Can anyone recommend a decent homepage that has the latest news stories (politics, entertainment, sports, world, etc.) I can’t handle Yahoo or MSN any longer.
I haven’t had regular TV now for going on 15 years, I seriously do not miss it, particularly TV news. Whenever I’m staying at a hotel or whatever and turn the TV on. I’ll usually at some point flick to CNN, to get an update on what’s going on in the world. And it always spectacularly fails at doing that, its some combination of: stupidly long ad break, coverage of a police press conference (usually just the podium as the presser hasn’t started yet) about some hideous crime-du-jour they are obsessing over, or two banal talking heads arguing over some news item without actually imparting any more information about whatever it is they are arguing over.
So I’m 100% web news. My go tos are;
- The Guardian (not what it once was, but still a reliable source)
- The BBC (ditto)
- www.fark.com (this dates me, but its still a good new aggregator, and the headlines are still funny)
- www.slashdot.org and www.theregister.co.uk for tech news
I personally think there is a gap in the market for a good online-only “TV” news channel, that doesn’t suck. Particularly when there is something important and fast-moving happening in the world, its good to be able to just turn on the TV (or go to a webpage) and see live video of updates in real time (that have been filtered by actual journalists so you not reading what some random crazy guy on Twitter claimed happened). That is one thing TV news channels did better than anyone else, and it sucks there is no online replacement for them.
Al Jazeera is to some degrees, but its definitely not unbaised when it comes to the middle east, and as well as that it actually has the opposite problem to US TV news channels, as if you tune in during some huge fast-breaking event expecting to get updates, you’ll likely see an in-depth analysis of the problems faced by nepali farmers in the post-Covid argicultural market 
Which I’m really glad they are covering, but seriously I tuned it to hear about this huge thing that is happening, what’s the latest on that!
The NYT front page.
The New York Times lost my confidence when they not only walked arm in arm in promoting the false “Weapons of Mass Destruction” story that served the basis for the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, but then allowed and backed up Judith Miller in providing a ‘non-apology’ apology for knowingly promulgating false information. I still maintained a subscription for a long time until they dredged that back up to ‘prove’ how unbiased they are.
The Washington Post has been my go-to for domestic news for a long time but every time they give column inches to Hugh Hewitt I have to clinch my sphincter. It’s all fine that they want to give space to a variety of views, and I’ll read George Will even when I stridently disagree with him. Hewitt, on the other hand, is a dissembling dimwit who can’t even lie well, and there is no reason to give him space even if he were paying for it. Now that Jeff Bezos has selected William Lewis, late of NewsCorp, soon to take the helm, and gone through several rounds of deep staff cuts, I expect it to be about as useful as the local Shopper News.
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We haven’t had a TV for years. It got to a point where there were so many ads it was unwatchable.
I have a quick scan of the BBC main web page every day.
Sometimes Reuters and AP news. It’s all mostly the same items.
Also Slashdot and phys.org for tech stuff.
I use Yahoo mail as one of my email accounts, and it puts some stories up by default; I’ll occasionally check one out if it sounds interesting, though a good dose of salt is advisable there.
Social media of any kind… for news? Don’t make me laugh…
SDMB is usually a good start for me because I am here more than other sites, which isn’t much. From here I can be triggered to dig a bit deeper, even with useful links everyone provides. Other news sources:
- NPR
- AP News
- Reuters
- BBC News
- Axios
- The Hill
- CalMatters (California-focused)
- SFGate (San Francisco and northern CA-focused)
A lot of these are not sexy or even attractive in their presentation, but often contain in-depth reporting that requires some time to read - light on the fluff pieces.
Agree - whenever someone sends me a link to something on FB or X or whathaveyou, I just scoff and delete before reading.
In print, NYT, WaPo, and The Atlantic, for all of which I have paid subscriptions. CNN, Politico, Slate, RealClearPolitics, Huffpost. I see all of these daily. Axios, Economist, 538, New Yorker, NPR, and also some science news sites, though these aren’t always daily.
On television, MSNBC and occasionally CNN and network news.
Not TV.
NPR mostly online. BBC News & https://www.reuters.com/
I find these fairly objective and they still do fact checking. Very important.
Same. I do follow some broadcast and print media (BBC, NPR, WaPo, Financial Times, etc) but often the stories are mentioned here before I ever find them on my own. I can’t stand cable news channels.
For US political news I also follow Heather Cox Richardson (her newsletter is a must-read IMHO) and even comedy shows like Last Week Tonight can be useful.
Almost entire online. Like several other posters in this thread:
SDMB
BBC
Reuters
APNews
NPR
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And occasionally:
Politico
The Hill
Daily Kos
Raw Story or Daily Beast (if I’m hoping for some unsavory details)
Talking Points Memo
I do not read any newspapers regularly, nor listen to any news regularly. Whatever I get, I get from snippets of reading here and maybe catching something on NPR. Were I to want to access a news site, BBC and NPR would be my first go-tos. And then a wire service like AP or Reuters. My quality of life has been so much better since I just stopped seeking the news.
