I'm a news junkie.
Many times when I'm writing, I have a constant stream of news programs going on in the background. Fox News Channel has become my 24 hour news channel of choice.
My addiction to world news has been promoted by my father. Many of our conversations start with, "Have you been following the news?"
Dinner table chatter over the years has revolved around current events for as long as I can remember. We each compare what we have heard from different sources. He's a CNN man.
Over the years, I've developed a need or addiction, if you will, to know what's going on in the world around me.
So, tell me. Do you prefer CNN or FOX News Channel?
CW
CreativeWoman posted on Jan 09, 2007
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silverwhisper said on Jan 09, 2007....
i honestly avoid TV news nowadays, preferring to get my news online--i tend to find the bias of both CNN and fox bothersome.
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satyr said on Jan 09, 2007....
I watch about 1 hour of news a day, CW and it's usually on Fox News........however, the wife is a news junkie and she watches A LOT! -
silverwhisper said on Jan 09, 2007....
you know, this gives me an idea for a new blog entry...it'll go up tomorrow.
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CreativeWoman said on Jan 09, 2007....
ed,
You must be one heck of a speed reader with all the reading you do here and other places. :-D Glad my ramblings can inspire a post for you.
satyr,
The bia does get annoying. I must admit that I switch it off when the "experts" start talking over one another. The actual news is what I like.
CW
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silverwhisper said on Jan 09, 2007....
speed reader, speed typist. :>
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CreativeWoman said on Jan 09, 2007....
ed,
No doubt! My word, man! :-D
CW
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lioneljay said on Jan 09, 2007....
I guess that I must be a thoroughly old-fashioned kind of guy. I get my news by reading two newspapers every day.
I find Fox News to be nearly libelous in its treatment of the news and CNN has become the home of the everyday disaster. In some respects Jon Stewart's show is nearly as reliable a source of news as Fox. When CNN gets back to its roots I may go back to watching, but I'm not holding my breath.
Good night, Chet.
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dailyachesandpains said on Jan 09, 2007....
CW,
I just changed the channel from Bill Hemmer, on Fox News to MSNBC. I am a news slut. I watch all of them. Anderson Cooper is my late night fix on CNN. I used to watch 'The Factor' but he's been annoying me for the past several months. I love him debating, but it's hardly a debate when he doesn't let anyone get a word in, except 'the last word' as always.
Daily
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beyondtheveil said on Jan 09, 2007....
I watch the news in the a.m. only. I used to watch Fox until they took Bridgette Quinn off as the anchor. I now find myself switching between MSNBC & CNN Headline News.One thing about the news, it's the repeat capital of the world. Watch thirty to forty-five minutes & you've got it all. The day's sound bites.It really wouldn't hurt a thing to insert a little substance now & then.beyondtheveil -
CreativeWoman said on Jan 09, 2007....
lionel,
I love newspapers. It's just that I am a multi-tasker. I need to be working at something while I get my news fix. I listen while I work. What papers do you read?
I might just say for the record that I don't take everything said on any news network as gospel. I know that sometimes spin doctors are afoot.
When I worked for a smalltown newspaper as a reporter in my early 20's, I covered city council meetings.
One time there was an issue on the agenda about some dishelved property. I reported what the council discussed in the open meeting in a straightforward manner. Before the next meeting, the property owner had everything ship shape. The council was embarrassed because I had in essence done their job for them before they went through their whole process. The mayor actually asked me to not do such a good job next time.
daily,
Sheppard Smith, is probably my favorite on FOX. Bill O'Reilly can be a knucklehead sometimes. I don't watch him regularly. I do like Greta Vansustren for court news. I also watch a lot of local news.
CW
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CreativeWoman said on Jan 09, 2007....
beyond,
I like the news alerts that they break in with from time to time. I will say that I am not crazy about the FOX morning show. Bubbling personalities and me do not mix well in the mornings. :-)
CW
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lioneljay said on Jan 09, 2007....
CW, I read the Chicago Tribune and our suburban paper, The Daily Herald. When I travel I always try to read the better local papers as well and throw away any free copies of the USA Today rag that are left for me by my hotel. -
CreativeWoman said on Jan 09, 2007....
lionel,
I see you as very well rounded man. :-D I've got to ask. Why don't you read USA Today? I haven't read it.
I try to read the Omaha World Herald or the Kansas City Star when I can. I don't seem to find the time for all the reading I want to do these days, hence my tv news addiction. :-)
CW
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lioneljay said on Jan 09, 2007....
USA Today is like television: all the foam and none of the beer. -
CreativeWoman said on Jan 09, 2007....
lionel,
That is too funny! I love your wit.
CW
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lioneljay said on Jan 09, 2007....
CW, yes, but will you love my wig? -
MissMimi said on Jan 09, 2007....
