Do you watch any news at all? Just curious...

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  1. BigGameDamian

    BigGameDamian Well-Known Member

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    I watch it for the weather in the mourning sometimes. Other than that I think it can be vary depressing. I use to watch it a lot more than I do now though.
     
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    No. I get my news from twitter.
     
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    It's cyclical for me. I get engrossed in watching news around election time or during specific coverages like the Boson Bombing, but most of the time I just read a few stories online every day and glance over a couple dozen other stories. Sometimes I choose not to allow myself to get too involved in certain stories because its a dark flicking rabbit hole.
     
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    I listen and read much more than I watch. TV moves too slowly and I prefer to self-edit rather than just absorb what's fed to me on television.
     
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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    do you even lift? just curious...
     
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    the news is shit, just someones biased version of the "truth"
     
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    Never watch the news. It's basically shock tv, and would much rather watch Game Of Thrones for my shock value
     
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    Eastoff But it was a beginning.

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    I only see the news when I'm trying to watch a Blazer game on KGW
     
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    Usually prefer newspapers. I generally watch TV news for a breaking story or something local but it tends to be too sensationalized (not an accident that many people think "crime" is up when it's actually been going down for some time because TV news seems to be the Crime News Network), often superficial (one thing I hate is "A said this but B said that" with NO effort to research which of them is factually correct) and finally boring (all the talking heads repeating the same things, then someone posts it in a blog, next thing you know every internet poster and letter to the editor writer repeats it in the same words.

    OK, need my caffeine, I'm ranting.
    I put "crime" in quotes because "crime" as reported never includes bankers ripping off millions, or drones killing civilians, or companies closing so thousands of folks lose the retirement they've been paying into for 20 years, just some schlub holding up an electronics store. "Crime" is what the powerless do.
     
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    I watch KGW's morning news while I get ready for work. That's it.
    I check KATU and KGW's website a couple of times a day.
     
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    I watch The O'Reilly Factor. Fair and Balanced.
     
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    [video=youtube;5vVPgaSynf4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vVPgaSynf4[/video]
     
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    I love the feel and the experience of a newspaper. My mental architecture can absorb information on a screen, but I work much better with the printed word. Anyone else like that or exactly the opposite? My sister (who is much younger than am I), can't read a newspaper the way she can her IPad.

    I find the differences in the way our brains are wired due to technology fascinating.
     
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    apparently in the 20th, they used to read pieces of flattened tree pulp (snicker)

    he doesnt know how to use the 3 shells
     
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  17. maxiep

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    It's really amazing the different ways the medium affects my information absorption. If I really need to understand something, I have to print it out. What's cool is technology is changing so rapidly, I can actually notice the change while it's happening.
     
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  18. Nikolokolus

    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    I'll occasionally watch BBC International to get some world news and I listen to NPR in the car occasionally, but as for cable or network "news" I don't believe there is such a thing any more.
     
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    i love the paper too, way easier to wipe my ass with
     
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    I also like the printed word. I understand an e reader is a lot lighter and takes up far less space than my extensive library but it feels like work to me, not reading.

    Interesting you say you absorb better from printed word. I work as a tech writer/editor and on complex documents, after I do everything on screen I print and review again. I nearly always find something that needs fixing that I missed on screen.

    I also still take pictures with film!

    I do like my iPod, though. Making my music mobile. But books are mobile by definition (unless you buy Modernist Cooking).
     
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