# Where do you like to get world and national news? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 28, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-like-to-get-world-and-national-news/515490 "2009-10-28T18:41:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-like-to-get-world-and-national-news/515490/1 "2009-10-28T18:41:10Z")
Specifics, please, if a particular website, newspaper, magazine, etc. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-like-to-get-world-and-national-news/515490/2 "2009-10-28T18:46:52Z")
npr ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-like-to-get-world-and-national-news/515490/3 "2009-10-28T19:02:41Z")
Asia Times Online is one of the best sources for in depth news from Asia. [www.atimes.com](http://www.atimes.com) The articles are far away from the fluff you get in western sources, they tell you who the players are and often have handy dandy maps of resource distributions. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-like-to-get-world-and-national-news/515490/4 "2009-10-28T19:03:26Z")
Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, CBC, BBC, Sydney Morning Herald, CNN, Energy Bulletin, Bloomberg… :: adds Asia Times to list :: ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-like-to-get-world-and-national-news/515490/5 "2009-10-28T20:09:57Z")
I like Drudge and FoxNews. I listen to talk radio most of the day at work, and they always break in when something happens (I first heard about the terrorist attacks on Sept 11 via a radio report.) ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-like-to-get-world-and-national-news/515490/6 "2009-10-28T21:14:45Z")
The Economist. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-like-to-get-world-and-national-news/515490/8 "2009-10-29T10:12:52Z")
The SDMB, of course. Besides that: Ynet.co.il is my homepage. It’s the best Hebrew-language news site. The New York Times website. Slate. I also read the weekend editions of Israel’s three major newspapers - _Yediot_, \*Ma’ariv \*and _Haaretz_ - for more in-depth coverage. ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-like-to-get-world-and-national-news/515490/9 "2009-10-29T10:25:44Z")
BBC, Al Jazeera, MSNBC, The Pyongyang Times 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-like-to-get-world-and-national-news/515490/10 "2009-10-29T12:28:48Z")
Boston Globe, World News Tonight, and BBC America – although I wish they’d switch to an Anchor Desk that didn’t look like a toilet. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-like-to-get-world-and-national-news/515490/11 "2009-10-29T12:44:40Z")
For headline news, I listen to the radio every morning as I get up (News Radio WINS in NYC: “Give us 22 minutes, and we’ll give you the WORLD”). I get actual in-depth coverage primarily through the NY Times and secondarily through the Wall St. Journal, online these days for the most part but I enjoy reading the printed paper at my in-laws’ or on an airplane/bus ride. I usually also scan the NY Daily News and NY Post headlines online just to keep a finger on the pulse of the more salacious or local flavor news, and read the occasional article I find there that I hadn’t already seen or heard about via the radio, the Times or the Journal. I also subscribe to the Economist, but that’s a weekly, so I usually don’t learn about events from it (as in, “I hadn’t heard about that”) so much as get a different, deeper analysis of them. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-like-to-get-world-and-national-news/515490/12 "2009-10-29T12:53:09Z")
bloomberg is great. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-like-to-get-world-and-national-news/515490/13 "2009-10-29T13:04:06Z")
BBC Radio 4 mainly. Sometimes Google News for eclecticism, sometimes the BBC News website. On Sundays I often read the Sunday Times (UK, right wing) and the Observer (left), and if I do get papers during the week I get the Telegraph (right) and the Guardian (left). ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-like-to-get-world-and-national-news/515490/14 "2009-10-29T13:28:36Z")
> [@Desert\_Nomad](#): > > BBC, Al Jazeera, MSNBC, The Pyongyang Times 😉 Read an article recently praising the news coverage on Al-Jazeera because they didn’t simply cover stories to the extent they impact western interests. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-like-to-get-world-and-national-news/515490/15 "2009-10-29T13:40:15Z")
For myself, it’s [CNN.com](http://CNN.com) for the morning headlines when I get to work, and _Newsweek_ magazine for a bit more depth on the week’s stories. Sometimes [nytimes.com](http://nytimes.com), too. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-like-to-get-world-and-national-news/515490/16 "2009-10-29T15:18:03Z")
NPR NY Times Washington Post The Daily Show ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-like-to-get-world-and-national-news/515490/17 "2009-10-31T12:49:26Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Read an article recently praising the news coverage on Al-Jazeera because they didn’t simply cover stories to the extent they impact western interests. The [BBC World Service](http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/) is similarly inclined - African, South American and Asian issues are given equal weighting to the regular western ones. Not surprising, therefore, that Al Jazeera grew from the defunct BBC World Arabic Service. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2009, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-like-to-get-world-and-national-news/515490/18 "2009-10-31T12:53:55Z")
[Fark](http://www.fark.com). Get the stories days to hours before the big dogs. And then comment on it. “Fark. We don’t make the news. We make fun of it.” ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-like-to-get-world-and-national-news/515490/19 "2009-10-31T15:35:50Z")
Radio: CBC, NPR. Web: CBC, NPR as well. BBC. [CNN.com](http://CNN.com) is a joke nowadays. Local radio station has a short news page, and the local paper’s website (CFAX, Times Colonist). Also, a local Victoria forum is good for gossipy insider news before it makes the paper sometimes. Television: CBC Newsworld (or whatever name they’re changing it to), CNN, CTV Newsnet. Local news and Vancouver news on the six or 11 p.m. news shows. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-like-to-get-world-and-national-news/515490/20 "2009-10-31T19:04:53Z")
NYTimes Washington Post BBC World ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-like-to-get-world-and-national-news/515490/21 "2009-10-31T19:14:34Z")
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