Getting News is expensive! - Page 3

Tinkrbl44 · ‎08-23-2010

There are many news sources, but each community is different. I doubt Facebook is a reliable new source.

I refuse to pay for news. Not going to happen.

Nightowlz · ‎03-11-2010

@Kachina624 wrote:

@Nightowlz wrote:
I don't watch the news anymore.
We got rid of DISH 2 yrs ago. Have been streaming TV.
We have an outdoor antenna if we need to watch the news.
It's so easy to bypass the news when streaming.
@Nightowlz. How do you know for whom to vote?

@Kachina624

Lets just say I don't vote.

Don't want to go political so the thread gets poofed.

Just poof my post if you need to.

CelticCrafter · ‎03-09-2010

@Kachina624 wrote:

@CelticCrafter wrote:
We do get local stations with YoutubeTV.

I absolutely refuse to pay to read an article on-line. I don't care if it's one dollar, I won't pay for it. Most times I can find another way to read it if I really want to know.
@CelticCrafter. Do you think the person who wrote your news worked for free or was an unpaid volunteer at a news bureau?

@Kachina624 I'm pretty sure my dollar isn't going to make much of a difference.

DrakesMomma · ‎06-02-2010

I think Facebook is what you make of it. I live in a small city of about 25,000 people. I follow our local paper's page, the city, police dept, the fire dept, and several out and about town pages.

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

@DrakesMomma wrote:
I think Facebook is what you make of it. I live in a small city of about 25,000 people. I follow our local paper's page, the city, police dept, the fire dept, and several out and about town pages.

@DrakesMomma. You are so right! People hear wild Facebook stories and seem to be terrified of it.

I have a number of interests and so enjoy a group of people with similar interests. I've never posted anything personal but I've learned so much on subjects that interest me. I also enjoy peoples' photos of places they hike in the mountains where I can no longer go.

New Mexico☀️Land Of Enchantment

Bookplate · ‎08-19-2011

Unfortunately, getting fake news and misinformation is free and widespread.

geezerette · ‎03-16-2010

@DrakesMomma wrote:
I think Facebook is what you make of it. I live in a small city of about 25,000 people. I follow our local paper's page, the city, police dept, the fire dept, and several out and about town pages.

@DrakesMomma

Exactly. Facebook has become the new Yellow Pages for me. Most of the businesses in my small town don't even have websites. They use FB instead.

Zoe · ‎06-10-2015

Total annual cost for us for news = estimated $1.92/week

FREE: Antenna for local channels. Got it free from our streaming service. Gets local CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX, and PBS.
FREE: Local news stations also each have their own websites with extensive FREE articles
44 cents per day (when needed): We don't want a physical newspaper, but I do pay for certain editorials we wish to read probably a handful of times a year.
~$98/year: Subscriptions to two national newspapers (rarely renew at the time the subscription expires and instead wait for digital specials)
FREE: Check BBC News website for articles & listen for FREE for international perspective on US stories.

Happy to pay these journalists for their work. Many of them are doing such hard work to reveal stories and hold people accountable. I appreciate their persistence.

Facebook really isn't a good "news" source. Beware of the algorithm and what it will interject into your feed. This has been testified to by whistleblowers (who are former Facebook employees) both nationally and internationally. Be careful out there.

sunshine45 · ‎03-09-2010

@Zoe wrote:
Total annual cost for us for news = estimated $1.92/week
FREE: Antenna for local channels. Got it free from our streaming service. Gets local CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX, and PBS.
FREE: Local news stations also each have their own websites with extensive FREE articles
44 cents per day (when needed): We don't want a physical newspaper, but I do pay for certain editorials we wish to read probably a handful of times a year.
~$98/year: Subscriptions to two national newspapers (rarely renew at the time the subscription expires and instead wait for digital specials)
FREE: Check BBC News website for articles & listen for FREE for international perspective on US stories.
Happy to pay these journalists for their work. Many of them are doing such hard work to reveal stories and hold people accountable. I appreciate their persistence.

Facebook really isn't a good "news" source. Beware of the algorithm and what it will interject into your feed. This has been testified to by whistleblowers (who are former Facebook employees) both nationally and internationally. Be careful out there.

BUT......ALL of the news sources you mentioned have social media pages.....FB, instagram, twitter. you can go directly to those pages and ignore the "stuff" in your ad feed.

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"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." - Albert Einstein

Zoe · ‎06-10-2015

@sunshine45

That's certainly an option for some.

Personally, I prefer longer form information than the short soundbites on social media. If a national news outlet posts about a story on social, it might have a paragraph of info and not the full story. So, I just prefer to read the entire story with all of the details & background so that I can make informed decisions.

But ymmv.

Knowing what I know about Meta's practices and now the instability of X/Twitter policies, I'll choose to pay ~$1.92/week to get my news. Way less than Dunkin' or Starbucks!

ETA: I also just really believe in paying professionals for their work.