Mainstream media - vomitfest

[marx2k]

What's a good source for the news without the sensationalism and pointless stories but is also a source for good reporting?

Im just sick of mainstream media - here's the latest CNN.com headlines:

# White House: Bin Laden wanted Iraq as a new base
# Guest worker plan survives vote
# Snipers fire on fleeing refugees
# Fire victims had time for 1 breath, chief says
# Coyote attacks 5-year-old boy playing in yard
# Student at Falwell's university arrested with bombs
# Baby burned in microwave leaves hospital
# WFTV: Thieves need 1 minute to grab ATM
# 'American Idol' finale divides judges
# London honors one word: Plastics
# Who's the daddy? Identical twins both test yes
# Jessica Alba reveals rebellious side

FOXNews.com:
* Deal Near to Fund Wars Without Withdrawal
* Doctor Accused of Dealing Killer Pain Drugs
* Cops Probe Grisly Murders of SoCal Family
* Refugees Flee Lebanon Gunbattle | PHOTOS
* Russian Charged in Ex-Spy's Poisoning
* Husband of Missing Mom Denied Custody
* Immigration Bill Passes Guest Worker Test- 100 Suspected Illegals Nabbed in Missouri
* Golfer Dies When Cart Plunges Off Cliff

msnbc.com:
Refugees flee Lebanon fighting
WP: New Iraq strategy focuses on ousting bad actors
WP: Birth control crackdown sparks riots in China
FDA OKs first pill that halts periods
WP: McCain turns focus to his fundraising
‘Dancing With The Stars’ champ is ...

Not that I read these news sites, but this is the major media and what they're reporting to the American public.

I mean, who the fuck cares about most of this shit?!

I mainly get my news from news.google.com but am looking into other sources

 

[Liam]

I sort out what I want to read from FARK.COM

I'll tell you what though, we both know that the news will be nothing more of the same old.

Muslims killing, enslaving, raping and pillaging the middle east and N.Africa in the name of Allah. Africans killing each other for resources. Europeans and N.Americans consuming everything in sight. China plotting and planning world conquest. Iran trying to steal the limelight away from the Sunnis. Russia struggling to stay alive. Some white bitch kidnapped/missing/flashing her cunt.

I'm really big into politics and news, but after 6 years now of reading the news everyday, I see little reason to anymore. I can't be content spending my time reading about how fucked up the world is and how little progress is being made, when I already know what I have to do to make it better.

[edit] My solution to the worlds problems has to remain separate from any connection with drugs, so I'll leave out what I'm in progress of doing. One of those "muahha, I'll take over the world, muahhhah" kinda things.

 

[Dan42nepa]

i read drudge report

 

[genkisan]

I avaiod ALL TV....it is evil incarnate.

 

[o.gkushowns]

I don't see the problem. it's news isn't it?
peace

 

[Mr. Nevermind]

The news is soo bad nowadays. Its to the point of morbid. All they want to see is people die. It makes me laugh when they interrupt a story to talk about a plane with landing gear problems. they will get a live feed of the plane flying around and they wait for it to land and blow up. When the plane lands safe it seems the news people are almost upset about it, hoping to see some blood. and that is fucking sad.

May as well not call it the news , but call it the bad news . Since thats al they ike to report on. No wonder we al think our country is going to the shitter, if you watch the news a you here is how many died, what fire or earthquake fucked up what city and terorists. Its aways more juicy to here about the 19 people that died in a crash , then to talk about the 10 billion that made it home safe that night.


Im personally tired of news programs talkng about Paris Hilton , Anna Nicoe Smith, LIndsay Lohan and what star is fucking who. Its not news and those people are hardly newsworthy. I want to here news that could effect my day and ike, not what club paris got drunk at or what star was caught in a sex tape, who the fuck cares







Nevermind

 

[marx2k]

Heres something I noticed last night that confirmed my suspicions. Mainstream news media is being digested by the consumers (this isnt the part I noticed). But the consumers are the ones wanting to read about it (as unprofound as that sounds, it confirms my suspcisions that people really ARE interested in the bullshit fluff articles that mainstream media churns out daily)

