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Title: Facts
Post by: Wast on September 07, 2012, 02:43:52 AM

I'm trying to figure out what's actually going on with election issues. Other forum-goers, where do you get your news, and where do you look for fact-checking and clarification and the like? What sources do you trust, if any?

Title: Re: Facts
Post by: Funkadelia on September 07, 2012, 03:00:12 AM

FOX NEWS.

Title: Re: Facts
Post by: Delfos on September 07, 2012, 04:49:05 AM

Daily Show?

Title: Re: Facts
Post by: McMasterdonia on September 07, 2012, 11:38:37 AM

I like SBS World News :p

I also am active in a lot of facebook groups that deal with political issues and organizations :p

Title: Re: Facts
Post by: Letonna on September 07, 2012, 12:21:05 PM

I use Yahoo News

Title: Re: Facts
Post by: McMasterdonia on September 07, 2012, 12:28:45 PM

I also use TMZ.

Title: Re: Facts
Post by: Wast on September 07, 2012, 08:51:21 PM

I'll keep all those suggestions in mind.

Title: Re: Facts
Post by: Cozulul on September 07, 2012, 08:52:38 PM

I watch Fox news if I want the republican side of things, and CNN for the democrat side of things...

Title: Re: Facts
Post by: Funkadelia on September 07, 2012, 09:03:38 PM

Quote from: Cozulul on September 07, 2012, 08:52:38 PM

I watch Fox news if I want the republican side of things, and CNN for the democrat side of things...

MSNBC is even more liberal. I would recommend that one.

Title: Re: Facts
Post by: Wast on September 07, 2012, 09:09:03 PM

Maybe we should make a list of news sources on a political spectrum.

Title: Re: Facts
Post by: McMasterdonia on September 08, 2012, 12:50:18 AM

I also get my news from whatever people are ranting about on irc at the time

Title: Re: Facts
Post by: Of Crazed on September 08, 2012, 02:05:24 AM

I like google news.

Naturally, it shows a little bit of everything from every type of source.  But if you dont like that you can tweek it to show only your views and interests.

Title: Re: Facts
Post by: Delfos on September 08, 2012, 03:04:43 AM

as long one of the axis is "Comedy <-> Serious shit"

Title: Re: Facts
Post by: Delfos on September 08, 2012, 03:32:37 AM

sorry for double posting but I'd like to share with you something, euronews polls which are mainly to europeans and greater incidence in German and French people has this results:

Do you think Mitt Romney will win the 2012 US presidential election?

yes (22% - 909 votes)
     
no (73% - 2951 votes)
     
i don't know (5% - 196 votes)

--------I read this as a blunt No from european standards, specially with a 5% undecided.

Has Barack Obama satisfied your expectations of him as a president?

yes (55% - 341 votes)
     
no (38% - 238 votes)
     
i don't know (7% - 45 votes)

-----------This is a bit more mixed, I voted No, I don't think Obama did well and failed in a lot of aspects, but as far as american politics go, I'd vote him as lesser evil, or a third party if given the chance. Maybe I had too much expectation or maybe europeans had really low expectation from Obama.

Title: Re: Facts
Post by: Wast on September 09, 2012, 06:47:13 AM

Most people have had fairly low expectations from Obama after the rhetoric of Hope and Change was abandoned in favor of cautious centrism. That's a discussion in itself, actually, and an interesting one, but I'll defer that to another time.

Anyway, I've looked at google news but it churns out quite a mix of things. How difficult is it to train, and how well does it work once one has done so? Also, where do people go for opinions/analysis, if at all? Avoiding unreasonable vitriol is quite difficult (not that I mind it in moderation).

Title: Re: Facts
Post by: Of Crazed on September 11, 2012, 10:59:01 PM

I don't really like to filter for bias, as I am interested in seeing the horrible vitrol from both sides (and everything in the middle), which it does on default.

It is incredibly easy to as topics of news to be added to your page.

Title: Re: Facts
Post by: Eluvatar on September 13, 2012, 04:30:59 AM

I crawl http://reddit.com/r/politics and http://reddit.com/r/economics and http://reddit.com/r/worldnews and such <_<

Title: Re: Facts
Post by: Of Crazed on September 14, 2012, 01:22:13 AM

Elu.......?

Title: Re: Facts
Post by: Of Crazed on September 14, 2012, 01:23:15 AM

How how many people on r/ economics just rant about printing money because ron paul says they should care about it?!?!

Title: Re: Facts
Post by: Eluvatar on September 19, 2012, 06:54:27 AM

An annoyingly large number.

Title: Re: Facts
Post by: Wast on September 19, 2012, 07:17:38 PM

I was not expecting reddit. Is it any good (for politics or news)?