# Where do you get your online news? (pre-poll query) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 5, 2012, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-get-your-online-news-pre-poll-query/620985 "2012-05-05T13:44:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-get-your-online-news-pre-poll-query/620985/1 "2012-05-05T13:44:27Z")
I’d like to put up a poll on which website(s) you visit for up-to-date and “real” news, but I don’t have a good feel for which sites to list. I have Yahoo! as my “home page” and thus get a large percentage of my news there, including local stuff and some selected categories like Sports and Entertainment. On those occasions when the news is too hot for Yahoo! to have all I want to read about, I’ll go to CNN, our local paper’s site, or some other specialized site if the news is of a particular character. I also read The Onion for the truth! What websites need to be included for such a poll to make any sense and to be as complete as possible? ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-get-your-online-news-pre-poll-query/620985/2 "2012-05-05T13:54:31Z")
Google News, the BBC, and my local news sites (10TV and the Columbus Dispatch). ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-get-your-online-news-pre-poll-query/620985/3 "2012-05-05T14:08:16Z")
Right here. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-get-your-online-news-pre-poll-query/620985/4 "2012-05-05T14:09:43Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Right here. Is that all? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-get-your-online-news-pre-poll-query/620985/5 "2012-05-05T14:13:59Z")
Google news, always. I have the settings tweaked to show me more on certain topics, less on others, so I can quickly see health and science news and avoid anything about celebrity divorces. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-get-your-online-news-pre-poll-query/620985/6 "2012-05-05T14:24:42Z")
Washington Post, NY Times, the Week, CNN (for breaking stuff), Christian Science, Atlantic Monthly (for analysis), Talking Points Memo (for partisan red meat) ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-get-your-online-news-pre-poll-query/620985/7 "2012-05-05T14:26:01Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Is that all? :dubious: Yup. I’ll first read about something here, then search for it elsewhere if it’s interesting. I look at the Washington Post site several times a day, but it’s bookmarked to the Sports page and I never look at any other section. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-get-your-online-news-pre-poll-query/620985/8 "2012-05-05T14:35:36Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Yup. I’ll first read about something here, then search for it elsewhere if it’s interesting. > > I look at the Washington Post site several times a day, but it’s bookmarked to the Sports page and I never look at any other section. Well, I will admit myself that I don’t make a big deal about checking news unless something is mentioned here, too. However, Yahoo!'s version of “what’s happening now” will catch my eye before I ever get here – in my usual routine. Besides, if it’s really significant news, it will be here within an hour of breaking wherever else. That being the case, I rarely link to news items elsewhere as a thread topic or as fodder for an OP. I figure if it’s worth discussing, somebody else will have made that move. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-get-your-online-news-pre-poll-query/620985/9 "2012-05-05T15:09:17Z")
[Home - BBC News](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/), 99% of the time. ---
**Author:** ![Candyman74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Candyman74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Candyman74)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-get-your-online-news-pre-poll-query/620985/10 "2012-05-05T15:22:37Z")
I tend to use iPhone apps for news (BBC, The Guardian, some tech news apps, some media/movie news apps) rather than my actual PC. That plus Twitter and Facebook, again on the phone. As far as the PC itself goes, messageboards and Facebook, primarily. But the PC is very much secondary to the iPhone apps for that particular activity. ---
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-get-your-online-news-pre-poll-query/620985/11 "2012-05-05T15:57:11Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > I’d like to put up a poll on which website(s) you visit for up-to-date and “real” news, but I don’t have a good feel for which sites to list. … I appreciate having been given a reason for a question of this sort. In this order, parts of : [Washingtonpost.com](http://Washingtonpost.com), Google News, [Nytimes.com](http://Nytimes.com) and Slate. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-get-your-online-news-pre-poll-query/620985/12 "2012-05-05T15:59:34Z")
I use Feedler News Reader on my IPad to read news fetched from multiple sources. The actual sources include NPR, Wired, BBC, etc. I mostly scan the headlines, and read a tiny percentage. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-get-your-online-news-pre-poll-query/620985/13 "2012-05-05T16:07:16Z")
Lots of local newspapers (most of them weeklies), a couple of daily papers for the bigger cities in the area, Yahoo! and Google news, Huffington Post, some TV stations from nearby metropolitan areas (mostly for weather and local stuff), and rarely big TV news outlets like ABC or BBC. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-get-your-online-news-pre-poll-query/620985/14 "2012-05-05T16:27:22Z")
> [@Sudden\_Kestrel](#): > > Lots of local newspapers (most of them weeklies), a couple of daily papers for the bigger cities in the area, Yahoo! and Google news, Huffington Post, some TV stations from nearby metropolitan areas (mostly for weather and local stuff), and rarely big TV news outlets like ABC or BBC. Good list! Just out of curiosity, do you have “favorites” or “bookmarks” for each of these? If not, how to you get to those sites? How many people here use “All My Faves” as a quick access point? ---
**Author:** ![kenner116](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kenner116](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenner116)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-get-your-online-news-pre-poll-query/620985/15 "2012-05-05T16:54:19Z")
New York Times, [NPR.org](http://NPR.org), BBC News, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Time, The Guardian. Those plus several others are on my iGoogle homepage. For additional political news and polls I go to RealClearPolitics. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-get-your-online-news-pre-poll-query/620985/16 "2012-05-05T18:15:11Z")
CNN, MSNBC, Al-Jazeera, Local TV Station website, Huffington Post. Google News when I want to pursue something further. San Diego Union Tribune to see what’s happening back in my hometown. And of course, The Onion. And Jon Stewart (not online, but still.) ---
**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:** [May 5, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-get-your-online-news-pre-poll-query/620985/17 "2012-05-05T22:37:58Z")
Online? Primarily the BBC, Telegraph, and Guardian. ---
**Author:** ![kmshrader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@kmshrader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kmshrader)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-get-your-online-news-pre-poll-query/620985/18 "2012-05-05T23:23:08Z")
BBC, CNN, and Spiegel Online (I know German, but they also have [an English version](http://www.spiegel.de/international/). Sometimes Deutsche Welle ([http://www.dw.de/](http://www.dw.de/)) in either English or German, depending on the situation. For poll purposes, I’d separate news into country of origin, i.e. U.S.A. - NYT USA - Yahoo USA - CNN USA - Other U.K. - BBC U.K. - Other Other Non-US or UK News Source That would offer me options without specifically including Der Spiegel or Deutsche Welle, which aren’t well known to non-German-speakers (although they ought to be, as Spiegel in particular is first-class reporting). ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Just\_Ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Ed)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-get-your-online-news-pre-poll-query/620985/19 "2012-05-05T23:49:53Z")
I’ve switched recently to reading the majority of my news on the iPad, and primarily use apps from _The New York Times_, _The Wall Street Journal_, _The Daily_, and _The Economist_. I scan the headlines of RSS feeds from various sites for specialized news (tech, science, music, movies, television); prior to the app use, the feeds from the aforementioned sources (minus _The Daily_) were also in my feed reader. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-get-your-online-news-pre-poll-query/620985/20 "2012-05-06T02:40:47Z")
CNN, Google, Hollywood Reporter, Huffington, NY Times. I used to love MSNBC, but their now their website has a gazillion things happening in the background and it is a pain in the ass to wait for that site to load up. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-get-your-online-news-pre-poll-query/620985.md?page=2)