So Where Do YOU Get Your News - The 12 Types of Americans

[The Frankish Reich]

1. The Musk-eteers: This is a fast-growing, mostly male group who feed off Twitter, podcasts (especially "All-In" and Joe Rogan), and follow independent reporters, led by Bari Weiss, through social media or newsletters.

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3. TikTok kids: This is where most kids get most of their information about the world and hot news topics. They scroll, fast and furious, through pictures and microbursts of information — and trust people most parents have never heard of. Think MrBeast, Addison Rae and Zach King.

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5. Right-wing grandpas: Senior citizens, especially men, still flock to Fox News — especially in prime time, and especially around popular personalities. They would have been big Rush Limbaugh fans back in the '90s.

 

6. MAGA mind melders: The new conservative news ecosystem would seem like a distant planet to anyone whose habits were formed pre-Trump. People like Charlie Kirk (massive because he's multiplatform), Jack Posobiec and Mike Cernovich are dominant voices. Then there are folks who are taken seriously only in Trumpworld (Laura Loomer, Alex Bruesewitz), but can really move the needle there. No one rivals Tucker Carlson with the base, even without his Fox News platform. Don Jr. is second, with his massive X, Facebook and Instagram engagement. "He's the meme lord of the right," a MAGA insider told us. Steve Bannon's WarRoom remains a juggernaut. Breitbart's Matt Boyle is a go-to newsbreaker on the right. Plus there's a potent crew of video clip guys.

 

7. Liberal warriors: Think of Rachel Maddow as patron saint of this bloc. Hence her sky-high ratings. This crowd feeds daily off The New York Times (especially opinion pieces) and prestige magazines (especially The Atlantic and The New Yorker). They once were addicted to Twitter but left, or lessened their dependency, after Musk turned it into X.

Elite power-consumers: This is the Axios base. These are mainly college-educated, ambitious professionals — we estimate 25 million-45 million nationally — who seek out news near-daily, partly for passion and partly for professional enhancement. This group is most likely to overlap with other bubbles and lap up "Morning Joe." These power-users are huge fans of newsletters, which in some respects mimic in shrunken form newspapers: a beginning and end, punctuated with pictures and visuals. LinkedIn is a hot, if still small, pipeline for content.

 

8. Elite power-consumers: This is the Axios base. These are mainly college-educated, ambitious professionals — we estimate 25 million-45 million nationally — who seek out news near-daily, partly for passion and partly for professional enhancement. This group is most likely to overlap with other bubbles and lap up "Morning Joe." These power-users are huge fans of newsletters, which in some respects mimic in shrunken form newspapers: a beginning and end, punctuated with pictures and visuals. LinkedIn is a hot, if still small, pipeline for content.

 

9. The financiers: This is the base of The Wall Street Journal, CNBC (especially "Squawk Box") and DealBook, the newsletter by New York Times and "Squawk" star Andrew Ross Sorkin. Lots of rich, white, older East Coast or big-city professionals live here.

 

https://www.axios.com/2024/03/25/news-media-filter-bubble-different-realities

 

(I didn't paste certain categories that seem pretty rare around here)

 

Do you recognize yourself here? I think I'm a mix of the about 50% category 8, 30% category 9, 20% category 7.

 

I do get more than my fair share of MAGA Mind Melders, Fox Grandpas, and Musk-eteers second hand, by reading posts here, but I read those more like an Anthropologist on Mars. 

[BillStime]

I get my news from Julie and Karen Psyop.

 

 

 

 

[T master]

If i listen to the news i try to stay away from Fox, CNN, MSNBC, 7 the lame streamers because we know for the most part they have a agenda to what they produce as their content to sway some tot think 1 way or another .

 

Plus to there is less of a chance that some here that are of the more "Progressive or liberal" Mind set by getting the news from different sources than those i mentioned they can't brand you as one way or another . 

 

I am a independent & would like it to stay that way unlike some here ! I want to make up my own mind and make my decisions based on just the real facts that i believe to be true & that alone rather than some gov't hack which we mostly cannot trust telling me what, where, & how i need to obey them and their opinions or agenda .