Here's what made me realize it-- the top 100 search terms on google for yesterday (when I posted the original post for this thread):
1. dancing with the stars winner
2. joseph lau
3. on the lot
4. this is my now
5. nba lottery
6. nba draft
7. kassie depaiva
8. scott krippayne
9. american idol winner
10. who won american idol
11. stone phillips
12. house season finale
13. nba mock draft
14. 2007 nba mock draft
15. kimberly buffington
16. dragon skin armor
17. soapworks
18. jesse stone
19. portland trailblazers
20. kenmore 16237
21. tanzania national park
22. jack carter
23. yolanda king funeral
24. tessa horst
25. dallas cowboys new stadium

26. amy harcar
27. klh threat meter
28. noah maxin
29. ctmod
30. nbadraft.net
31. draft lottery
32. jerry falwell funeral
33. clinton portis
34. ct mod
35. harry belafonte s daughter
36. danny of radio days
37. paige johnson
38. lybrel
39. titan panel
40. t mobile wing
41. wow realm status
42. how does a kangaroo keep cool
43. bevin powers
44. wow mods
45. karishma dhanak
46. singer ritter
47. actress hagen
48. kevin durant
49. what part of a graduate’s costume gave the cordon bleu cooking school its name
50. amy sedaris

51. star in orion
52. disney.com/corbin
53. falwell funeral
54. bill vendall
55. mushrooms growing in a circle
56. d isere
57. super bowl 2011
58. elle mcpherson
59. andy and tessa
60. writer leonard
61. polonium 210
62. the bachelor after the final rose
63. superbowl 2011
64. japanese coin
65. michael moore sicko
66. andy baldwin
67. yapta
68. laila ali
69. boston celtics
70. steven van zandt
71. auctioneer
72. cursed gaming
73. rob and big
74. 2004 world series champs
75. 2007 nba draft order

76. gerund maker
77. apollo and julianne
78. john seigenthaler
79. michael martin murphy
80. chris daughtry
81. curse gaming
82. nebraska state patrol
83. ag unit frames
84. aj hawk wedding photos
85. paula abdul broken nose
86. howard porter
87. megan fox
88. paula abdul
89. drew lachey
90. tom selleck
91. google hot trends
92. brett ratner
93. terre haute s river
94. river of rouen
95. mia sardella
96. the bachelor
97. deadly boss mods
98. american idol winner 2007
99. sleepy willy
100. avandia

( http://google.com/trends/viz?q=*&sa=X&date=2007-5-22&graph=entirelist )

So basically, it sort of shows where interests with people lie and gives a good idea as to why mainstream media writes mainly about seemingly trivial bullshit like how cute panda bears are and how many bull testicles some douchebag in Montana can stuff in his mouth at one time.

(BTW- how the fuck did 42 and 49 get in there?)

 

[o.gkushowns]

[/QUOTE]6. nba draft

Well I guess I'm one of those people you would hate cuz the I was one of the people who googled nba draft. (maybe it wasn't yesterday but def this week).

So tell me what you would report about if you had a news channel because I don't see anything wrong with the news stories you wrote down.
peace

 

[marx2k]

I don't hate people into sports. Im into a few sports... mainly disc golf and some boxing. I do find it disturbing when people have a serious preoccupation with sports. Like live-their-life-for-non-participatory-spectator-sports, hanging out at sports bars, memorizing arcane statistics about players type people.

If it were me reporting, I would probably clone my reporting after infowars.com, adbusters.org, digg.com, BBC.co.uk, and probably pull in a bunch of my webpage designs and request web page design from people at artcrimes.org and graffitiresearchlab.com

 

[o.gkushowns]

If it were me reporting, I would probably clone my reporting after infowars.com, adbusters.org, digg.com, BBC.co.uk, and probably pull in a bunch of my webpage designs and request web page design from people at artcrimes.org and graffitiresearchlab.com

Ok, fair enough. that's cool
peace

 

[hardhat22]

If it were me reporting, I would probably clone my reporting after infowars.com, adbusters.org, digg.com, BBC.co.uk, and probably pull in a bunch of my webpage designs and request web page design from people at artcrimes.org and graffitiresearchlab.com

