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I used to rely on FNC but the sensationalizing everything had made me nauseous. Where do you guys go for your news?

Mostly msn.com, somtimes el-rush-ba.

Mostly BBC. If I'm working on my PC I generally have BBC News 24 on in the background.

Other than that, I go through the Reuters website from time to time.

Mostly the local news paper (one or two from those possible this country) And the news on television, but i get most of my political news from forums (with links to the original texts) and websites from the political parties...
Sometimes i use stuff like msn or comparable sites... but that is only when i feel discussing about something...

I used to rely on FNC but the sensationalizing everything had made me nauseous. Where do you guys go for your news?

Channel 4, mostly. Other than that, www.spiegel.de

CBC, BBC and The Toronto Star.

BBC and SkyNews. Oh, and NSG.

BBC, SkyNews, local paper's website...

I use BBC and NSg, but i only really read the BBC stuff because i have to pay a TV licence, so i might as well get my money's worth.

Several local news papers, tv news (dutch, cnn and bbc), various websites and fora.

I'm a journalist, so I pretty much just have to turn up at work.

If I have a slack few minutes, I often take a look at Google news. It gives a range of news sources, which I like. It also gives me hints as to which agencies and/or publications are making stuff up, and which are playing it straight. For obvious reasons, I need to know the difference.

Fark.Com

I just get so sick of the local stuff, especially Fox. Turn it on if you want to hear stories designed to scare you into watching more, usually making mountains out of molehills.

OMG!!! An auto recall! Hurry or you'll all die! Let's have on some experts that will tell us all the grizzly ways you can be decapitated, next after the break!

When we come back: OMFG!!! A Sex Offender moves into the neighborhood!!! Beware the booogeyman! How to protect your home against people hiding under the beds!!!

Later in this segment: The wind is expected to reach gusts in excess of 20 miles per hour!!! OMG Expert weathermen tell us how this could be the sign of a Category 5 hurricane!

OMG!!! Osama bin Laden released a tape! Local experts tell us how this is a sign of the apocalypse!!!

I just get so sick of the local stuff, especially Fox. Turn it on if you want to hear stories designed to scare you into watching more, usually making mountains out of molehills.

OMG!!! An auto recall! Hurry or you'll all die! Let's have on some experts that will tell us all the grizzly ways you can be decapitated, next after the break!

When we come back: OMFG!!! A Sex Offender moves into the neighborhood!!! Beware the booogeyman! How to protect your home against people hiding under the beds!!!

Later in this segment: The wind is expected to reach gusts in excess of 20 miles per hour!!! OMG Expert weathermen tell us how this could be the sign of a Category 5 hurricane!

OMG!!! Osama bin Laden released a tape! Local experts tell us how this is a sign of the apocalypse!!!

Try and get Channel 4 (http://www.channel4.com/news/), they're ok. Very ok.

I use BBC and NSg, but i only really read the BBC stuff because i have to pay a TV licence, so i might as well get my money's worth.

I get round that by not having a TV or a licence. Seriously, I get far more entertainment from the nasty letters the TV Licensing people keep sending me than I would from anything that's been on telly lately.

Try and get Channel 4 (http://www.channel4.com/news/), they're ok. Very ok.
I quite like their news website, because it seems to update nice and fast and it doesn't suffer the slow-down that BBC's site tends to when the whole world is using it to track some major story.

I just don't like their TV news, though. Not entirely sure why, but I suspect it's because I hate news shows/channels that are interrupted by commercial breaks.

MSNBC, CNN. To a lesser extent, NBC and digg.com.

I get round that by not having a TV or a licence. Seriously, I get far more entertainment from the nasty letters the TV Licensing people keep sending me than I would from anything that's been on telly lately.

Well what really annoyed me was when i phoned to pay, they couldn't locate me on their computer with the address i gave them! I could have got away with it!
Oh well, i just have to take pride in some of their news items.:(

Well what really annoyed me was when i phoned to pay, they couldn't locate me on their computer with the address i gave them! I could have got away with it!
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Most uncool. Whereas me, someone that doesn't own a TV, gets hassled by them. The letters are so breathtakingly rude as well. They start by telling you that you are a criminal and could be taken to court any day now, and end by telling you to pay up quick, before they show up with PC Plod and have me arrested. Arrogant, presumptuous muppets.

