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Best news tv channel:

A) ABC

B) CBS

C) NBC

D) FOX

E) CNN

F) OTHER

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  • QVC has all the news I need.

    Hmmm, I need to lay off the coffee.
  • I'm a white male and I want to make sure everyone that isn't a white male is oppressed... because I like oppressing people, its where the real kicks are at.

    I like it for reasons people hate it. I like it because there are lots of people out there pleading with people to hate it, and they make strange movies showing reasons why you should hate it. I like it, because you hate it!

    You choose hate, i choose like :)

    And when I say "you" i mean the "you" out there, that magical mythical collective you that is pa
    • I like it for reasons people hate it. I like it because there are lots of people out there pleading with people to hate it, and they make strange movies showing reasons why you should hate it. I like it, because you hate it!

      It's amazing how they get under people's skin, isn't it? And how those people are completely oblivious to the fact that Roger Ailes is yanking their chains with stuff like "Fair and Balanced". Actually, I puzzled over all the arguing about bias -- all the news channels seem mostly the s

      • Oh come on now, you can't even trust hockey news from Barry Melrose. In one sentence he'll claim that 5 different teams are the best in the NHL right now.
  • you get your news from the TV? I use

    news.google.com and fark for news.
  • Because Dan Rather is a funny, funny man. Especially at 3 AM after he's been covering the election since the early evening. :^)
  • I watch very little TV news though. Most of the headlines I get through the internet during the course of the day, and for any interesting stories will read the Reuters or AP articles. For any in depth news I want I read the NY Times.

    The 24 hour news channels pretty much suck in my opinion. They're fine for breaking news when they aren't analysing anything. But all of these "news" shows-Hannity & Colmes or Paula Zahn or whoever-just are so sensationalized anymore (why am I supposed to care about Lacy P

    • But all of these "news" shows-Hannity & Colmes or Paula Zahn or whoever-just are so sensationalized anymore (why am I supposed to care about Lacy Peterson again?) and seem to be used more as a vehicle to promote the name of the host so she/he can sell their latest book.

      I don't think they claim to be news shows. I'm fairly sure that neither Sean Hannity nor Alan Colmes would claim to be unbiased reporters of the day's events. They have their viewpoints and they make sure you know it. The same coul

  • Seriously, it's the only news channel I can really stomach. All of the American ones are too dumbed down to be watchable, as is the dreadful Sky News. ITN is reasonable, as is Channel 4 News, but neither of those are a separate channel IIRC. BBC News 24 is the only game in town.
    • Ya, I pretty much agree. I watch BBC World for my main English-language TV news source. I also watch ARD and ZDF (German state channels).

      Though actually my main news source overall is the Web (BBC News' site and Google News), followed by The Economist and our local daily newspaper, with the occasional IHT.

      When I was still living in the States, I'd watch the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour (nowadays just "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer") instead of the network news. If I really really really had to pick an American TV

  • F) (Score:1)

    by N473 ( 183700 ) *
    I do not have cable. 90% of my TV time (which is very little) is spent on the local PBS station.
  • Yes, I get my daily news from the Daily Show.

    Well, that and AvantGo on my palm and a half a dozen news websites...
    • Here here! Three cheers for the Daily Show!

      What does it say about the news when people turn to "fake news" instead?

      I prefer to get my news from the web & Daily Show as well -- the web gives me the events, the Daily Show points out all the idiots. It's a perfect world!

    • I don't watch TV or have cable. I read the newspaper, the web, and watch the four-minute snippets of the DS on Comedycentral.com. Those are great for pointing out the day's idiotic soundbites that I'm glad I'm missing on CBS.
  • I'll watch Channel 4 News in the evening, but the rest of the day, if I want to know what's going on, the BBC News website [bbc.co.uk] usually does the trick.

    -MT.
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  • I normally use tea leaves, though i prefer lamb liver (it's more accurate). That way, i'll get tomorrow's headlines and Top Stories today -- 24 hours ahead of all of you. Sure, the method is not always 100% accurate, but it still beats most major news networks (sometimes, it's a damn miracle that they get the planet right when talking about what happened and where). I only wish i had the money for a better magnifying-glass: the current one is so fuzzy that it's a damn miracle i can even get that much accura
  • None of it is news anymore... just newsertainment.
    Or one hour long commercials for candidates with a little rhetoric-filled reporting on some event somewhereoranother.

    When I am in for getting mad at the television or laughing, I watch Tulsa's FOX news at 9. Yep. Where you get such hillarious polls as:
    Old people are getting hot in their apartments and dying. Would you enjoy this if you were an old person?

    Now, of course I am exaggerating (a little), but that is not far from the truth. Though, if I want
    • I have a friend who swears by CSPAN, and I trust his judgement.

      I just don't watch news. I listen to NPR, but that's ultimately only slightly better than the other news outlets.

    • Not only is FOX news laughable, Tulsa's NBC news special tonight? "Soda may be bad for you."
      I kid you not.

      The suspense is killing me. I might actually watch the news tonight just to find out if soda is, in fact, bad for me. Considering I drink about 52 ounces of the stuff a day, I am hoping that it is good for me.

      *rolls eyes*
  • Tv? Oh, i think i have one of those. It's got plants on it. Seriously, it's over there, on top of the microwave, in a corner of the living room floor.

    Don't ask.

    I watched exactly one half hour of television... in the last four months.

    Tell me again why i'm paying for cable??

    Well, the half hour wasn't THAT good.

    i pay for cable in the hopes that i'll sit and watch relaxing things on it, like "Monster house," or "Things you can hit with a crowbar," or "Watch us build a trebuchet and a landshark with a prope
  • I don't even bother with American news outlets any more.

    Best thing? I am no idea what's going on with Scott Peterson.

  • Spike TV. You just can't compete with a channel offering three hours straight of Most eXtreme elimination Challenge!

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  • I get 99% of my news from NPR and the internet.

    When I do bother to watch TV for news it is usually one of the following:
    Daily Show - more "real" than the "real" news.
    News Hour - kind of dry but less idiotic than any other nightly news cast.
    CSPAN - Good for political coverage without the inane commentary. Probably the best way to watch the RNC next week.
    CNN International - nothing like regular CNN. They actually have news and little snarky bias.
    CBC - good for getting an outside the US perspective and their
  • I get all my news from internet and local newspapers. TV News never appealed from any broadcaster - even before the advent of the internet. Weather I can get easily, traffic I don't need, serious world events and sports I'll hear about soon enough from talkative people at work, scientific and technological breakthroughs I've probably read about elsewhere some time ago.
  • I do not have broadcast television (or better).

  • D). (Score:1)

    by JVert ( 578547 )
    Cause when people say 1984 will never happen I sit them down in front of the TV.
  • OK, I haven't actually seen it since I don't have cable.
    I was going to say Free Speach Radio News (but that's radio)

    And maybe I was going to say something else. Or maybe I already commented and forgot.

    But I like the name: Mad as Hell TV

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