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What do you rely on for news updates?

FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
edited September 2006 in A Moving Train
I don't mean alternative news sites, such as commondreams.org, which might provide contexts, to present or upcoming news. I mean, the main few sites or news stations that you'd turn to first, to know what's going on:

For news radio, I try:-

The BBC World Service, for me the very best news and current affairs station:
http://stream.servstream.com/ViewWeb/BBCTechnology/Event/BBC_World_Service.asx

And BBC Radio Five Live:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/live/surestream_int.ram

On TV, I'd go to BBC News 24.

As for new sites, well, I'll dip into Google News, the Guardian, or the BBC News site.

This isn't a thread to see who's most media savvy. Perhaps, it's the opposite. I'm interested in what you consider your most reliable, accessible news sources, regardless of their faults.
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  • even flow?even flow? Posts: 8,066
    CBC, BBC through PBS and PBS for the American stories. On line, CBC and some left leaning sites. Local t.v. stations for the city. And the local rag because they put a chick in a bikini in every paper and they have the best crossword puzzles of all the local papers.
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  • DarkStarDarkStar Posts: 734
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/ (gotta have the liberal british viewpoint)
    http://www.drudgereport.com/ (gotta have the sensational aspect)
    http://www.foxnews.com/ (gotta know what the righties are up to)

    ds
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  • bryanfurybryanfury Posts: 460
    http://www.buzzflash.com

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  • AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    I have MSNBC on all day, I think I've become a news junkie
  • DarkStarDarkStar Posts: 734
    Dollpartz wrote:
    I have MSNBC on all day, I think I've become a news junkie

    i think you meant to say an entertainment junkie, right? ;)

    ds
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    DarkStar wrote:
    i think you meant to say an entertainment junkie, right? ;)

    ds

    What a pile of dangerous shit, that NBC Today Show is. All I can see are Brave New World quacks, pedalling dodgy pharms to that Who Wants To Be A Millionaire woman, in some peculiarly extensive infomercial, which is only broken up by the pissed off newsreader woman, and that weather guy out in the street.

    Advice to people, relying on that, for their morning news. You have the Internet. Use it!
  • chopitdownchopitdown Posts: 2,222
    http://www.cnn.com
    http://www.newsmax.com (every once in a while there's something interesting)
    http://www.espn.com
    and for following politics http://www.factcheck.org
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  • hippiemomhippiemom Posts: 3,326
    Once in a while I'll flip on the BBC on the satellite radio, but I get most of my news online ... BBC, PBS, NYT, the Guardian, maybe a few others I'm not thinking of at the moment. I take a peek at Fox and Al Jazeera from time to time, just to see what the loonies are up to.

    Television news nauseates me so completely that I can't watch it at all. Except for the Daily Show, of course, which is sheer genius :D
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    my alarm is set to go at 3mins to the hour and then it's time for triple j news. if something of great social import occurs i'll pursue it but if it's all just bullshit then i tune out. and if by chance i hear one of the 3 wise monkeys(bush, blair, howard) spouting their vile rhetoric and trying to convince the populace to trust their word, then i roll over and go back to sleep.
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  • kenny olavkenny olav Posts: 3,319
    i always check Yahoo for a quick news update because it loads up the quickest.

    and for local news, http://www.boston.com
  • brain of cbrain of c Posts: 5,213
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  • bingerbinger Posts: 179
    http://www.reuters.com
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    I don't mean alternative news sites, such as commondreams.org, which might provide contexts, to present or upcoming news. I mean, the main few sites or news stations that you'd turn to first, to know what's going on:

    For news radio, I try:-

    The BBC World Service, for me the very best news and current affairs station:
    http://stream.servstream.com/ViewWeb/BBCTechnology/Event/BBC_World_Service.asx

    And BBC Radio Five Live:-
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/live/surestream_int.ram

    On TV, I'd go to BBC News 24.

    As for new sites, well, I'll dip into Google News, the Guardian, or the BBC News site.

    This isn't a thread to see who's most media savvy. Perhaps, it's the opposite. I'm interested in what you consider your most reliable, accessible news sources, regardless of their faults.



    snap!!! all of the above except five live for me dude :)

    I'm probably naive but i have a huge trust thing going with the BBC... i just think they have a certain integrity.. a historical integrity!
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    CNN rss feed and talk radio.
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