Your Media Choices

[quote]smh23 wrote:

[quote]groo wrote:
I prefer to get all my news from The Onion it helps to laugh instead of crying. And where else can you get such pithy and true headlines like ‘Romney congratulates Obama and tells 240,000 th and final lie of campaign’[/quote]

I like to look over The Onion on occasion. Their Biden stuff is hilarious.[/quote]

I love the onion Sm.

[quote]groo wrote:
I prefer to get all my news from The Onion it helps to laugh instead of crying. And where else can you get such pithy and true headlines like ‘Romney congratulates Obama and tells 240,000 th and final lie of campaign’[/quote]

I absolutely love the Onion.

Love the Obama pledges to repeal health care law if reelected!

The one things both sides do way too much is create grandiose versions of politicians. I recall Reagen’s son did a documentary on how the media on the right made him into this mythical perfect conservative when his father raised taxes 7 times. Reagen’s son admired how thoughtful and pragmatic his dad was. His father said when he heard Gov. Jerry Brown be more fiscally conservative than him in California in the early 70’s “Jerry’s gone crazy ! lol”

The media does the same thing with Obama. He is an imperfect man. He is not as much of a liberal internationalist as his party hoped and he is much more hawkish with his 7000 drone strikes. He is not as socialist as people think when he adopts the Heritage Foundation’s health care reform mandate put out in the early 90’s. This health care package was a conservative idea to combat Bill Clinton’s single payer model.

So agree or disagree with me but the media can suck all the time. What would have been effective is legislation banning the commercialization of television media. No commercials should be permitted in order to try to remove the corporate bias out of media a little bit.

On a side note, one thing I always disagreed with in the Republican Party was the negativity towards George H. Bush and his no new taxes pledge. Bush a pragmatic Harvard trained economist argued extensively with Reagen and his voodoo supply side economics. Bush in order to fix some of the federal debt was pragmatic enough to raise taxes after Reagen. Unfortunately, Bill Clinton took office and benefitted from those taxes. Bush is one of my favourite presidents because he was pragmatic enough to raise taxes despite his party’s opposition to them because he knew revenue was needed at the time.

My favorite Onion headline: Romney Joins Kid Rock On Stage For Rendition Of ‘Fuck You Blind’

New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal for daily news. Also, blogs (from both sides of the aisle), but I usually head to the original source of news from the blog. For television news (national), I typically watch CNN, but their recent presidential debates and election coverage has turned me off.

For non-daily news stuff, all kinds of periodicals, and a number of them that have little to do with politics.

The Economist, NY Times, and Al Jazeera, despite being a source that will probably be attacked by many here. I like the Washington Post as well. On foreign policy, the articles in Foreign Affairs are often second to none.

[quote]Legionary wrote:
The Economist, NY Times, and Al Jazeera, despite being a source that will probably be attacked by many here. I like the Washington Post as well. On foreign policy, the articles in Foreign Affairs are often second to none. [/quote]

Good call on Foreign Affairs. I don’t read it nearly often enough, and I’m definitely going to make an effort. Thanks.

WSJ, Economist, NPR radio, Sovereign Society, various websites ranging from liberal to conservative. I also get market updates sent to my email daily and/or if certain market thresholds are met (50/200 day moving avg for a few investments that I hold).

I don’t trust either “side”. Most MEDIA is biased or slanted to some degree.

The Economist
Patriot Radio: The Wilkow Majority, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin
The Blaze TV: Used to hate GB, but have dome a 180 of late. Started an online network barely a year and a half ago and now has more viewers than MSNBC and may have caught CNN by now. Real News from the Blaze is terrific and Wilkow is very good as well.
Breitbart, etc a few times a week.

The Houston Chronicle. Google news. CNN is my favorite television news. Only thing from Fox I watch is O’Reilly and from MSNBC Rachel Maddow. I can’t really stand any of the other pundits from Fox and MSNBC.

And of course here at PWI.