Where Do You Get Your News?

[unctarheel1984]

For me it’s primarily

WRAL
N&O
Rocky Mount Telegram
Apple News (selected articles from AP, BBC, WSJ, Atlantic, NYT, WaPo, and others)
Drudge Report
Facebook (local and community)
Yahoo
Inside Carolina (On3 and the Athletic)
247 Sports
ESPN

 

[2forheels]

For me it’s primarily

WRAL
N&O
Rocky Mount Telegram
Apple News (selected articles from AP, BBC, WSJ, Atlantic, NYT, WaPo, and others)
Drudge Report
Facebook (local and community)
Yahoo
Inside Carolina (On3 and the Athletic)
247 Sports
ESPN

Seriously. You're a Carolina man getting news from WRAL? All they do is self promote themselves nonstop. It's sickening. I was telling my wife this so we watched the 6:00 PM news Thursday. 29 times in 30 minutes they mentioned themselves. Unreal. Sorry. I got off topic. But I'm surprised you watch WRAL and the N & O as much as they do all they can to harm UNC. **** both of them.

For me WTVD
ABC World News
IC ON3
Tar Heel 247

 

[unctarheel1984]

I used to watch WTVD in the Larry Stogner days. Once he was gone I switched to Good Morning America and that left me being comfortable with WRAL. And they have Don Schwennaker doing weather.

 

[2forheels]

Don (Big Weather) is on WTVD.

I have a hard time watching any news. Everything is so blown up out of proportion and sensationalized, and they try to scare the hell out of everyone with weather reports to keep people tuned in.

I do have WRAL's App which is a complete joke. I am constantly bombarded with push alerts that are not breaking news. And when Carolina loses a sporting event as soon as it ends I get an alert that they lost but seldom do I get one when State or dook lose.

I'm also supposed to get traffic alerts but never do. Their APP sucks as bad as their local news.

It's not news nor weather I can count on, as they like to say. Lol

I grew up watching WRAL, but they are the biggest joke now. Became that way about 5 years ago with new leadership.

 

[unctarheel1984]

That’s right. It’s Kat Campbell on WRAL. She’s an NCState girl, but she’s cute.

 

[FreeLunch]

It's mostly economic / financial news:

The Wall Street Journal - on-line
Washington Post - on-line
Barron's - have read just about every Sunday for 40+ years ... kept up with it even after Alan Abelson retired.

Various web sites ..... economics related .. not necessarily news:

Marginal Revolution blog -- not really "news" ... but something I look at every day
Greg Mankiw
The Grumpy Economist
Calculated Risk
Ed Yardeni

The only TV news I watch is Bloomberg early in the morning.********

Sports:
Inside Carolina
Atlanta Braves web-site


***** I'm sort of embarrassed to say that in the 28 years I've lived in Greensboro the only time I've watched the local TV news was when that guy was stalking Pres. Trump on the golf course in Palm Beach. It turns out he was from Greensboro and one of the men that worked with my wife knew him. So we tuned in to get the story.

 

[2forheels]

That’s right. It’s Kat Campbell on WRAL. She’s an NCState girl, but she’s cute.

I do like Kat. She is pretty accurate on the weather unlike the rest of her crew. Did you know she's only 4'6". lol Talk about tiny!

 

[cr333]

Spectrum News Channel, Fox News and Fox Business

 

[KisRat]

The Onion is the only reliable news source.

 

[kik84]

It's mostly economic / financial news:

The Wall Street Journal - on-line
Washington Post - on-line
Barron's - have read just about every Sunday for 40+ years ... kept up with it even after Alan Abelson retired.

Various web sites ..... economics related .. not necessarily news:

Marginal Revolution blog -- not really "news" ... but something I look at every day
Greg Mankiw
The Grumpy Economist
Calculated Risk
Ed Yardeni

The only TV news I watch is Bloomberg early in the morning.********

Sports:
Inside Carolina
Atlanta Braves web-site


***** I'm sort of embarrassed to say that in the 28 years I've lived in Greensboro the only time I've watched the local TV news was when that guy was stalking Pres. Trump on the golf course in Palm Beach. It turns out he was from Greensboro and one of the men that worked with my wife knew him. So we tuned in to get the story.

Alan Abelson's Barron's columns were great.

 

[FreeLunch]

Here's your trivia from Barron's today ...........


a) What was the first diet cola brought out by a major soft drink company ?

b) Coca Cola eventually came up with - Tab. What was the comparable product brought out by Pepsi at the time ?

 

[PINEHEEL]

Not a big news guy so I never actively seek it out, but what I do see generally comes from X.com, the Axios Newsletter, and a couple of small local papers that only publish weekly.

People whine about X because they hate Musk, but IMO the platform is infinitely better than it was prior to him taking it over. I don't have a dog in the political fight, so as an objective user I love how curated the algorithm is for my interests.

 

[TommyAshley]

Saw an older man sitting in Bojangles this morning in Newport - we stopped on way home from AB - eating his biscuit, having a coffee and reading the Sunday newspaper.

Frankly, I miss those days. Only paper I've picked up in years is TBJ brought home by the better half on occassion.

That said I do watch NBC Nightly news because I like Tom LLamas....other than that, it's online stuff.