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Where should I get my news
A Bear
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I like reading the news. Yet lately I have found myself yearning to go outside my usual sources and hopefully find a good news collection page to both broaden my horizons, and hopefully just get me reading even more about current events. The perfect thing would be a source that strikes a good balance between customization of features and being so personalized that I'm only reading about stuff I have pre-selected. I know something like this exists, but don't really know how to tell a good idea from a crappy one.
Bonus points for something that can get all my various interests (sports, law, politics, technology, cars, travel, world events, food and more!) complied on one easy-to-read, quick-to-load page.
Bonus points for something that can get all my various interests (sports, law, politics, technology, cars, travel, world events, food and more!) complied on one easy-to-read, quick-to-load page.
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Fark is actually really great, and has some of the off-beat random stories as well as the more mainstream articles. And the best headlines, EVER.
I hear that Fox is pretty balanced too...
Just brace for fail of the likes that you rarely see if you read the comments. But some of the comments are beyond any quality you'll see elsewhere.
It's a real toss-up
Thirded. The headlines are great, but sometimes people take liberties with them vs what the story is actually about.
Fark.com as previously stated lots of great stuff.
http://www.economist.com/world/ My favorite magazine for world news. Fairly balanced and will make you more informed. If you don't care much for world news than it might not be fore you.
http://theweek.com/home The week is a great magazine that is pretty much like a congressional/general brief. It has both sides most issues and everything you want to know.
for tech news
http://www.gearfuse.com/ a goofy blog of nerd stuff.
http://gizmodo.com/ A great network of info. lots of updates. The life hacker section can be pretty great.
I also check Ars Technica, HardOCP, NY Times, and a few other random places for various types of news.
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Oh God, someone thought I was seriously advocating Fox as "news"? Interweb sarcasm fail.
To be clear:
BBC = Good
Fox = Bad (though occasionally funny, in an "I'm so glad I don't live there" kind of way)
BBC = terrible as far as RSS goes though. All of 5 words get printed, and you have to click through to read anything. I can't be arsed to bother.
Fark sounds great. I'm going to check it out.
I check boingboing.net daily. I like the individual bloggers there with their different interests. Plus it has Cory Doctorow (+/-)
edit - just subscribed to fark.com in my google reader. First headline was "Watch the Gulf oil spill grow, kill Tasha Yar for no conceivable reason".
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I heard someone refer to gizmodo's "Checkbook Journalism" the other day. I gotta say, they do seem a bit biased at certain things. Which is kinda sad, cause I really like gizmodo, but stuff like engadget seems more reputable.
I second this. For those that don't know, the IHT is the Global Edition of The New York Times.
The Irritant is especially interesting because it actually has news that are a big deal over here in Europe but not so in America, i.e. school-shootings and such.
And Disney World is nowhere in sight.
And because it refers to the United States of America pretty much entirely as "U$" or "U$A"
Xeno-based news ought serve your purposes as they don't have much of a domestic market for the sort of public outrage that our country loves, consumes, and claims it "hates to see."
Two BIG recommendations: BBC and The Economist.
It's a step up from Amerikkka
I don't know, because of their paying editors based on click count, I've always seen most of the gawker sites as sketchy as geese. They have a much lower bar for determining what is worthwhile 'news', such as Kotaku's rape fetish and Gizmodo intentionally(?) putting slants on their posts to try to fan the flames. Especially for Apple products.
An annoying habit, but one that doesn't affect the qualitiy of their news. One could easily skip the political stuff and just stick to the science related articles.
And Disney World is nowhere in sight.