Just type about:blank in your browser address bar. It gives you a blank browser screen.
I used to have Yahoo! News as my home page. But a couple of years ago they “upgraded” their look and feel to the page. What they didn’t say is they also changed their news emphasis. I dropped them for my secondary news source, which was CNN.
Well, CNN has changed their news emphasis. It’s been long in coming and became very apparent when they, too, “upgraded” the look and feel (maybe 18 months ago?). As others have already mentioned, CNN content ain’t CNN content anymore.
In both cases, quality online news sources are being replaced with dumbed down crap, similar to when USAToday hit the newsstands years ago. Lots of sickly sweet sugar and no meat and potatoes news. The rise of the Daily Show shows this has moved into television “news.”
I don’t have an answer for you. CNN is still my news home page. But I also have Drudgereport, MSNBC, BBC and a few others sites I visit with the same level of support, because I want an overall balanced view of the news. I don’t go to FauxNoise because no matter how much balance I seek, Faux isn’t news but claptrap propaganda.
Me, too. I’ve got about seven tabs filled with different things. One for recipes, one for blogs, one for smart things like the NYT or Slashdot, one for politics, another for astronomy, another for webcomics. It’s great. I’ve cut my web-browsing in half.
Does anyone else think the basic Google News page is crap? It seems like they use a random number generator to pick which stories to feature. “North Korea Tests Nuke” ends up right next to “Miley Cyrus Visited By Leprechauns”.
I’m going to give npr.com a try. They run good radio programs (if a little left of center).
Until recently I had Google Reader set as my homepage. You could add several news RSSs of your own choosing. Currently, I have the SDMB as my homepage.
www.aldaily.com–The enlightened person’s Drudge Report.
None better.
I don’t have it as my homepage (Google Finance) , but Al Jazeera is the only mainstream news site I use.
I’ll cast another vote for iGoogle. I frequent Digg.com, espn.com, weather reports, cnn.com, all kinds of stuff. With iGoogle, you can have the top 2, 5, 10, heck, even 20 stories, show up all on one page. You can dig into the options a little deeper with every site you use, and really limit results to stuff you are interested in.
As for all around single-source news sites go, I really like the BBC. Their stuff tends to be more globally-oriented, and less biased, imo.
I’ve always been partial to the beeb.
I’ve got the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s News Website set as my homepage, but I doubt most of what is considered “News” here in Australia is of much interest to someone in the US.
How about Wikipedia instead?
Then you know every interesting, obscure, newsworthy, and unique thing happening anywhere at any moment 
I’ve being using Netvibes for a couple years. It can be customized. You can add dozens of feeds, all tabbed. I loves it.
Weird. I was just thinking this morning as I was surfing the CNN site for any kind of news that was somewhat interesting or relevant to me that I really need to find a better news page. Then I come over to the Dope and find this thread.
I had forgotten all about my iGoogle page!:smack: I set that up eons ago but never go there. My local paper is my home page but I think I will bookmark iGoogle for my national stuff.
Mine too.
Customize the hell out of it to suit your needs.
Me, I have financial news, world news, U.S. news, cheapest local gas prices, and the performance of my stocks, all on the front page.