Where do you get your facts?

For most of my facts I turn to www.wikipedia.org

The important thing is to never get any information from any one source. While I watch CNN the most, I watch BBC World or the local networks, and then read the news on the internet, either on internet sites such as Yahoo, or go to European online newspapers. I also watch The O'Reilly Factor (the only show I watch on Fox News). Then I make up my mind, on which of the networks are more consistent and they're not always the same, but depends on the story.

As far as non-news items, I like Wikipedia, mainly because no other place has more information on a person or a subject but there, but if I can be introduced to other fact-finding site, I'd be happy to explore it for comparison.

The bottom line, never go with just once source.

I read like crazy and went to college (where I read a lot more), so I get my facts from magazines, news articles in various papers (my favorite being USA Weekend), books of all kinds (I LOVE the library), and just looking around everywhere on the internet, though not as much. The opinions I give are my own, based on what I have learned. I read, watch, listen, and then think about all the informationI have accumulated on any given subject, filtering others opinions away from the facts, but regarding the opinions as having some merit, though reduced. Then I decide what the facts make me believe and consider whose opinions, in turn, are relevant. Those who disagree, then, often appear somewhat misguided to me and I consider them, in turn, less objective in that area. Often, my belief comes directly from the facts, except in cases where the facts do not prove the answer one way or another. In the cases where there is no definitive yes or no answer, I listen closely to the opinions and the reasons people give for their opinions, often agreeing somewhat with both sides, but believing in one opinion, which is my own, more than any other. Though my opinion, in that case, would be based on others' opinions, it would be an amalgam of the information I have collected and thus be more informed, on the whole, than the rather more biased opinions I have collected.

Facts and opinions. Many sources. There you have it.

I check CNN.com, my local paper, and then catch talk radio. The first two are liberal leaning, the latter conservative. I then try to separate the wheat from the chaf on issues I care about, but that is usually easier since I am a science teacher and care about education and the environment as my main two issues. Guess that somewhat marks me as a liberal to some reading this, but I look at other issues and do not agree with one side EVERY on every issue.

I suppose if there was a SEAHAWKS political party it might be a different story...Go Blue!

Most people here don't base their facts on knowledge and history. They just spout off on things they like or dislike. People in this forum think the world started yesterday or at the most, six years ago. People here haven't a clue as to what the world is about.

news

In order.. every day: Today Show (1st half hour), 1 hr IMUS, 3 hrs Glenn Beck, 2 hrs Bill O'Reilly, 1 hr Jim Rome, Evening News, Newspaper

It depends on what you're talking about. snopes.com is good for defrauding e-mail, wikipedia is awesome for general things like 'why is it called a sperm whale' (that's because old sailors were pervs), dictionary.com is good for word definitions, word-detective.com is awesome for 'why is it called this?'. Just whatever sites I have discovered are reputable. Or the source, man. Go to the main site of products or bands or something. And always, always double-check your information before saying 'this is accurate.'

I look some stuff up on Google...I love Google... but mostly I answer questions that deal with subjects that I have some experience in, or that are asking for more of an opinion.

I read the paper, listen to the radio, watch TV, and do research on the internet. There is too much bias in the media to use just one to form an opinion.

For most facts in the world of politics, I trust BBC. I also do a lot of research into the actual history of things and places. In today's world it is easy to find supposed "facts" in lots of places. It is up to us to be impartial and intelligently filter the truth from these sources.