While many of us probably get our news from a variety of sources, I have been reading a lot recently about news bubbles and echo chambers and it made me curious. What does everyone think of as their primary source for news and current events?
If you had to limit yourself to a single source for your answer, how would you say you get your news? Be specific if possible (ie a specific website is a better answer than “the Internet”, a specific program is better than “npr”.)
I’m just curious. If you are able to listing why that source would be interesting too.
Mine is currently BBC new headlines in my RSS feed. They tend to cover most of the world events I care about from a slightly different perspective than I get from other places and are pretty easy for me to access in a passive way each morning while I drink coffee.
Search for a recent thread of mine and you will see that I’ve come to the realization that the conservatives were right and my intake of media is heavily slanted to the left (maybe more accurately urban/suburban and east/west coast professionals). I’m honest enough to now see that and admit it and encourage others to branch out to learn about points of view other than their own being fed back to them.
NYT & Washington Post on my kindle. Online: The Atlantic, Christian Science Monitor, Politico. I got a gift subscription to The Week, which is a digest of news from many sources–I really like it. NPR. The Dope. I don’t watch TV news at all.
I have my homepage as news.google.
My bookmarks include a folder cleverly called “News”:
Al-Jazeera
BBC World
GlobalTimes (China)
NYT (subscribe!)
WaPo (ditto)
LA Times
one Israeli
you get the idea
I also have a folder: Koreas which contain news from both North and South. The North really do look like Soviet-style propaganda
You have the friggin’ world at your fingertips - do not settle for Facebook feeds.
Speaking of which: I also have Snopes bookmarked (under Reference). I don’t believe the crap they have to swat down
Good coverage, well-written, pretty unbiased. There’s no religious content to speak of. Every now and then, there’s an article with a philosophical tone. It has an excellent reputation.
All this. They go out of their way to write articles that are well-considered (I also rarely find typos) so they may have fewer of them but they’re more informative. I’m an atheist and I rely on the CSM, that’s how not-religious its reporting is.