machine that we rented from AP and locked away in the closet so the noise wouldn't go over the air when I turned on the mic. Then I would read it on the air. When a big news story would hit the wire, bells would go off in that closet along with furious teletyping. You could actually hear the thing going off from the studio, and if you were on the air, so could everybody else. It was almost scary sitting there in the middle of the night and suddenly getting the message that something serious was going down. A war. An assassination. A history changing event.
Back before 24 hour cable news channels and thousands of internet news sources, breaking news on the radio was a big deal. Now I can get AP stories and anything else I want on my iphone anywhere - not so much anymore. .
Uh, mostly the internet. I follow several major news organizations on twitter, which limits them to 140 characters to get my interest. 
Onion News Network
Facebook and the local NBC station....
aircooled wrote:stuart in mn wrote: The biggest mistake is assuming any of those 'news' shows are actually news - they are opinion shows with a lot of people yelling at each other. Doesn't matter what network.I think in most cases the actual News programming are pretty reasonable, but most watch the other 80% of their programming, which is not news, although they tend to imply it is.
I agree. Besides checking the news online during the day I also read the newspaper and watch the evening local and national news on TV. I don't watch any of the shows on the news networks.
Zomby Woof wrote: I realized that the news was BS and gave up on it
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Wally wrote: Onion News Network
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Sometimes I like to watch the local news though. Maybe just to see whats goin on over here.
The radion and the internet. TV news is all fear mongering now. "Child run over by car today! CARS! The modern serial killers? NEWS 1 NEXT!"
Do you want some good news filtered through a cynical audience? Check out Fark.com.
Xceler8x wrote: The radion and the internet. TV news is all fear mongering now. "Child run over by car today! CARS! The modern serial killers? NEWS 1 NEXT!"
That about sums it up.
My two local nespapers. TV news skims over everything without telling anything.
I get most all the news and op-ed content I need right here at the GRM forum!
The onion.
On a radio news program (ha ha) this morning, they said Warren Buffet's buying up tons of newspapers because he thinks that, as soon as they stop giving their content away, they can make money. I've heard he's a pretty sharp guy with businesses, but I don't know...
I used to read the local paper (Patriot News) during my break at work, but I guess our subscription ran out and we never renewed it. So now I get most stuff through my Time magazine subscription (up to 6 days late!) and watching the Daily Show every so often.
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