# What are your sources of news?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-sources-of-news/461522>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 28, 2008, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-sources-of-news/461522 "2008-08-28T06:10:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-sources-of-news/461522/1 "2008-08-28T06:10:39Z")

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I just started worrying that my sources of news aren’t diverse enough (inspired by the total lack of desire to watch the TV news tonight.)

I get my news from:  
NPR  
Yahoo News

> **[Breaking News, Latest News and Videos | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/)**
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> View the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at CNN.com.

Newsweek (to be replaced by The Economist once the free subscription expires)

… and that’s pretty much it. Everything else is entertainment, not really news.

So where do you get your news?

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**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-sources-of-news/461522/2 "2008-08-28T06:38:56Z")

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The _Sydney Morning Herald_, Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Radio National” and the SDMB.

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**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-sources-of-news/461522/3 "2008-08-28T07:06:22Z")

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I mostly consult a local TV news site ([www.ktvb.com](http://www.ktvb.com)) but I also sometimes go to CNN, and of course this site also alerts me to a lot of the things going on in the world.

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**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-sources-of-news/461522/4 "2008-08-28T07:33:03Z")

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One of my internet habits is that after I read an overseas (or even interstate) news story, if it interests me, I’ll seek out an online newspaper that is local to the event, to get more in-depth coverage, and to see what the local people think of it.

Last time I did this was when that Cuban martial arts guy lost his nut at the Olympics. I visited my first-ever Cuban website, an English language news outlet. Lots of olympic coverage, but _not a mention_ of that bit.

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-sources-of-news/461522/5 "2008-08-28T07:39:17Z")

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BBC, Times, Telegraph, Guardian, less frequently are CNN and Fox.

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**Author:** ![5-HT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/f19dbf/32.png) [@5-HT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5-HT)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-sources-of-news/461522/6 "2008-08-28T09:33:03Z")

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I find that this site is the best place to get news. The seem to have a lot of inside information on the goings on of the world.