[ChiGoose]

18 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

Do you recognize yourself here? I think I'm a mix of the about 50% category 8, 30% category 9, 20% category 7.

 

I do get more than my fair share of MAGA Mind Melders, Fox Grandpas, and Musk-eteers second hand, by reading posts here, but I read those more like an Anthropologist on Mars. 

I don’t really recognize myself too much in any one category (they seem to assume a lot of people watch tv news, which I guess might be true but isn’t something I do).

 

Overall, I think my mix is pretty similar to yours with a bit of category 10 (Nichers) thrown in.

[The Frankish Reich]

1 minute ago, ChiGoose said:

Overall, I think my mix is pretty similar to yours with a bit of category 10 (Nichers) thrown in

I think we're all Nichers here to some extent. After all, we get a lot of football niche news by coming to a football fan forum ...

[The Frankish Reich]

12 minutes ago, T master said:

I am a independent & would like it to stay that way unlike some here ! I want to make up my own mind and make my decisions based on just the real facts that i believe to be true & that alone rather than some gov't hack which we mostly cannot trust telling me what, where, & how i need to obey them and their opinions or agenda

I get that, and it's why I find it so disappointing that most news programming these days preaches to the choir of their own demographic/followers. Most of that is really, really boring unless you're interested in having your existing biases confirmed. Rachel Maddow is no doubt smart and prepared, but very long-winded and boring in her presentation. She took over Keith Olbermann's old slot - he was a blowhard, but an entertainer. Same with Fox: O'Reilly did what Hannity does but with some entertainment value. I watched both of those guys semi-regularly at one time, but you'll never turn me into a regular Maddow/Hannity watcher. The "narrow-casting" has reached a new level, and of course that's even more pronounced when it comes to social media.

Edited March 25 by The Frankish Reich

[BillsFanNC]

Not from the multitude of lying sources documented over the years in the link below.

 

Useful idiots consume, then parrot, all of those very same lying sources with religious zeal.

 

Therefore there's absolutely nothing to discuss with a single one of them. 

 

Mocking? Absolutely. 

 

 

 

[leh-nerd skin-erd]

29 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

1. The Musk-eteers: This is a fast-growing, mostly male group who feed off Twitter, podcasts (especially "All-In" and Joe Rogan), and follow independent reporters, led by Bari Weiss, through social media or newsletters.

***

3. TikTok kids: This is where most kids get most of their information about the world and hot news topics. They scroll, fast and furious, through pictures and microbursts of information — and trust people most parents have never heard of. Think MrBeast, Addison Rae and Zach King.

***

5. Right-wing grandpas: Senior citizens, especially men, still flock to Fox News — especially in prime time, and especially around popular personalities. They would have been big Rush Limbaugh fans back in the '90s.

 

6. MAGA mind melders: The new conservative news ecosystem would seem like a distant planet to anyone whose habits were formed pre-Trump. People like Charlie Kirk (massive because he's multiplatform), Jack Posobiec and Mike Cernovich are dominant voices. Then there are folks who are taken seriously only in Trumpworld (Laura Loomer, Alex Bruesewitz), but can really move the needle there. No one rivals Tucker Carlson with the base, even without his Fox News platform. Don Jr. is second, with his massive X, Facebook and Instagram engagement. "He's the meme lord of the right," a MAGA insider told us. Steve Bannon's WarRoom remains a juggernaut. Breitbart's Matt Boyle is a go-to newsbreaker on the right. Plus there's a potent crew of video clip guys.

 

7. Liberal warriors: Think of Rachel Maddow as patron saint of this bloc. Hence her sky-high ratings. This crowd feeds daily off The New York Times (especially opinion pieces) and prestige magazines (especially The Atlantic and The New Yorker). They once were addicted to Twitter but left, or lessened their dependency, after Musk turned it into X.

