When you read, listen or watch the news, what are the two most common ways you’re doing so? Do you listen to the radio while you drive and watch the evening news once you’re parked? Do you get most of your news from social media sites like Facebook? Do you read the news from other online sources? Or, perhaps you’re old-fashioned (hardly) and still read a printed newspaper.
We’re sure you get your news from multiple sources on this list, but what are the two major sources you generally use? Please select two options in the poll below.
And if you’re interested in AM radio, like some of our staff and writers are, be sure to read Randall Brink’s important post: Automotive industry seeks to ditch AM radio.
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Smartnews app, news from many different sources. Local printed newspaper folded after over 200 years. I really miss having a printed newspaper.
I can’t find one that isn’t biased. let alone two. There is no reliable news anymore, just editorials and opinions.
I agree that news sources are very biased. This is why have stopped watching/listening to the news. if something important happens I have friends and family who tell me what’s going on. I have too many people in my life who get angry or depressed over the news. I don’t want to become like them. I miss the old McNiel Lehrer Report from PBS that presented both sides without bias.
What about PBS Newshour?
Totally biased.
LOL! Seriously? NPR is government-funded news. Unbiased? Puh-leeze
Just because it uses public’s funds does make it biased. Just my Biased opinion.
Did you mean to say it “does not make it biased”? If so, I’ll correct it. If not, I’ll delete my question. Thanks, Tom. 😀 –Diane
Not necessarily so it just takes critical thinking and a lot of it🤔
NOT government funded. The Government money is the least of the funding sources. Read the list of funders for PBS Newshour, then for All Things Considered and then look at the local funding source for your local public broadcast outlet. That is paid for by local businesses and the local broadcaster pays for the feed from the national network. The last I looked Federal Funding to the Corporation for public broadcast was less than 1% Your bias is against unbiased reporting. I object to some of their reporting because it crosses my biases.
Well sorta kinda maybe we’re all different.
lol
Local TV is frequent (and occasionally national broadcast news), but several online news providers [some paid subscriber based] are regular – – several American sources and a couple international sources as back checks. Not all news is political. I avoid sources known to be far right or far left. And RV Travel is as close as I get to social media.
Ok so that is a bad thing? Just asking for me🤔
Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show on iHeart app
Printed newspaper e-edition, network internet free channels ( ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN )
Like kool aid?
We get the local paper when home, online edition on the road. Otherwise online major newspapers, podcasts, individual writers, and NPR.
I miss reporters like Huntley and Brinkley and Walter Cronkite
I think we all do. 👍
“And that’s the way it is”
And Paul Harvey
RV Travel…
Fox, CNN (polar opposites), NPR, NY Times, LA Times, Louisville Courier Journal, Lexington Herald. Subscribe to Wall Street Journal. All online.
No paper to “recycle”.
Or thrown into the only mud puddle in the county…
No “talking heads”…
Peruse several others when I have time.
One needs to look around and decide for themselves just what is “news”…Takes a bit of seaching…
“What are your two major sources of news?”
Sometimes I can’t count either…
Pretty sure a $300 million plus lawsuit that CNN settled for slandering a high-school kid says something different but that’s just my opinion.
Or MSDNC or CommieNewsNetwork.
Careful, Cancel. Have a great day. 🙂 –Big Sister
With the rise of AI and the ability to fake just about everything, you won’t be able to believe anything you see on TV or the internet nor will you be able to believe anything you read. There will be no way to distinguish between what is true and what is fake. Hackers and the government will be able to put anything they want on any medium they want and make it look real or fake as they desire. The future ain’t what it used to be.
I agree seems like we’re in a propaganda war especially in America.
It’s so hard to find “news” anymore…it’s mostly all “opinion”.
And not only opinionated it’s just not good at all especially with these man made wars oh! And the political mess.
I have three newspaper apps. One is international. Interesting how the news is viewed on each one.
Guess the Poll has closed, no poll loaded for me.🤔
Sorry, Tom. It’s still up and running. Sometimes it just takes awhile for it to load, or the page may just need to be refreshed (I just had to do that because the circle was going around and around🤔). If you still don’t get it, you may have it blocked somehow on your device? Here’s what Jess said awhile ago about our Polls: “Sometimes script blockers and ad blockers interfere with our polls since they are from a 3rd party site. If you have one of these try and turn it off and see if that fixes the issue.” Good luck. And have a good afternoon/evening. 😀 –Diane
As a 18 year RVer, with the exception of TV when we are parked someplace (Via Over The Air TV or via WiFi to our Roku – we dropped DirectTv when AT&T took over and tried to screw us big time) our cellphones are our major connection to all news. Between YouTube TV, email alerts, and yes, even Facebook posts, we are on top of all major news and news for the areas we are traveling in.
Thank you, RV Travel! I have two sources of “news” (and many for sports “news”). The first is an on-line newspaper. The writers are mostly former employees of the afternoon Chattanooga newspaper (“Chattanooga News-Free Press). After the morning paper (“Chattanooga Times”) acquired the evening one, then the latter essentially ceased existing. My second source is DW. She reads lots of things on-line and sometimes makes a particularly loud exclamation after reading something. Of course I question the reason for her making so much noise. She then shares what news item elicited such an audible response and I thereby receive “news.” Too much for me to read, so I let her filter it for me. 😉
I listed radio because I stream radio. No available signal where I am most of the time.