# What Are Your News Sources? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 3, 2012, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603 "2012-02-03T01:18:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603/1 "2012-02-03T01:18:19Z")
From where do you get your news sources: _New York Times_ _Los Angeles Times_ _Washington Post_ _RealClearPOlitics_ _National Review_ _Telegraph_ _PBS NewsHour_ _ABC News_ ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603/2 "2012-02-03T01:24:56Z")
Denver Post Channel 4 - CBS (Denver) CBS CNN - more online than on TV Where ever the Google News links send me SDMB threads and links People I talk to while out and about ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603/3 "2012-02-03T01:33:43Z")
CFRA - Ottawa news Radio Ottawa Citizen - Newspaper (On-line) Ottawa Sun - Newspaper (On-line) Toronto Star - Newspaper (On-line) Globe and Mail - Newspaper (On-line) CBC Radio One CTV Television I sometimes check out CNN, but the above list gives me a pretty darned good interpretation of daily events. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603/4 "2012-02-03T01:55:16Z")
Plain news: BBC Guardian Times (original one) Plus an endlessly busy twitter feed A bit more reflective: Economist Private Eye London Review of Books New York Review of Books The New Yorker ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603/5 "2012-02-03T02:02:05Z")
NPR PBS News Hour SDMB and Fark threads and links. Local newspaper Newsweek ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603/6 "2012-02-03T02:07:33Z")
Online single sources: BBC Guardian Telegraph (when I want a conservative viewpoint to counter the Guardian) CNN Fox News when I want to feel like banging my head against a wall Sometimes, accidentally, the Daily Mail from people who know no better linking to it Print single sources: Newsweek Asiaweek The Economist TIME The New Yorker Various: Google News Facebook often shows me what my friends are reading in various publications SDMB links ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603/7 "2012-02-03T02:09:05Z")
AP News is my go-to, see-it-every-day place. For local news I (unfortunately) read the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Fortunately, the Las Vegas Sun is included with the LVRJ now, so I get that too. I read other newspapers as well, but find that mostly they rely on printing AP stories for anything that’s not distinctly local. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603/8 "2012-02-03T02:15:54Z")
RTÉ The Guardian The Irish Times BBC News 24 Sky News ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603/9 "2012-02-03T02:47:22Z")
NY Times online my local smallish-town newspaper Daily Kos NPR ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603/10 "2012-02-03T02:48:36Z")
The Five ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603/11 "2012-02-03T02:49:48Z")
If something major happened/happens, I’m most likely to find out about it on Facebook first (via my friends’ status’) and the SDMB second. Other than that, I don’t watch any news (I don’t own a TV), I don’t browse news sites, and I don’t read any papers. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603/12 "2012-02-03T02:50:08Z")
WBBM (Chicago news radio, CBS affiliate) CNN (mostly online, some on TV) BBC (mostly online, some on TV) Chicago Tribune (print, some online) NPR ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603/13 "2012-02-03T02:53:08Z")
Depends on the news. For local Arizona news, [Azcentral.com](http://Azcentral.com) I don’t watch local news if I can avoid it. [Politico.com](http://Politico.com) for political news. [Msnbc.com](http://Msnbc.com) for national news as well as the decent sports coverage. [CNN.com](http://CNN.com) and the CNN iPhone app for national news. Financial news, just about everywhere. I’ve got Bloomberg and Reuters at work. I’ll look at Marketwatch and CNBC as well to see what they’re talking about. I listen overnight to a variety of streaming radio stations, if they have news, they’re usually picking it up from NPR or the BBC. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Room](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_room/32/5069_2.png) [@Little\_Room](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Room)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603/14 "2012-02-03T04:26:29Z")
Paducah Sun Murray Ledger & Times Vienna Times Newsweek The Economist NBC/WPSD TV NPR BBC (both on radio World Service & on PBS) That about covers it except for the slow drip of random information from a thousand other sources around me. I don’t read political junk as much as I used to. ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603/15 "2012-02-03T04:51:58Z")
News Aggregators are far and away #1 Then: Wall Street Journal The Financial Times Washington Post Christian Science Monitor Richmond Times-Dispatch (for local) For in depth reporting I’ll read a few articles a week from: The Atlantic Scientific American The Economist ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603/16 "2012-02-03T04:57:28Z")
I should also sort of advertise a little bit for the Christian Science Monitor. If you haven’t heard of it, firstly it isn’t a religious paper. It was founded by the woman who founded the Christian Science religion because she wanted to create an independent newspaper that (in her mind) would be a stark contrast to the salacious journalism common in her era. Her view was that most of the persecution she had suffered was because of unscrupulous journalists. I’ll say without trying to start a debate I think Christian Science is hogwash, but for many years the _Monitor_ has been probably the most independent news source I’ve read/observed. Even more so than NPR. Something that used to be very unique is that the CSM essentially doesn’t use wire stories, but does all their own original reporting with real reporters writing real stories. Unfortunately the paper has never been popular, and while I’m a right wing conservative I think the paper would appeal widely to people more on the left end of the spectrum but I suspect in this day and age lefties see the word “Christian” and assume it is some Fundie rag. In the face of mounting losses the Church which provides funding to the (independently operated) paper has been pushing for it to become more self-financed, and because of that it is no longer a daily printed newspaper, but they still put out a weekly magazine. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603/17 "2012-02-03T06:34:47Z")
Reading news is very low priority for me. My meager investments are mostly long-term funds, and I can’t even remember the last time Hillary Clinton called me asking for urgent advice. 😉 Much of my contact with the outside world is from here, SDMB ! :smack: I do click Google News once a day, click from there on stories that look interesting, and often click onward if that news site has other interesting headlines. I gradually learn which sites are good to click to. The Christian Science Monitor website is good, as are those of Voice of America and Al Jazeera. (I don’t click on Washington Post: it wouldn’t really load at all before I got AdBlock Plus, and even now it wants to bog down my connection loading every javascript it can think of.) I used to subscribe to _International Herald Tribune_ but stopped, in part because it arrived by mail a week late where l live. :dubious: I don’t make it to the Big City much anymore but when I do I treat myself to _Atlantic_ and _Harper’s_. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603/18 "2012-02-03T06:46:48Z")
Online NYtimes BBC Time Newsweek Economist forbes Google news Scientific American Businessweek Financial Times Print Indian Express Economic Times ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603/19 "2012-02-03T07:33:01Z")
On TV: BBC World CNN International NHK (Japanese) Asahi News (Japanese) Online: Google News Links Los Angeles Times Asahi Shimbun > **[Japan Today](https://japantoday.com/)** > > Japan News and Discussion Nikkei Shimbun ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603/20 "2012-02-03T07:58:01Z")
Radio: NPR. TV: Local news channels and Telemundo Online: BBC Local news paper when I get around to reading it. I don’t get it at home anymore ☹ Out of all of the above - NPR is my main news source. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603.md?page=2)