Where do you get your news?

AuburnTiger

I thought it would be interesting to find out where you all turn to get your daily dose of news.

I myself mainly rely on the online editions of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and BBC News. All offer free online memberships that let you access most of if not all of their content.

I rarely watch any televised news, and outside of the Colbert Report I don't think I even tune in to "newsish" programs either. Growing up my family would watch NBC Nightly News every night on the television. It's amazing now what we're offered.

Rent

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AuburnTiger

This isn't election-specific. I'm talking about news in general.

Podly

NYT, Boston Globe, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Book Forum, and various left-leaning philosophical and critical theory blogs.

Rent

AuburnTiger wrote: »

This isn't election-specific. I'm talking about news in general.

Ah, well then. Newsweek, Time, NYT, Washington Post, PA Presidency Thread.

AuburnTiger

A few years back I had subscriptions to Newsweek and Time, due to there being some kind of large discounted rate for students. I think it's interesting seeing how I almost completely rely on online news now, as opposed to televised or printed news.

Even the state papers here are collected on one website for easy viewing.

There are some magazines I'll pick up such as Utne, but I don't really consider that news.

NotYou

the PA d&d section for suuuuuuure.

others being cnn, bbc, yahoo, daily show, colbert

Cervetus

Honestly it's pretty much just Daily Show and word of mouth, although I hear Campbell Brown's show is pretty good so I might start watching that.

I used to watch BBC America's world news program but I just kind of fell out of the habit.

BobCesca

umm...The Guardian (online and paper form), bbc online, private eye and the economist.

and whatever I happen to see on tv or read when out and about.

The Cat

The local fairfax papers, Times Online, telegraph.co.uk, the bureau of meterology, google news, pandagon, feministe, hoyden about town, larvatus prodeo, the economist from time to time. TV news can go jump, I don't need a list of the day's vehicle accidents and murders to feel informed.

Also, joke option 'Go Fug Yourself'.

evilbob

Fox News and sometimes reading the Australian.

The Cat

No wonder you're depressed.

Wheezer

I subscribe to RSS feeds from Yahoo. I follow the feeds dubbed Technology News, World - China and World News. In addition I get the Finnish national radio/TV news (YLE) as a feed, but from there I only take the main news.

I'm really poor on reading local newspapers, mostly because they are in a language I don't read, but also due to the fact that the major English newspaper (China Daily) is biased. Not that AP and AFP through Yahoo aren't, but China Daily always has good news and silver linings to bad news as their main content.

Same goes for TV news - I don't watch TV at all, although the only English channel I get does have a dialy news broadcast.

KevinNash

Yahoo, Google News, LA Times, Reason and Lew Rockwell.

trevellian

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/

http://www.fark.com/

Plus sundry newspapers - depends what at the Hauptbahnhof - usually The Times or The Independant.

GoodOmens

I listen to a ton of NPR. Also CNN (and CNN.com) and the BBC when I can find it.

kaleedity

nytimes, npr, wp, drudge, cnn, john/colbert, these forums

Bogart

The Beeb, Guardian Online, Times Online, NYT, New Yorker and the Daily Show. Channel 4 News is also often worth watching, as is Newsnight.

Fallingman

The BBC - Online, TV, Radio 4.
The New Zealand Herald.

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Dalboz

My staples are NYT, CNN, Washington Post, Wired News, and Disinformation.

Shazkar Shadowstorm

NYT + NPR + Comedy Central

I NPR, can I just say that

Quid

Not out of any preference but just because they're convenient: D&D forum, Google news, Daily Show/Colbert Report, NPR, and I often leave CNN on in the background while doing stuff around the house.

Speaker

Google News, 538, The Daily Dish and The Concord Monitor.

taeric

NPR, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me (for the amusing news), WSJ, Some friends.

Sadly, most of my friends do not like discussing politics or news really. I've thought of trying to change this some. (I actually have a decent split of friends between republicans and democrats.)

Shadowfire

CNN (Headline News in the morning... Robin Meade), Fox News, Drudge, NPR, and Colbert Report (not a fan of The Daily Show).

Quid

taeric wrote: »

NPR, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me (for the amusing news), WSJ, Some friends.

Sadly, most of my friends do not like discussing politics or news really. I've thought of trying to change this some. (I actually have a decent split of friends between republicans and democrats.)

I love Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.

Malyonsus

Google News as an aggregator, BBC in specific during the day, and NPR on my way to and from work (and basically any time I'm driving anywhere). I used WGBH (Boston public television) for the debates, and CNN when I need ambient tv noise.

taeric

Quid wrote: »

I love Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.

I've successfully gotten about half of my friends addicted to that show.

If you have a chance to go to it, I'd recommend it. The content is not necessarily more funny or anything, but it is fun to be in that large of a crowd listening. And depending who is on the panel, they do have a bit more that does not make the show.

Morninglord

since i havent watched tv in years and very rarely read a paper:

people tell me important stuff

or i see a headline?

hasn't killed me yet, important stuff has this amazing habit of getting to me and unimportant stuff passes me by

mind you im not saying this is ideal, its just me :P

darthmix

For breaking stuff I usually rely on CNN.com and the latest breaking news board at democratic underground. For analysis I listen to podcasts of NPR shows.

Nerissa

Primarily here (including links to various places) and the 45 min to an hour total of NPR that I get while taking the kid to school and picking her up.

Also, occasionally John Stewart, Bill Maher, and various MSNBC programs.

Yeah, I should probably spend a bit more time reading actual unfiltered news.

moniker

PBS, NPR, the Chicago Tribune for local stuff, then the Economist, Financial Times, The Atlantic (mostly the web logs), and the random stuff that gets linked to from here. Plus the Sunday circuit on the big 3 and Fareed Zakaria's show.

Also, I read Architectural Review, Metropolis, and a handful of design/architecture blogs every now and again since they tend to be slow on the updates, but that isn't really 'news' all that often.

redx

Morning Edition, All Things Considered, BBC World Service, DWTV, Slashdot, Digg, GoogleNews, a dozen or so fairly random news feeds Google reader eats for me, random blogs and the New Yorker.

theSquid

The Age, The Australian, ABC News, SMH (all online), Google News, CNN, NYT, BBC (also all online), various tech feeds, various Linux news sites, Slashdot.

Dman

Morninglord wrote: »

since i havent watched tv in years and very rarely read a paper:

people tell me important stuff

or i see a headline?

hasn't killed me yet, important stuff has this amazing habit of getting to me and unimportant stuff passes me by

mind you im not saying this is ideal, its just me :P

This is about where I'm at also (no TV, no newspapers). I'll occasionally check online with google news, BBC, CNN or read a wiki article on some newsworthy event but mostly I only go digging if I hear something interesting.

Also, I listen to the radio while driving to/from work or anywhere, I stick to stations that have little snippets of jokes/news/trivia/weather every few songs so if the world is ending I'll hear about it. I also like to listen to quirks & quarks, its science news. http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/