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How much of the news do you believe?

Poll: How much of the news do you believe?
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How much of the news do you believe?
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RE: How much of the news do you believe?
January 31, 2015 at 5:18 am
I don't watch the news, so... None, I guess.
The truth is absolute. Life forms are specks of specks (...) of specks of dust in the universe.
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RE: How much of the news do you believe?
January 31, 2015 at 5:26 am
I rarely watch it either. I find it is mostly depressing stuff that I can't do anything about.
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RE: How much of the news do you believe?
January 31, 2015 at 8:51 am
(January 30, 2015 at 7:40 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(January 30, 2015 at 7:34 pm)Marsellus Wallace Wrote: [Image: 13zzbdy.jpg]

Not to derail the topic, but - in your opinion - what was in the briefcase?

Boru

The first time I watched the movie, for some weird reason I was so sure that it had exactly a 100 thousand dollars in it.
Tarantino, commented on that part also, and he said its whatever the viewer thinks it is.
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RE: How much of the news do you believe?
January 31, 2015 at 10:22 am
An interesting addendum to this topic is that conservatives tend to get their news, and trust, fewer sources than liberals.
http://www.journalism.org/2014/10/21/pol...ia-habits/
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RE: How much of the news do you believe?
January 31, 2015 at 10:23 am
(January 31, 2015 at 8:51 am)Marsellus Wallace Wrote: Tarantino, commented on that part also, and he said its whatever the viewer thinks it is.

What a cop out! The sly bastard.

But it means it could've been delicious babies, so I'm happy with that.
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RE: How much of the news do you believe?
January 31, 2015 at 10:30 am
I trust the public owned channels more. Privately owned entities that dedicate themselves to journalism usually speculate too much.

Example - New law says consumption of drugs is decriminalized
News - ALL DRUGS ARE NOW FULLY LEGAL
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RE: How much of the news do you believe?
January 31, 2015 at 10:56 am
In the briefcase was a magic message from God, saying "there is no god".
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RE: How much of the news do you believe?
January 31, 2015 at 11:00 am
(January 31, 2015 at 10:22 am)Lao Shizi Wrote: An interesting addendum to this topic is that conservatives tend to get their news, and trust, fewer sources than liberals.
http://www.journalism.org/2014/10/21/pol...ia-habits/

That's interesting. Thanks for the link.

Quote:Overall, the study finds that consistent conservatives:
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Are tightly clustered around a single news source, far more than any other group in the survey, with 47% citing Fox News as their main source for news about government and politics.
Express greater distrust than trust of 24 of the 36 news sources measured in the survey. At the same time, fully 88% of consistent conservatives trust Fox News.

It's not a good sign when you trust a network 58% of whose claims have been proven false.
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RE: How much of the news do you believe?
January 31, 2015 at 11:05 am
Yeah conservative websites and channels are a big NO. They twist statistics in such a way that it's unbearable. I don't even mind reading conservative sources anymore.
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RE: How much of the news do you believe?
January 31, 2015 at 11:24 am
News: New York Times, The Atlantic Wire, Reason, Science Daily, Scientific American, National Geographic

Radio: NPR on the morning ride.

Weather: National Weather Service (no sensationalism)

Online Magazines and Opinion: The Atlantic, The Moderate Voice, VOX, Bleeding Heart Libertarianism, Bad Astronomy.

Longer reads: Scientia Salon, 3 Quarks Daily

Twitter Think Tank Feeds: Carnegie, Brookings, Cato, Human Rights Watch.

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I generally don't get my news from television. I will occasionally watch a news magazine program if the submect interests me.
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