NationStates Jolt Archive

Where do you go to get your news about the world, and why?

My favored source for news is the BBC website. I switched to the Beeb as my primary source during the US elections as a way of filtering out unimportant news (such as all the details of the campaigns that didn't matter, or anything involving the octo-mom). I find that they tend to be fairly balanced - their style is extremely dry.

MSNBC.com is my second major source of news, if only because msn.com is my homepage. If I want more domestic news, I go there.

If I want news about Israel, I skip other sources and go directly to the Jerusalem Post website. They'll usually have more information than any foreign source.

I also get the New York Times daily in my inbox, and I occasionally read that.

For news about the gaming industry and general geekery, I go to g4tv.com. Good source.

Finally, there's CNN. I don't seek it out, but the sushi restaurant I go to a lot always has their TV tuned to CNN. My opinion of CNN is that they seem to favor quantity over quality - not great reporting, but they do report a lot. And they do seem to pay attention to the important stuff.

democracynow.org
also word of mouth and the personal rumor mill, along with technical journals in areas that intrest me.

to the degree i fallow any sort of news at all. often the first place i hear about a lot of things, is right here, on nsg. though i do also sometimes listen kvmr, which also has a live stream on its .org website if anyone's curious.

(the beeb, what we get of it over here, is ok too. just not as good as it was before shrubery somehow managed to get its even better leadership canned.)

From greg Gutfeld . . .apparently canada doesn't have a millitary. Who knew?

The Daily Onion

Also the BBC, BBC News 24 will usually be on the TV if there isn't anything else to watch. Occassionally I'll watch Channel 4 news.

BBC mostly, the register on occassion for tech news, Channel 4 news if I catch it on and various forums, blogs for those stories which may have fallen through the gaps.

I am the News.

I am the News.

Yesterdays news.

The Economist, followed by the ever-present BBC and the New York Times. Then CNN.

The BBC and Channel4 - usually read "Odd News" on UPI.com for some smirks n giggles and general what ze hell-ness.

And ofc I catch news here sometimes too!
:p

BBC, Gamepolitics for game-related politics, Kotaku for gaming news and NSG.

Where do you go to get your news about the world, and why?

Garden Gnomes...they predict the future, and cost next to nothing, prefering payment in styrofoam packing peanuts.

They're a little bit biased, but that's only because they know who wins World War III, so they're hedging their bets.

Garden Gnomes...they predict the future, and cost next to nothing, prefering payment in styrofoam packing peanuts.

They're a little bit biased, but that's only because they know who wins World War III, so they're hedging their bets.

Ah but they're all being led on by the garden snails, if only those poor gnomes knew the real truth...
:(

From NSG, of course and why not? The number one source of information on the "BANKING RESCUE: NEXT TAKE" and "THE NEW SIXTH SENSE: TECHNOLOGICAL EVOLUTION." Not to mention the various informative polls about what forms of protein product my fellow sapiens are ingesting with the most gusto.

The economist, then a Google search.

Yesterdays news.

Touche :D

The economist, then a Google search.

What exactly do you google?

I work in a newsroom, so, osmosis.

All over the shop...

I'm subscribed to a gazillion RSS feeds, from Auntie Beeb to Infomedia, Wired to the Torygraph, etc. Linkdumps like /. help, along with more specific blogs; Bad Science and the like.

You've got to get the breadth.

What exactly do you google?

Anything that comes up in a conversation or I otherwise want to learn more on.

the albuquerque journal
the new york times
the washington post
npr
huffington post
the daily show
msnbc
tv network news
my son, sister, husband

Daily Kos
Huffington Post
Techdirt.
Gamepolitics
BBC if I feel like international news.

Yahoo.com
WB11
ABC7
electoral-vote.com
fivethirtyeight.com
NSG (GASP!)
EDIT: Also Long Island news (channel 12) if nothing else is on.

From NSG, of course and why not? The number one source of information on the "BANKING RESCUE: NEXT TAKE" and "THE NEW SIXTH SENSE: TECHNOLOGICAL EVOLUTION." Not to mention the various informative polls about what forms of protein product my fellow sapiens are ingesting with the most gusto.

Seconded. NSG keeps me informed about the goings on of the world.

BBC, uk.yahoo.com, but most of my news now comes from NSG.

Chronologically, from when I wake up in the morning:

The New York Times
The Chicago Tribune
The Wall Street Journal
Whatever news feeds appear on my iGoogle page.
"In the News" on the Wikipedia home page

CBS News on KDKA AM 1020 on the ride back from school, which has local news as well.

At home, if Im actually watching TV, normally Fox News

here. :p

As it is right now: NSG. Which is too bad because you are all a bunch of biased hacks. The thing I can't figure it out is what NSG is biased towards. The closest I've come to an answer is that it is biased towards pie and all things related to pie.


I really need to find the time to get more news in my life. Who wants to babysit a 1 year old for a few years?

I generally get my news from in between the cushions of the sofa. It's amazing what you can find down there.

http://www.asturies.com
http://www.lne.es
http://www.lavozdeaviles.es
http://www.elpais.com

local newscast.

NSG

Comics (yes, comics)

anything I look up for more info.

Mainly the following:

NSG

Star Destroyer.net forums

CNN.

My mother also gets the New York times by email, and is nice enough to forward the odd story to me. Plus random stuff from various other sources on occassion.

- Dagens Nyheter
- The Ludwig von Mises Institute
- CNN
- BBC

NSG, I've found, is a nice catch-all. I used to check more regularly, though, and it used to be better. Someone fired too many of our reporters or something.

I regularly check Politicalwire.com; I'll listen to the BBC and NPR and read newspapers opportunistically, but not regularly. I have a relative who regularly e-mails WSJ articles, and I'm on a few mailing lists that bring news of interest to my attention.

