The night Castro died I was at my daughter’s house for the weekend. With three granddaughters from age 3 to 7 and 5000 square feet if gets loud and fun when the grandparents come for the weekend.
After the kids are watching Frozen for the (insert improbable large number here) time, the adults usually do what happens in a quiet moment these days and check their phones.
My daughter informs me that Castro has died. I look for a web site that has the story and find none. I ask her to check her sources and she tells me it is all over Twitter. None of my three newsfeeds has it, neither does CNN, Fox, ABC, or AP.
She shows me her twitter feed. I had flirted with Twitter in the early days and even briefly used it for business marketing, It has become a complete mess, but right now it cannot be touched for breaking news.

It took over 45 minutes for the Castro story on the websites and search engines to catch up to twitter .
Coincident to this, my news feed app went dark and instead of using another one, I reactivated my Twitter account, followed a bunch of news sites and a few key people and now it is a three or four times a day review for five minutes. My web viewing is now almost all opinion pieces.
So now for the point of the story.
How do you people get your news? Not commentary and opinion, but the ‘Breaking News” stuff?
- Newspapers?
- TV?
- Radio?
- Websites?
- News Aggregators? (Drudge, News360, etc)
- Facebook?
- Huey Lewis?
Just curious. If you have any good sources, pass them on to the group.



Lucianne Goldberg, Drudge, Rush, Fox News alerts, and my neighbor. For time-sensitive safety related items we have a neighborhood social network that posts wx alerts or police warnings.
But, a question. What’s the downside to not knowing Castro croaked for 45 minutes?
Having my daughter one up me. Competitive family.
I had to listen to how out of date my sources were.
Not to worry, TKC. Castro hasn’t been a playah in years.
I look at twitter for fast breaks too – though that’s where some of the Fake News starts too, you know.
I also look at Drudge, and am lucky I can have the Phila talk radio station on most days while I work, so I hear local news there.