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Mostly I try to avoid the news. If there is something of interest or of relevance to me, I'll find out. I do scan the NYT headlines daily (I get it in my email) and occasionally follow up on a story.
"Traffic and news on the hour!" is my idea of hell.
Most often, my friends on FB post stories or news articles, and I read them. My DH reads lots of stories online from Washington Post (less and less), NY Times, LA Times or Sun and sometimes I read those too.Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
However, I also read stories that are more scientific as I have a scientific mind and not too many newspapers/magazines have up to date scientific information. So I get a subscription feed for stuff about geology, fossils, astronomy, climate change, stuff like that.
Geologytimes.com if you go there, you can also see others that do these newsletter feeds. You just have to scroll down to the bottom to see them.
Financial stuff: Money.cnn.com or bloomsberg.com for the bonds.
FactCheck.org or Snopes.com for finding the truth
Grist.com occasionally
But most of all: Jon Stewart >8)
Local NPR affiliate at the University of Washington (KUOW), NY Times, Wall Street Journal, WA Post, London Observer, BBC, Democracy Now, local Seattle rags.
Less frequently I check out the LA Times, SF Chronicle, Boston Globe, Denver Post, etc.
For day to day news about major stuff in the US I browse through google news every day and maybe follow up with the NYTimes.com.
For world affairs - atimes.com. The asia times is a good counterpoint to US news sources for getting a decidedly non-american viewpoint about what's going on in the world.
For American foreign policy - antiwar.com. Specifically Justin Raimondo's 3x weekly column. I don't know who his sources are, but over the several years I've followed him there've been many times that he's written stuff about what's currently going on that seemed conspiracy-theory-ish that later turned out to be quite accurate.
For financial news - zerohedge.com. I like this one as much for the comments section that follows every post, as for the posts themselves. Yes, a lot of wackjob posts happen, but there are also plenty of really deeply insightful posts about economics mixed in by people with a wide range of experience/knowledge. At that point it's not especially news, but it's interesting reading, at least in my opinion. I wouldn't recommend this one unless someone is hardcore into following the absurdity of the world financial situation.