I occasionally watch cable news, mainly for the purpose of cultural analysis, when I am bored and living with someone with a television; lately, I've started watching the Daily Show.

Mainly the following:

NSG

Star Destroyer.net forums

CNN.

My mother also gets the New York times by email, and is nice enough to forward the odd story to me. Plus random stuff from various other sources on occassion.
Jeepers creepers, you're even worse off than I am, and I let myself get out of touch with what's going on in the world entirely too much.

How so? I've found my sources to be fairly reliable (well, maybe not NSG;)). I might do well to read more newspapers I'll concede, but I'll take internet news over television news any day.

In no particular order...

Yahoo.com at work, only the AP and Reuters stories though..as well as BBC.com...

at home, MSNBC, CNN...later I get comedic political analysis from the Dailyshow, Colbert Report and Real Time with Bill Maher...

and then when Im in the car Ill switch it over to the news radio station...

as in, the crazies, Beck, Schnitt, Limbaugh and Savage...Just so I can yell at my radio for no reason, lol...



yeah, Im a Politics Junkie....I have a disease :(

How so? I've found my sources to be fairly reliable (well, maybe not NSG;)). I might do well to read more newspapers I'll concede, but I'll take internet news over television news any day.
CNN is television news, really. Cable news services are ... not good at informing viewers. Fox may be the worst for this, but no commercial cable news network was doing a good job the last time I looked at the numbers.

NSG used to be better as a news aggregator than it is now (not as great a flux of new members coming in and out anymore, and it has gotten a little more homogenized), but it would miss from time to time, especially for less political news. I can't imagine stardestroyer.net is much better at covering blind spots, since its community is smaller and more cliquish than NSG, with a narrower band of opinions.

CNN is television news, really. Cable news services are ... not good at informing viewers. Fox may be the worst for this, but no commercial cable news network was doing a good job the last time I looked at the numbers.

CNN is pretty bad at times (though at least Glen Beck left to join his fellow insane bastards on Fox), but its not the worst. Still, it is television news.

NSG used to be better as a news aggregator than it is now (not as great a flux of new members coming in and out anymore, and it has gotten a little more homogenized), but it would miss from time to time, especially for less political news. I can't imagine stardestroyer.net is much better at covering blind spots, since its community is smaller and more cliquish than NSG, with a narrower band of opinions.

Stardestroyer.net is good for a lot of very strange stories that you either don't hear about elsewhere, at least not as quickly. It has very obvious left wing and anti-religious biases that I only partially agree with, but the point is, I still hear the stories their first. Also there's the fact that the smaller community contains many individuals who are very well-educated proffessionals. Its especially good for a lot of science-related news, for example.

This is how I use the internet for news, and why I like it. You'll hear a wide range of bizzar, obscure, and fringe stories that won't hit Fox or CNN for days or weeks, if ever. However, if you want to check reliability, then you look for a second source. Often there will be a link in a post to some newspaper or proffessional news network's website, so I can verify what I'm reading.

Used in this way, I do indeed find NSG and especially Stardestroyer.net to be reliable.

Internet, primarily. I'll leave local news on in the background, or listen to newsradio on my way to work when I'm employed, but when I want to read a complete story, it's the news sites on the Web for me. Although, I am a bit concerned about the reliability of some of those sites, which seem to be increasingly interested in advertising and product placement and less interested in hard news.

CNN is pretty bad at times (though at least Glen Beck left to join his fellow insane bastards on Fox), but its not the worst.
Last time I checked, that honor did belong to Fox.
Stardestroyer.net is good for a lot of very strange stories that you either don't hear about elsewhere, at least not as quickly. It has very obvious left wing and anti-religious biases that I only partially agree with, but the point is, I still hear the stories their first. Also there's the fact that the smaller community contains many individuals who are very well-educated proffessionals. Its especially good for a lot of science-related news, for example.
NSG has a pretty high concentration of well-educated professionals. From my rare visits to stardestroyer.net, I would be tempted to say we have more, but I have an obvious bias. Here the common interest is politics, so you get a lot of political stories here before you would hear it on the BBC, even - let alone television news - if you heard it at all.

I probably tend to use the internet to look for political news because as a mathematics graduate student with a physics degree and lots of science-literate relatives/friends, science news tends to be chucked at me regularly.
This is how I use the internet for news, and why I like it. You'll hear a wide range of bizzar, obscure, and fringe stories that won't hit Fox or CNN for days or weeks, if ever. However, if you want to check reliability, then you look for a second source. Often there will be a link in a post to some newspaper or proffessional news network's website, so I can verify what I'm reading.

Used in this way, I do indeed find NSG and especially Stardestroyer.net to be reliable.
Aggregators (including more specialized aggregators) are often quite reliable. I can recall a couple cases where someone started a thread here whose basis was a junk article, but usually that gets pointed out very quickly. The only real problem is the selection side of things, where you fail to hear about important - but boring - stories that don't fall in the special niches of the people who are active that day.

The Korean Central News Agency (http://kcna.co.jp) -- everything else is American propaganda (actually I just find the use of language hilarious in their English section).

As far as television goes, I tend to watch FOXNews. For print, I get the local papers, and The National Review.

The free newspapers given out in London and various websites. I probably get a fairly balanced view.

Sometimes I even follow Daily Mail links, to get the total bastard / pathological-liar point of view.

Antiwar.com (http://antiwar.com/)

The BBC these days, plus the New York Times when I'm at school or the Wall Street Journal when I'm at home. I used to browse a number of conservative newsgroups (of which I was probably the most left-wing member) but gave that up when the commentary became more sad than funny to me.

Aljazeera for the win!

aljazeera for the win!

terrorist !!!!

NSG, where else?

terrorist !!!!

Yes, and I am coming to a town near you, Greedy!!!