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Which network do you watch on the regular and why do you choose it over the others?
On a regular basis, we watch FOX because we like the subject matter and the contributors. Regardless how some may thing (they do not watch FOX I have a feeling) they do give both sides. Yes, the lean right, but they also have a lot of middle of the road and liberal contributors. Just yesterday, on the FOX Sunday panel was one conservative, one middle of the road and actually two libs, one very liberal.
I will add, we usually watch CBS every night or every few nights and we occasionally watch MSNBC. If there is some really major occurrence, weather wise or other wise, we also watch CNN. On Friday nights we watch PBS.
I regularly check out world news on both BBC and Al Jazeera, since the US networks have virtually abnadoned telling us what's going on in the rest of the world unless guns are involved. Their reporting is usually trustworthy and covers a lot beside just wars and politics. Its stuff the mainstream US networks hardly ever cover anymore. CNN used to be really good at world news, but they've faltered badly over the years, and now seem to focus on celebrity news, natural disasters, and missing white girls.
For politics I watch MSNBC. While it has its obvious leftish slant, I find that the FACTS they report are accurate, unlike Fox News, which on several occassions I have seen reporting egergiously inaccurate factual material.
Local TV news is awful here. It looks like most of the time all they do is rip and read -- going out and looking at the same stories that the dailies have covered and getting some pretty girl to stand in the street and repeat what you saw in the Times or the News that morning. And they all lead with either crime or the weather, and spend an inordinate amount of time on both. There is a lot more going on locally than that. But when I do watch, I prefer my NBC affiliate here because I like the people on it.
I agree with your assessment. Fox has distorted information at times and it's always wise to have more than one source for controversial information.
I like Al Jazeera, too. I am especially watching Ali Velshi weekdays. He packs so much in a half hour show and I find that I actually learn things rather than just be entertained.
I voted for Fox, but I get my news from a really wide range of news sources. I like Fox coverage in the mornings, and of current, happening big news stories, and I think their The Five afternoon show is hilarious - I like the differing opinions and debate.
But I also glean my news from CNN, the BBC, the Drudge Report, HuffPost, and NBC and other sources - I feel like the truth lies somewhere in the middle of all the various reports. Heck, I even listen to the gay station on Sirius/XM and the Catholic station as well, and I'm not gay OR Catholic! I also listen to world news on Sirius/XM as well for some insight into different regions and how news events are impacting those regions as well.
The only news I basically never watch is MSNBC's news, which literally sickens me, it's so poorly presented and obviously biased. Just not good quality at all. Blech.
Used to watch HLN in the mornings. Could watch Robin Meade all the time even if all she did was sit there quietly. lol But I do like their way of bringing the news. I don't watch it as much as I used to. Seems like they only have 30 minutes that's live then they just repeat that half hour. I'm talking about the morning show. Nancy Grace needs to be locked up in a padded room!
I'm now a fan of NBC news.
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