I agree, which is why I said everyone should have voted for Straight Dope Message Board in order to be self-referential. I also take issue with Twitter being on the list.
In a 24-hour news cycle, you can forget GMA and you can forget CNN. I will watch those occassionally. In a 24-hour news cycle, I rely on The New York Times and ABC World News. Since it takes me approximately an hour to read through The New York Times and ABC World News is half an hour, that means, in an average day, I will spend around 2 hours on news. To put that into perspective, with breaking news, the average time spend on news goes up considerably.
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View Poll Results: Where do you get your online news?
This poll will close on 05-26-2012 at 02:42 PM
Straight Dope Message Board 23 46.00%
the BBC 20 40.00%
Google News 17 34.00%
NY Times 13 26.00%
Yahoo! 11 22.00%
CNN 10 20.00%
Huffington Post 9 18.00%
Al-Jazeera 8 16.00%
MSNBC 8 16.00%
Slate 7 14.00%
Facebook 6 12.00%
Twitter 6 12.00%
Washington Post 6 12.00%
The Guardian 5 10.00%
NPR.org 5 10.00%
Wall Street Journal 5 10.00%
Drudge Report 3 6.00%
The Economist 3 6.00%
The Onion 3 6.00%
RealClearPolitics 3 6.00%
ABC 2 4.00%
Atlantic Monthly 2 4.00%
Bloomberg 2 4.00%
Chicago Tribune 2 4.00%
Christian Science 2 4.00%
Fox News 2 4.00%
Los Angeles Times 2 4.00%
Seeking Alpha 2 4.00%
Der Spiegel Online 1 2.00%
Deutsche Welle 1 2.00%
Marketwatch 1 2.00%
Talking Points Memo 1 2.00%
Telegraph 1 2.00%
Time 1 2.00%
the Week 1 2.00%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 50
I find it interesting that only half of the respondents are getting news here at the SDMB. Even if you’re not actively seeking news stories here, you almost can’t help but stumble upon something every day. And since 100% of respondents are at the SDMB, I figured close to 100% would list it as an online news source.
To be fair, I was thinking of a poll of those late-comers along with 0-votes (and maybe the 1-votes) to see if enough people would elevate them from obscurity before giving up on the entire idea.
I’m pleased that I’m not the only one to regard The Onion as a news source!
I’ve had CNN as my home page for years, but the online (and cable also) content has gotten worse and worse. It’s like trashing the news format on Headline News Network to create on-air celebrities who talk about sensational news-like crap worked so well they decided to do the same with CNN.
I periodically visit Fox News just to see how they are spinning the stories. And NPR to get more in-depth stuff like their radio shows.
I would add Fark.com to your list - through Fark I read stories from a multitude of sites that did appear on your list.
Mostly I read news by starting at Google News or SDMB and clicking on interesting links. I learn to avoid certain sites (Washington Post) that have a poor content-to-loadtime ratio. (Ads don’t bother me; it’s the horrendous delays via my so-so Internet connection, probably for loading silly Javascripts from every Tom_Dick_and_Harry.com.)
Three I often click to, but not in the list, are Jon Stewart’s Daily Show (:D), The Risks Digest and alternet.org. I expect to be ridiculed for that last choice, but it often links to important stories overlooked by mainstream media.
