What media do you watch/read/listen to?

[hobbsyoyo]

I'm just curious what kinds of media do you partake in? What magazines do you read, TV channels do you like, etc?

Magazines:
*National Geographic (favorite magazine ever)
*Wired (great magazine, lots of well-written articles)
*Popular Science (I got this subscription as a gift, I wouldn't pay for it because at times it's just an extended advertisement for DIY projects/materials with really short articles, but it's OK)

Special Mention: The Economist. I used to get this magazine as a gift, but it ran out last year. If I still got it, it would be my 2nd favorite magazine. Very thorough, well-written and it's actually fair and balanced.

TV Stations:
*MSNBC (news)
*National Geographic Channel
*CNN & Fox News (news)
*NBC Evening News (I don't really watch the station, only the half-hour evening news)

I don't watch much TV outside of the news. I used to watch a lot of Discovery Channel and History Channel, but they've been overrun with reality shows so I've mostly stopped watching them.

Radio:
*NPR (National Public Radio - My Rolla NPR station sucks something fierce. It only has news like 4-5 hours a day, the St. Louis station is much better but the broadcast falls off just outside Rolla)
*105.7 The Point (rock music station from St. Louis that you can get in Rolla. I don't listen much)

I mostly listen to the Radio when I'm doing dishes as I don't have much of a commute (or a working car radio )

Websites:
*Civfanatics (duh)
*NBCNews.com (formerly msnbc.com)
*Space.com

I have found that since I joined CFC, my use of other websites has dropped dramatically. CFC has also taken over much of my leisure time that used to go to video games.

 

[eduhum]

Magazines:
*National Geographic
*Time

TV Stations:
None
Radio:
None

Websites:
*Civfanatics
*elmundo.es for news (a lot)
*Youtube (so many subscriptions...)
*others


I personally think that watching the news on TV sucks compared to the internet. At least in Spain, they are always full of unimportent news, sensationalism, ideologically biased and not objective, and in a very little dosage. Plus, in the internet you have graphs, comments, videos and stuff. And google in case you have more questions

 

[Farm Boy]

Occasionally Writer's Digest at my parent's house.

No television hooked up.

Radio: WNIJ Northern Illinois NPR

Websites: for news, usually CNN.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Oh yeah I use google a ton, but I didn't think to include it because even though I use it as needed, it's not a page I go to when I don't need it. If that makes any sense.

 

[downtown]

The only TV we watch in our house is when I need to watch ESPN or the Big Ten Network for work. We don't even own a TV set.

I don't drive, so I don't really have a reason to listen to the Radio, but I do enjoy several NPR podcasts, along with ESPN's the BS Report, the CBS College Basketball Podcast, and SB Nation's Solid Verbal.

I'll read the Atlantic, the Economist, the Chicago Tribune and Rolling Stone on occasion, but I don't subscribe to any.

I read dozens of sports websites for work and inspiration though. SB's Every Day Should Be Saturday (College FB) is my favorite, although Eleven Warriors, TrueHoop, BasketBawful, CBS and SB Nation all do great jobs.

I do everything I can to avoid ESPN's non-live sports programming.

 

[Farm Boy]

Bleh, Big Ten. Too pro for my blood.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I really miss the Economist, I wish it wasn't so expensive. Though if it were cheap, the quality would go down.

 

[Borachio]

Magazines
Whatever the doctor or the dentist has. Usually the dentist is where I see National Geographic etc
I've bought maybe three newspapers in my entire life. Except for the Morning Star (Communist), which I got when I did a paper round - just to annoy the newsagent really.

TV
Ditched the TV ten years ago.

Radio
Radio 3, Radio 4

Websites
CFC
Others as an occasional spectator.

DVD's
I watch a few now and again.

Books!
Hundreds of them.

Live theatre
When I can.

Cinema
Not since Gandhi came out.

 

[dutchfire]

TV
Actual, real life TV? Haven't seen it since November, when I watched some football. Have got a pretty large TV here in my apartment, not hooked up, don't miss it at all.
TV over the internet: I try to follow QI XL, Have I got a bit more news for you. I used to watch Koefnoen (Dutch comedy), but the season has finished. I watch the Tagesschau (German TV News) every now and then. Mostly to learn German.