Elite power-consumers: This is the Axios base. These are mainly college-educated, ambitious professionals — we estimate 25 million-45 million nationally — who seek out news near-daily, partly for passion and partly for professional enhancement. This group is most likely to overlap with other bubbles and lap up "Morning Joe." These power-users are huge fans of newsletters, which in some respects mimic in shrunken form newspapers: a beginning and end, punctuated with pictures and visuals. LinkedIn is a hot, if still small, pipeline for content.

 

8. Elite power-consumers: This is the Axios base. These are mainly college-educated, ambitious professionals — we estimate 25 million-45 million nationally — who seek out news near-daily, partly for passion and partly for professional enhancement. This group is most likely to overlap with other bubbles and lap up "Morning Joe." These power-users are huge fans of newsletters, which in some respects mimic in shrunken form newspapers: a beginning and end, punctuated with pictures and visuals. LinkedIn is a hot, if still small, pipeline for content.

 

9. The financiers: This is the base of The Wall Street Journal, CNBC (especially "Squawk Box") and DealBook, the newsletter by New York Times and "Squawk" star Andrew Ross Sorkin. Lots of rich, white, older East Coast or big-city professionals live here.

 

https://www.axios.com/2024/03/25/news-media-filter-bubble-different-realities

 

(I didn't paste certain categories that seem pretty rare around here)

 

Do you recognize yourself here? I think I'm a mix of the about 50% category 8, 30% category 9, 20% category 7.

 

I do get more than my fair share of MAGA Mind Melders, Fox Grandpas, and Musk-eteers second hand, by reading posts here, but I read those more like an Anthropologist on Mars. 

Let's see...mind-melders, grandmas, grandpas and....warriors, power-consumers, and financiers.  

 

Innovative.  Thought provoking.  Fascinating. 

 

I am in the "Consider the agenda while processing what they have to offer" category.   

 

 

[Tommy Callahan]

Reads like a list of baskets of deplorables.  

 

Kidding.

 

It's just a wordy and passive aggressive way to bucket any opposing views as less than valid.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[BillsFanNC]

3 minutes ago, Tommy Callahan said:

Reads like a list of baskets of deplorables.  

 

Kidding.

 

It's just a wordy and passive aggressive way to bucket any opposing views as less than valid.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How come I didn't need to read it to know the above fact check is true?

 

[The Frankish Reich]

1 hour ago, BillsFanNC said:

Not from the multitude of lying sources documented over the years in the link below.

 

Useful idiots consume, then parrot, all of those very same lying sources with religious zeal.

 

Therefore there's absolutely nothing to discuss with a single one of them. 

 

Mocking? Absolutely. 

 

 

 

Tell me you're a MAGA Mind-Melder without telling me you're a MAGA Mind-Melder.

1 hour ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:

Let's see...mind-melders, grandmas, grandpas and....warriors, power-consumers, and financiers.  

 

Innovative.  Thought provoking.  Fascinating. 

 

I am in the "Consider the agenda while processing what they have to offer" category.   

 

 

Allow me to help: Musk-eteer.

[boyst]

1 hour ago, Tommy Callahan said:

Reads like a list of baskets of deplorables.  

 

Kidding.

 

It's just a wordy and passive aggressive way to bucket any opposing views as less than valid.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

it mindfully neglects lumping in the target audience:

 

13. The brainwashed malcontent: generally +50 and consumes the alphabet of news source and archaic printed media believing it whole heartedly. often invested in their favorite news anchors and tv personalities. they are akin to this generations tik tok kids. they are of the mindset that they are against the system but worship it blindly toeing every line and gulping every word.

 

this place is a majority of those folks.

[wnyguy]

I really don't know where to go to get news anymore. 

