What do you consider the best source for news and

[cidliz2004]

how much time do you spend daily reading up on the news? There are so many sites out there and I don't have a lot of time to really keep up with the "important" things at times. I use the DU for this probably much more than I should - or maybe not. I'd like to know what "everybody" else is doing as far as news sources and how much time is spent keeping up on everything.

[whistle]

1. I search around the Internet looking for unbiased news sources

...and also news which I can never find in the traditional MSM venues.

[glarius]

2. CNN used to be a fair, balanced, reliable source of news but since

the arrival of the Bush administration it has joined all the American Networks as mostly a propoganda tool for little Georgie....Of course I watch CBC and the other Canadian networks and do get the true picture of what is happening in the world, I believe.....:)

[annabanana]

3. I get "clued" to most stories (i.e......"there's more to this") everywhere

My newspaper will have a brief mention of something that I feel more important than the space it's given...Or there will be a "throwaway" story mentioned briefly on TV

And I'll get online for the whole thing, contextualized in historical and geopolitical aspect. DU links to everything and they link further,even, than that.... So it doesn't take too long to have a pretty complete picture of the facts on the ground and their implications.

[FloridaPat]

4. Generally four web sites daily and several others off and on.

Here, whatreallyhappened, buzzflash, and tbrnews.org. Spend several hours. I can't stand to watch any news on TV. Local news drives me crazy they are so incompetent. Don't bother with newspapers because you can get them on the internet now.

[soup]

11. Have you checked out the Fort Report?

http://www.fortreport.com/

Thought I'd mention it as a fellow Floridian. (fellow Floridian- is there an equivalent to allow for gender? sister Floridian, maybe?)

It's one of my regular stops. They pick up the Florida news from various sources as well as scrolling the latest headlines. I've been noticing the links in the right-hand column lean towards progressive sites. Seems more so in the lead up to and since the 2004 elections -

[FloridaPat]

15. Thanks. Nice to have a good Florida news site.

[InvisibleTouch]

5. DU and Yahoo are my news sources.

I barely watch TV, and almost never the news. I like to have control over what I take in, rather than having it indiscriminately poured into my brain. It actually makes me physically agitated when I'm visiting people and they have CNN running constantly. Clicking a link to a news story is far preferable to turning on the tube.

[bryant69]

6. I use mostly online sources

Salon, the New York Times, the Nation and so on and so forth--plus DU and the blogs of course.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[patricia92243]

7. DU - period. I watched CNN and C-span BEFORE the election. Not now.

[NNN0LHI]

8. I used to like the Christian Science Monitor a lot

Until they began linking to FR for news stories. Now I realize they suck as bad as Fox news. Screw them. I don't even look at their site anymore. Its a waste of time and good bandwidth.

Don

[Octafish]

9. ConsortiumNews.com

Robert Perry helped bust open Iran-Contra and all he got was fired from Newsweek for it. See for yourself:

www.consortiumnews.com.

There are a few other sites:

www.Buzzflash.com is great, lots of sources, all in one place.

www.WSWS.org is great, but says it's run by folk outside the capitalist orbit -- people I more often than not agree with.

www.CounterPunch.org can be excellent, but remember Cockburn (like many official "lefties") writes JFK was killed by a lone nut. That's BS I remember when going through what's printed.

[glaucon]

10. Many different sources

For example:

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/

http://www.rawstory.com/

http://www.dailykos.com/

http://www.commondreams.org/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

http://www.aljazeera.com/

http://www.thenation.com/

[G_j]

12. Truthout, Common Dreams

both of these sites update frequently and have a good selection of important stories. You can also subscribe to these for email updates.

www.truthout.org
www.commondreams.org

[Window]

13. Just DU.

Check lastest breaking news many times during the day and evening. That's it.

[DeepModem Mom]

14. DU LBN, above any other: it's the best news source there is --

If the country got its news here each day, we would be so much the better for it!

And a note of appreciation for the far-from-perfect, but still valuable, print press, as opposed to the electronic media. There is still good reporting, thank goodness, being done by many reporters at our better newspapers.