# What news site do you frequent? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 23, 2005, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-news-site-do-you-frequent/295937 "2005-03-23T20:44:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-news-site-do-you-frequent/295937/1 "2005-03-23T20:44:33Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![Arch\_Trout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@Arch\_Trout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arch_Trout)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-news-site-do-you-frequent/295937/2 "2005-03-23T20:46:20Z")
Unsurprisingly, being a Brit, I got to The BBC ---
**Author:** ![Arch\_Trout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@Arch\_Trout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arch_Trout)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-news-site-do-you-frequent/295937/3 "2005-03-23T20:48:07Z")
> [@Arch Trout](#): > > Unsurprisingly, being a Brit, I got to The BBC Lousy, backslash - try this one instead [The BBC](http://news.bbc.co.uk) ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-news-site-do-you-frequent/295937/4 "2005-03-23T20:56:43Z")
My homepage is MSNBC. Next I go to CNN. Then I look at Fark. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-news-site-do-you-frequent/295937/5 "2005-03-24T04:31:25Z")
I get my daily morning “highlights” automatically from: [http://www.answers.com/](http://www.answers.com/) I frequent: [http://www.usatoday.com/usafront.htm](http://www.usatoday.com/usafront.htm) And I also have a “My Yahoo” page setup for various other tidbits. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-news-site-do-you-frequent/295937/6 "2005-03-24T04:39:37Z")
Fark, baby, fark. “We don’t make the news. We just make fun of it.” ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-news-site-do-you-frequent/295937/7 "2005-03-24T04:50:20Z")
[Fark](http://www.fark.com) , [Google News](http://news.google.com) and [Getty Images](http://editorial.gettyimages.com) ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-news-site-do-you-frequent/295937/8 "2005-03-24T05:11:05Z")
The [Drudge Report](http://www.drudgereport.com/) 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. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-news-site-do-you-frequent/295937/9 "2005-03-24T05:53:27Z")
I just use [USAToday.com](http://USAToday.com). 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. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-news-site-do-you-frequent/295937/10 "2005-03-24T06:28:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-news-site-do-you-frequent/295937/11 "2005-03-24T08:32:05Z")
In order: 1. Mainichi News 2. Japan Times 3. CNN 4. FARK 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.