[The Frankish Reich]

@B-Man  Used to be a Fox Grandpa, now majority MAGA Mind-Melder

@BillStime Liberal warrior

@Tiberius Liberal warrior, with a healthy dose of Elite Power Consumer

@Joe Ferguson forever Elite Power Consumer with a healthy dose of Financier

@Tommy Callahan 80% Musk-eteer, 20% MAGA Mind-Melder

@L Ron Burgundy see Tiberius

@ComradeKayAdams Liberal Warrior with a pinch of Elite Power Consumer

 

 

 

8 minutes ago, boyst said:

it mindfully neglects lumping in the target audience:

 

13. The brainwashed malcontent: generally +50 and consumes the alphabet of news source and archaic printed media believing it whole heartedly. often invested in their favorite news anchors and tv personalities. they are akin to this generations tik tok kids. they are of the mindset that they are against the system but worship it blindly toeing every line and gulping every word.

 

this place is a majority of those folks.

I think we call this The Misanthrope.

[sherpa]

I'd rather make news than get news.

 

In the OP, CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin is a tried and true NYC liberal.

No issues with that, but I'm a Squawk Box watcher every day, from 6-7, then Today Show for ten minutes as the Mrs. joins me, then back to CNBC once Al Roker starts his weather histrionics or they do anything entertainment industry related, which I have zero interest in.

 

First selection on the laptop every AM is google news, and I avoid known biased sites. No Fox. No MSNBC. No CNN.

For accurate middle east and specifically day to day Navy operations, I watch Ward Carroll on Youtube.

Extremely well informed, honest and not the usual knucklehead that you see on networks.

 

[Tiberius]

33 minutes ago, sherpa said:

I'd rather make news than get news.

 

In the OP, CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin is a tried and true NYC liberal.

No issues with that, but I'm a Squawk Box watcher every day, from 6-7, then Today Show for ten minutes as the Mrs. joins me, then back to CNBC once Al Roker starts his weather histrionics or they do anything entertainment industry related, which I have zero interest in.

 

First selection on the laptop every AM is google news, and I avoid known biased sites. No Fox. No MSNBC. No CNN.

For accurate middle east and specifically day to day Navy operations, I watch Ward Carroll on Youtube.

Extremely well informed, honest and not the usual knucklehead that you see on networks.

 

Me too! No kidding. On a visit to NYC last month I stood outside the window and waved hi! You probably saw my handsome self there. Lucky you

 

❤️Becky

 

I've probably done better in the stock market than you

[Tommy Callahan]

1 hour ago, boyst said:

it mindfully neglects lumping in the target audience:

 

13. The brainwashed malcontent: generally +50 and consumes the alphabet of news source and archaic printed media believing it whole heartedly. often invested in their favorite news anchors and tv personalities. they are akin to this generations tik tok kids. they are of the mindset that they are against the system but worship it blindly toeing every line and gulping every word.

 

this place is a majority of those folks.

But not you and yours?

 

Same old "Everyone but team blue" is bad tripe. 

 

 

[ChiGoose]

1 hour ago, sherpa said:

I'd rather make news than get news.

 

In the OP, CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin is a tried and true NYC liberal.

No issues with that, but I'm a Squawk Box watcher every day, from 6-7, then Today Show for ten minutes as the Mrs. joins me, then back to CNBC once Al Roker starts his weather histrionics or they do anything entertainment industry related, which I have zero interest in.

 

First selection on the laptop every AM is google news, and I avoid known biased sites. No Fox. No MSNBC. No CNN.

For accurate middle east and specifically day to day Navy operations, I watch Ward Carroll on Youtube.

Extremely well informed, honest and not the usual knucklehead that you see on networks.

 

 

I haven't used Google News but if I'm in a newsy mood, I usually keep Memeorandum open on a tab. It's a pretty solid aggregator and also lists multiple sources for the trending stories so you can pick if you want to see the takes from different outlets.

Edited March 25 by ChiGoose

[The Frankish Reich]

1 hour ago, sherpa said:

I'd rather make news than get news.

 

In the OP, CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin is a tried and true NYC liberal.

No issues with that, but I'm a Squawk Box watcher every day, from 6-7, then Today Show for ten minutes as the Mrs. joins me, then back to CNBC once Al Roker starts his weather histrionics or they do anything entertainment industry related, which I have zero interest in.

