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Travelling with work at the moment and just chilling out catching up on the world while having a beer sat at the bar. Do people these days actually care enough to read beyond the headlines or Facebook?
I've got a Guardian subscription. I get the actual physical paper and read it every day. In doing so I consider myself some relic from the 50's. Even though I wasn't born until the 70's...
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TV wise I watch Channel 4 news, and thats it. The rest is utter tabloid drivel. And sadly I now include the BBC in that. The standards have fallen so sharply, so quickly there, its incredible. I don't believe a single word I read on the internet, as I just assume everyone else posts the same standard of drivel as me
Daily mail is my only source of news.
It fits in with my views perfectly.
EDIT online only.
It has been said that if you want answers on the internet then you should not ask a question, you should just provide an incorrect answer.
That is why STW is the definitive news source.
Online,radio,telly,papers at the weekend and some slow journalism[url= http://www.slow-journalism.com/ ]Delayed Gratification[/url],which is an interesting way to see some of the bigger stories after the dust has settled.
R4; Today and PM, on the drive to/from work
Occasional browsing of the headlines on the BBC news app.
Can't remember the last time I watched the news on the tellybox.
I mainly inject it.
Guardian subscription, R4,PE, NS, no telly. Thinking of giving up the Guardian after all the post-Rushbridger changes but struggling to find a decent alternative. I'm just getting sick of the identity-based 'journalism' and their endless name-dropping of their mates in film, theatre, music and so on.
but struggling to find a decent alternative
I keep toying with an FT subscription....
Mock The Week, Have I Got News For You, The Now Show.
Pretty much the only sane and balanced reporting out there.
I used to get both the FT and the Guardian but it's now unaffordable (best journalism on 'Fleet St' though).
I like to read the Daily Mash and try to infer from their stories what must be happening in the "real" news.
That and I have sky news playing on a TV above my desk spewing its doom and gloom at me for the entire work day, thankfully subs and no sound
Breaking news headlines - twitter
Then I have news aggregating apps that I browse through and go into the detail if I want. They're all varied online news sites.
Then I take it all with a pinch of salt. Newspapers and their online variants are after all opinion (with a bias), not news reporting. Even Sky and BBC.
I have Sky and/or BBC on rolling news in the background quite a bit but I get tired of the obvious "exclusive" they do which is more about willy waiving than actual news (and often no one else remotely considers it news anyway). "Breaking News" on both are just everything that is news even if it's been 24 hours since it actually broke.
Radio 4 and, sometimes, the Channel 4 news in the evening.
Used to have a subscription to an a physical broadsheet but I couldn't justify the cost as I seldom had time to read much of it.
Radio 4's Today program, Flipboard and Reuters on the iPad in the morning. Private Eye every fortnight.
I really should buy a subscription, I'd feel middle aged and responsible then.
TV, Radio, recognised news web sites. Definitely not social media unless I suddenly wake up and give sh*t what Kayne West thinks.
I spread the daily mail out on the floor, strip naked, smear myself with olive oil and roll around on it, absorbing the contradictory stories of foreign perverts invading Britain and doesn't celebs 13year old daughters look mature in makup.
I get all my news from JiveHoneyJive and Jambalaya.
My brain hurts 🙁
All online, mainly BBC, Guardian, and through a sort of inferencing from other places that are sort of one step removed but gives a sort of big picture, like The Conversation. I think it goes without saying that most things need to be taken with a large pinch of salt but that said I do think the BBC do at least make an attempt at showing bigger pictures once you move beyond the main headlines.
Very rarely see TV news, and when I do I'm astonished by the ratio of actual information content to emotional button-pressing, standing outside buildings where some meeting is going on or something terrible has happened, lingering shots of discarded teddy bears, lots of context shots etc. C4 news are the best of that bunch I think, but otherwise it's like Drop the Dead Donkey, if anyone remembers that!
I watch The Day Today
Radio 4 and sometimes channel 4. Agreed that BBC TV news has dropped off in quality and depth. BBC on line news is ok.
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Every now and then I try the Today programme but I just end up shouting at the radio.
Internet mainly, various sites, some mainstream, Guardian, Telegraph, Indy (in small doses, their websitre has the same effect on me as Today) and others less mainstream.
sometimes the telly, although less and less these days, as it's just so poor.
R4; Today and PM, on the drive to/from work
That's about it.
I let everyone else read the news. I figure, if there's something important, they'll tell me.
I keep toying with an FT subscription....
£30 a month for premium online if you buy annually, and that includes their archive etc.
A bargain, but you can't beat the paper version at the weekend.
Google now which seems to aggregate random new articles covering a wide range of topics. Links via various social media, including here.
