Since I’m allergic to TV and find newspapers unwieldly and a fire hazard, I get almost all of my news online. A lot of news I get here, and if it piques my interest, I run to one of my bookmarked online newspapers and read more about it.
What are your main sources of news?
I read The Guardian (a UK broadsheet newspaper) either online or in print six days a week. At work I use the Press Association’s Ananova website and the BBC News website for rolling news. I often catch Sky News on TV in the morning before leaving for work. I also look at some more specialised IT and media news websites about once or twice a week.
I get almost all my news from BBC News Online. It’s a good reliable service.
The Denver Post and the Boulder Daily Camera. I have severe withdrawl symptoms if the paper is late. I just love the moment of opening the newspaper with a cup of coffee in the morning. The Sunday NY Times is a gift from heaven.
During the workday, I check CNN.com and Yahoo, as well as The Straight Dope. I never watch TV news, unless there is a breaking story.
Washington Post Online and CNN. I subscribe to CNN’s News Alerts service, too (free).
Fark.com but it’s offline so much these days. Could I take this opportunity to ask if anyone knows why? It’s down right now and has been for about a week.
It used to be MSNBC.com or CNN.com, until I suffered from complete news burnout around the middle of February.
I now read no news, listen to no news, surf no news. I am in a much better frame of mind mentally, because of this.
CBC mails me news a couple of times per day. When following an item, I browse the BBC and WorldNews.
For TV, the best news is “This Hour has 22 Minutes”, though it isn’t really a news show.
Here.
TV’s broke, and I’m never really interested in news, anyways. Anything really important that I really need to know will be discussed here anyways.
Of course, it helps that I’m a teen fresh out of middle school…
The BBC News, here, or on CNN.
Certainly this site is the most important to me. The SDMB reporters give us updated info and commentary on news from around the world, pretty much in real time.
I first heard about Sept. 11 here. I first heard about that plane crash in Germany here. And a few other events that I don’t recall.
I also enjoy BBC news, CNN and Slate.com. canada.com is another good one. Sparse but from a north of the border point of view.
It’s what the financial world lives off of. Good straight reporting. Newswire stuff. It can keep you up to date with important stuff in just 15 minutes a day.
BBC and CNN on TV, plus the morning talk-news my wife listens to.
Online, I give The Daily Yomiuri, The Mainichi Daily News and Japan Today a quick scan.
I also read the dead tree editions of The Japan Times and The International Herald Tribune when I have a long train ride, but they’re not my usual news source.
National and International News - The Washington Post
Local News - The Richmond Times-Disgrace and local TV
I’m a yellow-dog, libral Democrat so I also read the Op-Ed pieces in the Times-Disgrace to see what the crackpot right is thinking.
The local PBS station carries the BBC News in the evenings and I like to watch that for a different perspective.
I can’t believe no one has mentioned The Onion or The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central.
Definitely the most read website (or close to it with 4 million hits a day) is Drudge Report www.drudgereport.com ,which pulls tons of stuff from WashingtonPost, CNN, BBCNews, etc. and posts it almost realtime. Matt Drudge, owner and poster on the site, actually is credited with breaking the Monica Lewinsky scandal, among many other things. Check it out.
Hm, The Drudge Report gets more hits than CNN? Cite?