Where do you get your news?

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I'm curious, since many here seems to claim that every news service save the one they favor is irreparably biased; where do some of the regulars here go for their news?

I personally don't really have any one source, I get whatever the AP thinks is newsworthy on my homepage, I read the Seattle Times a few times a week, and if I'm interested in something I may have heard in passing I Google it and read the most relevant sounding articles regardless of source. I ocasionally find myself browsing Counterpunch or one of the other more obviously canted sources, but I always take anything I read there with a shaker full of salt and a lot of following up before I start to trust it, and take each article individually.

Primarily (at least once and usually several times every day):

BBC Online
CNN Online
MEN Online
BBC News on TV

To a lesser extent:

Le Monde Online
Other British TV News programmes
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Online

To a much lesser extent:

Various other major or state news outlets (like KCNA for comedy value )

Particularly not (unless I'm attempting to determine how they're distorting the truth about something):

Sky, Fox, anything where Abrahamic religious interestes are obviously at play

BBC and CNN.
I try to avoid biased newspapers like NYTimes and Fox.

Mostly online, I like reading BBC online for international stuff, RCP, the evil Drudge Report , JSOnline(for local stuff) or just wherever a certain headline takes me. I think I sample a pretty wide spectrum of stuff.

As for TV, usually either FOX or CNN although I'll peek on MSNBC from time to time.

BBC and the FT.

EDIT: For tech news, Engadget is my site of choice.

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I generally start with Google News. Then I try to find at least two oppositely biased sources on any important issue. For example, if I'm reading about something in the mideast, I'll often read both Israeli sources and Arab sources.

On television I usually watch NBC. With newspapers I usually read my local Star-Telegram. Online I usually just go to the Yahoo news page.

I also get some of my news from Jon Stewart's The Daily Show.

So long as you balance it out by watching The Colbert Report afterward, I think it should be okay.

The newspapers I subscribe to are The Times of India and Deccan Chronicle. On the net, anything goes. I do like watching BBC videos if the RP accent is used by the anchor.

BBC online

MSNBC

Fox for entertainment purposes only.

Other than that, I don't watch too much local news since it's mostly depressing.

• The New York Times
• The Washington Post
• The Nation
• The New Republic
• The Economist
• Le Monde
• BBC Online
• Foreign Affairs
• The Huffington Post
• Google News
• Slashdot
• Techdirt
• Ars Technica
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
• The Colbert Report

Obviously I don't read/view all these things every day, and some I read less frequently than others.

Yeah I also read New York Times.

Guess I never thought of Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report were newsworthy...

Be great to find news that was more accurate but entertaining at the same time. I can't stand the way most articles and news casts report in a pedantic monotone.

Actually, Jon Stewart does a pretty good job of delivering balanced news coverage himself. He makes fun of the things both Republicans and Democrats do.

I get my news from the BBC.

The ONLY place I get my news from is The Young Turks. It's a web show they have on youtube and broadcast live daily except for the weekends. That's about the only news source I trust within the United States borders.

The hosts are funny and very smart and break everything down. It's simply the best.

You do know the Colbert Show is satire, don't you?