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Where do you get your news? Newspapers, network news, CNN, NPR...?
My daily dose is NPR and the local paper (New London Day). I find Network news to be shallow and local TV news sensationalistic panic-mongers - "This just in - Typhoon Hits Phillipines! Will Your Town Be Next?" Like the line from Sting about politicians: "They all seem like game-show hosts to me..."
So, where do you get your "Guaranteed Fresh Disasters"?
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Where can you not get the news? If there is a disaster, a half dozen channels will tell you, let alone a bunch of internet sites; Drudge Report, World Net Daily, News Max etc.
Commentary and analysis I leave to different sources, other than any state sponsored organ or television network.
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The news for the day here is that all tv's no longer exist in my house. That goes for boom boxes and some cd's. It is quiet and it is all of a sudden very productive. Yes, I am relying on you guys and the maillady for all the info. I'll let you know when I am not accepting nonnews again. (ask me no questions, and I will tell you no lies!)
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I think it's important to know what goes on in the world.. after all, everything that happens has an effect somewhere else. I generally read Slate.com.. usually avoid reading Horowitz tho.. I used to read the Sunday Salt Lake Tribune from cover to cover (except sports of course.. threw them away without even lookin')... Then the church decided to buy that paper so now there are NO unbiased papers in the state of Utah... and why should there be.. the church knows best. I also used to read Newsweek.. I liked it too, but I haven't had a subscription for 3 or 4 years.. and the magazine piles have finally disappeared..
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I tune into the morning news at 7:00. But I don't read the newspaper except Sunday anymore. I got one yesterday.....and talk about depressing!! I realize it is important to keep up with what's happening....however I don't want to read about all the drugs, rapes, murders, shootings & hijackings on a daily basis. NOpE nOpE NOpe.
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I get my news from....Bun, Troubles, Elmer, Eric, Fritz, Bob with Bad teeth, Kevin the office products salesman, Brad the UPS man, Walrus the Overhead Door guy, Ivanhoe, Betty Grosbach, Dewey the Janitor, Chuckles the Post Master, Roger the Homeless, Jimbo and Larry from the City, Moon from the Liquor store, Spike at the Laundromat, Joel at Mazeppa T&A, Linda at the Greenway, Steve the Carpenter, Stewart from Scotland, Mark Fair from Alabama, Aart from the Netherlands, Clifford and Myrna next Door, Thursday Night Euchre Card Party at W.D.'s, Breakfast at Kelsey's, Happy Hour at the Neptune and Norm's Bar, Dana and John at the Hockey games.....Holy Cripes, is there any ting else? yah
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Yahoo! and right now NECN (new england cable news), been watching the weather channel this week , and for local news I just go by the "Hey, did ya hear the news" at the coffee shop, and the "so how about them Bruins" around the shop.
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The news is always the same. Only the names change. For repetition- fox new channel. They are famous for saying "If your just joining us" every 30 seconds.
MSNBC for confusion:
Newscaster:"YES THE EARTHQUAKE HAS STARTED SEVERAL FIRES! YOUR LOOKING AT LIVE PICTURES FROM OUR HELECOPTER, TED WHAT ARE WE LOOKING AT HERE?"
pilot: "This is a fire set off by the earthquake"
newscaster: "CAN YOU TELL US where you are?
pilot: "no, somewhere near a starbucks I think"
newscaster: "THANK YOU FOR THAT REPORT, WE'LL GIVE YOU MORE DETAILS AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE TO US, NOW BACK TO OUR REPORTER ON THE GROUND JOHN DOE, JOHN , TELL US, WHAT ARE WE LOOKING AT HERE?"
John: "WE ARE LOOKING AT A FIRE CAUSED BY THE EARTHQUAKE"
..THIS GOES ON FOR 45 MINS......JEEZZZ!
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Since you have been to this Metropolitan area, you know I get my local news at the Minot Country Store, world news from Imus and NPR's All Things Considered, and the most important news of all, Sports, all day long from WEEI Sports Talk Radio out of Boston.
John
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Here in canada the only one to watch is the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp) a long and strong standing in life events and Television as well as Radio. From life to fiction and call in or talk show. or world events and comedy. They cover it all.
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...nature and the coffee shop..."coffee shop" is the paper that is hand delivered with my cofee (The Atlanta Journal and Constitution,) the daily "buzz" (verbal,) and watchin folks...hehehe! (What's the news without some entertainment?)
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Yo............Mike! I wanna hear more about "Myrna, next door"! I have a feeling there might be some "news" there?
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Hey Meyer, is Bob with Bad Teeth the same as Crackhead Bob? Or is that a different Bob? And what about the guys down at Leo's? They pretty much had **** figured out when I was there.
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, and for local news I just go by the "Hey, did ya hear the news" at the coffee shop, and the "so how about them Bruins" around the shop.
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