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Where does everybody get most of their political/news-related information from? Newspapers, TV news, AM radio, NPR, the internet, high-brow magazines, low-brow magazines, good writers, crappy writers, even crappier writers, ridiculously horrible writers, even Ann Coulter-level writers?...
If mostly "the internet," which sites do you tend to visit?
you need to make it more than once choice each. I for one get news from a multitude of areas such as internet, radio, TV, and newspapers. There is actually no new news in the bible or Nostradamus, being that they were written ohh. long long ago.
I used to watch a bit of news, but me and the wife cut out our cable because we didn't want to pay $50 a month for tv. Now I occasionally turn on the Today Show while eating breakfast, but thats it at as far as national news I watch on TV.
On the internet?
CNN, FOX, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, BBC, and from time to time NPR. I also check in on the "watchdog" sites too, usually NewsBusters, Media Matters, as well as political blogs like NewsMax and Huffington.
I think its impossible to get a clear opinion until you've visited both sides of an issue, and thats pretty much impossible without looking through multiple sources.
All sources I can, even those I think are extremely wacky or biased (on both sides). I do so simply to get an overall perspective of what people "claim" or "believe". Then I go through books, university archives, newspapers, etc... to track down the facts of an issue and "attempt" to cut out the bias in them.
It is VERY HARD to do. Even proclaimed "peer reviewed" sources still carry major hints of bias (assumptive conclusions) and even text books for universities are very slanted in issues.
I dread voting season because it means I spend hours and hours wading through all of the BS to finally get a fairly (as close as I possibly can) accurate assessment of the information. Even then, on some issues I think I am still making a guess. /sigh
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