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Where do you turn for news?

I'm with you, Moto. Since when is the whole world Catholic?

It seems like the world has forgotten the Pope's complete lack of response to the systemic coverup and protection of pedophiles in the US and the Catholic Church's blanket opposition to birth control and family planning education.

They now are closing elementary schools all over the US, in retaliation for Catholics who have accused and sued the church over injuries to children. The Church is claiming financial insolvency as reason for school closings, meanwhile they are the richest corporation in the world.

And this guy is a hero? For what? Apologizing for colluding in the Nazi holocaust? Wow, that helped.

What a huge disconnect in public understanding!

Try bbc.com. It's not bad, once you get past the soccer. :)
 
Hollis, I listen to about 10-20 minutes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and/or some other blowhard that constantly says "God Bless America" before every commercial break on my ride home from work. I always want to call him and ask him which God he's demanding a blessing from, but I know that's just an exercise in wasted time. He would brush me off as a typical liberal who is sympothising with the terrorists and aiding them in their jihad against America. Meanwhile I can find just enough material to bash the liberals too.


I do appreciate being able to hear another point of view, but if I go much longer than 10 minutes I start feeling the road rage thing growing.

So for now, I do turn the news off.
 
LOL...Rush and Sean...yeah, they're pretty hard core. I usually switch over to the NBC channel after Glenn. Our NBC broadcasts on the radio, so I listen to all the shows they play there.
 
Mike Gallagher (spelling?) is the guy who has such a religious/American tone in all his broadcasts. I'd sooner listen to an hour of Rush than Gallagher.
 
I have CNN.com up as my homepage, which means that I always have the news staring me in the face when I log on, lest I should miss anything important, like, you know, theres a massive asteroid about to hit the Earth of something.

If I ever bother to actually spend money buying a newspaper I get the Times, thus successfully avoiding at least 30% of the crap 'celebrity' rubbish you get in the tabloids, but at work i will read whatever is lying around, and unfortunately that normally means the Sun or the Daily Mirror.

Phil
 
I was waiting for this story to make it to press....I've been hearing about it on conservative talk radio for well over a week now...leave it to the BBC to put it out...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4292114.stm

Don't always believe everything you hear/see/read in the aftermath of such a huge disaster....

Maybe we American's are not the animals the press sometimes like to report we are????? Even the American press.....
 
I've got the New York Times on my laptop and NPR on my radio.

I'm open to suggestions.

(I don't have a TV, which may explain why I'm to be found sitting in front of this screen so often!)
 
I used to be a news junkie and there were periods when I read every word of the NY Times, front page to last, every day of the week (well, not the classifieds :) ). Now I have cut way back. I scan the headlines on my homepage (worldnet), read the short backup stories for those that interest me (mainly world news), and then switch over to online NYT and scan their headlines if I feel like it. I absolutely can't stand the political polemics that come from Rush Limbaugh and others on the right or on the left, and even the generally moderate liberal take by the NYT sometimes also drives me up the wall as being too excessive. But I live. And BTW, no TV here .... by choice.
Peder
 
hm.. kind of varies. probably school and AOL. its the quickest. i rarely watch the news even though i used to daily for a while.. i used to check out cnn.com for the hell of it, but i haven't in a while. now i check the internet if i'm looking for something specific about the news. :p
 
I always watch the BBC news at 6!

Like to know whats going on in the world!

But my girls always say mums watching the doom and gloom!
 
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