News

When I'm doing stuff around the house I pretty much always have the TV on in the background, and it's mostly news programs (and freaking court programs for some smurfing reason), so I passively ingest a lot of information throughout today.

Things I learned today: Kirstie Alley lost a shoe but it was okay, Lady Gaga fell down but she was okay, a student pilot bumped into a wall at a local airport, dolphins smurfing love cats, the Dodgers don't like it when their fans try and murder other fans, and serving your toddler a margarita in their sippy cup is frowned upon.

Things I did not learn today: Anything of any smurfing interest or importance.

Where do you get your news? Or are you totally smurfing over even trying to shift through all this bull:bou::bou::bou::bou: to get to something of any worth?

I don't have cable, so no FOX News for me (be sad for me). I usually browse Yahoo's top articles for the day, but most of the news I read is whatever Reddit deems important for the day.

We watch the news while we eat dinner. Our local reporters are so mean to each other. Somebody said something about being on their knees, and the anchor was like "ha-ha! You would know a thing or two about being on your knees." and I don't think it was just playful kidding around :|

I read every one of those articles you mentioned. o.o

I usually have the radio on the local news station, so that's where I get my news. Also traffic and weather on every eights! I rarely watch the news on the tv though. I don't see why when I get them on the radio or online. My brother, however, almost always have his tv on Fox News. I make fun of him for that.

I watch the channel 3 (CBS) news from 6:30-7am then from 7 to whenever I leave for work I watch the channel 12 news(fox44)!

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Originally Posted by Agent Proto

I usually have the radio on the local news station, so that's where I get my news.

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Oh yeah, I listen to news on the radio too. I rarely listen to music, so it's mostly talk radio for me.

The only intake of news that I have is through CPR (Colorado Public Radio) and even then I rarely listen to. The amount of :bou::bou::bou::bou: that you need to wade through in order to get to anything of substance is depressing and stupid. Yahoo! "News" is horrible for the worst offender.

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Originally Posted by ShlupQuack

dolphins smurfing love cats

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To eat?

I do listen to VPR (Vermont Public Radio) when I have the chance.

I usually flick on BBC news when I want to see what's going down during the day.
On the evenings when I'm on the internet I usually look at Yahoo, their stories are usually pretty light so it's decent for tired reading.

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Originally Posted by ShlupQuack

dolphins smurfing love cats

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To eat?

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You clearly are not on top of your current events. Kids are so ignorant today. Don't you care about the world?

You have my utmost sympathy, shlup.

Sometimes I leave the radio on in the background, but the college station doesn't play ads or anything. DJ talk shows sometimes

I get my news filtered through IRC, IM, talking to people IRL, and twitter. Everything else is clearly not important

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Originally Posted by ShlupQuack

dolphins smurfing love cats

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To eat?

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You clearly are not on top of your current events. Kids are so ignorant today. Don't you care about the world?

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Kind of only pay attention to things that matter, sorry.

My regular news sources are below. I check multiple times per day, and get email notifications of breaking stories from three or four different places.

The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia
BBC News - Home
AJE - Al Jazeera English
Business & Financial News, Breaking US & International News | Reuters.com
RealClearPolitics - Opinion, News, Analysis, Videos and Polls
RSOE EDIS

Also we have the TV news on 24/7 unless someone wants to watch something else. It varies between BBC, Channel 4 News, CNN, and occasionally Sky News (Though my mom hates it so that's rare).

Oh, and if something big is going down, I'll essentially go to any news site I can think of, even if I have to muddle through Google's attempt to translate Yupik into English.

I avoid mainstream news, but I hear the CBC in the background all of the time, talking about the upcoming election. I do not need to hear this, I already know I'm voting for the Bloc Quebecois.