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[Tulac]

Me I'm probably most influenced by the internet, because I read most of the news from there, and I can form my own opinion since there are many different sources of information I think it's less biased than the TV...

[heLL0]

Internet the most, than papers. I watch very litlle TV, and never listen to radio.

[Quintopotere]

Well, it depends on the argument...

I search all the scientific/informatic/technologic news mainly on internet, while on TV I look for the news about actuality and politic.
Then, both internet and books fill my spare time (along with some movies at the TV).
I don't listen too much radio...

[#BlakhOle#]

I love music more than anything else on this planet, so my radio is constantly on, and although i usually change the station to one with music on when the talkings started, i do find time to listen to the news. I also read alot of stuff on the net, and i only watch shows on tv that entertain, other than inform.

[rlbell]

It used to be TV, but I would rather spend money on an internet feed than a satellite dish. I do not have an antenna that grabs stations from nearby large cities, and there is no local cable. So, I can only watch TV when I visit my friend with the dish. I am vaguely alarmed at how how the TV sucks my brain out, so I am rather glad that I can no longer watch it at home. Also, I have become increasingly disenchanted with the opinions and morals (more specifically the lack thereof) exhibited on television. My family and I manage to entertain ourselves with a small, but growing, collection of VHS tapes and DVD's. Once I can justify the expense, I will get the computer equipment to write my VHS collection to DVD's.

I will admit that the reason that I pay more attention to the Internet than Radio or Print Journalism is for the simple reason that it is easier for me to find opinions that fit into my worldview. I am one of those neanderthalic throwbacks that believes in right and wrong, so the tyranny of moral relativism that dominates the mainstream media leaves me cold. I not only believe in right and wrong (terribly unpopular), I also believe that rights and freedoms should only be bestowed on people who acknowledge responsibilities and obligations (if anything, even less popular than right and wrong).

[Tulac]

There is no right or wrong, it depends on your perception, and since everybodys perception is different it can't be definite, there's no bad or good, just rational and fanatical...
I guess I see fanaticism in any form as evil, even if it's for a "good" cause...
Although I agree that the internet is better because it gives you more versatile opinions, but you should try to see many points of view not just the ones that fit you...

[#BlakhOle#]

Am i the only person here who gets the majority of news from the radio? :blink: Coz it sure looks like it...

[Bp103]

with the net you can look at what you want when you want no fall lineup (Fall lineups suck anyway )
except for G4tv they rock :P

[Iron_Scarecrow]

I don't watch TV to keep up with anything... I watched a few episodes of Media Watch and decided to avoid TV.

[rlbell]

Originally posted by #BlakhOle#@May 22 2006, 09:46 AM
Am i the only person here who gets the majority of news from the radio? :blink: Coz it sure looks like it...

There is news, and there is NEWS.

Most of my information comes from the internet. For stuff like how many people were killed in Afghanistan, or latest idiocies spouted by my elected representatives, I listen to the radio. The problem with the radio is that the people who determine what is worth airtime have an agenda that is radically opposed to my worldview, and they stick with that agenda, even in the face of provable facts.

To provide an example that will hopefully not push anyone's hot buttons, Stats Canada published a study, about ten years ago, that proved that single income families with a stay-at-home parent and a CAN$40,000 per year income were better at producing stable, well adjusted offspring than two income families; unless, the two income family had an income of over CAN$60,000. This result either flies in the face of conventional "wisdom", or is a damning assessment of affordable and/or subsidised daycare, yet it did not generate a single sound bite of news. If it was not a subject near and dear to the hearts of of my inlaws, I would never have heard about it.

When I say "my worldview", I mean how I view the world. It is not as if I attempt to edit the world, only that my worldview reflects the relative importance that I assign to what is in the world.