Do too many Americans get their news & views from rant TV/radio and fake news shows?

Limbaugh


Olberman


Stewart


Colbert


Hannity


etcDo too many Americans get their news %26amp; views from rant TV/radio and fake news shows?
absolutely..and it scares me that some people take these folks as complete gospel and only get their news from one source like an o'reilly or hannity or Stewart. it's for entertainment but some people can't see the difference.Do too many Americans get their news %26amp; views from rant TV/radio and fake news shows?
I could not help but notice on that list you listed two shows that a





fourth-grader could see are obviously not meant to be taken





seriously (Colbert and Stewart), and, of the five on the list,





three are liberal (Olberman, Stewart, Colbert), and you did





not even bother to include the uber-spearhead of the Thought





Conservation 2.0 Movement, thin-skinned compulsive liar





and crybaby chronic lover Bill O'Reilly. Just something I





thought worth pointing out.





But yes, obviously, too many Americans are jackasses who





refuse to listen to anything that is in the least intelligent,





instead opting for flashy, melodramatic crap about cigars or





***-stains. What's scary is that in this age of masturbatory





electro-revolutions, it is not even possible to get any





homegrown coverage that is not sensationalized,





underhanded, mud-slinging crap except for NPR. In the past





ten years, the mainstream media-including Rupert Murdoch,





Richard Ailes, and Father Charles Coughlin (er, I mean, Lou





Dobbs)- have taken note of the fact that the magazines with





the highest circulation in this country are ';womens';'





magazines and tabloids. Therefore,with collusion from





advertisers, most media gets dumbed down to the





level of ';Entertainment Tonight,'; while the Edward R. Murrow





of this generation, Greg Palast, is consigned to the Suicide





Girls website.





Personally, I think one thing that might at least balm but not





entirely cure the problem would be if the snide limousine





liberals at the few publications left with any journalistic





integrity, like Harper's, The New





Yorker, and The New York Times, would dramatically expand





the amount (AND QUALITY) of free content available online,





and charge something less than your first-born to purchase





physical copies.
I think too many people get their news and views from late night comedy shows...In that list Stewart and Colbert are comedy, not news. Limbaugh, Olberman and Hannity are pundits paid for their opinions, not necessarily news.





I don't think talk radio is a bad place to go for information. Talk radio listeners as a whole, and it doesn't matter if the host is left or right in his or her ideology, are far more informed than most other people. As a conservative, common sense kind of guy that I am, I have far more respect for an Obama voter that listens to Ed Schultz or Randi Rhodes, and knows who Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Barney Frank are. At least they are making an informed decision.
All the shows you mentioned are opinion shows, not news.





Fox News is different than Oreilly and Hannity.





Of course, MSNBC News, CNN, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News all lean left and Fox News leans right.





Fox News makes all news ';Fair and balanced; they balance everybody else.';
Since very few of us are political insiders, our only sources are secondary sources, including the ones you list and the MSM. We have no other choice but to rely on SOMEONE to tell us what is going on.





There's nothing wrong with getting your views from others as long as you do it with a critical mind. A Daily Show routine doesn't even try to be accurate; the Wall Street Journal at least tries to be.
Actually, PEW studies suggest that people who watch or listen to these shows (left or right) are actually more politically informed and know more about what's going on than the people who get their information from the traditional national news.





The most uninformed are the people who get their info from morning news shows.
You left out the really biased and biggest offenders ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN - Whose coverage seemed to indicate only Barack Obama was running for President.
Isn't it funny....the commentators you mentioned are ';rant' and ';fake';...unless you happen to agree with them. Then, it's the ones YOU watch that are the ranting fakers.


Funny how it works that way.
Rush I comfortably live without but Hannity is good. I love watching him, of course I don't take everything he says as gospel but I do like watching his show.
I like the Jon/Stephen shows. I don't get my news from there though. It's a satirical news show. The people who get their info from radio are the ones who troll the most.
No. But too many people accept the watered-down version of the news we get on local channels as being unbiased.
Unfortunately not just many do, but most. And then they express their ';opinions'; on Yahoo Answers.
Yes, but you forgot ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and MSNBC





Do 'real' news shows even exist anymore?
Yes
Every one except for Hannity, he ROCKS...sorry
I just like watching Stewart and Colbert. I don't get my news from them though.
Like its any better with MSNBC, CNN, etc.etc.