Preferred news website?
 

I was just curious as to what everyone's opinion was as to the best news website out there. I've been a cnn.com user for awhile, but sometimes I don't like how Americentric it can be. For example, I just visited there and the fact that there was a sound equipment malfunction in Bush's prayer meeting today made the front page, while the fact that 37 people died and 15 were injured in China failed to make the cut. :| I sometimes use news.bbc.co.uk too, and was thinking of switching. So what does everyone else use? Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks mates!


Edit: I wasn't sure which forum this would hold relevent to, so I posted it here. Mods if you feel it should go elsewhere feel free to move me around.

depending on what kind of spin I want to read my news will determine where I get it from.

I will read the NYtimes, LATimes, Singapore Straits times, Washington post, ny post, ny daily news, la daily news, Bergen Daily Record, Sky News, BBC News, Reuters, Associated Press, Fox News, Bloomberg News, and I'm sure there are others...

Much like Cynthetiq, depending on what kind of news I'm looking for, I choose different websites. I often read

NYtimes
BBC News
Cursor.org
Boston Globe online

BBC
CNN
news.google (my favorite)

netscape.com
cnn.com
msn.com
chron.com

National - CNN.com
Local - Mlive.com

I have a small window running cnn using my tv tuner card at all times. on the net, i'd go to cnn.com

come on, no www.drudgereport.com yet?

The Onion ... :)

FARK.com all the way!

Also, BBC.co.uk for an outside look at american happenings and news.yahoo.com for quick news.

News.google.com. Grabs headlines from thousands of news sites.

I like it.

Daily:

New York Times: 'Real news'
CNN: 'Info-tainment'

Plus links & accounts all over the world, for when necessary.

Fark.com that way I get a variety.

I just use msn..sad but true.

Ah yes, the Onion, greatest news site ever. :) To be completly honest, the cloest I get to reading a real news site is Fark.

Egads I forgot to mention I am an obsessive Farker!

Thanks everyone for your contributions.

Yeah, depends on the spin. Also, some news sites grab different titles. I'd say:

Google News for general news
CNN for "Holy Crap WTF just happened?" news
Fark for fun

I get my news from the New York Times in the morning (the actual paper), CNN.com during the day, and ABC TV after dinner

cnn.com
theonion.co.uk

news.bbc.co.uk for main news
and google news sometimes but i have to click the UK link at the bottom because american news bores the crap out of me.

Amen

Most of my favorite news sites are meta-sites:

Google news for a quick check-in to see what stories have broken big. Also, for researching whether subjects of interest to me have hit the news lately.

nytimes.com -- usually just before bed, because by that time (I'm on the west coast), all the stories for the next day have been posted. Good for in-depth news.

truthout.org -- news for lefties. Links to current stories of interest culled from the major news sources.

rtumble.com -- Rough and Tumble, a page of annotated links to political news stories about California in the state's newspapers. A new set of links every morning at 7 am. A great resource for Californians.

LA Times and Washington Post when I think about them (or, with the Post, when I want to read Miss Manners).

nakednews.com ;)

www.economist.com
www.nytimes.com
www.yahoo.com
www.drudgereport.com
news.google.com
www.washingtonpost.com

Mostly CNN.com since it is set up as my default newsreader. You are right about it being so americentric. But, what's a fellow to do.

The best news site ever is........ The Daily Rotten. Other news sites are boring.

http://news.google.com gives me headlines and auto-refreshes every few minutes. Also, it gives links to many other sites reporting on the same news. That way you get to see how one site reports it versus another.

FARK
CNN
CBC

All over the map

Fark.com
nytimes.com
chicagotribune.com
occasionally mlive.com
and for updates the associated press (ap.org)

*note to self must learn how to put hyperlinks in replies.

I also love to FARK around!
That's the closest I get to "real" news.

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all other news is boring

I actually prefer O'Reilly to internet :P

Fark and Google
I stopped liking CNN a long time ago.

Guiness book of world records is now being contacted . This is the first time a discussion about what news chanel you watch hasnt turned into a liberal vs. conservative flame war! You all are comended.

NY times
Debka file
Newshax

Good suggestion in this thread. Here are a couple sites for left-leaning folks:

<a href="http://intl-news.com/">Intl-news.com</a>

<a href="http://www.americanprogress.org/">American Progress</a> (esp. the Daily Progress Report)

<a href="http://www.alternet.org">AlterNet</a>

<a href="http://www.truthout.org">Truthout</a> (I know someone already mentioned it, but it's worth another nod).

Happy browsing.

BBC... Slate... Salon... World Press Review... The Agonist... the Onion... as well as my locals, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Sydney Morning Herald...

www.ananova.com is the place to go for straight down the line factual news reporting. It's the online arm of the British Press Association, and that's where journos go to get an instant story.

Can't whack the BBC either. CNN's not news, it's propaganda.

By the way, what the fuck is this Drudge Report thing? Does anyone know who this guy is? He's awesome.

It's run solely by a guy named Matt Drudge, who seems to spend all of his time tracking down gossip. And yeah, it's pretty awesome.