Not watching tv is probably the best thing you can do provided you still stay connected through other sources and do your own research.

If I were you i'd just stick around here. This is probably the best source of news collated from several websites such as the ny times and rt online, and broken down into discussions by fellow enthusiasts such as yourself.

Everything appears biased because everything IS biased. If you want the truth, you have to go to as many different sources and piece it all together yourself. Truth is hard to come by these days.

That being said, democracynow.org is good. Another good way to follow news is to follow journalists you trust on twitter. Following glenn greenwald, david seamen, jeremy scahill will lead you to other reliable sources. See who they are following and follow those people.

http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/

http://www.maxkeiser.com/

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/King_World_News.html

http://www.silverdoctors.com/

http://www.jsmineset.com/

http://www.lewrockwell.com/

http://www.zerohedge.com/

http://www.infowars.com/

http://antiwar.com/

http://www.democracynow.org/

www.WashingtonsBlog.com

www.BradBlog.com

www.911Blogger.com

I stopped 8 years ago, best decision ever, found alternative sources and whistleblower testimony. Cross connecting stories.

yeah!

If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. Mark Twain

Its been about 3 years for me sans mainstream sewage.

PressTV has good interviews, globalresearch is good. I enjoy RT mostly for the format i.e. they at least let their guests fucking TALK unlike the dumbed down goldfish spoonfeeding you get on us infotainment tv news where a CIA ilfiltrator government spinshill 'anchor' gets a yakker on for two mins and blares and interrupts constantly for 90 seconds of that with their own forced opinion.

EDIT Good on you OP for achieving realization. Always research, always hunt down the real info.

PressTV's news and feature propaganda is several generations more obvious than the western equivalents but they do have good interviews and guests. RT never mentions Russia, funny that. But has hot chics and is generally watchable, any agenda bs is easily left on the plate. I tend to go to BBC website to find out what I am meant to think on the topics of the day. It is very propaganda heavy but can still be useful, post-filtering.

News became entertainment and a deciphering puzzle for me since the death of Michael Hastings. I knew of bias and corporate interests before, but I didn't know to mistrust literally every utterance until I looked deep into the rabbit hole.

Haven't owned/had a tv in 9 years. It's great.

Paying for cable is paying for advertising.

Paying for cable is paying for brainwashing.

I stopped watching a decade ago. It made me crazy...upon reflection the blatant Cognitive Dissonance sub-consciously made me nuts. The KEN and BARBIE talking heads made me sick to my stomach...and then I discovered that a FIRE IN NORTH blah blah blah wasn't really news it was sensation. There was no local reporting. And national and international news was clearly biased and again...it told me nothing...not really. I know a fella who works at a major Psych hospital and HE does not watch the news either because he said it was bad for his mental health. It's nothing but programming. My mantra is ...IF IT IS SHOUTED OUT LOUD ON TV IT IS A LIE! Not just a partial lie either...totally fucking false!

You are doing your mental health a favor. The news, especially mainstream media, pipes out fear on so many levels, because they feel a population that is always afraid is easier to control. They don't think rationally or logically.

Even NPR is massively biased.

Have you noticed it is now libertarian, featuring AEI/CATO experts for all things economic, political, environmental?

No but I do hear "opposing views" on NPR but the libertarian bent is definitely not their status quo.

Ok tell me an opposing view you have heard on NPR about anything related to economics, politics, employment, environment.

I'm barely 16 years old, and I stopped watching TV and bullshit shows. I limit the shows I watch, and since I "woke up" I scrutinize absolutely everything I see and hear.

~ten years ago... the only time i get to laugh at tv news these days is when visiting friends or relatives or when listening to the http://www.noagendashow.com/ podcast.

Give it a month and see how you feel.

I've been MSM free for a few years now and its amazing. I just use Netflix to watch what I want without any advertising forced down my throat and random news sites for different points of view on things.

Also - The Young Turks Channel on Youtube is really wonderful. I highly recommend it to you all.

Cenk is the man! I'm in love with lovely Anna. She is wonderful. swoons

Hell yeah. One of the very first things I realized about the news before I turned 10 was that it was all bad and I had no interest in hearing bad news. The sentiment continued into my 20s, except "bad" became "depressing," and I got the feeling that if something immediately important were happening, I would hear about it one way or another. After that it became blatantly obvious how biased, controlled and generally untrustworthy the mainstream media is.

I stopped watching ALL television back in 2002. I too watched news and investigative journalism. But I quit because: * Local News is all about fear "are your children being molested at school? News at eleven!" and then at eleven they are all "of course not! where did you get that idea". A culture of fear is good for advertising. * the death of 60 Minutes for me was the network alterations to the cigarette cancer stories * the CONSTANT use by the media of the phrase "connected to Al Qaeda"; anything can be connected to anything, but they never trace those connections- just raise fear * the lying and the sloganeering accompanying the aftermath of 911 * I read this book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Culture-Fear-Americans-Afraid/dp/B003R4ZBR8

Yeap, about to stop getting it from reddit too, too far gone :/ I ponder if we even need new at all, isnt it really just a form of high brow gossip anyways?

The running joke that gets played on us "conspiracy theorist" aka informed individuals is "where'd you here that, the internet?"

In the future(aka now) the running joke will be, "where'd you here that, the news"

Start using it, people always need to question the validity of the information they are reading, even on r/conspiracy.

and i havnt been watching the news going on 3 years now, come on folks theres a thing called the internet that has everything youll need and isnt just on from 4-5 or w/e time lol

in my lifetime the "news" is being created. I just wanted to encourage you to look into mocking bird and cointel pro. Even further you may want to look into paperclip as well where the usg brought the natzi best and brightest to amerika. That means the best propaganda money can buy. with tv and people PAYING to see this setup in their homes. The mind boggles.

Breakfast television and local pieces simply to know the general going ons in the city. Oh, and garage sale listings. Its fun to haggle with old folks when they are in on the fun.

The news sucks because the only thing they air are tragedies, and interviews with victims of tragedies (then the weather, and sports). Nothing of it is vital to your daily living. The world may be depressing but it will seem to be even more-so when you're only told about bad news.

used to be a big msnbc viewer and advocate..i still like maddow..but everything else just sucks..olbermann was good..when they had cenk uygur and dylan rattigan i considered msnbc great..ever since then ive shut off the msm and well...im better off

Maddow? ugh... she is so compromised it makes me vomit.

But in her defense, so is everyone else in main stream media.

if you compare her to every other host on msnbc and other networks..shes tolerable ..sure she has her bad moments..but..she backs up a lot of her segments with facts..and lays them out in front of you..hardly n e one on tv does that since theyre all opinion shows now

Carefully selected facts to push msnbc's agenda... like everywhere else.

this is the news:

syria miley cyrus government shutdown how to make your cat feel like a hundred bucks more syria dieting for the modern woman traffic

Anyone else stop watching the news?

I never started.

All I need is The No Agenda Show and a couple specific sub reddits.

Everything is bias. EVERYTHING! Even this subreddit. The best thing is to weed through the bullshit and form your own opinions based on facts. Not just what you read, see, hear.

I stopped all television in 1988, all propaganda all the time, not just the so called news, the programs themselves and the commercials. Insane!

by then a few of us could get online and read what we needed, also there were still a few good magazines and newspapers.

Whenever I watch it I roll my eyes to be honest that people still believe some of this garbage it just feels so fake to , the reporters laughing . I don't know but yeah I've stopped unless I want weather

Everything but local news.

No but I do hear "opposing views" on NPR but the libertarian bent is definitely not their status quo.