I’m curious - what websites do Dopers rely on to get their news fix throughout the course of the day?
I generally read CNN because I like their website the best - quick to load, frequently updated, and with a decent amount of headlines and content. I’ve tried Google News a few times, but it’s a bit too random for my taste. MSNBC, ABC, and Fox all have nasty, graphically overloaded pages that are cluttered and hard to scan.
Note that I’m talking about general interest news, not industry or hobby-specific stuff (like Slashdot, MacRumors, etc.)
The Drudge Report is a great repository of newslinks. The lefties regard him as right-wing, but: a.) that doesn’t really affect the fact that his site has lots of newslinks, b.) he doesn’t actually report very much himself and c.) I think he’s regarded by some as a a right wing hack because he flags stories unfavorable to the lefties, but he does the same with any story unfavorable to the right that might gen some interest.
I know its a terrible news site, and written in 4th grade english, but I’ve been oging there for years, and I have issues with new things being uncomfortable. One day, god willing, I will work up the courage to switch to cnn or bbc.
None. I read a newspaper, and I listen to NPR news on the radio. If you regard Drudge as news, remember that he admits to checking nothing. Because of that, he is vulnerable to manipulation by anyone who wants to feed him misinformation. It’s not a rare thing.
I used to be an avid reader of JapanToday, until it became clear that not only had the trolls taken over the news forums, the editors had come to realize that flamewars generate more pageviews and so began tailoring their articles to attract more trolls. I finally decided to boycott after their article on author Iris Chang’s suicide, where eight of the first ten forum responses were people cheering over her death.