 

First selection on the laptop every AM is google news, and I avoid known biased sites. No Fox. No MSNBC. No CNN.

For accurate middle east and specifically day to day Navy operations, I watch Ward Carroll on Youtube.

Extremely well informed, honest and not the usual knucklehead that you see on networks.

 

Not a terrible plan.

My go-to news sources: WSJ and NYT digital subscriber. There's your center-right and center-left. Memeorandum as the best news aggregator to quickly browse.

No Twitter account. No Facebook. No Tik-Tok. I just don't like getting inundated with stuff they think I'd like. 

Some blogs that point me to interesting stuff: marginalrevolution (right-libertarian leaning economists), themoneyillusion (Scott Sumner, economist, similar but also a good film critic on the side), astralcodexten ("Scott Alexander," very libertarian, just an interesting thinker about lots of things)

TV: not an everday regular of any program, but I often check out CNBC (umm, waiting for Deirdre Bosa to appear while I get my financial news; I'm a fan of Rick Santelli too for very different reasons). I will watch the opening 10 minutes of a Morning Show (they all irritate me, but it's a quick news review); BBC America half hour evening news sometimes - much, much better international news coverage. Same with the CNN World coverage late at night if I'm up. MSNBC/Morning Joe last hour only sometimes (the hour aimed a DC newsmakers, not Joe's annoying rants with nodding head Mika). I also record Fareed Zakaria's GPS show. Pretty much avoid the other Sunday morning public affairs shows now.

[Tommy Callahan]

 

 

Another thread by the ones that always revert to MSM, State, and WHO narratives view themselves as enlightened. while attacking any narrative or person that's not just saying the same exact thing.

 

This board is full of old threads.  with the same voices doing the same thing.

 

on topic.

 

Any more you have to read multiple sources for information, then double check, (often by reading the source documents.) 

 

Follow certain reporters that have a history of high integrity reporting, on social any media platforms is a good way to get the info first, and unfiltered. 

 

But for real. if its a talking head on any of the for-profit media commentary sites, they are talking you into holding a position. Or picking and choosing what to publish/ignore. not just presenting all the facts.  its not news.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 25 by Tommy Callahan

[The Frankish Reich]

4 minutes ago, Tommy Callahan said:

Any more you have to read multiple sources for information, then double check, (often by reading the source documents.) 

Certainly a good habit. But what are your regular go-to sources? Which twitter accounts? YouTube or other video commentaries/new sources? Where do you start?

[Joe Ferguson forever]

I like Drudge a lot.  Leads me to topics, often from world sources which can then be followed up on.  No finance reads except I like the Economist and check yahoo finance for numbers.  Figured out a while ago that managing money was better done by someone other than me.

[The Frankish Reich]

6 minutes ago, Tommy Callahan said:

Any more you have to read multiple sources for information, then double check, (often by reading the source documents.) 

Certainly a good habit. But what are your regular go-to sources? Which twitter accounts? YouTube or other video commentaries/new sources? Where do you start?

What you are talking about is fine in theory. But what I often see here is ass backwards. People read a commentary critical of (or even mocking) the MSM or the official (government) account. Then they don't go back and read the official story. They just rely on the commentary on Twitter or whatever.

 

Better to read the official or MSM account first, then keep an open mind and look for reasoned criticism of it. But that's not what I usually see. Instead it's just a snarky dismissal (or angry and embittered one if you are a sex-starved Tarheel) of the MSM or government account without any kind of analysis other than "you are sheeple" or "they always lie."

[boyst]

1 hour ago, The Frankish Reich said:

@B-Man  Used to be a Fox Grandpa, now majority MAGA Mind-Melder

@BillStime Liberal warrior

@Tiberius Liberal warrior, with a healthy dose of Elite Power Consumer

@Joe Ferguson forever Elite Power Consumer with a healthy dose of Financier

@Tommy Callahan 80% Musk-eteer, 20% MAGA Mind-Melder

@L Ron Burgundy see Tiberius

@ComradeKayAdams Liberal Warrior with a pinch of Elite Power Consumer

 

 

 

I think we call this The Misanthrope.

isn't that just a $5 word for liberal?

