Which is your favorite network news program?

[frank462]

Do you watch network news programs? Just curious to see where members are getting their news. Please vote for just one - your favorite.

FYI - The Factor w/ Bill O'Reilly, The Big Story w/John Gibson, and Hannity & Colmes are more opinion programs than news programs. That is why I did not list them in the poll.

 

[andyandy]

Is "network" news news carried on cable?

my favourite news cable channel is BBCWorld/BBCNews24....

so i had to vote planet x.

 

[Katana]

You're missing MSNBC, too.

 

[BPSCG]

Network news is an abomination. Honestly, I get a hundred times better news coverage from the newspaper and news feed web sites I frequent, and better analysis from the opinion sites I visit and from this forum. Yes, this forum. I'm serious.

 

[Lisa Simpson]

The Colbert Report.

 

[LibraryLady]

Countdown with Keith Olberman

 

[Jorghnassen]

Tsk, tsk. No non-American news sources, no fake news... Come on .

/and no Mélissa Theuriau, for shame!

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

I watch or listen to the BBC World News all the time. And I watch Canadian news fairly often. I think a lot of us get some news from foreign sources on the net. But my cable company doesn't exactly put on foreign news programs with subtitles. There are some foreign language news programs on, but they aren't in English. Makes it tough to follow.

Democracy Now, The War and Peace Report is the best broadcast news source in the US.

Free Speech TV, What Democracy Looks Like I don't watch as often but they have good coverage on some topics.

Take Back the Media, while it's a bit radical looking, actually represents a grass roots movement to break up media monopolies that give us that crappy milktoast news.

You need a lot more than network news to be informed. The New Yorker and the Nation are two periodicals which still have good investigative reporting.


Then there are the documentary news programs like Frontline.

The Fifth Estate, a Canadian version has had some good programs on like this one, The Lies that Led to War. The interesting thing about this documentary was the mention of the exact same thing happening in the Italian media as in the US media, they simply didn't challenge the Bush administraton's information.


Yes, yes, these all sound like left wing news. But in reality, it is the investigative reporting that I am after. And as I've said many times, show me a decent investigative reporting source which focuses on right wing framed news and I'll add it to the list. I haven't found one yet.

 

[skeptifem]

anderson cooper.

 

[andyandy]

Take Back the Media, while it's a bit radical looking, actually represents a grass roots movement to break up media monopolies that give us that crappy milktoast news.

Yes, yes, these all sound like left wing news. But in reality, it is the investigative reporting that I am after. And as I've said many times, show me a decent investigative reporting source which focuses on right wing framed news and I'll add it to the list. I haven't found one yet.

i'm not sure i'd place much stock in the investigative reporting of take back the media - a cursory look at their website doesn't fill me with confidence with regards to objectivity of debate....

I swear with God as my witness I don’t watch FOX news, my blood pressure is high enough without listening to some jackass spin and weave and then when they say it’s raining I have to get up and go look. The other night I was surfing through the channels and here is this smiling galute with wind turbines in the picture behind him, so out comes the teaser line “Wind Turbines how they might not be as good as you think.” I will give credit where credit is due that was a good tease line almost as good as “Brittany Spears to marry the Pope more after the break.”

I mean how can you be against wind turbines? Safe clean energy with an unlimited supply domestically produced what’s not to love?
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But FOX true to their creed, we present (part of the facts) you decide continuing saying “Less than 12% of the electricity generated by these turbines will ever reach the power grid.” Why that’s the Gods honest truth! Of course it makes no difference whether the electricity is generated by coal, oil or nuclear the electricity dissipates in the transmission lines. But you still have the advantage that if the wind turbine breaks down you don’t have to worry about genetic mutations in your offspring for the next six hundred years. I wonder you suppose that guy would like a nice coal fired smokestack in the distance?

http://web.takebackthemedia.com/geeklog/public_html/article.php?story=20061215135353915

hardly journalistic standards to be lauded....

 

[andyandy]

anderson cooper.

i used to quite like watching anderson cooper - a relative oasis of objectivity amoungst the likes of Paula Zahn and Lou Dobbs....

btw, i prefered your previous avator - slightly wasted, but strangely attractive heroine chic-computer anime beats scary looking evil dude anyday

 

[strathmeyer]

Since this poll is obviously American, why didn't you include where more Americans get their news than any other source?

 

[Soapy Sam]

You mean "The Simpsons"?

I believe Dawkins will be interviewed by O'Reilly this week.

 

[Slimething]

No one else gets their news from The Onion? Am I missing something here?

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

i'm not sure i'd place much stock in the investigative reporting of take back the media - a cursory look at their website doesn't fill me with confidence with regards to objectivity of debate....

http://web.takebackthemedia.com/geeklog/public_html/article.php?story=20061215135353915

hardly journalistic standards to be lauded....

Take back the media isn't investigative journalism. You mis-read my post.

"Take Back the Media, while it's a bit radical looking, actually represents a grass roots movement to break up media monopolies that give us that crappy milktoast news."

I said it was a grassroots effort to literally take back the media. They have one effort for example, where like Habitat for Humanity, people can literally build their own community low powered FM broadcasting station.

 

[andyandy]

"Take Back the Media, while it's a bit radical looking, actually represents a grass roots movement to break up media monopolies that give us that crappy milktoast news."

I said it was a grassroots effort to literally take back the media. They have one effort for example, where like Habitat for Humanity, people can literally build their own community low powered FM broadcasting station.

whilst the aim to "take back the media" may be laudable (if a little idealistic), it's unfortunate that the movement behind such a cause would themselves serve to illustrate all that's bad about partisan journalism.....
"break up media monopolies so you can get misinformed in a new and different way!"

 

[frank462]

If nothing else this polled shows that "bias" is in the eye of the beholder.

 

[hgc]

"Take Back the Media, while it's a bit radical looking, actually represents a grass roots movement to break up media monopolies that give us that crappy milktoast news."

I'm not usually a spelling cop, but jeez -- milktoast?!?

 

[peptoabysmal]

I guess, given a choice, I'll pick ABC.

I try to watch them all from time to time, even BBC .
I switch around.

 

[Darth Rotor]

I voted Planet X, since my actual answer was

"I have no favorites, I put up with them all as a necessary evil to sift through. I prefer the CBC.

DR