Where do you get your news online?

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Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore

Actually if you read true and well argued commentary when networks pull this thing it is completely obvious. Like ok it was pretty obvious CNN didn't like George W. Bush, and it got to be pretty darn hilarious in their choice of headlines etc. (can't say I liked him either, but the bias was obvious). But you know what is also obvious now they don't like OWS much either, they run articles on how a person who was very into OWS, happily gave up OWS when they got a wall street job. That's not a person that is committed to anything really, not because they took a job, but because any real protester isn't just in it because their own personal situation sucks (oh woe is me, I personally am unemployed ...), without any understanding of the wider critique. Wait why does CNN run this particular story - hahaha, yea the bias just screams from the page.

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I think it's for a much simpler reason - money. I expect commentary is much cheaper to produce than real reporting. But "balanced" commentary doesn't sell well.

Local paper's website, and local news stations' websites. Sometimes the BBC for international news as I feel it's more honest reporting than we may get here in the states.

Yahoo, CNN, AOL, Truth-Out, Alternet, Natural News, local online paper, AddictingInfo, and Gawker. All browsed daily.

well, the question was about sites online, but I'd add that I also listen to NPR, and the News Hour from PBS, (although I listen to that when we are here in s. CA on WVCR public radio, so I only hear it, not see it.

I think overall, I probably get the best, reasonably objective and non inflammatory coverage on stuff from NPR, and I wake up to Morning Edition, nap to Marketplace, and do house chores and start dinner to All Things Considered, so those programs form a core for me, other than the online sites. For some reason, I almost never access NPRs website......maybe I should, but I guess since I listen to it every day, I choose other sources for news online.

While if I DO flip on the TV, I generally channel surf from CNN to MSNBC to FOX News, but really get very little of my news information from TV (well, I AM addicted to The Daily Show, but that's, after all, "fake news", hahahaha, despite their viewers being among the most well informed viewers on television......I've never quite figured out whether they really DO serve up a huge helping of factual "news", or if you have to be pretty well informed to appreciate the jokes........)

I'm pretty much a news junkie. I grew up in and around Washington D.C., and probably never really got over it.

NY Times online, CNN, but only out of habit-I don't really like it. Huffington Post. I like the "trending now" feature of Yahoo.

Thanks for all these great suggestions. I'm creating a new folder for news bookmarks! mamalatte

Drudge Report primarily, but I'm right of center politically.

The New York Times online, hands-down winner. I'm also a subscriber to Chris Martenson's website and check the Daily Digest often. Occasionally I remember to scan the local rag online, especially now when I know a neighbor is very ill, so I'm checking the obituaries every few days and catching the headlines, too.

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Originally posted by Leslieann.
CBC, because I now live in Canada.

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Me too! :)

Ah, I forgot the Drudge Report......I do check in with that, not daily, but often, especially when there is some story going on that I especially want to hear the conservative views. I used to do the Free Republic for that, but honestly, THAT site, like WorldNetDaily or NewsMax is just too populated with the fringes for me.

For daily conservative coverage, I really like the Daily Caller........I have that on my favorites right next to Huffington Post, and both of them are looked at daily.

I've never been a person who's liked just hearing an echo chamber of stuff that agrees with my own point of view. But I avoid the far right spots in the same way I avoid the very far left sites.....just not comfortable with the "lunatic fringe" of either side, hahahahaha.......

we used to have a station on our satellite where I could get the CBC for Canadian coverage, and also CNN International, which is GREATLY superior to CNN domestically for serious news, but alas, that station went off the air.......