veronica_rich (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
veronica_rich) wrote2011-07-16 01:41 pm
veronica_rich) wrote2011-07-16 01:41 pm
Entry tags:
Writer's Block: Happy birthday Ron Burgundy!
[Error: unknown template qotd]
Gosh, I guess I'm sort of obligated to answer this one. *G*
For objective news purposes and for this country (I can't speak for others), my #1 is Reuters and has been for several years. I've just found them, through trial and error, to be one of the most accurate sources - and when they screw up, they'll post a correction. I know it's impossible to be 100 percent right as a reporter all the time, so I pay attention to how places handle corrections. The AP isn't a bad source for news, but Reuters is just a little faster and more dependable, overall.
I also like NPR because it covers a broad range of topics that sometimes I know nothing about. I do recognize it has a left-lean, but I think it's pretty mild (for now), and its reporters still interview a lot of people who have right-wing points of view for their stories.
Finally, "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" carry a surprising amount of news hardly anyone else reports, or that should be known but isn't reported widely - not all at once, but nuggets of information here and there. Now you have to know how to use the information you get from TDS and TCR - as in, you need to poke around for yourself sometimes and verify. But even though Stewart & Co. crack a lot of jokes and nonsense, there's always a center of truth that winds the humor around it, and that's what you need to learn to focus on as a media consumer.
Gosh, I guess I'm sort of obligated to answer this one. *G*
For objective news purposes and for this country (I can't speak for others), my #1 is Reuters and has been for several years. I've just found them, through trial and error, to be one of the most accurate sources - and when they screw up, they'll post a correction. I know it's impossible to be 100 percent right as a reporter all the time, so I pay attention to how places handle corrections. The AP isn't a bad source for news, but Reuters is just a little faster and more dependable, overall.
I also like NPR because it covers a broad range of topics that sometimes I know nothing about. I do recognize it has a left-lean, but I think it's pretty mild (for now), and its reporters still interview a lot of people who have right-wing points of view for their stories.
Finally, "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" carry a surprising amount of news hardly anyone else reports, or that should be known but isn't reported widely - not all at once, but nuggets of information here and there. Now you have to know how to use the information you get from TDS and TCR - as in, you need to poke around for yourself sometimes and verify. But even though Stewart & Co. crack a lot of jokes and nonsense, there's always a center of truth that winds the humor around it, and that's what you need to learn to focus on as a media consumer.