I read NPR and Reuters online.
On YouTube I get CNN snippets of recent news developments, usually 7 to 9 minutes long. If interested, I listen to the first 90 seconds or so for the actual news, until they start repeating everything and their tame experts start bloviating, and then I click off.
My alarm is set to my local NPR news channel (KQED in SF) so I get a few minutes of some NPR or some local news, depending, before I hop in the shower.
And here, like many others. The news here is kind of group-curated so (IMO) it’s generally pretty accurate in sum. We seem to be able to count on someone to post challenges and corrections to anything that is incorrect or just badly cited. Not always timely for some breaking stories, and there is appropriate running controversy about ongoing stories like Israel/Hamas. So not a bad supplement to the putatively-unemotional sources.
QFT. I tell people this all the time. One time in my life I was a 24/7 newshound and it was a stressful and unhappy time.
It definitely can change your worldview to stop the newsfeed rumination cycle.
I have decided I’m not obligated to think about anything unless I intend to do something about it, at which point I am only obligated to think about it while I’m doing something about it.
Most of the world’s problems seem so enormous I have no intention to do much about them beyond vote responsibly and donate some money. The issue closest to my heart is something I work on every day - but when I’m not working, I’m not obligated to think about that either.
Sometimes I realize I have a very different experience of the world than other people - my friends, even. One of them recently texted about an article they read about how Trump might conceivably be elected President again, and how his term would supposedly go, and I thought God, I’m so happy I don’t have to think about this anymore. Just hours and hours of completely unproductive rumination, wiped off my schedule.
My husband did the very same thing although kept reading until Ukraine.Then he left.
I read the NYT, WaPo (both online only now), I also read the Guardian (British with a US edition), the Atlantic, and every morning, in my inbox, Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters From An American. No TV or radio news except NPR in the car sometimes, but that’s quite random. I try to stay out of my car as much as possible.
I abstain.
I used to be a news junkie — staying up to date via political podcasts and various online sources.
But I noticed the effect of news on me: it only filled me with a melange of negative feelings. Which negatively impacted my day.
And I don’t even believe I was getting better-informed. Let’s put aside all the rage-bait media and focus on the most Associated Press and Reuters-oriented news media. I don’t think that getting stubs and drabs of the latest fragments of larger issues gives me the holistic and in-context understanding of the subject at hand. I feel like books and encyclopedia content better equips me with the knowledge I crave.
Moreover, so much of my consumption was just being a spectator. I wasn’t doing anything with the “new information” I was getting, except being saddened or enraged by it.
“The news” is just that: what’s new. It’s not what’s most important — especially if my news sources are particularly biased.
It doesn’t mean I’m apolitical — far from it. But I know my values and political alignment. And when the political choices seem to be limited to either toxic or feckless, I’m Team Feckless all the way. I’ll certainly take advantage of whatever information from news sources is available when it actually comes time to vote, but that’s just once every two years.
I’m just so over the bullshit. For me, no news is good news.
I watch CNN, MSNBC, Al Jazeera English, France 24 and sometimes BBC. That’s on TV, and my TV is on all day and tuned to one of these channels. This is the first thing I do when I wake up.
For emergent and developing situations, I usually get on Twitter. If something has just happened and traditional news agencies are taking their sweet time fact-checking really ridiculous things (because process says so), I go right on Twitter. It doesn’t mean I believe everything I read there, but it helps you catch up very quickly with something that’s just happening in real time.
For opinion and analysis, I really like Herbert Douglas, an American commentator working for France 24. I read Washington Post, New York Times, The Atlantic, Jacobin, WSJ, Financial Times, and The Diplomat (focused on the Asia-Pacific). I do not necessarily check opinion daily, but I’m following all or most of these outlets on social media, and this is the primary entry point for me when it comes to opinion. An article on my FB newsfeed with a relevant title will take me right into whatever website that published it.
I also check out Breitbart and Fox News every now and then to get an idea of what’s happening on the other side of the mountain.
That’s pretty much it.
Just repeat what @Aspenglow said…
I can add that I look at Right wing sources of information too, but one can’t stand so much praise for Trump. The one that I followed was The Weekly Standard, but since it criticized Trump… it closed down a few years back. So, the one that I can still recommend, for right wing commentary; The American Conservative is still ok: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/
Richardson’s Substack is an excellent read but I wouldn’t really call it news per se. She picks out one or two stories that she finds of note (often things that fall below the fold, or sometimes don’t appear in mainstream news outlets at ll) and puts them in a historical context. In some ways, what she is doing is actually more important than news reporting because she is inculcating readers in thinking about seemingly disconnected stories as part of a larger (often disturbing) pattern, and she’s always interesting to listen to even when she seems to be rambling on, but she’s not trying to provide even a representative slice of daily news.
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