# What Are Your News Sources?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603>\
**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:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603/21 "2012-02-03T21:03:11Z")

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The streets, baby…

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**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603/22 "2012-02-03T21:09:00Z")

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Do I win some sort of prize for saying I get most of my news from Lexis-Nexis, a databank of about 3,000 newspapers and magazines? Yeah, didn’t think so. It’s part of my job anyway.

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**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, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603/23 "2012-02-03T21:13:11Z")

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> [@Martin\_Hyde](#):
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> I should also sort of advertise a little bit for the Christian Science Monitor.

I had a subscription to the Monitor for a year or two, back when it was still a daily paper. Agreed that it was / is a very fine publication (even setting aside the one page in the back that they allotted for Christian Science philosophy).

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**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-news-sources/611603/24 "2012-02-03T21:50:38Z")

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The Onion

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