Hypothetical: One news source for the rest of your life

[Teller]

Hypothetically, if you were only allowed one news source for the rest of your life, what would it be, and why?


Honestly, for me, it would be ES. Every important topic of the day is discussed here. We get opinion from both sides. And BS is immediately pointed out and thoroughly destroyed. Yeah, we have our flaws, as any group of 100k people will. But most of what I know about current events comes from right here. Pretty cool that a football website can provide that kind of truly useful service, and do it very, very well.

[Dan T.]

I'd rely on PMs from Honorary Hog.

[Teller]

I apologize in advance for how misinformed you're going to be, Dan. :ols:

[Hitman21ST]

I'm getting nitpicky here, but I don't think ES qualifies as a "news source" - rather I would label it as a "source for news"

The difference being when I hear "news source" I think reporting and breaking news - having reporters going out and digging into stories. ES doesn't have or do that. However, I agree with you h_h about ES being good for news discussion and calling BS BS. We have people who start topics based on the news reports, but stuff isn't broken here.

To answer the question though, I would choose ES too probably.

[TakeTheFG]

Assuming Facebook/Twitter are still the popular social media outlet, I would choose either of those sources.

[Teller]

I'm getting nitpicky here, but I don't think ES qualifies as a "news source" - rather I would label it as a "source for news"

The difference being when I hear "news source" I think reporting and breaking news - having reporters going out and digging into stories. ES doesn't have or do that. However, I agree with you h_h about ES being good for news discussion and calling BS BS. We have people who start topics based on the news reports, but stuff isn't broken here.

To answer the question though, I would choose ES too probably.

Yeah, you're absolutely right.


Assuming Facebook/Twitter are still the popular social media outlet, I would choose either of those sources.

In your experience, how good is Facebook for news? It may well be the friends I have, but news-wise, I don't get much out of it. Course, I've kind of chosen for that to be my escape. I'm not "friends" with any major news organizations on there.

Completely agree on twitter.

[China]

If you choose ES as your news source I'm going to warp your reality. :evil:

[Teller]

If you choose ES as your news source I'm going to warp your reality. :evil:

What do you mean "going to?" ;)

[skinfan2k]

Yeah, you're absolutely right.



In your experience, how good is Facebook for news? It may well be the friends I have, but news-wise, I don't get much out of it. Course, I've kind of chosen for that to be my escape. I'm not "friends" with any major news organizations on there.

Completely agree on twitter.

He brings up a good point. I would say the same thing. I got a lot of my news from Facebook. I don't even need to watch a DC sports game to figure out who won/loss? Major stories affecting me/friends.

[Dan T.]

If you choose ES as your news source I'm going to warp your reality. :evil:

That happened long ago, my friend:



- Chinese News Confuses Masturbation Toy with a Mysterious Mushroom
- Las Vegas man with 100-pound scrotum seeks money for surgery (w/video)
- Mosquito-eating spider likes smelly socks
- Cats away! Artist turns his dead pet into flying helicopter after it is killed by a car
- Iranian woman 'gives birth to frog'
- Zoo keeper licked constipated monkey's buttocks for an hour to help it defecate a peanut
- Where's That Radioactive Sulfur Now? Possibly In Your Pants
- Export hopes for urine-boiled eggs
- ‘I Drink Almost All of the Urine That Comes Out of My Body’
- SA man seeks midget to kick ex
- Hank the cat in Virginia sets sights on US Senate
- Porn stars set for pole dancing battle to be mayor of Italian town
- Castrating Lambs With Your Teeth May Make You Sick
- etc.
- etc.
- etc.

[Burgold]

I might go with something like Morning Brief. Mind you, that's cheating because they are a consolidator of the stories, but they use a whole bevy of sources both American and international to give us a picture of events in the world. They are weaker domestically. In that sense, I also like Google or Yahoo news (Actually, Yahoo News has been pretty good to me).

If I had to not cheat... I'd probably go with NPR. Reason being their newsrooms still put feet to the ground and do more first hand reporting than many richer news organizations.

[Renegade7]

Probably NPR or Washington Post. AP could get kinda boring...

[Chump Bailey]

Probably Hustler magazine

[Redskins Diehard]

My news reading on a daily basis goes cnn.com, washingtonpost.com, insidenova.com(I start with a broad focus and narrow it down). About once a week I read "fayobserver.com" because I still have a fair number of friends stationed in Fayetteville, NC so I check that out to see what is going on down there. If I had to narrow it down to one of those it would probably be Washingtonpost.com and I would hope that they would eventually get a sports writer worth a damn outside of Boswell. For the most part the rest of them are dopes. I gave up TV news a long time ago.

[Thiebear]

Fark.com - seems to be about 50/50 on the spectrum and its funny.

[thebluefood]

PBS. It's already my only source for television news, unless there's breaking news. It is, without a doubt, the highest caliber of news on TV. They have the best journalists, the best sources, the best analysts and the highest ethics.

MacNeil and Lehrer set the bar extremely high.