slo's Monday poll - the news

[slo]

The News - How often do you watch the news on TV.




*I watch the news every Monday - Saturday morning.
It's part of my routine with getting up and ready for work.
I also watch the news while I'm making dinner and have it on while we are watching dinner.
The amount of this depends on what time of year it is. In the winter time it's almost every day and April - October it's pretty rare since we are always at the softball fields.
If I have to be somewhere early on Sunday, than I'll watch it then too, but if I don't, then I relax and read the Sunday newpaper (which is still news )

 

[Disneylover99]

I put it on in the morning to check the weather and leave it on to get ready for work, but I don't really pay attention. It's just background noise.

 

[Astridia]

I'm in the never camp. Only because TV news isn't really news. On the local news, all that anyone talks about is shootings. On national news, its the scandal of the day and most of the news is about the US almost no international news. I go on-line daily. At least then, I can see what's happening in the world.

 

[kmb584]

I watch daily. Local news in the morning, CNN in the evening.

 

[POOHsie]

I used to watch the news. Local news in the early evening and 11pm, CNN during other times. Not any more. CNN has not been a news channel for more than a decade. Local news either. If I could get news reports with "just the facts," without the bias, without the opinions, I would watch it. I subscribed to newspapers my entire adult life, too. They also got into the partisan reporting business and I've been free of them more than a decade. I get my news online from many sources.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

I said "Never - I hate the news".

Um... unless you count The Daily Show.

I do use an RSS reader app and scan headlines every day. Most of the time I just read local news.

I also listen to the twice daily BBC Global News podcast.

 

[ronandannette]

I rarely "watch" the news on tv; maybe less than once a month now that the single, right-wing, conservative news network in Canada has gone off the air. I "follow" the news multiple times a day via radio, newspaper and the Internet. I also do a fair amount of research into issues that affect me or that I find particularly interesting. I try to be informed of what is happening locally, nationally and globally. I like to gather enough information from diverse sources to feel like I actually understand and form my own opinions independent of the political and ideological spin delivered by media. The ease of which this can now be done is, in my opinion one of the best things about modern life.

Oh, and the DIS. I rely on the DIS daily to keep me up on puke on airplanes and Oreo-cookie scandals.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Local news Monday to Friday-Channel 6 in Philadelphia-from 4 to 6. I don't watch it all on the weekends.

 

[Kbee]

I never watch the news. I check the local paper's website since there is no local news TV station. I also get any national/world news online.

 

[JanaDee]

The only news I watch is our evening local news, typically daily. I get the rest of my news online.

 

[piglet too]

GMA in the morning during the week and my local news at 10 every day, unless there is a movie or sports game on. I do follow my preferred station on Facebook and I have their app on both my phone & iPad, as well as the ABC app, so I'm checking that too.

 

[NFLDERS]

Local News Mon-Fri for Hamilton, Ontario Canada, and sometimes Buffalo N.Y. USA

 

[mamamary]

Usually at some point in the evening I put cnn on. I get most of my news online though.

 

[DeaverTex]

We watch it every evening. Not so much to keep up with events, as to know what scandals people will be up in arms about the next day.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Random days & times. Often to kill time for a few minutes before I fire up something on the DVR.

 

[Eltonian]

I don't watch TV news. Not because I hate the news, but because I don't really respect the news that's broadcast. I get my news online where I can read the headlines and then go further in depth if I want. I also want some good news stories: scientific discoveries or great human interest pieces. I get so tired of nly dire news stories.

 

[usnuzuloose]

I only read on things that I hear about, normal news stuff don't watch it at all.

 

[Diznygrl]

Random times throughout the week if it happens to be on when I turn on the tv and they're doing a story that piques my interest. Other than that, no not really. Too much doom and gloom. I'd probably be even more of a paranoid mess than I already am if I allowed myself to watch the news on a regular basis.

I figure if there's anything happening that I really should know about, it'll be on The DIS.

 

[Anesthesia Fine]

I'm in the never camp. Only because TV news isn't really news. On the local news, all that anyone talks about is shootings. On national news, its the scandal of the day and most of the news is about the US almost no international news. I go on-line daily. At least then, I can see what's happening in the world.

Yeah, local news is all fires and terrible things happening to kids. Most days I read the paper or go online.

 

[Squirlz]

The news is part of our weekday routine. Every evening when work is done we sit out in front of the garage. We have a 50" TV that pivots out so we can watch from outside. We watch the local 6:00 news followed by NBC Nightly News.