Question for the "liberal" folks on here

I can say that I have never followed a Left-leaning commentator, whether TV, radio, podcast, youtube, whatever. I've watched a few clips to see what they were about, or for general amusemnt, but never saw the point of listening again or following them. All those left leaning commentators on CNN? Never watched. Never really got into Stephen Colbert or the Daily Show back when they were big 15-20 years ago. I hardly, if ever, watch TV news. If I listen to radio news, it is usually NPR because they are the only ones not yelling, and if they are biased at least they go into depth from multiple sides. I will read any new story online that I find interesting and comes across my feed or links posted to social media (such as here). Basically, I don't care for news "opinion", as I don't feel that those giving the opinion have any more credentials toward the truth than I do.

Conversely, I have noticed that conservatives on here or elsewhere source right-leaning opinion personalities quite often. It's plainly clear that they get their viewpoints from various opinionated sources rather than more fact/informative based news.

My question to the liberals on here: Do you watch/follow left-leaning news opinion personalities on a regular basis? What is your general source of information on current events?

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trollslayer · 46-50, M

Interesting replies. I can't say I have ever watched any of the major cable news outlets except as background when I am waiting in some public place. Haven't watched local TV news in decades, same goes for national news. For awhile I liked watching Meet the Press on NBC Sundays until Tim Russert passed away. I also used to watch PBS news hour pretty regularly until about 10 years ago, mainly because I liked Shields and Brooks. Frontline was a regular of mine as well. But now I am tired of it all and would rather watch something else than news/current events.

I'm just surprised I am often accused of reading huffington post or watching MSNBC, the former I had to look up to see what it was. I'm also accused of not expanding beyond "liberal news sources". My understanding is that to those folks, any news source is "liberal" and "not liberal" to them means highly opinionated and biased to the right.