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See Links below for political preference in news.

Commentators:

• New York Times
  Thomas L. Friedman Center-Left
  On immigration "We should build a big wall and a big gate"
  David Brooks Center-Right
• Other David Brooks talks

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General

• - The Daily - NY Times 20 min daily summary available at 6AM with Michael Barbaro, Natalie Kitroeff, and Rachel Abrams.

  Where I get my news: Moderate Liberal
  Breakfast with NPR Cap Radio (KXJZ) Sacramento or KQED San Francisco
  

  Dinner with The PBS News Hour
  Especially Political News Monday with Amy Walter and Tamera Keith, and Friday with David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart.

  Saturday dinner with Washington Week Friday night

• Conservative
  Cable Broadcast
  Fox news

  Podcasts:
  - Tucker Carlson
  - Fired from Fox in 2023 for broadcasting false statements about Dominion Voting Systems which cost Fox in a lawsuit.
  Now at tuckercarlsn.com
  - Sean Hannity - Was on Fox now on hannity.com
  - The Ben Shapiro Show - Podcast on Spotify, Youtube, ...
  - Joe Rogan - Comedian - Podcast Host - diverse guests - leans Conservative #1 on Spotify
  

• Liberal
  Cable - Broadcast:
  MS NOW (formerly MSNBC)
  CNN

  New York Times
  Politico
  PBS
  The Washington Post
  The Atlantic
  BBC News
  

  Podcasts:
  Rachel Maddow a weekly television show on MS NOW (formerly MSNBC),
  Anderson Cooper 360° (CNN)

• Late night TV: Mostly comedy interviews
  - Jon Stewart "The Daily Show"
  - Stephen Colbert "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert"
  - Jimmy Fallon "The Tonight Show" Other popular:
  

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History: (2000 - )
The biggies were:

- Rush Limbaugh's radio show was a favorite of my conservatives friends.
Limbaugh garnered controversy from his statements on race, LGBT matters, feminism, sexual consent, and climate change. He died in 2021
It was estimated that Limbaugh's show attracted a cumulative weekly audience of 15.5 million listeners to become the most-listened-to radio show in the United States

- Johnny Carson's "The Tonight Show". ran for 30 years from 1962 - 1992,
His opening monologues were famous. Dick Cavett was Carson's original head writer.
He seldom invited political figures onto the Tonight Show because he "didn't want it to become a political forum"

Other popular:
- David Letterman - Late Night with David Letterman (1982 - 2015). The show was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Series 11 times.
- Dick Cavett - The thinking man's talk show host
    Has been nominated for thirteen Emmy awards
- Bill Maher funny
- Larry King
- Jay Leno - Took over the Tonight Show from Carson.
- William F. Buckley Jr. Firing Line

Daytime:
- Phil Donahue 9 emmys
- Oprah Winfrey 7 emmys


People with the highest respect from their peers.
- Gwen Ifill (1965-2016) Journalist Newscaster
- Mark Shields (1937-2022) political columnist, advisor, and commentator.


Other popular | controversial:
- Bill O'Reilly was fired by Fox in 2017 over sexual harassment allegations costing Fox $13 million.

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Links:
The Political Gap in Americans' News Sources | Pew Research , June 2025