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List any sources (radio, television, internet, books, individuals, etc.) that you get your politics news and education from. For me, it's the following:
MSNBC - Chris Matthews, Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell
NPR
Huffington Post
Thom Hartmann
Leslie Marshall
Robert Reich
Paul Krugman
The Young Turks
Bernie Sanders
Elizabeth Warren
Nick Hanauer
Michael Moore
Yep, if you agree with it I'd check it twice as much. Verify, verify, verify. That goes for Chrissy, Rush, Larry, Sean, all of them. Use your head other than as a receptacle for another mans ideas.
I don't like Fox News and have tried to watch it on several occasions.
They use brainwashing tactics that are pretty blatant. They never really go for facts.
Step 1: Define a crisis
-This is the fear factor. People don't think rationally when exposed to fear
Step 2: Bring on the opposition
-They typically go after Democrats or liberals with less confidence who aren't very established
Step 3: Humiliate opposition
-They use deflection, bullying, projection, confusing arguments, and sometimes even shouting to intimidate their guests from the other side
Step 4: Declare themselves the winner
-There is a lot of self-proclamations on Fox News. They also blatantly associate themselves with "the people" constantly
If you can avoid falling for their little formula, you realize Fox News is a very powerful destructive propaganda machine.
My experience on MSNBC was similar, but less authoritarian and more sarcasm.
You know whats funny? I get a good bit of my news from C-D.... not exactly new persay but discussiona about things going on, that lead in turn to looking at those stories from a wide varity of sources from Fox to CNN to BBC to any number of outlets (internet wise)
i dont watch much TV news. I do listen to the radio for intertainment but Im smart enough to know the difference between someone opinion of events and what ought to be considered news.... most folk that listen to talk radio are like me in that respect.
What is sad to me is that there really are people here who think Young Turks and HuffPo and Media Matters are actually news. i mean seriously people what are you thinking???
You know whats funny? I get a good bit of my news from C-D.... not exactly new persay but discussiona about things going on, that lead in turn to looking at those stories from a wide varity of sources from Fox to CNN to BBC to any number of outlets (internet wise)
Same here, except I'll go flip through my newscaster on Roku to hear what all the commotion is about...
and of course, I love to READ
If there's one thing about this thread it's far less about what news sources people have but their political leanings.
Those on the Left clearly like MSNBC, CNBC, and CNN, along with HuffPost and Mother Jones with Daily Kos showing up in there somewhere.
Those on the Right clearly watch Fox and Breitbart.
Those with rote responses and pre-programmed ideas don't watch anything but the Big Three - ABC, CBS, NBC.
Most posters here call me far left. I singled out Mother Jones, and Fox news as horrible, and warning about MSNBC. Brietbart made my ignore list, Didnt think about the Daily KOS, but its probably somewhere between msnbc and Mother Jones.
So no, people arent as simple as you make out. You have however pretty accurately labeled the extremists on either side however. There will be exceptions.
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