I recently moved, and seeing as I can watch all my favorite shows online for free (and internet is expensive enough without paying for cable as well) I have chosen to not have TV, and I was wondering if anyone might suggest a daily general news site. Ive never been much of a fan of any of the major news syndicates, the cattiness and political bias wears on me quickly.
I am really just looking for something to keep me up on the world at large, the U.S. predominatly seeing as the information would be more pertinant to my location. Thank you for any and all suggestions and information.
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
I generally stick to the websites of my local newspapers, personally.
Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
www.happynews.com <- No cattiness or abhorrent political bias that I can see. Posted by vwiggin (Member # 926) on :
Reddit is a good source of news, if you don't mind a bit of liberal slant.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Aggregates the best of a wide variety of sources, as well as original content. The closest I've seen to being a non-biased source, merely by virtue of pulling from everywhere and so you get a taste from all sides.
Posted by The White Whale (Member # 6594) on :
I'm bumping this thread because I'm having trouble finding good places to find my news. I don't watch any live television, so I don't get the local or national news. I check reddit occasionally, but there's more crap there than I care for. I read the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal on and off, but see more spin there and I don't want to fight may way through that. I'm checking out www.ReadClearPolitics.com now. It looks okay so far.
Where else do you guys get your news?
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
The BBC, but that's only if you want international news leaning UK.
Posted by Tarrsk (Member # 332) on :
FiveThirtyEight.com has, IMO, remained a solid source for political analysis even after the election. The site's writers are unabashedly liberal, but are statisticians and economists first and foremost. In fact, they've spent a fair amount of their time recently admonishing the lib blog big dogs for poor coverage and analysis of the debate over medical reform. Nate Silver, the site's founder, is a wealth of knowledge and does a fantastic job of breaking it down into bite-sized chunks for readers unfamiliar with the advanced maths he wields.
As for general news, NYTimes.com is usually my first stop. The Wall Street Journal is my second. Despite claims from both sides, the reporting from these two papers is solid and relatively unbiased. They do a good job of restricting their political opinions to the editorial section (unlike, say, certain cable news networks).
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
I typically get Canadian news from the online edition of the Globe and Mail.
For international news, I subscribe to the RSS feeds from The Economist which I find touches on many good news stories from around the world pretty effectively, if not amazingly in-depth.
For specifically US news, Calculated Risk links to stories of interest regarding economics and Glenn Greenwald for US politics.
For specifically Chinese news, I found out a while back (from http://rconversation.blogs.com/WJEC.pdf ) that a surprising majority of Western foreign correspondents in China rely on EastSouthWestNorth (a bridge blog that translates Chinese content into English) and Danwei (which is more aimed for the expat community) so I kind of cut-out the middleman and check those first now.
If I feel like a video kind of mood, I sometimes check out AlJazeera's Youtube channel which is updated pretty frequently with international stories of interest and the Vanguard unit at CurrentTV which is, well, not updated pretty quickly but has interesting documentaries.
Posted by steven (Member # 8099) on :
I just read Yahoo news, when I check my Yahoo mail. That's probably lame.
Posted by Shmuel (Member # 7586) on :
I tend to make Google News my first stop. I also like the New York Times and BBC.
Aggregates the best of a wide variety of sources, as well as original content. The closest I've seen to being a non-biased source, merely by virtue of pulling from everywhere and so you get a taste from all sides.
While not egregious in its partisanship, RCP is definitely dominated by conservative, albeit often moderate conservative, opinion. They just post more content from conservative authors than from liberals, generally. They do post some good articles, and it's worth looking at occassionally to see what's on offer.
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