Where do you get your news?

[Deviate]

I'm pretty familiar with news networks here in the US. I've long picked up news in BBC. I've started watching coverage of Gaza on Russia Today and Al Jazeera.

What news source do you trust/use/etc? And why? I'd particularly like opinions on RT and AJ.

 

[Patroklos]

NPR primarily (to and from work). Drudge for headlines at work. I don't follow the news at home, I find it leads to a more harmonious life for my fiance and I in general!

 

[amadeus]

Here, Drudge, Japanese newspapers, libertarian pages on Facebook, antiwar.com, and LewRockwell.com.

 

[Camikaze]

Whatever my phone puts in my news feed. Which ranges from The Guardian to Fox to the Times of India. BBC is my browser homepage, and if I'm actually searching for news, I use it, SMH and CNN.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

NPR primarily (to and from work). Drudge for headlines at work. I don't follow the news at home, I find it leads to a more harmonious life for my fiance and I in general!

Congratulations on getting engaged!

When I lived near St. Louis, I listened to NPR constantly.

Since moving here, my car radio broke so I can't listen while I commute. Plus, the local NPR station only plays about 4-5 hours of news per weekday (less on weekends) dispersed between random radio plays, book readings and blue grass. So I listen to NPR less now, but it's still a primary source.

Online and on my phone, I read the BBC and NBCnews.com (used to be msnbc.com).

On TV, I watch CNN, MSNBC and Fox, but for the latter two I have to take my anti-distortion pills beforehand and also avoid certain shows.

 

[Ajidica]

BBC for the most part. I occasionaly go to Al-Jazeera but I have been getting fed up with the spotty quality of their opinion pieces and BBC appears better overall for actual journalism. I very rarely look at American news sources for anything besides local news. As far as television goes, I watch very little news on it but when I do I try and go for CNN (and hope they are actually doing serious news).

 

[Patroklos]

Congratulations on getting engaged!

Thanks!

 

[civver_764]

Honestly I get most of It from here. I never really feel the urge to check the news properly.

 

[downtown]

The Chicago Tribune, Congressional Quarterly, The Atlantic, PoliticalWire (best political website on the internet), and a few specific journalists on twitter from other sources (ie the Huffington Post has a very good immigration reporter, BuzzFeed had the best Romney reporter, etc).

Given my work though, I'd say at least 70% of my news consumption is sports related. I follow a ton of beat writers across the midwest.

 

[Murky]

NPR, PBS, Google, Yahoo, NYTimes, Facebook and twitter.

 

[Zelig]

I don't follow news other than tech stuff, it's mostly a waste of time.

In my google reader feed for news: Anandtech, Ars Technica, The Verge

 

[warpus]

News aggregation sites like reddit, the BBC, al jazeera, and CNN if I want to find out what kind of panties Britney Spears was wearing last night

 

[ComradeDavo]

BBC news channel. BBC website. Channel 4 news. The Independent website. The Guardian website. Twitter.

 

[The_J]

The local newspaper ^^.
Don't regularly check news sites online, besides the portal of my freemail provider , and also don't watch news in TV regularly.
For tech stuff I follow 2 bigger German tech sites daily, else the newspaper is enough for me.

 

[JollyRoger]

The Wall Street Journal. They have an excellent couple of pages near the end of the first section that parody right wing blowhards.

 

[Glassfan]

NPR on my commute. CNN.com is my Internet Homepage. World Press Review and DoD Newservice are on my gmail. BBC UK, Deutsche Welle, The Korea Herald and The Jerusalem Post are on my Kindle. And during lunch at work I read The Akron Beacon Journal and New York Times newspapers and various newsmagazines as they show up - Time, Newsweek, etc.

And, of course, theonion.com - America's Finest News Service.

Can anyone suggest a good Aussie newssource?

 

[Grendeldef]

YLE, SVT, NRK & BBC apart from various tech/comp specific sites. CNN, Al Jazeera, Huff Post & various others for more in depth strories/variety. I also regularly watch Fox News but for it's comedy value only - I'll get as much news information from Jimmy Carr's yearly DVDs which are quite a bit funnier. I wish my German & French were a bit better as it'd save some time browsing through continental European newspapers.

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[Peck of Arabia]

For local (UK) news I'll watch BBC and Sky, and generally be disgruntled with both and I'll look at the Independent Website for any articles that catch my eye

My parents get the Daily Mail on Saturdays ("For the TV guide") I'll have a read through that for entertainment purposes (we also get the local paper- Go localism! Woo!)

I get my US fix through the Young Turks on YouTube (and others)- I might dabble in stuff like RT or the like, but not on a regular basis

As an aside, my dad was pretty impressed with Al Jazeera's news reporting the other day, calling it "Not bad"

I guess I'm saying I could be better informed, though I'm better informed that some I know...

 

[PhroX]

I tend to read the i newspaper most days, as it only cost 20p and gives me something to do while eating breakfast. Other than that, usually the BBC website.

 

[Deviate]

Seems like we all, so far anyway, regard BBC pretty highly. Anyone have commentary on accuracy/bias? For example, I read Al Jazeera with a little hesitation when it comes to the Middle East.