Most uncool. Whereas me, someone that doesn't own a TV, gets hassled by them. The letters are so breathtakingly rude as well. They start by telling you that you are a criminal and could be taken to court any day now, and end by telling you to pay up quick, before they show up with PC Plod and have me arrested. Arrogant, presumptuous muppets.

Aha, i know how to stop that. just pretend to be Judge Dredd and say "I AM THE LAW!".
hey i think the muppets might be a bit insulted by being equated with the hate mail you get.

TV News - CBC Newsworld and CTV Newsnet (24h news channels in Canada)

I also get a lot of my news from Google News

Aha, i know how to stop that. just pretend to be Judge Dredd and say "I AM THE LAW!".

Well, if they manage to gain admittance to my house and start looking for a TV, they'll get a nasty surprise when they venture into the living room.
Even nastier if I go ahead with my plan to get a pet Komodo dragon.


hey i think the muppets might be a bit insulted by being equated with the hate mail you get.

Crap. I must draft a letter of apology to Kermit et al, immediately.

Well, if they manage to gain admittance to my house and start looking for a TV, they'll get a nasty surprise when they venture into the living room.
Even nastier if I go ahead with my plan to get a pet Komodo dragon.

Crap. I must draft a letter of apology to Kermit et al, immediately.

Don't forget big brid! that was a freaky show actually, i remember watching it with fear. but then again i hated chitty chitty bang bang, but apparently i loved the film, but still protested to watching it.

Kommodo dragon? :cool:. I had one friend who never paid TV licence for years then his mum buys it, the very next day the TV licence inspector guy goes in, only to be dissapointed.
It's not fair though, why can't they just have adverts like all the other channels?

Don't forget big brid! that was a freaky show actually, i remember watching it with fear. but then again i hated chitty chitty bang bang, but apparently i loved the film, but still protested to watching it.


Hmm... watching that film, aged about six... then the Child Catcher shows up. Only thing on TV I've ever been scared of.
Many years later, I discovered that Martin Johnson had also been scared of him/her, which made me feel a lot better.

I'm a bit odd in that most of my news is through the radio or newspapers. I live in California, near San Francisco, and I get a lot of my news from NPR (my local affiliate is KQED), and they also carry the BBC World Service from time to time, so I listen to that as well. As far as newspapers are concerned, I read The Daily Californian during the school year, and the San Francisco Chronicle and sfgate.com all year round, not to mention my local hometown newspaper, the San Leandro Times. I read those news reports that pop up when I go online occassionally, if the title interests me.

news/bbc.co.uk

Uganda's New Vision (http://www.newvision.co.ug/I/8/12):D

BBC mostly. And I try to get my sport from Skynews, ESPN is not as good imo

The Beeb.

At home, it'd be the Guardian newspaper as well, but I can't be arsed to get it delivered.

NPR public radio.

News.
No spin.

Yahoo for the most part. Been going on Politico for political news lately.

It depends on the scope I want. For local I go with the local newspaper. For any news out of New York City, the closest major city, I go with CBS 2. For national news I go with Fox News. For international I go with the BBC.

mostly online mostly google.

Let's see:

Finance/Econ:

nasdaq.com
Yahoo! Finance
thestreet.com

Energy/Commodities:

The Energy Blog
bloomberg.com

Science/Technology:

kurzweilai.net (naturally)
sciencedaily.com
wired.com
eetimes.com
Google

I honestly read little or no political news, save that relevant to these fields. They're also weighted pretty heavily in accordance to my interest.

My ass. A lot happens down there that I don't hear about...

I used to rely on FNC but the sensationalizing everything had made me nauseous. Where do you guys go for your news?

BBC!!! Or, if you want something more american, try the VOA. They're run by the government but they're highly accurate and very detailed.

My Daily Telegraph, my girlfriend's Guardian, and the BBC.

BBC on the internet, Channel Four on the TV...

The New York Times, BBC's website, NSG, and a bit from my school's paper.

as suprising as it may be i actually get most of my news here on nationstates.

Not from bourgeois sources.

Not from bourgeois sources.
Discounting sources that disagree with your viewpoint as 'corrupt' is not a way to garner depth of thinking. On the other hand, this may be your goal.

BBC.com, the Economist, Foreign Policy Magazine, NPR, etc.

the Onion, America's Finest News Source.

