1. What is your preferred trusted news source?
Lately it is Google news, which is really just a collection of all the news sources on the web. And the UK Guardian. I really don’t read newspapers anymore. For television, I am keen on CNN headline news as background noise whilst running around the house.
2. What is a news source that you will never trust?
Fox news. They have a bad reputation for being biased and dumbing down the facts. It is so true. Watch them a bit and you will see what I mean. They definitely are driven to tell their side of things.
3. What is the news topic during the last calendar year that you feel got the worst coverage?
Well, most news, especially with the television news cycle that it seems everyone else must keep up with, everything get little to naught in coverage. However, that being said, I would say news out of Africa and Asia gets little coverage. Driving home from work late at night I will often tune in BBC World News on NPR. I am always amazed at how deep and rich their news reports are and the vastness of their scope – Africa, Asia, cricket, they all get equal play.
4. What news item do you feel got too much coverage in the last calendar year?
Brad, Jennifer and Angelie. Yawn. Who cares.
5. If you had complete control of your favored news source(s) (answer to question 1), what would you do with it that is not already being done?
Open up new bureaus once again in areas where there is a dirth of coverage, in order to help give Americans a better view of the world that exists outside its navel gazing borders.
1) Roy’s Blog
2) Fox news is the winner!
3) Whatever happens in Hollywood? I don’t get enough of that…I mean, Asian flu, who cares. Epidemics happen all the time, but Brad & Angelina is a fleeting moment of time.
4) Too much coverage…Automakers and gas. Cars & gas cost too much and soon there won’t be any of one, so the other will have to adapt… big deal.
5) I have to agree with Roy. World coverage. I want to knwo what’s happening in Antartica, Greenland and Africa.
1. I read a lot of news sources thanks to my good friend the inter-web. I rely on the BBC for unbiased reporting, the NY Times for the hebrew angle, and MSNBC for more up-to-the minute details. I also read both Denver papers and the Craig Daily Press—which I trust implicitly. Also, I know that Fark isn’t a news site, but they tend to break more interesting stories faster than the mainstream sites.
2. Definitely Fox News, as their bias is pretty obvious (ever hear of Roger Ailes anyone?). IÂ’ve also found that Pravda isnÂ’t all that reliable either.
3. The so-called ‘liberal media’ was much too soft on the Bush administration.
4. Brain dead white chicks. Can you say Schiavo? Can you say Hollaway? Can you say Coulter?
5. I don’t know nothin’ ‘bout runnin’ no news room. It’s hard to say what I would change. More colored pictures?
!) My preferred news source is The Christian Science Monitor. It may sound like an odd choice for me but, I find it unbiased.
@) Any local news source is the worst. Colorado is not the center of the universe & just because a fire is burning in Tunisia, it does not mean that Betty & Bob who visited there in 1984 are concerned about it whilst sitting in their Littleton home.
#) The wars we’re currently waging. I don’t think we’re hearing enough good or bad about both of them anymore. Instead, we hear about the President’s approval rating & whatnot.
$) Any one of the weird spousal murders or that blond in Aruba. I just don’t think they’re more important than wars, disasters & all the other shit happening on the planet.
%) Unknown. I took a journalism class in high school & it didn’t tickle my fancy like I thought it would. I suppose I’d just make sure to try & cover every angle of every argument to keep it balanced.
1.) I generally read the NYT, The Guardian, MSNBC, CNN and the local paper. Then I filter out all the crap. My most trusted news source? Metafilter, hands down.
2.) Fox News. Unfair and Unbalanced. It scares me to death to think of all the mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging cretins who take this shit to heart. GO AMERICA!
3.) The Bush Administration. Our “liberal” media must have been asleep at the wheel……….
4.) Wow, there are SO many. The vegetard got WAY too much coverage. Asian Bird Flu?? GIVE ME A BREAK. ( Sorry Tony, I hardly think that 10 deaths in Indonesia and a handful in other countries constitutes an epidemic. ) Paris Hilton. I wish she would just spontaneously combust. Now THAT would be news.
5.) Nothing. Metafilter is great the way it is.