# So... Where do you get your news? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 7, 2002, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-do-you-get-your-news/117830 "2002-07-07T22:54:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-do-you-get-your-news/117830/1 "2002-07-07T22:54:47Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-do-you-get-your-news/117830/2 "2002-07-07T22:58:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-do-you-get-your-news/117830/3 "2002-07-07T23:13:51Z")
I get almost all my news from [BBC News Online](http://news.bbc.co.uk). It’s a good reliable service. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-do-you-get-your-news/117830/4 "2002-07-07T23:47:58Z")
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](http://CNN.com) and Yahoo, as well as The Straight Dope. I never watch TV news, unless there is a breaking story. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-do-you-get-your-news/117830/5 "2002-07-08T00:31:51Z")
[Washington Post Online](http://www.washingtonpost.com) and CNN. I subscribe to CNN’s News Alerts service, too (free). ---
**Author:** ![G.Nome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@G.Nome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.Nome)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-do-you-get-your-news/117830/6 "2002-07-08T00:58:20Z")
**[Fark.com](http://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. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-do-you-get-your-news/117830/7 "2002-07-08T01:01:51Z")
It used to be [MSNBC.com](http://MSNBC.com) or [CNN.com](http://CNN.com), until I suffered from complete news burnout around the middle of February. I now _read_ no news, l_isten to_ no news, _surf_ no news. I am in a much better frame of mind mentally, because of this. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-do-you-get-your-news/117830/8 "2002-07-08T01:46:44Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-do-you-get-your-news/117830/9 "2002-07-08T08:15:58Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-do-you-get-your-news/117830/10 "2002-07-08T08:26:11Z")
The BBC News, here, or on CNN. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-do-you-get-your-news/117830/11 "2002-07-08T09:09:24Z")
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](http://Slate.com). [canada.com](http://canada.com) is another good one. Sparse but from a north of the border point of view. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-do-you-get-your-news/117830/12 "2002-07-08T10:01:30Z")
[www.bloomberg.com](http://www.bloomberg.com) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-do-you-get-your-news/117830/13 "2002-07-08T11:16:33Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-do-you-get-your-news/117830/14 "2002-07-08T13:04:58Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-do-you-get-your-news/117830/15 "2002-07-08T16:33:11Z")
I can’t believe no one has mentioned [The Onion](http://www.theonion.com) or The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on [Comedy Central](http://www.comedycentral.com). ---
**Author:** ![Riddick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@Riddick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riddick)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-do-you-get-your-news/117830/16 "2002-07-08T20:13:26Z")
Definitely the most read website (or close to it with 4 million hits a day) is Drudge Report [www.drudgereport.com](http://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. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-do-you-get-your-news/117830/17 "2002-07-08T22:00:03Z")
Hm, The Drudge Report gets more hits than CNN? Cite?