Where do you get your news?

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AJE
RT
reddit

[herbivor]

glenn beck for historical perspective, with a grain of salt.
i know i'll catch flak for this but he's very good on history

If YOU were good at history you would realize he is horrible at history. You can fact check most anything that comes out of his mouth and realize he's full of shit. Not surprised you watch him though. Sometimes I wonder if you are him.

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Glenn Beck drives an e30. Fuck.

[cale]

glenn beck for historical perspective, with a grain of salt.
i know i'll catch flak for this but he's very good on history

I'm no rocket surgeon, but history ≠ news

My apologies, historical perspective. So you watch Glenn Beck to be told how the founding fathers intended your country to be and how far from that direction its wandered off course? Just so I can grasp why you watch that troll, perhaps the tears do it for you.

[rwh11385]

Out of curiosity what's your news source? I listen to NPR specifically the Diane Rhemes show and find it very enlightening and a higher level of intelligent discussion compared to every other punditry circle.

My coworker has transformed from a Bush loving republican conservative to an independent disgusted with both parties. The only difference I see is that he started listening to NPR and the Daily Show on a regular basis for the past couple years instead of Fox and Rush. We can actually have intelligent discussions now instead of listening to him spout off sound bites he heard from some news pundit.

I'm surprised anyone can put up with listening to the struggling voice of Diane. But their other content is good, usually. Like a recent story about black lung and coal mining.

That sounds very fortunate, only wish more people were capable of being more than a robot repeating party rhetoric (both sides). Critical thinking and logic seem to have lost out to the slacker approach of being told what to think.

I try to read Fast Company and Forbes everyday, although I've noticed that a lot of contributors to Forbes are just opinionated people without many facts sometimes, and more just repeating their favorite pundit sometimes. WSJ is pretty good too. For the rest, I search and use good judgment when it comes to facts and a researched, logical story... rather than just baseless opinion. Politifact is crucial too. And as someone mentioned, reading both sides and weighing what really is the truth between the two spins.

[Dozyproductions]

more relevant than corporate news :p

right? It would be really interesting to see who owns all the news sources... which include obscure 'unbiased' internet sources as well. Honestly I should start just asking god for the news being that he's omnipotent and everything.

[Cliche Guevara]

The Economist, Christian Science Monitor, The Register Guard (semi-local newspaper), NPR, and BBC World News America. I watch Fox News on occasion as well, though I usually can't last any longer than half an hour.

[kronus]

Sometimes I wonder if you are him.

Glenn Washington Beck 72tii


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[E30_Pare]

Fox news

[BraveUlysses]

If YOU were good at history you would realize he is horrible at history. You can fact check most anything that comes out of his mouth and realize he's full of shit. Not surprised you watch him though. Sometimes I wonder if you are him.

[Holland]

Wikipedia.

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Fox News is entertaining though. I like watching people argue.

[gwb72tii]

If YOU were good at history you would realize he is horrible at history. You can fact check most anything that comes out of his mouth and realize he's full of shit. Not surprised you watch him though. Sometimes I wonder if you are him.

please be specific, like a specific example of where he's been wrong vs factcheck

and then please post the fact check link so we can all judge the accuracy of the source, as a lot of current "history" is revisionist and not accurate to compare against anything at all.

[herbivor]

please be specific, like a specific example of where he's been wrong vs factcheck

and then please post the fact check link so we can all judge the accuracy of the source, as a lot of current "history" is revisionist and not accurate to compare against anything at all.

No

[rwh11385]

please be specific, like a specific example of where he's been wrong vs factcheck

and then please post the fact check link so we can all judge the accuracy of the source, as a lot of current "history" is revisionist and not accurate to compare against anything at all.

Here, let me help you out: http://bit.ly/OdioxV

http://reason.com/archives/2010/07/07/beck-u = just a few examples


But that reminds me that I really enjoy Reason as well as http://www.ncpa.org/. Particularly, their daily policy digest with links to many sources with topics about current policy debates, which focus on facts or logic than just rhetoric: http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/

Those, along with TED talks as well (but to be watched with a grain of salt sometimes).