1 hour ago, sherpa said:

I'd rather make news than get news.

 

In the OP, CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin is a tried and true NYC liberal.

No issues with that, but I'm a Squawk Box watcher every day, from 6-7, then Today Show for ten minutes as the Mrs. joins me, then back to CNBC once Al Roker starts his weather histrionics or they do anything entertainment industry related, which I have zero interest in.

 

First selection on the laptop every AM is google news, and I avoid known biased sites. No Fox. No MSNBC. No CNN.

For accurate middle east and specifically day to day Navy operations, I watch Ward Carroll on Youtube.

Extremely well informed, honest and not the usual knucklehead that you see on networks.

 

news.google is a wonderful source of all things that has it all in the open and eventually can deliver some interesting personal news stories.

[The Frankish Reich]

Just now, boyst said:

isn't that just a $5 word for liberal?

I never thought of Scrooge as a liberal

[boyst]

4 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:

I like Drudge a lot.  Leads me to topics, often from world sources which can then be followed up on.  No finance reads except I like the Economist and check yahoo finance for numbers.  Figured out a while ago that managing money was better done by someone other than me.

i remember 25 years ago Drudge and the WSJ were tremendously unbias, unfiltered, and boring. it's amazing how the drive for a buck has changed it all.

Just now, The Frankish Reich said:

I never thought of Scrooge as a liberal

think deeper on it and revert to the true definition and not the johnny come lately rebrand.

[ChiGoose]

14 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

Not a terrible plan.

My go-to news sources: WSJ and NYT digital subscriber. There's your center-right and center-left. Memeorandum as the best news aggregator to quickly browse.

No Twitter account. No Facebook. No Tik-Tok. I just don't like getting inundated with stuff they think I'd like. 

Some blogs that point me to interesting stuff: marginalrevolution (right-libertarian leaning economists), themoneyillusion (Scott Sumner, economist, similar but also a good film critic on the side), astralcodexten ("Scott Alexander," very libertarian, just an interesting thinker about lots of things)

TV: not an everday regular of any program, but I often check out CNBC (umm, waiting for Deirdre Bosa to appear while I get my financial news; I'm a fan of Rick Santelli too for very different reasons). I will watch the opening 10 minutes of a Morning Show (they all irritate me, but it's a quick news review); BBC America half hour evening news sometimes - much, much better international news coverage. Same with the CNN World coverage late at night if I'm up. MSNBC/Morning Joe last hour only sometimes (the hour aimed a DC newsmakers, not Joe's annoying rants with nodding head Mika). I also record Fareed Zakaria's GPS show. Pretty much avoid the other Sunday morning public affairs shows now.

I also subscribe to NYT digital but can’t bring myself to spend money on a Murdoch property. I do get the print editions of The Economist which gives center-right perspective with an international focus I find very informative.

 

Twitter tends to be what you make of it. I’ve mostly curated my news feed towards beat reporters instead of publications or outlets. Like following people on the Bills beat as opposed to ESPN or the official Bills accounts. 
 

I don’t watch tv news with the exception of major events or occasionally watching WGN for local news here. Generally, CNN is only on for NYE because my wife likes to watch the hosts get drunk on air. 

I’d much rather read an article or listen to a podcast than watch a show. Feels like a lot of the show format is to either evoke emotional reactions to keep you invested through the ad break or to fill time to meet their 30 or 60 minute air time. I’m not familiar with half the shows people talk about here. 

 

I’ve only started getting into financial news in the last two years. My last job barred me from trading stocks due having access to MNPI. That’s not an issue anymore so I have a small brokerage account just for fun. Haven’t really gotten into too much though. 

[All_Pro_Bills]

Rather then where you get your news the question is how do you know who to believe and who not to believe?  What sources to trust and what sources not to trust?  Does anyone actually know these people personally?  Know them well enough to say they have trust in them?  Know their character and ethics?  Most I suspect rely on confirmation bias.   

