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Smoke signals... exclusively.
Let's see why posters believe certain news sources are truthful and others lie and disagree on which is which. Is it because you trust amateur messages on social media to be accurate about everything? Is "bias" to you when sources usually say what you disagree with? Or do you accept the obvious fact that if most or all of the news source's people do agree with you, it is equally biased and just as wrong about every topic?
List the news sources you rely on from most to least often. If possible, include this bias ranking based on your experiences with them and explain why:
1 - Not biased
2 - Slightly biased
3 - Very biased
4 - I don't know
You left out radio. NPR and BBC are excellent sources of actual news.
Isn't BBC a TV network?
Click on Other for radio. Sorry, I can't edit the poll.
Isn't BBC a TV network?
Click on Other for radio. Sorry, I can't edit the poll.
Let's see why posters believe certain news sources are truthful and others lie and disagree on which is which. Is it because you trust amateur messages on social media to be accurate about everything? Is "bias" to you when sources usually say what you disagree with? Or do you accept the obvious fact that if most or all of the news source's people do agree with you, it is equally biased and just as wrong about every topic?
List the news sources you rely on from most to least often. If possible, include this bias ranking based on your experiences with them and explain why:
1 - Not biased
2 - Slightly biased
3 - Very biased
4 - I don't know
Rush Limbaugh of course. He's as fair and balanced as they come and I'd trust him with my wife and daughter alone overnight in a Motel 6.
Rush Limbaugh of course. He's as fair and balanced as they come and I'd trust him with my wife and daughter alone overnight in a Motel 6.
The bias varies based on the source of the smoke.
Rush Limbaugh of course. He's as fair and balanced as they come and I'd trust him with my wife and daughter alone overnight in a Motel 6.
Yes it does.
Which is why the news sources that are trustworthy are the ones that sign their names. I have been a reader of the Times, the WSJ and the Post for nearly fifty years. They tend to get the story right in the long run.
Talk radio disc jockeys and anonymous websites that no one ever heard of the day before yesterday, and political pressure groups should be viewed with a highly jaundiced eye.
ALWAY. ALWAYS ALWAYS know who is trying to sell you, what their interests are, and where the money comes from.
If you don’t know the man behind the curtain, you can’t trust the message.
What kind of political news source is a smoke signal?
Let's see why posters believe certain news sources are truthful and others lie and disagree on which is which. Is it because you trust amateur messages on social media to be accurate about everything? Is "bias" to you when sources usually say what you disagree with? Or do you accept the obvious fact that if most or all of the news source's people do agree with you, it is equally biased and just as wrong about every topic?
List the news sources you rely on from most to least often. If possible, include this bias ranking based on your experiences with them and explain why:
1 - Not biased
2 - Slightly biased
3 - Very biased
4 - I don't know
Isn't BBC a TV network?
Click on Other for radio. Sorry, I can't edit the poll.
I am 83 years old, so I essentially do not follow the news closely anymore. I mostly just read/hear the headlines. They satisfy me.
I think that I get most of my political news from (a) a few minutes of FOX News Channel (which I realize leans right), (b) the Internet (Drudge, Google News, Breitbart, and the Daily Mail). With the exception of Google News, most of them lean right. The Daily Mail is my go-to source for American crime news, which the American media will not report, (c) talk radio (which leans right), and (d) the radio news at the top of each hour (which is fairly objective. Maybe being forced to jam headlines into five minutes discourages a lot of partisan bloviating).
Basically, I prefer to watch reruns of "Friends."
I read newspapers mostly online. So is that a box tick for newspapers, internet or both?
Oh - and all media are biased. That's OK except for "public service" like the dreadful BBC, who unconvincingly pretend they are not.
Newspapers for those sites.
Do you think BBC is 2 or 3?
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