Being as we are under wartime censorship,you would be
very limited on the infowars.com type of stories you could
run.Remember,as george has pointed out so often,anything against the bush admin is in support of
"terrorism".
Alex Jones gets away with it because the gov'ment has most "intelligent thinking" folks thinking that he's a crackpot conspiracy theorists not worth listening to.Jones also has more Americans supporting him than most of our presidential candidates combined.
Basically,mainstream media is a very good propaganda machine(Bin Laden's base in Iraq in example)that sucks up ad dollars while spoon feeding us a little real news occasionally amongst all of the celebrity stuff that soap opera addicts and reality show freaks love to hear.
My recent favorite propaganda story on our local news is about how,in spite of high gas prices,suv sales are up. "More Americans will travel this holiday season than ever before".Which is all a bunch of horse hockey.I've had to travel the interstates alot over the last couple of months and they were deserted as compared to what I'm used to seeing.I just returned from a trip a few minutes ago and it was the same.I pretty much had 30 miles of 4 lane hiaway to myself on one my states most traveled.
Oh,except for the umpteen state troopers pulling all of the truckers over.We just had a trucker busted with 1600 lbs of herb on monday.
http://beta.abc3340.com/news/stories/0507/425310.html
I'd hate to know I was a trucker with a route through this place.I'd also hate to know that I still had to buy herb from B'ham.
Peace

 

[marx2k]

May 23rd is no better than May 22nd:
1. american idol winner
2. who won american idol
3. smokey robinson
4. working class hero lyrics
5. bette midler
6. gladys knight
7. tony bennett
8. jordin sparks
9. wind beneath my wings
10. american idol finale video
11. joe perry
12. jimmy conway
13. phillippi sparks
14. doug e fresh
15. this is my now lyrics
16. bush baby
17. taylor hicks
18. jordin wins american idol
19. claudine longet
20. rosie and elizabeth
21. sargent pepper
22. ruben studdard
23. midnight train to georgia
24. elizabeth hasselbeck
25. shark virgin birth

26. green day lead singer
27. the view
28. real world casting
29. i ll stand by you
30. amy hathaway
31. rosie odonnell blog
32. instant karma
33. clive davis
34. lost season finale
35. lizzie borden
36. american idol results may 23 2007
37. mary cheney
38. bonnie bernstein
39. realworldcasting.com
40. billy joe armstrong
41. sam vincent
42. lucy in the sky with diamonds
43. felipe sparks
44. kelly pickler
45. green day american idol
46. vertigo pogo stick
47. antonella barba
48. vurtego
49. bleach 127
50. tears of a clown

51. ecuador vs ireland
52. sergeant pepper
53. african children s choir
54. jill jarrett
55. joseph anzack
56. waverly hills
57. index finger
58. goodfellas
59. carrie underwood
60. carrie underwood american idol
61. alicia silverstone on the view
62. igasm
63. portland sea dogs
64. acc baseball tournament
65. mnemonic devices
66. from justin to kelly
67. www.realworldcasting.com
68. the pretenders
69. sec baseball
70. blake or jordin
71. wonder years theme song
72. holly holm
73. how old is taylor hicks
74. sgt pepper
75. the view may 23 2007

76. i get by with a little help from my friends
77. explosm
78. the new american idol
79. the view rosie elizabeth
80. porphyria
81. chris daugherty
82. for once in my life
83. big 12 baseball
84. this is my now american idol
85. daniel pearl beheading
86. tracy middendorf
87. clay aiken
88. jillian barberie
89. jillian reynolds
90. trenton thunder
91. oxycodone
92. mr. brooks
93. chris daltry
94. rosie o donnell elizabeth hasselbeck
95. indiana sex offender registry
96. k ville
97. joya williams
98. karishma dhanak
99. jordin sparks this is my now
100. bushbaby

 

[Smokin' Chopper]

Drudge or even BBC news. Then don't adulterate our news anywhere near as much in my opinion.

SC

 

[Liam]

Did you check out FARK.COM?

 

[Erin Kerrik]

Two people here think DRUDGE is a good news source?

Care to elaborate?

BBC is good, agreed.

Any news source is useful - the people who can't scrutinize/filter/interpret information on their own (regardless of source) don't pay attention to the news in the first place. Those that can seek sources that present events through a lens similar to their own. I like rawstory.com.