Up until very recently I always followed the news to "keep up with the enemy", as well as simply knowing what was happening in the world. I no longer do that! Too many news articles these days get my blood pressure up, or anger/discourage me when I'm already feeling pretty hopeless. Most of those articles are exposing what the Dims have, or still are, getting by with regarding screwing over the USofA, and I just cannot stomach it any longer!

The only articles I read any more are ones that make me "feel good", ones that are uplifting in some way, such as how much Moochelle Obammy hates our great president Trump. Those bring a smile to my face!

Anybody else do the same?

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Pffff, I reached that point long ago.

I come here for the news - SF, all the news that's fit to stream.

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Originally posted by bronicabill:

Anybody else do the same?

About a dozen years ago.

I don’t specifically intentionally “catch up on news.”

News items inundate me. If it’s big enough news, it will come up on top and grab my attention.

Sigforum is a great aggregator of news that people are talking about.

If I want to do a deeper dive, I use AI.

I can't stand the 24 hour news stations no matter their political bent. Pompous talking heads either bores the crap out of me OR it infuriates me because they're being intentionally obtuse political hacks.

Every couple of weeks I can almost tolerate one of local TV news stations. If it weren't for their political bias the local stories would actually interest me enough to watch often. I do like the investigative reports which let the little man stick up to the Corporation doing them injustice (e.g. exposing the dirtbags at Centerpoint Energy because Texas' PUC certainly won't)

Sigforum is my favorite source of news.

I should add that I don't watch ANY news, I only read it, and that is almost exclusively on the Western Journal website, which is both conservative AND Christian based. The only time I read it anywhere else is if it's something of interest linked to a post here on SF...

Check out the Bongino Report

The Bongino Report

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Check out the Bongino Report

The Bongino Report

Thanks, I'll give it a shot!

I think it was Mark Twain who said "Those who don't read the news are uninformed. Those who read the news are misinformed."

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I think it was Mark Twain who said

I'm pretty sure it was Sam Clemens who said that.

I'll sometimes turn on the local evening news just to see what's going on in my area, but I won't watch the MSM news anymore. Even when a story is completely apolitical, they always try to put an anti-Trump or anti-conservative spin on it. Fuck `em. Sometimes I watch a program called The National Desk, which is better than the MSM but nearly as biased toward the right as the MSM is toward the left. As is the case with many others here, my most reliable source of information is usually Sigforum.

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Originally posted by HGWTJWH:
I think it was Mark Twain who said

I'm pretty sure it was Sam Clemens who said that.

But, but, wait, wasn't... you know, the same guy as, you know the other guy too, and it was so long ago!!!

now that I've had a minute to think it might have been sam twain or maybe the other guy.

Good on you. Most folks don’t realize that they’re being indoctrinated while they watch the news. There always a “narrative”.

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now that I've had a minute to think it might have been sam twain or maybe the other guy.

It was many years ago, we were navigating in an unmarked channel in the Florida Keys, trying not to run aground. I was at the helm, my friend was at the bow, dropping a sounding line, and he shouted "Sam Clemens!"

Many years ago. Somewhere early in the Obama years. For the most part, as others have said, I get plenty of news here on SF. I do get my local newspaper in print each morning.

I stopped watching network news 20 years ago. Too many times reports on things I had personal experience with were badly incorrect. One benefit of the leftist bias is that I started researching topics and became much better informed. Gun control, everything Trump, government finance and economic data, the environment, vaccines, etc.

I knew the news was biased, but when Trump came on the scene in 2015 it really ramped up. Then in 2020 with the Wuhan Lab Flu and then the election it went parabolic. Every time something about Trump hit the news it was provably false. Either an outright lie or a carefully crafted misrepresentation.

I still keep tabs on the left via browsing Drudge headlines and sometimes skimming one of the stories. Bongino provides good factual news, acknowledging some links are to opinion.

For more of the 2010's I was traveling internationally a lot for work and liked being "disconnected" from US politics and news while I was gone. Or I was dating, having gotten divorced in late 2013 so my attention was elsewhere.

I voted for Trump in 2016 and after he got elected a co-worker was constantly trumpeting the improved economy and all that. I was still not really watching the news a lot.

Sometime in 2018 or 2019 I started watching a lot more. The exposure of the Russia collusion hoax as entirely fabricated and the subsequent impeachment over the Zelinsky call really made it clear how much the swamp would do to try to unseat a duly elected President.

Then COVID and the disaster of the Biden years, and finally Trump being re-elected - watching and reading news every day. It's hard to step away. It's also hard to fully understand all the damage Biden and Obama's minions did in 4 years.

My town, Avon Indiana, has undergone significant demographic change since Biden got elected. We have Nigerian, Haitian, and Sikh immigrants. In the interest of "housing diversity" and reducing "inefficient resource use by single family houses" a bunch of new apartments and high density housing developments went in, mostly hidden from the main roads behind big box stores and strip malls. We just had a referendum on property taxes for the schools, and the propaganda supporting it showed we now have 16% ESL and 49% free/reduced lunch in our schools, and they need the money to deal with these "challenges". This is in a very republican town and county where new single family homes are now in the 500K range.

It seems the town council was fed a bill of goods by developers, and thought they would attract young professional singles and young married couples that did not need homes yet with the "diverse housing". Towns to the north (Brownsburg) and south (Plainfield) put "city living" apartments in their downtowns, but the street level spaces for restaurants and shops haven't really filled up as intended. And instead my town got an influx of lower income city people. At least one of the apartment complexes is "low income" and located behind the Wal-Mart. The others appear to have some percentage of subsidized units.

Biden's open borders letting everyone in to claim asylum on the CBP1 app, HUD pushing low income housing set asides and seemingly deliberately targeting conservative towns for settlement of 3rd world immigrants, developer corruption, and god knows what else caused this to happen. And a lot of it because of one Presidential election.

In some ways, we can't afford not to pay attention. I wish I had gotten wind of the "diverse" housing plan years ago. But none of this is in "The News" and the local publications (mostly junk mail) are more about promoting businesses and "feel good" stories, and not critical journalism. I don't go to the council meetings and can't vote for them because I live just outside the town in the county. This bunch of idiots are turning a quiet, conservative, high growth suburban town, into something the existing residents never wanted.

Meanwhile the north side towns like Carmel added lots of apartments for the young professionals and DINKs, and didn't get the influx of city people. My guess is they avoided any low income set aside units, and the overall pricing in Carmel is high enough to be unaffordable to them.

Haven't watched the news (national and local) for years. By "watched", I mean making it a point to religiously watch it everyday. Accidentally running into some TV screen with the news on doesn't count as watching.

Can't even stand to listen to any talk radios anymore, not that I really follow anyone these days. Only get bits and pieces during short drives. It's them same old shit that keeps getting regurgitated from one show to another. Yawn. I already have an opinion on the general topics. I don't need to be spoon fed the same thing.

I do read the news, mostly on conservative and neutral websites, but do stray onto the left sites occasionally. I personally find AllSides to be a pretty good place to see news/topics from, of course, all sides. For each topic, they present articles from the left, center and the right. You read and decide.

Ground News is one I find useful, at least you know going into the article if it leans left. These days I usually just read headlines, that gives me enough to know what is going on and avoid being depressed.