Where do you get your news?

Jillers · Postby **Jillers** » 10 Feb 2009, 13:27

Twitter. *shrugs*

Master Gunner · Postby **Master Gunner** » 10 Feb 2009, 13:36

Jillers wrote:Twitter. *shrugs*

I was going to include that, then I remembered that other than Felicia Day, Will Wheaton, and JoCo, everybody I follow is from here.

Smeghead · Postby **Smeghead** » 12 Feb 2009, 16:23

Right off the front page of the teletext: If you bet on the end of the world to occure tomorrow (friday 13:th) you'll get 130.210 times the money you bet... how that money will be paid on the other hand is... unclear at this moment

Slow news day

Tank_girl · Postby **Tank_girl** » 12 Feb 2009, 16:32

I like http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ for most of my news

spartanhelmet · Postby **spartanhelmet** » 12 Feb 2009, 16:41

Smeghead wrote:Slow news day

Vänta tills TPB-rättegången

I did find a bit of news that's hit just about all of us...

Slashdot wrote:A survey of about 3,000 people who were tagged in a '25 Random Things About Me' note on Facebook found that memes spread through social networks in a remarkably similar way as diseases do. A biologist who looked at the data says that '"25 Things" authors can be seen as "contagious" under what's known as a "susceptible-infected-recovered" model for the spread of disease,' with a propagation factor of 0.27 in this case. But like an infection, the whole thing died out as quickly as it exploded once the number of 'victims' — people who were willing to write 25 things about themselves — was depleted."
The '25 Things' meme was at least as annoying as a light flu.

A DISEASE, I TELL YOU!!

Evil Jim · Postby **Evil Jim** » 12 Feb 2009, 17:13

KlausVonNomnombitterson wrote:i get my news from phailhaus

I should point out this is also where I get most of my news.

Metcarfre · Postby **Metcarfre** » 12 Feb 2009, 17:14

Thanks Spartan, I'm forwarding that to my girlfriend who just did one of those.

AwesomeAndrew · Postby **AwesomeAndrew** » 12 Feb 2009, 18:02

Videogame news: IGN

Actual News: Daily Show, Colbert Report, SxePhil

Vaughn · Postby **Vaughn** » 12 Feb 2009, 18:09

did anyone else giggle at "Boing boing" not being "News news"?

Jillers · Postby **Jillers** » 12 Feb 2009, 18:16

Master Gunner wrote:
Jillers wrote:Twitter. *shrugs*

I was going to include that, then I remembered that other than Felicia Day, Will Wheaton, and JoCo, everybody I follow is from here.

Same here, but when something newsworthy happens, people tweet about it, and then I am made aware.

CommanderKeen · Postby **CommanderKeen** » 12 Feb 2009, 19:01

the CBC is generally fairly reliable for being balanced.

Smeghead · Postby **Smeghead** » 13 Feb 2009, 00:24

Vänta tills TPB-rättegången

...yeah... I totally fail to care about that
I totally fail to care about the Pirate Party as well... they all seem like annoying emo kids to me; "I demand free stuff! If I don't get it, everything sucks and life becomes meaningless!"

FlintPaper577 · Postby **FlintPaper577** » 13 Feb 2009, 01:24

I mainly look at the BBC for international news and the Age for Australian stuff, but get rss feeds from The Times, the Globe and Mail and the Washington Post. Joystiq and Gamespot for Gaming news, and a couple of current affairs blogs for an alternative look (I'm signed up to too many to really name, but I only read them once in a while).

SamsonWest · Postby **SamsonWest** » 13 Feb 2009, 03:04

I just started reading Foxnews.com. its amazing, its the same news you read on other sites, but they find a way to use it as a scare tactic. oh and they call suicide bombers "homicide bombers" and that... well thats just funny

Smeghead · Postby **Smeghead** » 13 Feb 2009, 03:45

SamsonWest wrote:I just started reading Foxnews.com. its amazing, its the same news you read on other sites, but they find a way to use it as a scare tactic. oh and they call suicide bombers "homicide bombers" and that... well thats just funny

Oh, I could tell you about foxnews... nut I'm not, but I will comment on their choice of words like you pointed out with the bombers.

Fownews will not call US snipers for snipers, but rather sharpshoters as they have reserved the title of "Sniper" for the "bad people"

masamune · Postby **masamune** » 13 Feb 2009, 03:53

big shot.

Smeghead · Postby **Smeghead** » 13 Feb 2009, 03:55

so... you're a space bountyhunter masamune?

masamune · Postby **masamune** » 13 Feb 2009, 03:57

Smeghead wrote:so... you're a space bountyhunter masamune?

i try, but some bastards on the bebop keep stealing my bounties. i should see if my friend andy wants to team up with me. i could do with some son of a gun stew.

Sir_Substance · Postby **Sir_Substance** » 13 Feb 2009, 04:51

i dont.

i didnt find out about cyclone Katrina hitting New Orleans for three days, until it was mentioned in geography class.

i am quite happy to love my life more or less oblivious to world events.

if it is of critical significance, people will talk about it in the street. if the only mention it gets is on the news and websites, clearly its not considered important enough by the general population for it to be worth my knowing.

masamune · Postby **masamune** » 13 Feb 2009, 05:07

Sir_Substance wrote:i dont.

i didnt find out about cyclone Katrina hitting New Orleans for three days, until it was mentioned in geography class.

i am quite happy to love my life more or less oblivious to world events.

if it is of critical significance, people will talk about it in the street. if the only mention it gets is on the news and websites, clearly its not considered important enough by the general population for it to be worth my knowing.

i'm the same, really. if something big happens, usually i see it on here or through friends. i'm watching it a lot more lately as i have friends in VIC and like to see the fire updates in case it's getting any closer to them.

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