Is any “news” believable or should I say, reliable, these days? I see events reported on FB or in emails, that are never reported in the major media. I see stories not reported by some national services at all, and others, that are more, or many times more like op-ed than news. I see stories reported day after day, when other sources give them one nod and that is it. My morning news routine is: CNN WAPO NY TIMES WSJ Raleigh News and Observer New Bern Sun Journal Most of those are very left leaning, obviously. The last is purely local, and it normally fails, even at that. Then I start searching for stuff that has popped up. I often watch MSNBC to see where the true outliers are, but that is about all the “news” I watch. I sometimes read the US version of Pravda, for the same reason. Used to like the BBC, but I don’t even know about that operation any more. I honestly question if I know what is really going on. And I make the effort to do just that. A bad, bad thang.
A professor once told me, that I should read the headlines of as many newspapers as possible, then read the opinion pages. I have found that really does allow you to see others view points. This will either harden your opinion or soften it. It's also ones if the reasons I like reading this website.
Everybody gives you their version of the news, some people's version is a little closer to what actually happened. Another issue is, just about all the news you hear is a report of a report. So you get a version of a version. If a story is important to me I'll watch several versions - Fox, CNN, and Maybe MSNBC or the big 3. I like radio when I'm driving. I scroll through sirius channels 112 to about 127 until something sounds interesting. That's a mix of the cable news stations plus Bloomberg, NPR, BBC and some opinion stations that go from far right to far left. I like Cavuto, Bret Bair, and Chris Wallace on Fox. I like Anderson Cooper but filter for a democrat slant. Smerconish CNN, Morning Joe on MSNBC are usually good. Chris Hayes (MSNBC) and Hannity (Fox) are totally unwatchable because they are both so blatantly one sided. To read a story, I go to Real Clear Politics a lot because they give you links to both sides of a story at the same time. It's one of my favorite websites. They write some, but mostly have links to other sources on a story. Also, the pages they have for other topics have a lot of interesting stuff My favorite is Real Clear History and Real Clear Defence. But the only real source of honest pure unbiased thought is the posters on TigerFan. This is truth baby