Used to be Channel 4 for me, generally good journalism but became increasingly annoyed by their fluff pieces. Final straw was the Irish bloke reporting the Jimmy Savile story in the style of a top ten count down. I even questioned him about it on Twitter about it and he claimed to see no issue with the tone.
Guardian website & Channel 4 news but should read more to get better balance
Agree with comments above - BBC news is now drivel
I let everyone else read the news. I figure, if there's something important, they'll tell me.
Oh I meant to mention, asteroid is going to hit the earth at 8pm.
Today programme or other Radio 4 news programmes. You get more news in the 10 minute summary on the hour than any TV news progamme despite being longer. Channel 4 News was much better in Peter Sissons's day, far too smug now. BBC TV News is very shallow as is Newsnight now. Given up on all TV output other than Sky if there is a breaking story, like the Turkey coup - there are so far ahead it is embarrassing.
Newspapers - read for commentators, all have good commentators and also read Spectator and browse New Statesman.
Subscribe to the economist and spectator.
PM, "evening Eddie"
Much shouting at Today like nick
For breaking or off radar stuff it's twitter every day.
BBC, Sky, europolitic, and France 24 websites for MSM take on "big" stories.
Never TV news, too many idiots, too many egos, too many vox pops
Radio 4.
Used to buy either the Telegraph, Grauniad
or Independent, depending if I fancied being angry, patronised or bored stupid.
But I can't be arsed anymore, there's nothing of substance left.
I think the final straw was realising that Bryony Gordon's column was genuine and not written by Craig Brown after all.
I mainly ignore news and take no interest in it at all
Politics and those that drone on about it'll the time bores me silly, and there's never any good news. Just bitching and fighting.
The only thing that interests me is local stuff in the local free paper, because it's relevant to me.
If you work in an office I suspect you just read the BBC News Website in your lunch break.
Probably stating with the 10 'Most Popular' stories from the box half way down the page. Hope you don't click on anything embarrassing or with sound. Then work your way through the tabs at the top. Trying to look sophisticated with the world news and business tabs and avoiding the dribble in the tabs at the far right.
...or is that just me?!
Radio 4 , Today, BBC news
Bongohooha » I get all my news from JiveHoneyJive and Jambalaya.My brain hurts
Heh, my sides etc.
With pop views like that you'll squeeze in nicely with the ol' STW Boys Club in no time at all.
Serious question. If I want to go any buy a newspaper that is non biased is it the guardian? I get that wound up that I either ignore news, get annoyed by the way it's reported or read the metro for free.
Independent Online subscription and BBC online news. They seem to conform to my view if the world. When I wake up in the middle of the night the Independent seems to have downloaded and is good for a half hour skim.
It doesn't matter which one you buy, the trick is to keep buying it until you get where they're coming from.
The Telegraph has the best crossword and sports coverage, but is owned by bastards and aimed at people who wear red trousers.
It used to be very, very funny and home to journalists so offensive they made Frankie Boyle look like Katie Boyle.
The Grauniad is perfect for wet, fence-sitting handwringers and middle class alcoholic supply teachers.
A shadow of a fantastic paper.
Famed for it's once radical, campaigning stance, it's now like being locked in Sainsbury's all night with the Reverend Richard Cole.
No one with any self respect reads The Times.
Today/World Tonight/Midnight News.
Also take the I, for the crossword.
The Independent seems to have the 3 journalists with the soundest take on the Middle East, Labour and the US election. But I suspect it might go out of business before my 15 month prepaid subscription expires. But at least we got a free iPad out of it.
The Telegraph has the best crossword and sports coverage, but is owned by bastards and aimed at people who wear red trousers.
more and more, It's been long turning into the Daily mail with slightly bigger words, longer sentences, and less flesh.
The Independent seems to have the 3 journalists with the soundest take on the Middle East, Labour and the US election.
Aye.
Serious question. If I want to go any buy a newspaper that is non biased is it the guardian?
Its a different type of bias. You do have to put up with the view of the world from Polly Toynbee's home in Tuscany 😉
Its really the only paper worth reading. They still do quite in-depth articles on world news that none of the rest of the media appear to give a shit about. You know... actual proper journalism. As opposed to other papers which just seem to be opinion pieces. Which would be fine, if all the opinion pieces weren't from essentially the same person.
The same people who all went to the same school, all now live in the same place, all go to the same restaurants, exhibitions and theatres, and have little or no interest in anything that goes on outside their own tiny parochial , narcissistic little world. The standard of the papers in this country really is woeful.
If you look at somewhere like Turkey, or Russia, the authorities are rounding up journalists, or having them killed, as they see them as a threat. If the government in this country were to have a crackdown on their critics in the press, it would involve popping round to see Owen Jones and asking him if he could tone it down a bit.
The Grauniad is perfect for wet, fence-sitting handwringers and middle class alcoholic supply teachers.
Brilliant!!! And bang on!!! 😆