How Do You Watch Your News?

Hey there, HD!

I watch the morning and evening local news, plus the national news (always ABC with Charlie Gibson - sorry, he's not a Charles!). At least until they stop talking about news stuff and start doing the fluff. Then I switch over to Food Network :) I prefer my fluff edible!

I also usually check in with CNN during the day, and try to read the newspaper every day, although I probably only get to it realistically 4-5 days a week. It's not like I read every story, but I at least skim the headlines to get a general idea of what's going on.

Never really thought of myself as a news junkie, but I guess I kind of am!

To be totally honest, I don't watch news on TV at all anymore. I don't read the daily newspaper either. I just found it really hard to believe that every major TV station, and every single newspaper would only discover the same nonstories every single day. If I want to find out the real score, all I have to do is go to a gas station. The gas prices are going to drive the economy into the ground. Now Bush (I saw the headline in a newstand) wants to do offshore drilling. I got a better idea. Let's have an independent investigation into why the prices are so high! Who's profiting? Is it because the Arabs are pissed off, or because Texans are getting rich again?

I do check the headlines on the internet on a daily basis, but I find that most really interesting stuff I hear from other people who watch the news daily. In fact, the most interesting thing to happen in my town recently (a school shooting), I heard about several hours before the news came on. Not only that, but I knew that the shooting was a gay hate crime 3 days before the news guys figured it out. I knew all the details before the first newscast, just because our local grapevine is actually better than the news.

I periodically read news magazines, and also, about once or twice a month, I read the UK newspapers online. I used to read the paper front to back daily, but the last couple of years, I haven't bothered.

I use to stay up late to watch the 11PM local news until I realized the same stories are repeated in the morning. For all the news channels, local, national, CNN, MSNBC etc most of the news is repeated over and over and therefore really isn't "news". Sometimes I just do mindless news watching because there are no good shows to watch. Everything is repeated over and over and over again. I'm beginning to think there is a shortage of news and everyone have an opinion. I'm preferring to all the guests. Love HGTV and Food Network.

Hey HD,

Just found your "other" site! I consider myself to be a 'news junkie'. I watch some TV news, but not much. Most of it is very biased and slanted. Hmmmmm like all three major anchors going to the middle east with Messiah Obama. They’ve clearly shown their cards if anyone wasn’t previously aware of their bias.

I get most of my news from talk radio. I start the morning with Laura Ingram, then one of my favorites, Dennis Prager, then Michael Medved and finish up with Hugh Hewit. When I hear them talking about something I want more information on, then I go to the internet. For instance about six weeks ago, they were talking about Congress failing to pass the “drill bill”. Interestingly enough, there wasn’t a mention of it on the national TV stations….Why do you think that was? I searched it out on the internet though and got the real scoop. It was a full week later before the National news started reporting on it, but that was because talk radio was burning up the airwaves about it.

I never heard on the National news about Messiah Obama “telling” the American people that we must teach our children Spanish. That he is embarrassed when Europeans come to America and they can speak English, but that when ‘we’ Americans go to Europe, all we can say is “Merci Beaucoup”. Well let’s see, if we teach all our children to speak Spanish, they still won’t be able to converse in Europe. None of the European countries speak Spanish, except Spain, and that is Castilian Spanish, not the Spanish that is spoken in the USA or Mexico for that matter. I have traveled Europe many times, and the thread that binds them together is the fact that many Europeans DO speak English. However, it’s the Queens English, not good ol US of A English. So I ask you, how will Messiah Obama dictating to us that our children MUST learn to speak Spanish prevent him from being embarrassed? How is that going to help our children? I agree, it’s a very good thing for us to teach our children Spanish, living here in the US, it comes in very handy. But the National language of the USA is ENGLISH, and should remain so. But I digress…I never saw/heard any of this on the National news stations….

The newspapers are equally as bad at reporting fair and accurate information, and that’s why they are all in financial trouble and failing. They are quickly becoming the medium of the past….like the 8 track.

Well HD, it was fun to find you here, and I’ll back in from time to time. I too love Reality TV….