Your favorite news medium

[Sentinel]

How do you like getting the latest news? For me it's, amazingly in these high technology times, the radio. I find it hilarious that when I'm out of town with only a battery driven radio I find it much easier to keep a finger on the pulse of the world.

I don't know why this is, the only reason I can come to think of is that perhaps I prefer hearing over my other senses when it comes to gathering information, it's easiest for me to pay attention. Totally free from the stress of the city, I sit on the cliffs or in the forest and listen to the hourly news broadcasts on the radio -- between a bunch of great music and programs I listen to and highly enjoy -- and stay aware of every important event that happens.

So, what's your favored information and news medium?

The Internet?

The TV..?

Newspapers?

Or perhaps the good old radio like me?

[Forward Union]

I watch TV over the internet and check other latest headlines.

[Killfacer]

TV and newspapers but never the radio.

[Pirate Utopian]

I watch TV news in the morning and every now and then on the internet.

[Jazzratt]

I generally use the internet but I also listen to the radio when I'm gaming - lots of news (on the hour, at least), documentaries and radio dramas; I love that shit.

[Dr Mindbender]

I like to hide under a blanket and wish it would all go away.


I cant be bothered listening to the asinine morrass of celebrity and royalty worship to wait for the tiny snippets of information that are worth listening to.

[Angry Young Man]

Politics forum, generally. I'd've never found out about the counter-revolts in Athens otherwise. But often the BBC or Channel 4 news.

ED: And the Express :lol:

[Wanted Man]

Usually news sites, and free papers in the train. Unfortunately, most of those are crap, except for one, which is in huge financial trouble.

I don't listen to the radio at all. If I had a car, I probably would, just to have something to listen to.

[Jazzratt]

Usually news sites, and free papers in the train. Unfortunately, most of those are crap, except for one, which is in huge financial trouble.

I don't listen to the radio at all. If I had a car, I probably would, just to have something to listen to.

The free paper on our trains is run by a far-right dickhead and it shows. It's like some kind soul has decided to hand out the Daily Heil lite.

[Wanted Man]

Do you get Metro over there too? It's all over Europe, and it's shite. Besides the Metro, we also have "Spits" which is owned by the Telegraaf concern, a rabidly right-wing group that collaborated with the nazis during the war.

There is another one, "De Pers", which is pretty good despite also being right-wing (some kind of libertarian stance, supported by venture capitalists, I believe). But like I said, it's in huge financial trouble. Which is pretty much what you get with high-brow content, low amount of pages and relatively few ads. At the moment, it is only distributed in the big cities (of course, it makes its way across the country through the train, but it can't always be picked up everywhere anymore).

[Jazzratt]

Yeah, we've got the Metro (that's the one I was talking about). Wiping my arse with it would be a snub to my arsehole. As for De Pers, sounds like the relatively low advertising level is probably part of their problem, it'd be a shame if you ended up with just the Metro and Nazigraaf. Why is the free train paper market such a fucking crapshoot?

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I get pretty much all of my news off the internet nowadays. There are no free papers where I live (apart from the local rags) and I'm certainly not paying for any of the others. TV news is shallow, mind-numbing, populist and sensationalistic, like pretty much all TV programming. I only occasionally listen to radio because most of the time the music is anywhere between average and crap and the cheesy, overblown adverts do my fucking head in.

The great thing about getting my news off the internet is that I get to read the latest news that interests me, whenever I want, at my own pace, for free.


Yeah, we've got the Metro (that's the one I was talking about). Wiping my arse with it would be a snub to my arsehole.

Seriously? It wasn't that long ago that I read the Metro, it didn't seem that bad. What have I missed?

[Jazzratt]

Seriously? It wasn't that long ago that I read the Metro, it didn't seem that bad. What have I missed?

The fact it's clearlyt owned by the same people that do the Daily Fail. It's marginally more readable, to be honest. At least they don't have the same fucking opinion columns.

[Dr Mindbender]

The fact it's clearlyt owned by the same people that do the Daily Fail. It's marginally more readable, to be honest. At least they don't have the same fucking opinion columns.

I once wrote a hard hitting letter to the metro in the reader's section during a debate about council tax. I felt all warm, fuzzy and proud of myself for days.

[Wanted Man]

Yeah, we've got the Metro (that's the one I was talking about). Wiping my arse with it would be a snub to my arsehole. As for De Pers, sounds like the relatively low advertising level is probably part of their problem, it'd be a shame if you ended up with just the Metro and Nazigraaf. Why is the free train paper market such a fucking crapshoot?
Yeah. It's pretty utopian to think that a low-ad free paper can hold out for long, no matter the quality of the content. It's very much possible that De Pers will disappear completely someday. Just as soon as the investors get bored.

It already happened to the "DAG", another free newspaper, which was owned by the company that publishes most of the other big papers. It was a bit of a silly thing, all the articles had really short intros with bullet points, as if they wanted to make it "web 2.0 on paper" or something, and with lots of flashy formats. Only problem was the content, which was exactly the same stuff as in the other papers, only for free. Needless to say, it failed miserably. :lol:

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I once wrote a hard hitting letter to the metro in the reader's section during a debate about council tax. I felt all warm, fuzzy and proud of myself for days.

Was it actually published?

[More Fire for the People]

The Daily Show, MSNBC, local blogs, local IWW listserv, & local papers.

[Il Medico]

All, but there is nothing better then getting ink on your fingers, as you thumb through the news in the morning, while enjoying your coffee. To bad there won't be anymore news papers in a few years.:(

[gorillafuck]

I use mostly the internet and sometimes local newspapers.

[GracchusBabeuf]

Internet

[which doctor]

People here still actually get their news from TV?

*scratches head*

[BOZG]

I work in a newsagents so mainly the papers, though I'll listen to the news on the radio if I want updates on something. After that, the Internet mainly.