 

For example, the New York Times.  Its known they have an activist approach to journalism heavily skewed to the left.  Why should I believe their reporting is going to be an unbiased fact driven news story rather than something else if the "facts" contradict their beliefs and telling the truth "hurts" their interests?  

Why should I believe Fox reporters are giving me straight fact and truth driven news rather than a sprinkling of personal op/ed and a conservative slant? 

Why do most trust one or the other, while few trust both, and even fewer trust neither?

[leh-nerd skin-erd]

2 hours ago, The Frankish Reich said:

 

Allow me to help: Musk-eteer.

Interesting...I don't listen to Joe Rogan, have no idea  what "All In" is, my podcasts (thus far) are limited to financial hosts/channels, and am unfamiliar with Bari Weiss.  

My social media presence is a Fb page started to follow my children, that has now grown to tens and tens of friends.  

 

However, I have to acknowledges that your timing and delivery on this one was spot on--I was waiting on an appointment at my doctor's office and I'm sure they were wondering what I was laughing at as I read your reply. 

 

 

 

 

[Tommy Callahan]

Drudge is one of my go to for its index of sites both foreign and domestic.  I have some favorites from greenwald to cover1.  And depends on the topic.

 

 

and a handful of local news sources in my favorites.

 

 

 

Edited March 26 by Tommy Callahan

[BillsFanNC]

 

[Precision]

8 hours ago, The Frankish Reich said:

1. The Musk-eteers: This is a fast-growing, mostly male group who feed off Twitter, podcasts (especially "All-In" and Joe Rogan), and follow independent reporters, led by Bari Weiss, through social media or newsletters.

***

3. TikTok kids: This is where most kids get most of their information about the world and hot news topics. They scroll, fast and furious, through pictures and microbursts of information — and trust people most parents have never heard of. Think MrBeast, Addison Rae and Zach King.

***

5. Right-wing grandpas: Senior citizens, especially men, still flock to Fox News — especially in prime time, and especially around popular personalities. They would have been big Rush Limbaugh fans back in the '90s.

 

6. MAGA mind melders: The new conservative news ecosystem would seem like a distant planet to anyone whose habits were formed pre-Trump. People like Charlie Kirk (massive because he's multiplatform), Jack Posobiec and Mike Cernovich are dominant voices. Then there are folks who are taken seriously only in Trumpworld (Laura Loomer, Alex Bruesewitz), but can really move the needle there. No one rivals Tucker Carlson with the base, even without his Fox News platform. Don Jr. is second, with his massive X, Facebook and Instagram engagement. "He's the meme lord of the right," a MAGA insider told us. Steve Bannon's WarRoom remains a juggernaut. Breitbart's Matt Boyle is a go-to newsbreaker on the right. Plus there's a potent crew of video clip guys.

 

7. Liberal warriors: Think of Rachel Maddow as patron saint of this bloc. Hence her sky-high ratings. This crowd feeds daily off The New York Times (especially opinion pieces) and prestige magazines (especially The Atlantic and The New Yorker). They once were addicted to Twitter but left, or lessened their dependency, after Musk turned it into X.

Elite power-consumers: This is the Axios base. These are mainly college-educated, ambitious professionals — we estimate 25 million-45 million nationally — who seek out news near-daily, partly for passion and partly for professional enhancement. This group is most likely to overlap with other bubbles and lap up "Morning Joe." These power-users are huge fans of newsletters, which in some respects mimic in shrunken form newspapers: a beginning and end, punctuated with pictures and visuals. LinkedIn is a hot, if still small, pipeline for content.

 

8. Elite power-consumers: This is the Axios base. These are mainly college-educated, ambitious professionals — we estimate 25 million-45 million nationally — who seek out news near-daily, partly for passion and partly for professional enhancement. This group is most likely to overlap with other bubbles and lap up "Morning Joe." These power-users are huge fans of newsletters, which in some respects mimic in shrunken form newspapers: a beginning and end, punctuated with pictures and visuals. LinkedIn is a hot, if still small, pipeline for content.