I used to watch Bill O'Reilly pretty regularly. But he is a knucklehead, you're right. I watch Shepard Smith when I think of it. for a very shallow reason. He's lovely to look at. -
gingersoul said on Jan 09, 2007....
CW.... great post......i am a news junkie.
And this only intensified and escalated because of my job. I worked as a journalist for 12 years in Italy for 3 different national newspapers in Roma. And oh, dont make me remember those hateful dreadful long city councils....
Its still the only job i could come back to in a blink of an eye...sigh....
I will write a blog about it. Thanks for the inspiration...:-)
I love newspaper...i like their smell, i like their printed letters but i have slowly converted with the time to read more and more online news sites....
CNN in primis, MSNBC but also any other big American newspaper with some of the European ones....the Daily Mirror especially or Build ....plus my Italian newspapers (for one of them i am still writing as free lance)...
I have a weakness for Drudgereport ...not for his political ideas but for the precious shortcuts it provides to hundreds of other newsites... great! And naturally i read the Italian version of it: Dagospia....I am a free lance for an online news site opened last year by an old colleague of mine ...
In tv i like to watch Bill Malher and Jon Stewart...and my favorite tv reporter is Christiane Anampour ...oh.... i am so envious of her life!
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mobil said on Jan 09, 2007....
FOX NEWS, CW, have you seen the babes on that news channel?OMG. Babes aside.I like the way they report, it's slanted, like CNN is slanted,like ABC, NBC, CBs is slanted.The big newspaper chains are slanted. You have to becareful how you decipher the news these days CW.Thank God I am and am smart enough to do that while watchingthe really hot babes..............lolThanks.........great post -
CreativeWoman said on Jan 09, 2007....
lionel,
Wig and all :-)
Mimi,
Shep is handsome. He adds a bit of zing to the news too.
ginger,
Wow! I am so impressed with your journalist experience! What I have done is purely small time stuff.
I have always had great respect for Christiane Anampour.
CW
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CreativeWoman said on Jan 09, 2007....
mobil,
Yeah, I know the spin doctors are in full force. It's hard to decifer sometimes.
Some of the men on FOX are easy on the eyes too.
CW
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MissMimi said on Jan 09, 2007....
I'm going to ask something that's going to make me look either stupid or naive. Can someone tell me how different news organizations slant the news? Every time I hear that I go nuts because, I'll be honest, I am pretty much clueless about this. Can you givre me specific examples in easy-to- understand words so that the next time I watch the news I can be more aware of exactly who is trying to brainwash me? -
silverwhisper said on Jan 09, 2007....
funny you should ask, i'll be discussing that tomorrow morning. :>
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MissMimi said on Jan 09, 2007....
Ed, be sure to include those words of two syllables or less, okay? ;) -
lioneljay said on Jan 09, 2007....
Ed, I'll be looking forward to this as well. It always raises my hackles when I read a comment like I saw above here that the news organizations of the major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) are heavily biased. If they are, I'd really like to see objective proof. I've seen enough broadcasts on Fox to know how that network chooses to slant its news coverage and editorializing but I just wonder what the source is for people to think the same of the big three. -
moonriver said on Jan 09, 2007....
i see im the only one on bbc world so far (for world news i mean). nhk for asia news although the feed often gets cut from where i am. and local news round-the-clock of course. no preference between cnn and fox.
cw, ginger -- the trick with city councils (and county, provincial equivalents) is to bring a camera and catch the politicians you love to hate in the most unflattering poses, snoozing, picking their noses, and so on... it becomes a very engrossing game at times. been there done that too ;-)
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CreativeWoman said on Jan 09, 2007....
Mimi,
I don't want to steal ed's thunder, so we'll wait for his answer tomorrow.
lionel,
I don't watch enough of the big three anymore to have a feel for them. I was a big Peter Jennings fan. I always found him to be credible. Since he's been gone, I've moved to FOX.
moon,
I was never dispatched with a camera to the city council meetings. Might have been fun though to catch them in some red faced arguments.
CW
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kelly said on Jan 10, 2007....
Is it even possible to get news on TV? I don't watch TV anymore on purpose, but the little snippets I absorb here and there make me realize I'm not missing much. I get my immediate info needs from the internet and for more in depth stuff I listen to NPR and read the New Yorker and some of the New York Times. And Fox news.... Is that a joke? -
CreativeWoman said on Jan 10, 2007....
Kelly,
I'ts not a joke. There really is a FOX News Channel that is similar in format to CNN.
I agree with you that NPR is a wonderful source of news too.
(NPR is National Public Radio for those of you who might not know that.)
CW
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secretlife said on Jan 10, 2007....
My husband is the news junkie here. He flips thru all of the stations but he has FOX News on most frequently.
I usually hear about major news thru him, so talk about a slant!
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ALIENated said on Jan 10, 2007....