News:
The subway has screens where they show the latest news gossip.
For the actual news, I follow (in order of preference): fivethirtyeight, volkskrant.nl, nrc.nl, nu.nl

Other:
xkcd.com, explainxkcd.com dilbert.com, titanic-magazin.de, #fiftychat

Music:
last.fm

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Hobb, are you liberal? If so, then why the hell are you watching Fox news? It is well known they have a conservative biass.

Start runnin' kid.


Anyways:
TV:
*CNN
*Local station, KARE 11 (Minneapolis NBC affiliate); 5, 6, and 10pm newscasts.
*Entertainment Tonight*.
*Conan and Leno, just the comedy bits

Magazines:
(None)
I used to have subscriptions to Scientific American, and an astrology magazine (The Mountain Astrologer), but I guess I got lazy and let them run out.

Radio:
Nothing; because I'm hearing impaired and can't understand a single damn thing they say, and if I ever get a licence and my own car, I'm ripping the damn radio out, cuz quite frankly, it is, at best, distracting noise at best, and my entire childhood, teenhood, and adulthood to a lesser extent, my family went up north every single weekend during the warmer months, and it was mandatory and I had no say in the matter, and was forced to endure my mentally disabled brother's crappy music *the entire three hour drive* each way. And yes, I could just shut off my hearing aids, but tbh, I bleeping hate having to do that.

/rant

Web:
*CFC
*The celestia forum
*Extrasolar Visions II
*TMZ.com*
*NationStates.net
*Facebook
*Cosmoquest.org (formerly the Bad Astronomy and Universe Today) forums


*Celebrity gossip is my biggest guilty pleasure, stfu.

 

[warpus]

Magazines (only when I fly, pretty much): Scientific American, Science, Discover, Astronomy

TV Stations: Well.. I really only watch football/soccer, so that'd be TSN and Soprtsnet, stations not too many here will know about. TV shows I download, so I don't really know what networks those are on. Aside from sports, I don't really watch TV except for when I cook and when people are over, and when that happens I don't usually really pay attention to the station. I like to watch Jeopardy when I cook (it's on at 7:30pm, so a bit late for that, but..) and I don't even know what station that is on..

Websites: CFC, reddit, and other things you don't need to know about

 

[Smellincoffee]

Magazines:
-The Economist
- Scientific American
- Popular Mechanics

Radio:
-NPR
-BBC

Websites:
The Economist, The Atlantic (Cities), BBC, Der Spiegel, various blogs with interest-specific news (Strong Towns for urbanism, others for science, skepticism, etc).

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Websites:
The Economist, The Atlantic (Cities), BBC, Der Spiegel, various blogs with interest-specific news (Strong Towns for urbanism, others for science, skepticism, etc).

What is Der Spiegel? All I know about it is that it's German and anti-American or something.

Hobb, are you liberal?

Yes.

If so, then why the hell are you watching Fox news?

Know thy enemy.

 

[warpus]

Know thy enemy.

Yeah, I check out their web page from time to time to see what sort of nonsense they're trying to brainwash people with.

 

[Farm Boy]

<mutters about ideologues and spits>

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

What is Der Spiegel? All I know about it is that it's German and anti-American or something.
Yes.

Know thy enemy.

You never even reacted to the joke part of my post.

*Dons emo attire and sits and cries in the corner*

 

[warpus]

I do the same thing with CNN and MSNBC, for similar reasons.. but also so I can be up to date on American watercooler talk.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

@PlutonianEmpire - Who says I didn't react?

I do the same thing with CNN and MSNBC, for similar reasons.. but also so I can be up to date on American watercooler talk.

I have to be honest, I only watch MSNBC so that Rachel Maddow can tell me the things I'm supposed to be mad about and talk about every day.

 

[Leoreth]

What is Der Spiegel? All I know about it is that it's German and anti-American or something.

Der Spiegel (lit. "The Mirror") is a weekly news magazine with the largest edition in both Germany and Europe, I think comparable with TIME magazine in its content. It's quite centrist, I'd say, especially compared to its more conservative competitor.

It's not really anti-American, it's just that certain authors (or is it even always the same one?) like to point out problems when they present themselves and quickly exaggerate them into a general trend.

I usually end up with discarded Spiegel editions when I visit my parents. It's quite interesting to read the news from a few weeks ago actually.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Thanks for the info Leoreth, much appreciated.