Re: OT: Which news source(s) do you prefer?

2012-10-03 Thread Lyle Tuttle
Have you looked at:  http://www.livestation.com/ At 11:36 PM 10/2/2012, Michael Butash wrote: At the end of the day, all news agencies are trying to make a buck, which means they're selling interest in products or view, which lead back to product via some level of marketing.  They tell you what

Re: OT: Which news source(s) do you prefer?

2012-10-02 Thread Michael Butash
At the end of the day, all news agencies are trying to make a buck, which means they're selling interest in products or view, which lead back to product via some level of marketing. They tell you what you want to hear, usually varying for the pitch, but the idea is to hook you long enough to p

Re: OT: Which news source(s) do you prefer?

2012-10-02 Thread Derek Trotter
I can't listen to any news on the radio here(Jellico, Tn) during the day. None of the two or three fm stations available here do any news. I don't pay for the local crappy cable, so I can't watch it on the idiot box. I check out the Drudge Report several times a day. Then I'll take a look a

Re: OT: Which news source(s) do you prefer?

2012-10-02 Thread Dazed_75
I have the same issues so look at multiple source (none in print) but I've been using BBC of late for real life news even though that doesn't get a lot of stateside or local coverage. I don't think the question was about tech news. On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Patricia Wilson wrote: > For po

Re: OT: Which news source(s) do you prefer?

2012-10-02 Thread Michael Butash
As depressing as the state of affairs in the world are, I take an RSS of google top stories for general world news, and find that reading just the headlines is enough to more or less keep a pulse on how the world downturns. Anything interesting I'll link through to, but I've found for probably

Re: OT: Which news source(s) do you prefer?

2012-10-02 Thread Matt Graham
From: j...@actionline.com > I'm fed up with *all* media sources This mailing list could be considered a media source. -EMETAMETAMETA : too many levels of symbolic link fed-upness detected. Core dumped. Going out for pizza. -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wo

Re: OT: Which news source(s) do you prefer?

2012-10-02 Thread Adam McCullough
now or the >> truth, if there really is something called the truth. >> >> >> Keith Smith >> >> --- On *Tue, 10/2/12, Alan Dayley * wrote: >> >> >> From: Alan Dayley >> Subject: Re: OT: Which news source(s) do you prefer?

Re: OT: Which news source(s) do you prefer?

2012-10-02 Thread Josh Coffman
is akin to telling me what I want to hear, not what I need to know or the > truth, if there really is something called the truth. > > > Keith Smith > > --- On *Tue, 10/2/12, Alan Dayley * wrote: > > > From: Alan Dayley > Subject: Re: OT:

Re: OT: Which news source(s) do you prefer?

2012-10-02 Thread Alan Dayley
Joe, Most browsers now have a mode that prevents cookie tracking and other such methods of correlating you to the places you browse. I don't know who first called it "incognito" but it's a good name for it. http://browsers.about.com/od/faq/tp/Incognito-Browsing.htm (I don't know how accurate th

Re: OT: Which news source(s) do you prefer?

2012-10-02 Thread joe
Thanks for all the responses. > Google has started to tailor what you get based on what they know about > you, which is far more than you might expect. To me this is a problem.  > It is akin to telling me what I want to hear, not what I need to know or > the truth, if there really is something ca

Re: OT: Which news source(s) do you prefer?

2012-10-02 Thread Alan Dayley
a problem. It > is akin to telling me what I want to hear, not what I need to know or the > truth, if there really is something called the truth. > > > Keith Smith > > --- On *Tue, 10/2/12, Alan Dayley * wrote: > > > From: Alan Dayley > Su

Re: OT: Which news source(s) do you prefer?

2012-10-02 Thread keith smith
. Keith Smith --- On Tue, 10/2/12, Alan Dayley wrote: From: Alan Dayley Subject: Re: OT: Which news source(s) do you prefer? To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 11:57 AM I scan news.google.com headlines once a day and dive into things that look i

Re: OT: Which news source(s) do you prefer?

2012-10-02 Thread keith smith
multiple websites daily you run the risk of missing something.  If you find that one true source I'd like to know about it.  Keith Smith --- On Tue, 10/2/12, j...@actionline.com wrote: From: j...@actionline.com Subject: OT: Which news source(s) do you prefer? To:

Re: OT: Which news source(s) do you prefer?

2012-10-02 Thread Alan Dayley
I scan news.google.com headlines once a day and dive into things that look interesting. I have purposefully not customized the feeds there so that I get as general a view as possible, though Google does some feed tweaks automatically based on what it knows about me. The rest of my news comes from

Re: OT: Which news source(s) do you prefer?

2012-10-02 Thread Patricia Wilson
For politics and world news foxnews special report. For techie stuff zdnet. On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:44 AM, wrote: > > Which news sources (print and/or internet) do y'all prefer? > > I'm fed up with *all* media sources ... with all of the bias (both ways), > spin, distortion, inflammation, exag

Re: OT: Which news source(s) do you prefer?

2012-10-02 Thread JD Austin
You start by recognizing the bias for a variety of news sources (THEY ALL HAVE BIAS) and get your news from a variety of sources. They're all competing for your eyeballs and trying to sway you to their bias. Look at what all three sides say (left, right, and every one else) and make up your own

OT: Which news source(s) do you prefer?

2012-10-02 Thread joe
Which news sources (print and/or internet) do y'all prefer? I'm fed up with *all* media sources ... with all of the bias (both ways), spin, distortion, inflammation, exaggeration, ambulance chasing sensationalizing, and overdone visual graphics. Haven't subscribed to any print media for more tha