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    Where do you get your news online?

    Currently I usually check out Google News, since Google is my homepage. Looking for something with more international news and less celebrity gossip/entertainment "news" and also less of the murder, missing wife/baby/child/teenager, and horrible car/train wreck type stories. Any suggestions?

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    My email is with Yahoo, and their news selection is quite broad. I only click on the items I want to read more about. For international news, I used to have a link to the BBC online, but lost it when my hard drive crashed.

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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/
    http://www.economist.com/
    http://www.npr.org/sections/news/
    ...and my local newspaper's home page for local news, if I'm interested

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    I go with the bbc, npr and new york times. I like nytimes to check out the headlines quickly and you still can read 20 articles a month for free.

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    My home page is Google News.....so I check there first. I usually also look at the NYTimes, the Houston Chronicle, some days the Washington Post, AZ Republic in Phoenix and/or the L.A. Times.......I check The Huffington Post, the Daily Caller (for the conservative perspective), and depending on what's happening, other newspapers internationally. I especially like getting world news from the perspective of where it's happening, so if something is happening in Kathmandu, I'll hit the Himalayan Times, etc. (BIL worked there for several years, and my SIL is from there, so we keep abreast of happenings in that part of the world).

    I like Politico for political stuff, and read several blogs. My favorite is www.americablog.com mostly because I grew up in Washington D.C. and my sweetie graduated from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, as did John Aravosis, and we find him quite well qualified and knowledgeable about the political scene (from a relatively liberal point of view, as well as an insight into gay issues).......

    And just recently, BestStash turned me on to www.juanitajean.com which I read for laughs, as she is the natural Texas successor to Molly Ivins, may she rest in peace. No "balance there".....her blog is quite liberal, but she's really funny, and she has some great insights and stories about Rick Perry, my not so illustrious governor........

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    CBC, because I now live in Canada.
    NPR, because I have been an NPR junkie for my entire life, starting at age 12
    Al Jazeera, because they are the only news network that still has a global reporting force rather that just repackaging items from the AP and equivalent
    When I get some free time, I read the Huff Post but have to remember to sort the news from the commentary

    Actually on all the news networks, sorting news from commentary is getting harder and harder. I like commentary especially from people who are qualified to comment but I appreciate having things CLEARLY labeled and I do not appreciate news reporters offering comment either overtly or covertly (through loaded language).

    Good to read what other people like to read, too....I appreciate the ideas.

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    Our local newspaper for local news, BBC, NPR, NY Times,ScienceDaily.

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    Local papers online to every city I have lived and NPR. Too much news most the time and then I have to go news free for a few days to a week.

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    Actually on all the news networks, sorting news from commentary is getting harder and harder. I like commentary especially from people who are qualified to comment but I appreciate having things CLEARLY labeled and I do not appreciate news reporters offering comment either overtly or covertly (through loaded language).
    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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    Reuters, Washington Post, sometimes BBC
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