Where do you get your online news? (pre-poll query)

[TreacherousCretin]

@DMark

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.

Although I listed it as one of my go-to sites, I agree with this, and find myself going there less than I used to.

[Sudden_Kestrel]

@Zeldar

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?

I remember all the addresses and manually type them into the address bar, but I’m probably outside the norm in doing this. I also have nothing but time, so it’s not an inconvenience to type 20 characters rather than 2.

[Khadaji]

Mostly Huffington.

[Antigen]

@Zeldar

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?

I usually have Gmail open, and I click on the “news” link up at the top to get to Google News.

[dalej42]

Except for sports and the financial markets, I use MSNBC, Chicago Tribune and CNN.

For sports, ESPN and NBC Sports.

For financial news, Marketwatch, Bloomberg, and Seeking Alpha for general market news.

[Zeldar]

Just to have said it, I’ve collected the first 25 posts to a work file for summarizing purposes and will post the first pass at that effort before much longer – later today at least.

Is it just me or does the lack of mention of Fox News say a lot? (Unless somebody else does mention it, it won’t be in the summary! )

[Loach]

Fox News. There I said it.

Online I look at Fox and CNN mostly. I will go to msnbc if I see something interesting on the msn homepage. Huffington gets visited but mostly if it’s linked from somewhere like the aol homepage and it looks interesting. Two local papers online. I should read some of the foreign sites more but there is only so much time.

[Antigen]

@Zeldar

Is it just me or does the lack of mention of Fox News say a lot? (Unless somebody else does mention it, it won’t be in the summary! )

With Google News, you can choose to get more or less news from certain sources. I have the slider for Fox News set to zero.

[Zeldar]

Okay! Here’s a stripped down version of what I hope are the sites mentioned in one way or another, at least in as specific terms as I could see.
As of Post #28:

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Yahoo!
CNN
our local paper’s site
The Onion
Google News
the BBC
local news sites (10TV and the Columbus Dispatch).
Right here (SDMB)

Google news
Washington Post
NY Times
the Week
CNN (for breaking stuff)
Christian Science
Atlantic Monthly (for analysis),
Talking Points Memo (for partisan red meat)
Washington Post site

Home - BBC News

iPhone apps
BBC
The Guardian
Twitter
Facebook
Washingtonpost.com
Google News

The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos

Slate
Feedler News Reader
NPR
Wired

BBC

Lots of local newspapers (most of them weeklies)
daily papers for the bigger cities in the area
Yahoo!

Google news
Huffington Post
TV stations from nearby metropolitan areas (mostly for weather and local stuff)
big TV news outlets like
ABC
BBC
“All My Faves”
New York Times
NPR.org
BBC News
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
Los Angeles Times
Time
The Guardian
iGoogle homepage
RealClearPolitics

CNN
MSNBC
Al-Jazeera
Local TV Station website
Huffington Post
Google News
San Diego Union Tribune
The Onion
Jon Stewart (not online, but still.)
the BBC
Telegraph
Guardian

BBC
CNN
Der Spiegel Online
Deutsche Welle (http://www.dw.de/)

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

on the iPad
The New York Times
The Wall Street Journal
The Daily
The Economist

CNN
Google
Hollywood Reporter
Huffington
NY Times
MSNBC
MSNBC
Huffington

Google News
MSNBC
Chicago Tribune
CNN
ESPN
NBC Sports
Marketwatch
Bloomberg
Seeking Alpha

Fox News
CNN
Huffington
Two local papers online

Google News
Fox News

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I’d love it if others would attempt a further paring down to a poll-sized list of key sources, with or without a count (so far) of mention in this thread. I’ll be doing such a thing myself, but more than one version would be okay, I think, for this thread’s purposes.

I do want to acknowledge the idea supplied by

@kmshrader

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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).

… as a format option. If other such ideas are more manageable, let’s hear them.

Thanks for the participation so far!

[What_the]

You all can hate it but the Drudge Report shouldn’t be ignored. Even if it is just used to identify issues. Then you can look elsewhere for a take that is more to your liking.

[MsWhatsit]

@Antigen

With Google News, you can choose to get more or less news from certain sources. I have the slider for Fox News set to zero.

Oh, cool, I didn’t realize you could do this. I’m going to go mess with some settings now.

[Zeldar]

Please double-check me for omissions (as of Post #28) :

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ABC
Al-Jazeera
Atlantic Monthly (for analysis)
the BBC – Home - BBC News
Bloomberg
Chicago Tribune
Christian Science
CNN
The Daily
Der Spiegel Online
Deutsche Welle (http://www.dw.de/)
The Economist
ESPN
Facebook
Feedler News Reader
Fox News
Google News
The Guardian
Hollywood Reporter
Huffington Post
Los Angeles Times
Marketwatch
MSNBC
NBC Sports
NPR.org
NY Times
The Onion
RealClearPolitics
Right here (SDMB)
San Diego Union Tribune
Seeking Alpha
Slate
Talking Points Memo (for partisan red meat)
Telegraph
Time
Twitter
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
the Week
Wired
Yahoo!

our local paper’s site
local news sites (10TV and the Columbus Dispatch)
Lots of local newspapers (most of them weeklies)
daily papers for the bigger cities in the area
TV stations from nearby metropolitan areas (mostly for weather and local stuff)
Local TV Station website

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[Loach]

Are you trying to just get a list of all news sources? I hear office gossip at lunch too. That’s news.

[Zeldar]

@Loach

Are you trying to just get a list of all news sources? I hear office gossip at lunch too. That’s news.

1. That’s not online, is it?
2. If that’s your main source for “news” then list it.
3. The eventual poll will give voters the option of checking their main source(s).

I would hope such a poll would indicate the preferred news source for the Average Doper – as defined by those who vote in such a poll.

[TreacherousCretin]

@What_the

You all can hate it but the Drudge Report shouldn’t be ignored. Even if it is just used to identify issues. Then you can look elsewhere for a take that is more to your liking.

Good point.

[samclem]

Google is my homepage, thus I get online news from them.

Radio–NPR

TV–I try not to

[Loach]

@Zeldar

1. That’s not online, is it?
2. If that’s your main source for “news” then list it.
3. The eventual poll will give voters the option of checking their main source(s).

I would hope such a poll would indicate the preferred news source for the Average Doper – as defined by those who vote in such a poll.

I think it will prove that the preferred source is “multiple”.

[Zeldar]

@Loach

I think it will prove that the preferred source is “multiple”.

No doubt. But which components of “multiple” may prove useful to those wanting a better source than their current crop,

[Jophiel]

Among other places already listed…

Political Wire
The Hill

The former being an aggregator style site but since you listed Google News and Drudge in your poll, I figured it counts.

[Just_Ed]

@Zeldar

I do want to acknowledge the idea supplied by … as a format option. If other such ideas are more manageable, let’s hear them.

Hey Zeldar, thanks for compiling all this; I’m interested in the eventual poll results - I’m always on the lookout for news sources.

There are a couple of data points I’m wondering about, though I don’t know if they’d be feasible for this poll:[ul][]Perceived political slant of the news source: For example, The New York Times is generally perceived to be liberal while The Wall Street Journal is generally perceived to be conservative (which is part of the reason I read both), but the impression I get of The Daily (even though owned by News Corp) is that it’s more middle-of-the-road than its parent company’s bias (while Fox News is generally perceived to have swallowed that bias whole).[]Subscription fees: The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal charge for full access, whether online or via app, while The Daily is a tablet-only subscription app. There might not be enough of a distinction to separate online vs. app access, but do you want to separate free/fee sources in the poll?[/ul]Again, thanks for the compilation effort!