Poll: Best news source!
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Regardless of how many votes FNC gets we can all rest in the fact that more people watch FOX than any other 24 hour cable news network. Just ask Bill O'Reilly or Glenn Beck #1 and #2 in the ratings (Bill's been #1 for over 8 years...suck on that Rachel Maddow!)
I went for BBC because it's the one I look at everyday, but I also read the Guardian (oh what a naughty socialist I am). For news when I'm in America, the Daily Show wins every time.
No offence intended, but American news networks are terrible
No offence intended, but American news networks are terrible
I'm not sure that makes them the best. A number of folks here at least seem to agree with me.Oo Rev oO said:
Mine would be SBS, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian (newspaper), three very good sources for news down here. On that list my top would be BBC for the serious news and the Daily Show for a laugh about it.
None of the above.
I get my news the same way Phillip DeFranco does. I use credible web news sites.
There's none of that garbage and scare tactics you see on stations like Fox.
I get my news the same way Phillip DeFranco does. I use credible web news sites.
There's none of that garbage and scare tactics you see on stations like Fox.
You might group CNN/MSNBC/FOX all together because CNN is a rather glaring omission and they're all 24 hour cable news channels with many of the same idiosyncrasies. Despite the large ideological divide between MSNBC and FOX, they are quite similar in a number of ways.
Honestly, C-SPAN and Al-Jazeera (English) could afford to be on there as well. I doubt there'd be significant support for Al-Arabiya, though I could be wrong. But you have limited space and wasted two slots on fake news programs with the same executive producer (Jon Stewart) and a third on the channel that they both appear on. They also both tend to cover the same news. That one could afford to be one category, and maybe include other late night talk shows.
"Newspapers" is overly broad, and it is unclear whether it would cover news magazines like the Economist, Foreign Affairs, etc. as well. There's also a whole heap of difference between for instance the Seattle Times, and better national newspapers like the New York Times or Wall Street Journal.
I would do this:
American Cable News (FOX/MSNBC/CNN/C-SPAN)
BBC
Al-Jazeera (English language version)
Late Night Talk Shows (TDSwJS/Colbert/Kimmel/Conan/Fallon/Leno)
News Magazines (Economist, etc.)
National Newspapers (NYTimes, WSJ, Washington Post)
The Local Newspaper (because the trend is that there's only one...)
Escapist... or other online sources (blogs, Google, fark)
I'm not really satisfied with this list either because I very much doubt that BBC is the only British news channel (Sky or something?) and for the sake of completeness I've pulled lots of different things together while still not filling out the complete selection. I mean, hell, there's even the regular news programs like NBC Nightly News, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, ABC, CBS and so on. I suppose you could perhaps scrap Al-Jazeera or "the local newspaper" in favor of Nightly News shows. You could be even more simplifying and do this:
Internet
Television
Print
or
24 hour cable News
Nightly News
Comedy Newsish Programs
Print News
Online News
Anyway, there is virtue in a poll for having categories of roughly equal stature.
Honestly, C-SPAN and Al-Jazeera (English) could afford to be on there as well. I doubt there'd be significant support for Al-Arabiya, though I could be wrong. But you have limited space and wasted two slots on fake news programs with the same executive producer (Jon Stewart) and a third on the channel that they both appear on. They also both tend to cover the same news. That one could afford to be one category, and maybe include other late night talk shows.
"Newspapers" is overly broad, and it is unclear whether it would cover news magazines like the Economist, Foreign Affairs, etc. as well. There's also a whole heap of difference between for instance the Seattle Times, and better national newspapers like the New York Times or Wall Street Journal.
I would do this:
American Cable News (FOX/MSNBC/CNN/C-SPAN)
BBC
Al-Jazeera (English language version)
Late Night Talk Shows (TDSwJS/Colbert/Kimmel/Conan/Fallon/Leno)
News Magazines (Economist, etc.)
National Newspapers (NYTimes, WSJ, Washington Post)
The Local Newspaper (because the trend is that there's only one...)
Escapist... or other online sources (blogs, Google, fark)
I'm not really satisfied with this list either because I very much doubt that BBC is the only British news channel (Sky or something?) and for the sake of completeness I've pulled lots of different things together while still not filling out the complete selection. I mean, hell, there's even the regular news programs like NBC Nightly News, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, ABC, CBS and so on. I suppose you could perhaps scrap Al-Jazeera or "the local newspaper" in favor of Nightly News shows. You could be even more simplifying and do this:
Internet
Television
or
24 hour cable News
Nightly News
Comedy Newsish Programs
Print News
Online News
Anyway, there is virtue in a poll for having categories of roughly equal stature.
I can't stand watching the news. Its too depressing. Every story is about someone dying, someone getting raped, or someone getting raped then dying.
So I'll go with the Daily Show. At least they're funny about it.
So I'll go with the Daily Show. At least they're funny about it.
1) Unlike many of my other polls this one is rather precisely targeted, as I alluded too in earlier posts. It's not scientific, it's purely political because I believe in running my polls like Colbert runs his from time to time.Seanchaidh said:
2) I already explained newspapers' entire purpose for being there.
3) In other polls I worked to make the most of the space I had available. This one I didn't care as much. This was slanted towards Comedy Central for precise reasons. Space was not wasted, it was used with purpose.
4) I got what I wanted out of this or at least what I asked for. I'd say that's a success, if not a raging one.
Now for some trolling:
On point 4) WHO ARE THE TOOLS VOTING FOR FOX?!?!?!!! You are messing up my mojo here! I'm going to have to work to slant this against Fox even more now!
Newspapers is being dumped for the Onion! (See what happens when I try to be nice to a dying industry and some group of you decide to support Fox? Now the small guy gets it!)