The best source of political news on t.v. in these turbulent times:

[tinfoilinfor2005]

Poll question: The best source of political news on t.v. in these turbulent times:

Poll result (39 votes)
Jon Stewart and The Daily Show.	(5 votes, 13%)	Vote
Stephen Colbert with the Colbert Report.	(1 votes, 3%)	Vote
Bill Maher's Real Time.	(0 votes, 0%)	Vote
Saturday Night Live.	(0 votes, 0%)	Vote
Keith Olbermann on Countdown.	(23 votes, 59%)	Vote
CBS Sixty Minutes.	(0 votes, 0%)	Vote
CNN	(1 votes, 3%)	Vote
MSNBC	(0 votes, 0%)	Vote
PBS	(0 votes, 0%)	Vote
other	(9 votes, 23%)	Vote

[rosesaylavee]

1. Other =

Democratic Underground.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

2. Huge sucking sound...

I should have specified "On television" but you win the Skinner Award!

[rosesaylavee]

9. Thanks!

Tee hee!

Actually, I mean it. This is the place I go first for information. The other sources you mention above are great and fill in the blanks.

[lvx35]

3. Other, DU.

Serously. I don't know how or why, but people who post here are way ahead of the curve...I mean think, CNN and ABC are talking about problems in the voting machines NOW!?!

[petunia.here]

4. Other

Democracy Now!

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. Throughout the day, I find that reading DU and an occasional

check in at Talking Points Memo keeps me well informed - far better than by watching TV or listening to the radio, since all the breaking news (and news that should be breaking) are all here first - I think that we are kept well ahead of the curve (which is so, so frustrating....)

[nam78_two]

6. Other- I cannot remember the last time I learnt anything new from TV

I get my news from a combo platter of NYT, WaPo, Boston Globe, DU, TPM, Kos,HuffPo and a few other lefty blogs.
I find DU's LBN and greatest page very useful.

Actually on edit, CSPAN does sometimes have a lot of interesting stuff. But, really I don't remember the last time I learnt something new from tv. I love Colbert, Olbermann and TDS but thats mostly cause they say what I am thinking .

I find the concept of getting news from TDS or TCR bizarre...it seems like you need to be a politics junkie to get most of what they are satirizing

[TOhioLiberal]

7. Keith...

...obviously. (at least to me!)

[Jcrowley]

8. Other

Avoid television altogether. The only way to get accurately informed is to read deep history, Howard Zinn, Frantz Fanon, Noam Chomsky, John Pilger leap to mind. Get away from all mainstream sound byte explanations and replace that with first hand accounts from people on the ground.

[nam78_two]

10. I remember reading Howard Zinn's

"A people's history of the United States" and doing some follow up reading and comparing that information with more mainstream history books and noticing the difference in the way major events like the dust bowl, the depression etc. are treated by the different sources.
Ironically a lot of folk music and fiction probably give a clearer picture of those times than more scholarly descriptions of the same :-/....

I remember watching an interview with Zinn where he said that he learnt more from Woody Guthrie's songs than many of his history books!