Agence France-Presse
Associated Press
British Broadcasting Corporation
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Reuters
UN News Centre

State/Public sources, IO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_organization), or private wire agencies. Mainly sources that don't constantly bombard me with "Britney Spears did <insert inanity here>!!!!!11!!one" bullshit 24/7. A good RSS reader makes it easy to filter said bullshit out when it does occasionally come through.

NPR on the radio
BBC on the web

It's odd, you would think that the news sources run by or at least funded by the government would not be as fair and balanced as a private company. But as NPR and the BBC show, the opposite seems to be true.

BBC
The Guardian
The Times
The Independent

I read the websites of all four regularly, and I buy at least one of the newspapers of the bottom 3 each day.

The interwebtubes.

Mostly cnn.com, because it's easy to type, but I'll dig around on a contentious news item. Occasionally a local news website tied to the local paper. Every time they try to sell me a paper, I tell them I read it on the web. They think coupons are worth the subscription, apparently.

TV5 Monde, the french government sponsored channel. No commercials, and really good shows. Not to mention that unlike american news "Here is a list of people that have been shot today. Back to our meteorologist, then to sports /end" news, they actually tell you what is going on. And I have never heard any stories about "What seemingly innocuous object is actually going to be the death of your family!?! FIND OUT AT TEN!"

My only complaint is that it's in french. I mean, this is AMERICA! Either learn to speak american or get the hell out of our country! (sarcasm, I actually appreciate being able to improve my french skills)

Directly from the Good Book.

Well there's this Hispanic guy down on Spruce Street that sells--Oh, you really meant news?

Directly from the Good Book.

This, combined, of course, with your daily horoscope, provides truly infallible news.

http://www.theage.com.au/

http://www.abc.net.au/news/

http://news.sbs.com.au/worldnewsaustralia/

I try to you use several sources, with different point of view in them. What I read regularly is:

- Le Monde (center-right to right)

- Libération (center-left to center)

- L'Humanité (leftist)

- Telesur website (leftist, South American POV)

I also watch quite often TV news, which are strongly biased towards the right here, but that's more as a curiosity than as a source of information ;)

Spiegel.de, bbc.co.uk, SBS World News and The Economist. The former two are up to date, the latter completes the picture with a lot more information.

In fact, why the hell didn't any news source I normally use make it clear just who was the bad guy in the Kenyan election? I was amazed at how most media seemed to either not care or be so committed to neutrality that they didn't want to put Kibaki into the bad light he clearly deserves.

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10430289
http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10438473

ABC (A as in Australian, couldn't get BBC RSS feed to work) and dutch nu.nl

CNN.com and Canada.com.

The Economist

:eek: did you know that Silvio Berlusconi calls it "The Communist" because they published an article titled "Why Berlusconi is unfit to lead Italy"?:rolleyes:

I used to rely on FNC but the sensationalizing everything had made me nauseous. Where do you guys go for your news?

tv: RaiNews24, BBC World, sometimes Euronews and CNN, plus the ordinary RAI (italian state tv) news and teletext. I used also to watch the TSI (italian-speaking swiss state tv) news, but now I can't receive it anymore.
radio: RadioRai3 (italian state radio)
newspapers: La Repubblica, sometimes L'Unità, Il Corriere della Sera and La Stampa, occasionally The International Herald Tribune and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
internet: nothing.

kvmr (local indi radio), for relatively (there the next county over from me, ours hasn't had any such thing as long as i've lived here) local news, democracy now for what the corporate mafia isn't telling me, and about the only time the idiot box is worth turning on is when there's a big storm going on and they occasionally show snowfall footage up on the hill (or the occasional origeonal series star trek eppisodes).

where corporate media is an arm of the same corporatocracy that has usurped the government there is no discernable difference its propigandizing and one that is controlled by any other sort of government. i.e., no news in the news and no truth in the truth. which is what some one used to say they used to say in soviet russia.

i don't trust any one source explicitly, but when i hear/see someone telling me something that isn't a regurgitation of the very very few things everyone else isn't already saying, then at least its something interesting, which the inanity of the official infotainment isn't.

of course if someone i know on line is talking about something going on in their neighborhood their experiencing personally, then i'll take that as more probably reliable then anything i hear elsewhere. and i don't mean online media outlets or online astroturf either.

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I occasionally leave CNN in the background for big things like election coverage and major world events, but I get most of my smaller scale news from the myriad of sites that are cycled on Google News.

bbc.co.uk/news, the guardian, and indymedia.org