 

9. The financiers: This is the base of The Wall Street Journal, CNBC (especially "Squawk Box") and DealBook, the newsletter by New York Times and "Squawk" star Andrew Ross Sorkin. Lots of rich, white, older East Coast or big-city professionals live here.

 

https://www.axios.com/2024/03/25/news-media-filter-bubble-different-realities

 

(I didn't paste certain categories that seem pretty rare around here)

 

Do you recognize yourself here? I think I'm a mix of the about 50% category 8, 30% category 9, 20% category 7.

 

I do get more than my fair share of MAGA Mind Melders, Fox Grandpas, and Musk-eteers second hand, by reading posts here, but I read those more like an Anthropologist on Mars. 

I think your categorization is broad and I expect most consumers of the news access content based on the subject matter that interests them.  I expect you are probably referring to "political news" but I will respond as if you are not.

 

I read the local paper (on-line addition) and watch local channels for weather and stories in my area.  For international content I might watch a US MSM outlet or the BBC.  For sports it varies on the team/sport.  I read the WSJ for the financial content and participate in a few message boards for that as well.  

 

For politics I will go to a few websites/message boards as I find the content and discussions are more in depth than can be offered by any of the above sources.  Additionally, most of the above content is a one-way feed from the source to the consumer which I find as mentally stimulating as watching SpongeBob. 

 

 

[The Frankish Reich]

2 hours ago, BillsFanNC said:

 

So says master prognosticator Scott Adams, who somehow didn't see his 3rd wife's divorce filing coming ...

 

 

[Joe Ferguson forever]

4 hours ago, Tommy Callahan said:

Drudge is one of my go to for its index of sites both foreign and domestic.  I have some favorites from greenwald cover1.  And depends on the topic.

 

 

greenwald cover1 sounds like a spy agency.  I think drudge is fair and balanced as they say.

Edited March 26 by Joe Ferguson forever

[ChiGoose]

1 minute ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:

greenwald cover1 sounds like a spy agency.

Cover1 is an excellent Bills content site. Greenwald is a hack. 

[SCBills]

Definitely X

 

As someone stated above, it can be what you make of it.

 

Want a MAGA echo chamber, go ahead .. follow a bunch of MSM accounts, there ya go.. hammer & sickle vibes, it’s there for you too.

 

I follow mostly younger conservative non-MAGA people, which is basically what I am.  Mix in some more moderate/conservative Dem accounts like Chris Cuomo (who’s not bad in his new gig) and that’s my arena. 
 

Tim Dillon has the best socio-political podcast. 

[Andy1]

I’m in a vehicle for about 2.5 hours a day so I listen to NPR or various podcasts like The Bukwark, Ted Talks, Michael Steele, Buffalo Plus, Locked On Bills, Post Reports, The Economist and various ones on science or geography topics. I watch local TV news and PBS evening news. Cable news is often lacking since they often don’t take the time to explain complex issues or they keep hammering the same story to death. I like 60 Minutes in depth reporting on Sundays. I usually do an X check each day and check news.google a few times a week and talk about bigger events with friends who are all over the political spectrum. 
 

This is a good thread giving me some sources to check out.

Edited March 26 by Andy1

[Westside]

10 hours ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:

greenwald cover1 sounds like a spy agency.  I think drudge is fair and balanced as they say.

Do you think msnbc and cnn are fair and balanced? And no, I don’t think fox is either. 

[Tommy Callahan]

24 minutes ago, Westside said:

Do you think msnbc and cnn are fair and balanced? And no, I don’t think fox is either. 

Cover 1 does great film breakdowns of the bills. 

 

They hate Greenwald because he was a DEM that saw the lies and now reports on the BS no matter what side.

 

the articles drudge wants you to read are crap.

 

but below are links to hundreds of other sites.  

 

 

 

 

[BillsFanNC]

Imagine that.