To expand. Which media: Radio, Television, printed media, Internet or the person in the Coffee shop?
As a starter, at the beginning of the day it’s BBC 24 hours news followed by a quick gander at The Guardian, The Telegraph and The Independent, all UK newspapers with on-line presences.
I’d love to say that the SD was next bit I need a good clear hour even to contemplate it.
Radio in the evening, the PM programme with Eddie Mair on BBC radio 4 at 5. Pm GMT. A godsend if you have more than a pair of neurons rubbing together between your ears.
Al Jazeera, the NYT, Kilburn Times et alia. are other more occasional visitors.
I should stress I used to work for the Broken Biscuit Company, BBC, so I’m a little biased!
News websites I regularly read are the BBC, Guardian, and Telegraph (starting with the Alex cartoon). I visit the Independent less frequently.
Paperwise I read The Week.
WRT radio, I haven’t deliberately listened to PM for many years, nor the morning news show. I got sick of the blatant bias of both shows. My radio is almost permanently tuned to Classic FM.
The Week, Washington Post, and NY Times are my mainstays. I also read Politico for pretty basic political analysis, Talking Points Memo and The Atlantic Monthly pretty regularly. During election cycles, I read Daily Kos, but just because it usually has a lot of links to tracking polls.
MSNBC, MSNBC.com, CNN.com, Talking Points Memo, Politico, and Huffington Post are my main sources of news and information. On a local level, Chicago Tribune and Evanston Patch are my go-tos.
Pretty much mostly BBC (TV/radio/web) and The Guardian (Press), often flitting to foreign web pages when I want an outside perspective. I occasionally pick up the free commuter papers the London Evening Standard or the London Metro, but they make me feel dirty afterwards.
The NY Times #1, Mercury News #2, with on-line sources only for breaking news. I spend plenty of time on my computer already, I don’t need to spend more reading the news there. Plus if I get food on the paper it doesn’t matter.
The local ABC affiliate for local news in the morning, lunch, and afternoon.
SDMB, and a conspiracy messageboard (ATS) for the random news articles people post on both. Between the 2 different messageboards I get a pretty good feel for what’s going on out there in the war.
Mostly Internet now. I glance at CNN and foxnews everyday and the online version of the Newark Star Ledger. Anything else I usually get from links on various homepages like aol and msn which takes me to huffington and other places. No real pattern, I just read what interests me at the moment.
Thanks good people,
I suppose I was foolishly expecting some kind of bias, which is kind of odd because I very rarely read the Chicago Herald Tribune and don’t even know it’s affiliations, if any.
I’m not too surprised by the emphasis on on-line media although I’m yet to be convinced of a decent, mature business model.
For Quartz, friends in Radio 3, (BBC classical music), used to describe Classic FM as all orgasm and no foreplay!
I also browse some of the international small town websites, Boise, Idaho anyone?
Peter
I listen to AM radio in the car, usually one of the conservative talk stations. The local morning show (AM 560 Chicago) usually has something interesting to say, lunch time Limbaugh is… heh… Limbaugh and on the way home I flip between drive-time chatter (890 Chicago) and Michael Medved’s show. I disagree with 95% of it but at least Medved can usually sound sane.
I read the Atlantic and Christian Science Monitor around daily and check Political Wire regularly as an aggregator of political news. For more in depth stuff, I hit The Hill. I also check Google News on a regular basis. My Twitter feed has Nate Silver, Joe Klein, Mark Halperin, Charlie Cook and folks like that. I’m a big dork but I guess it beats Kim Kardashian.
Locally, I look at the Chicago Tribune. When major stories flare up, especially international ones, I’ll read BBC and Al Jazeera for foreign perspective. I’d check them more regularly but there’s only so many hours in the day.
I almost never watch TV news. Aside from entertainment, I only use TV for debates, State of the Union addresses and stuff like that.
INTERNET
AP World CNN.com - US CNN.com - World
CTV Canada
Reuters: Top News
Reuters: US
BBC: News
Globe and Mail
CBC: News
CBC: Regional News
Toronto Star
New York Times - US
It’s more a case of if I don’t like the music being played, I can turn it off and when I turn it back on 10 mins later, there’s usually something completely different being played. I can’t say the same for R3.