Not Poll: Do you read or watch the local news?

[7wo7rees]

I do not.
My news from the Internet is like my food from the farmers market:
Uncontaminated, raw and whole, and in context with the times.

Wanna see who owns your media?
http://www.cjr.org/resources/

[Mist]

1. Yes--News 14 Carolina is an excellent local station--takes in the news from Charlotte through

the triangle area. They're dedicated folks, not bobbleheads with glossy hair-dos. They provided constant coverage of the storms/tornadoes that came through here a few weeks ago.

[7wo7rees]

3. Glad to hear it.

Dedication is a good attribute for a journo.
My folks live in Cackalacky. Hope you and yours are OK.

[NorthCarolina]

9. News 14 Carolina watcher here too. Catch it at least a couple times a day. nt

[OneGrassRoot]

16. +1 :) n/t

[Change Happens]

2. Never ever....I gues only when there is hurricane approaching out area, otherwise

never, hate all of them...And I am not interested, I am more interested in International News!

[7wo7rees]

5. I like hearing about American events on Intl News

...whether print, TV, or Web.
The Guardian talking about Bush was some of the best reporting I saw in the last 10 years.
CBC's The National news broadcast is good for delivering un-corporatized updates.

How about American investigative journalists, like Sy Hersh or Robert Parry or Greg Palast? Can't get THAT on the 10 o'clock.

[Rex]

Just the weather...everything else is usually garbage.

[7wo7rees]

6. What was that old quote?

If it's something the corporations don't want you to know, it news. Everything else is advertising.
Is that Zinn or Chomsky?

[Rex]

10. Here ya go.

News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.
~ William Randolph Hearst

[7wo7rees]

13. Thank you Rex

:)

[Justitia]

4. No, but it's because I don't like all the murder, rape & robbery reports.

I often turn it on just as I know the weather is coming on.

[7wo7rees]

7. If it bleeds, it leads.

Remember Bowling For Columbine?
The interview with Marilyn Manson?
He said something like: Fear and consumption. The TV news is designed to imbue you with fear for your life, interspersed with opportunities to alleviate the fear by buying something.

[Justitia]

12. yup - see also 'Mean World Syndrome' -eom

[catabryna]

8. No...

if I want local news, I purchase the paper at the local 7-11.

[RebelOne]

11. I always watch my local Atlanta station WSB-TV.

I like to see what is happening in the Atlanta area, plus the weather reports are extensive.

[7wo7rees]

17. I get it -- the weather is important

Some want to watch the local sports team highlights.
But consider: if the news gave you the wrong sports score, you'd call bullshit on them.
Why then do we let them give us the mind-melting pablum on other stories that is full of misleading info?
Why do we even trade mindspace for their commercial backers for the weather, when we can go online for an ad-free, uncorrupted education?

[Liquorice]

20. That's the one I watch too. I think they have the best local coverage. And

Glenn Burns is my favorite meteorologist. :-)

[Raine]

14. No. I'm in Los Angeles seems to be all Hollyweird "news" or

car chases everytime I try to find out if anything important has happened here. x(

[7wo7rees]

18. Sad Keanu sez: "Sunny and 75 again tomorrow."

"James Cameron sez he divorced Kathryn Bigelow too early."
"L.A. school children receive surprise visit from RuPaul, next!"
"Jerry Brown is respected now more than Arnold...."

It must be maddening. Just guessing.

[Raine]

23. LOL, yeah that's about right. nt

[Lizzie Poppet]

15. I haven't owned a TV in over a decade.

I get my news from a fairly wide variety of online sources and small local papers (but not the corporate daily, which sucks).

[customerserviceguy]

19. I do watch some local news

Mostly for the weather, though.

[fishwax]

21. I check out the local newspaper's website

I don't usually buy the paper, though. And I rarely (if ever) watch the local news.

[tammywammy]

22. I watched DFW Fox 4 every weekday morning.

Traffic, weather, local events.

[MotorCityMan]

24. Oh, HELL no!!!!!

Typical blurb before the local news; "The water you've been drinking; is it killing you?"

I do not watch any local channels or CNN or MSNBC. I will watch Rachel Maddow, but that is about it.

Since the 2000 travesty of an election, I get most of my news from DU and other liberal web sites. I do not want to be spoon fed the crap they deign to show you on the nightly news.

[HopeHoops]

25. Daily paper & on the Internet

[brooklynite]

26. Who writes your uncontaminated news?

And how much of it is perspective rather than actual news gathering?

Ultimately, someone has to be prepared to spend the entire day at the State House or City Hall or the Police Station to get news. And generally, that person can't afford to do it for free. Some publisher has to pay the reporters and cover those costs by "publishing:".

I read two whole newspapers and a dozen web sites -- commercial and otherwise. Get as much information you can and reach your own opinion.

[trackfan]

27. Only if there is a big local story,

or sports championship, or unusual weather coming.

[quaker bill]

28. Read some

only watch when a hurricane is off shore.

[bigwillq]

29. I like my local TV news.

And I work for a daily newspaper, so I guess I like that, too. :)

[Generic Brad]

30. I am currently forced to watch and read my local news

The state of Minnesota is facing a tea bagger induced government shutdown. My wife is a state government worker and we need to understand how that will affect us so we can plan accordingly.

[TBF]

31. I keep the Chron as my home page to catch the traffic, weather, and industrial accidents -

other than that I watch the Wall Street Journal (it's the capitalist bible - if ya wanna know what they're up to that's what you read) along with the Guardian, Al Jazeera, and I like the "Watching America" website as well with news from all over.