March 28 -- How do you get your news?
7Do you watch tv? Just the one hour of news at night, maybe two including local news? Do you binge on FOX, MSNBC, CNN, CSPAN?? Do you subscribe to newspapers online or get real honest to goodness paper? Is the Yahoo carousel your source of info? Do you listen to the radio ??
I can’t stand to have newspaper clutter in my house – just another thing to recycle 
I also refer to our local newspaper as the daily fishwrap !
I enjoy local news, and loved Peter Jennings when I was younger. Hubby has one news channel or another on so I hear it while I am doing stuff around the house. He absorbs news.
Inform me… inquiring minds want to know!!
Have an outstanding day!!
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Radio and Google.
My mother gave me a newspaper subscription for my birthday. I enjoy it.
A buncha news apps and their notifiers. Also a buncha podcasts. TV news is very rare. I don’t like to sit and watch TV.
Sources: Podcasts, Sirius, NPR apps (tho NPR goes way too slow and doesn’t have the controls I like). Brookings Institute has some very nice podcasts. C-Span has a daily summary that I kinda like. I play them all at speed.
Sometimes play a Youtube vid for the sound, don’t watch. Esp the “comedy news”. Am gonna mess with doing that with Sling.
Have subscriptions now to WaPo, NYT, finally WSJ. All digital subs. Prob gonna get the Dallas paper too, try to save it from dying. The FW paper wants way too much money for a digital sub. Gonna call them and see if I can’t get them to be reasonable.
Politico can keep your head spinning if you’re a junky. Also The Atlantic and The New Yorker are good long form sources.
I don’t get local channels. I get my news online.
Carrier pigeon. Strange… I’ve haven’t gotten any news in a very long time.
@Barney
They’d rather be in Florida.
/giphy "carrier pigeon"
@f00l I thought Texas is for the birds.
@Barney
They’re welcome here too.
@f00l
/giphy bird poo
The national Enquirer and people magazine
@cranky1950 I prefer The Onion and Saturday Night Live.
@rockblossom too dull, not one story about the Michelle Obama GEORGE Bush romance
@cranky1950
What about their murderous plots and their Love Child? Does the Enquirer have that news up-to-date?
@f00l no, that’s the globe and midnight. Everybody knows their stories are made up
‘The Daily Show’, Trevor Noah. Colbert. Drudge Report, so I can see the latest product. WaPo. The Audible news channels. BBCW. Der Spiegel, online in English.
@OldCatLady
The Guardian has excellent US coverage. Very strong on politics and culture, without the degree of mind-numbing detail you see in the NYT or WaPo. Ever try them?
US Edition
https://www.theguardian.com/us
Local news I get from a quick check of a website for one of the local TV channels, because I can read in 5 minutes what they want me to watch for 30. Accuweather for incoming storms, a quick trip to The Hill to see what idiocy is going on inside the Beltway, and perhaps a dollop of BBC, and then back to Google, which I have configured with a ton of keyword searches, to get stuff I missed about science, tech, business, etc.
Or if I’m being really lazy, or prefer to drink coffee in the kitchen, I just say: “Alexa, give me a news update.”
Honestly, I don’t try really.
If it’s super important, someone will probably talk about it or post it on Facebook.
Often the tv at work is tuned to talk shows or news.
The world is messed up. I don’t need to reminded constantly about it.
@RiotDemon This is exactly my approach. I don’t seek out any news. I generally try to avoid it. However, I still have friends and co-workers so I hear things anyway.
I don’t watch news because it’s disrespectful to talk about politics.
@DrunkCat
I listen to a personally curated selection of newshounds and policy wonks talk about politics. I listen willingly.
Are those talking heads disrespecting me by talking? Am I disrespecting myself by listening?
@f00l The answer to both of those questions is yes.
/giphy yes
I get a great newsletter in the morning that covers a lot of the bases: http://www.theskimm.com/
Otherwise, radio, the BBC America feed, and Twitter
@dashcloud
You’ve got a strong stomach.
@f00l It all depends on your feed- follow garbage, get garbage. Also, following a small number of folks helps.
General Twitter is not very good- if you follow people in an area, you get much better results.
I’m a news junkie. 3 newspapers, cable news, National Evening News, local TV news and internet fill in
My life is miserable enough, why would I go looking for more?
BBC
I hope you’re happy, @mikibell. Since you got me thinking about it, I signed up for the NY Times, half price for a year.
@OldCatLady
Ever drown in a deluge of super-urgent words? A river that never stops over-filling everything? ; )
@f00l Right now, I’m drowning in rain.
@Barney
Wish we were. Need it.
No flash floods, hear?
@f00l The rain is close to you, no?
@Barney
Threatening but not raining.
@OldCatLady
@Barney We got about a spoonful last night.
@moondrake That’s quite a downpour for you guys.
I subscribe to the LA Times (I live here), Washington Post, and New York times. I read… probably 2 or 3 articles per month more than their paywall allows. Although the LAT, I quite like.
I get a majority of my news from coworkers, Google Now alerts, and sometimes the “comedy news” (Colbert, Meyers, SNL, John Oliver…)
I use Philip Defranco, actually reliable and fact checked news
Only source of news I watch, read official govt. documentation, I don’t often trust any MSM anymore
The local newspaper daily, weekly suburban paper, national news in the evening, local news at 11. Online, NBC, CNN, USA Today, Twitter.
No TV here, so I usually get my news on the car radio during my commute to and from work. I also listen to news on the iHeartRadio app during lunch. I usually check out the SmartNews and Phandroid news apps on my phone as well. And then there’s Facebook, which I actually like for news because it’s somewhat real-time, especially BBC News.
Another follower of TheSkimm. It’s good, it’s quick with links to more, and it’s snarky to both sides. I have a digital subscription to WaPo, as well as Science. I follow a few science-and news types on Twitter (Brian Cox, Phil Platt, BBC), and a few news types on Facebook (local paper, etc).