Where Do You Get Your News?

[Macman45]

We had no TV until Kennedy's assassination...My father would not have one in the house but caved for the funeral. TV sets were a luxury item back in the day...now you get 3D, Internet etc. etc. for relative peanuts..

 

[malman89]

BBC
The Economist
Al Jazeera English
Detroit Free Press
New York Times
Google Top News Stories
Twitter feeds of most of these outlets

Mostly got my news from Google Reader, but that's slowly being weened out. I remember when The Economist dropped from it - sad days. Now Google is killing it off. I'll have to find an alternative not named Huffington Post to satisfy my news needs, but it's not hard going to individual sites - just less convenient.

 

[sviato]

Twitter and Flipboard.

 

[vrDrew]

News?

I'm a digital subscriber to the New York Times. Simply the best daily newspaper in the world. Yeah - it has a lot of NY-local news that doesn't do me much good. But it also has the cultural/arts/fashion/food/entertainment stuff my local rag couldn't possibly provide. A digital subscription works great for me, for two reasons: One, I don't have to drag a stack of old newsprint to the curb every week. And I don't miss an issue when I'm traveling.

I the car I listen to NPR: Morning Edition and All Things Considered to and from work. Car Talk, Weekend Edition, Terry Gross, etc. the rest of the time.

Daily I take a look at Gizmodo and ARS-Technica; Wired and Slate for trending tech. news. Andrew Sullivan's Dish for cultural/political/social commentary/stuff I might otherwise miss.

I almost NEVER watch TV news anymore. The daily 6 pm news shows are too late, and too "packaged" to be of much interest. "Breaking" news (i.e. CNN, MSNBC, etc.) are frankly tiresome 99.9% of the time. And my local 6 pm and 10 pm broadcasts seem to feature a lot of local sports and weather I just don't give a rip about. (I care about both, but get my actual "news" from sources that don't force me to sit through commercials and inane filler.)

 

[Jessica Lares]

NPR, NYTimes alerts in my inbox, BBC News (and in their radio programs, they have news updates, so frequently during them), CNN, and sometimes Fox News.

 

[DesertEagle]

CNN and the NY Times.

 

[designs216]

Besides not having time for TV, I can't stand all the bias or the constant commercials. The other fundamental flaw with the news shows is that it's too much what people want to hear and not enough what we need to hear. I usually listen to news on the radio a bit on the way to work or hit a few web sites and call it a day.

 

[abz1981]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news
http://www.aljazeera.com
http://www.guardian.co.uk
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
http://www.nytimes.com

I wouldn't say bbc news is always impartial sometimes they are sometimes they are not. Depends on what news they are reporting.

guardian and al jazeera, new york times and huffington post i would say is more impartial.

 

[zachlegomaniac]

The Boston Globe
NPR
WBUR (local public radio station)
BBC world news
Local TV news for weather, traffic, breaking news,and Red Sox highlights (assuming there are any!).

Ditto. Ha.

 

[snberk103]

Google News in the morning.
MacRumours of course.
BBC, CBC,
Globe and Mail - though that will end soon... It's becoming very, um, 'light'.
New York Times online.
At night it's the CBC National online.

During the day often CBC radio two, or if there is something happening CBC radio one.

We don't have cable, so all news comes as either radio or online. Radio can be online or broadcast.

Oh, and the local weekly paper... newsprint of course.

 

[wordoflife]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news
http://www.cnn.com
http://www.guardian.co.uk
http://www.nytimes.com
Also I think http://www.aljazeera.com is pretty good too.

 

[unlinked]

I'll have to check out Flipboard. I'm not so crazy about the big American outlets. They all seem like they have their own slant on things. What American outlet is the least biased, in your opinion?

That is a pretty difficult question since we all have our own built in bias.

I don't really pay too much attention to non tech news now but I do listen to bloggingheads most days. It has 30-60 minute discussions between pairs of people who to varying degrees disagree. Get both sides and make up your own mind. A lot of it is current affairs based but it is taking a longer term view than the daily news cycle.

http://bloggingheads.tv/

 

[hexonxonx]

NBC news app and my local TV stations app.

I don't pay for cable or satellite so I have no TV.

 

[macquariumguy]

NPR and local newspaper.

 

[Plutonius]

Usually Fox when I'm in the mood to watch news. It's at the very least entertaining.

I get my sports results on-line.

When a news outlet seems impartial, that just means you agree with what they are reporting. Every news outlet has a slant (the people working in them all have opinions).

 

[ucfgrad93]

Don't watch much TV news, get it mostly from the internet. CNN, USA Today, Fox News, Bloomberg, and local news stations.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

BBC; Guardian; (sometimes, also the Telegraph); The Irish Times; Al Jazeera.

In addition, I subscribe to The Economist, the Eurasia Daily Monitor, and the Moscow Times.

 

[Happybunny]

I watch TV News NOS or RTL for local news.

Then the internet.

http://www.bd.nl/ (Local news from home city)
http://www.volkskrant.nl/

Foreign Press

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

http://www.independent.co.uk/

http://www.standaard.be/

http://www.faz.net/

http://www.zeit.de/index

http://www.neues-deutschland.de/

http://www.lemonde.fr/

http://www.lefigaro.fr/

http://elpais.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/

http://www.usnews.com/


And then just for fun.

http://www.foxnews.com/

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

http://www.telegraaf.nl/

http://www.bild.de/

 

[chuckiehina]

No one has mentioned Naked News?

 

[TyPod]

Twitter and Foxnews for me!

 

[Mr. McMac]

Fox News and Conservative AM Radio.

 

[Huntn]

USA Today, CNN, MSNBC, Huffington Post, NBC, CBS, ABC.

 

[ben123456]

Hello all,

I'm 27 and have recently decided I need to start paying attention to the news, no matter how depressing it can be, because I work in real estate and current events, etc. are always coming up, and I'm always like "Oh, I have no idea what you're talking about.", and then I look like an uneducated idiot.

So, I would like to know where people get their news, because I am wondering what the best option is. I live in Florida, but obviously want world news as well. I am aware of the major American and British news agencies, but I don't know if there are alternative news sources that might be better.

Any suggestions are appreciated!

steiney

Annonomos puts out pretty reliable news. http://anonnews.org/ not news on everything but it is pretty good. Besides that I watch some Fox and local stations

 

[rovex]

http://www.presstv.com/

http://rt.com/

 

[opinioncircle]

Brian Williams is probably the only television newsman left in the same vein as Cronkite or Huntley Brinkley.

+1 here as well, we watch him through the podcast app on the iPad every morning.

As for other news sources, I use Flipboard on a daily basis. So much, that my internet history on my laptop now constitutes of Funny or Die and/or The Daily Show