Real men do not watch news, they make news. Just kidding, but I think we are seeing a pattern here. I loath most new and weather broadcasts. Nothing but a bunch of talking heads trying to make a mountain out of a molehill, usually. I think the facination with things like the O.J. trial are ridiculous. Mrs. ALIEN is a news junkie as most of you women seem to be. I think the news shows are all pushing their points of view, even Jon Stewart. I have not forgiven the news since the hounding of President Nixon. Some of that was necessary, but since they had a taste of blood, they have all become vampires. It is almost as bad with President Bush except that he has done nothing wrong. -
silverwhisper said on Jan 10, 2007....
alienated: "done nothing wrong"? [blink] that's easily the funniest thing you've ever said here. :>
CW: o, kelly knows. she's just being snarky. :>
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mrhowto said on Jan 10, 2007....
Not a big news junkie myself, but when something is usually breaking, we usually pop on to BBC news 24 or Sky News. We have CNN and Fox on cable here in England, but don't really watch them much.
I think it's the over excitement of the American channels lol...no offence intended, can sometimes be too much.
Also, a strange, if slight patriotism I guess - that and the fact BBC News tends to have more local news too.
;)
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Alyss said on Jan 10, 2007....
I tend to get my news online and frequent BBCNews, Reuters and CNN mostly but Ananover is interesting too. -
silverwhisper said on Jan 10, 2007....
sorry for the delay folks but i've finally posted it. i got in late this morning.
but CW, it's not like i have a monopoly on opinions here--if you wanna discuss it too, please go right ahead!
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peedee said on Jan 10, 2007....
Here in India the Fox is performing much better than the CNN. -
CreativeWoman said on Jan 10, 2007....
Secret,
I hope your husband is a good reporter. :-)
mrhowto,
Nothing wrong with being proud of the BBC. I watch BBC America occasionally but not enough to give an opinion on the news.
Alyss,
I have never experienced Ananover. Is that online?
ed,
I've already read and posted on your relating post. It's a good one.
pd,
Why do you suppose Fox is doing better in India? I'm very curious.
CW
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CreativeWoman said on Jan 10, 2007....
ALIEN,
I agree with you completely on weather forcasts. I firmly believe it's the only job you can keep and be 100% wrong all the time.
CW
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VaTarheelguy said on Jan 10, 2007....
Easily I prefer CNN because they have the most annoying hosts, by far . I still can't believe some of these people are getting paid to report the "news." It to the point now that I only watch now to see just what new line they will cross. Also I can rant for days on most of what they say.
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netetarian said on Jan 10, 2007....
It's not really news it's infotainment.
CNN is easier to take … because Bill O'Reilly is a sexist, fascist creep -
silverwhisper said on Jan 10, 2007....
yes, i noticed. thank you, CW. :>
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gingersoul said on Jan 10, 2007....
CW.....but you got the bug.....lol....
i wrote a post about my experience....come and give it a look...;-)
Moon.......LOL...that was exactly what our photographs were trying to do at those pompous, simply showing off political events....but then the editor would call our chief and say " Come on...tell your guy to take a good picture of XX. He called me and he is upset"....
Polticians are the most vain people in the world, after lawyers.....lol...
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CreativeWoman said on Jan 10, 2007....
Va,
I think the main reason I steer from CNN is because I don't like Larry King. He's usually on when I flip by.
net
Infotainment is probably a good word for a lot of it. The "debates" by the experts seem completely staged. I'm sure a producer or director encourages them to talk over one another. I find that childish.
ed,
:-D
ginger,
I will hop over and have a look. :-)
CW
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kelly said on Jan 11, 2007....
"It is almost as bad with President Bush except that he has done nothing wrong."Thank you for the best laugh I've had all day. Maybe you're not so bad after all! -
kelly said on Jan 11, 2007....
netetarian: Those are just his good points. :-) -
loville said on Jan 14, 2007....
I prefer CNN! CNN means Cool New News! Or Chilling News Nightly! Or Cool News Now! Yeah! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! take your pick. CNN always has top news feeds and the best best on screen layout, not to mention their lineup is pretty cool. And sometimes they seem to have the top news first before any other news channel. Also i have CNN News on my cellphone! It's greeeeeeerrrrrrrrrtttttt! It's like that cereal tiger great. Oh yeah baby! lol
Peace & Love to you.
have fun watching the news!
I know i will and i'll read it on my phone as soon as i find it. I think i'm sitting on it! lol
May God Bless All!
China AkA ShortyJ AkA Loville
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CreativeWoman said on Jan 14, 2007....
loville,
I get breaking news from both CNN and FOX in my email. I've not signed up for alerts by phone...yet. :-)
CW
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12string said on Jan 21, 2007....
Fox and News don"t belong in the same sentence. -
THEEMONK said on Feb 06, 2007....
If you're watching FOX, you aren't watching news. Although I hope Nancy Grace gets the chair. That woman makes me ill.
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