My (non-industry) news sources: Albuquerque Tribune/Journal - print version of Fox News for NM, even though the Tribune is theoretically the "Democratic" paper. Both have the same ownership, and both are fairly biased, but where else would I get the Albuquerque news?
- time spent 10%, weight given on national issues - 1%-2% and only that because I find it interesting that they are finally criticizing Bush. Alibi - local "alternative" weekly. Solid investigative journalism, mostly local but this includes piaces that impact the national news, such as immigration, environment and wilderness (alibi.com for the curious) Also occasionally the Santa Fe Reporter and the Eldorado Sun, which are even more so. - time spent 5%, weight given on national issues 10% though I'm aware that this will be the "green" point of view. The remaining 85% goes to online sources. I never watch television and find myself growling at the news coverage the once in a blue moon that I do. The radio station I listen to (www.kbac.com) does not do news outside of upcoming albums and shows, but they cover a lot of independent material so that's just fine. They stick to what they do well. I used to listen to NPR online but I prefer the music as white noise. NPR is rather intellectual, and the stories tend to be in-depth but editorial. Of the online sources, I subscribe to the Washington Post, the Miami Herald, the Santa Fe New Mexican and the San Diego paper. I read the Washington Post's stuff more often because it gives headlines in the subject line, and this tends to pique my interest more. Politically, I'd describe the WP and the NM as leftish and the Miami and San Diego papers as middle of the road to conservative. Total time spent here is 5% at best. The rest of my news I get from Google news. I scan headlines and click on something that looks relatively objective within the topic. For which read I am more likely to click cnn or the times of london than canada.com or a blog. I'd consider the following reasonably accurate sources of information, though yes, I do know that some of them have been wrong on given stories... Forbes Reuters Times of London New York Times Washington Post Washington Times (with cautions, yes I know who owns it) Guardian.uk Observer.uk Scotsman.com Daily Telegraph Le Nouvel Observateur Figaro Le Monde Liberation (with GREAT caution) Houston Chronicle Cnn.com International Herald Tribune Bloomberg - especially good for business news Wall Street Journal - as above Voice of America - for admin take canada.com - with lots of salt BBC News Wired - often has good in-depth coverage Christian Science Monitor Chicago Tribune Baltimore Sun Newsweek Time LA Times San Jose Mercury News Independent Globe and Mail CBC Montreal Gazette For industry news, I subscribe to Fairfax Digital (smh.com.au, australian), eweek (several), Information Week, Info World, CIO and Baseline, and hmm (scanning inbox) CTO and SiliconValley.com. The amount of time I spend reading these depends on what I am researching and/or doing at the time. I am going through a lot of back issues right now for a project. I like Baseline the best of these. I often buy Wired because let's face it, it's very cool. Who else interviews the Gorillaz? Ditto Adbusters (http://www.adbusters.org/home/) and Tikkun (www.tikkun.org). I am sure that Sam would consider the latter two quite liberal, but I'd put them in the same category as NPR -- thoughtfully progressive, perhaps. I'll skip the homeschooling and medical stuff as I doubt there are any commonalities there with anyone else here. I also subscribe to some rather wild-eyed email lists on the right and on the left, and read all of that with a big grain of salt. >I know you didn't ask me, but I thought it would be interesting to >post where I get my news, and the percentage of time I spend on each >one. I've included some non-news sources, such as Rolling Stone >because they still have "current event" information, even if highly >slanted. OVerall, I get the vast majority of my news on the Radio on >the way to work and by reading. I don't really like most TV news >since most of its really devolved into shouting shows where the host >invites various people on to yell at them (Orielly / Nancy Grace). > >Where I get Radio News/Info: >Air America (XM) (10%) - Highly biased >Fox Radio (XM) (10%) - Highly biased >PRXM (XM) (10%) - Mainly human interest stories >NPR (FM) (70%) - Relatively balanced > >I can only stand the extreme views of Air America and Fox some of the >time, but it's still interesting to see where "those people" are >coming from. > >Print News/Info: >Economist Mag (50%) - current events / news / some political / >relatively unbiased >Rolling Stone (10%) - current events and highly biased opinions >Business 2.0 (10%) - tech news, some biz news >Wired (10%) - tech news, some biz news >Wall Stree Journal (5%) - biz news - don't read it often enough >Various Local Rags (15%) - local news, politics etc - usually highly biased > >TV News/Info: >Fox (30%) - Biased >Headline News / CNN (30%) - Growing more biased (adding shouting shows lately) >MSNBC (25%) - good biz stuff >Other / Local (15%) - whatever > >-Cameron > >On 6/7/06, Dana Tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:208436 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
