Where do you get your news?
I just introduced a friend of mine to the magic of RSS. He was asking where I get my news, and how I make time to be (relatively) politically informed.
We don’t have TV. I have my homepage set to news.google.com, so I glance at that a few times per internet session (like every time I open a new tab). I also hit up SaysUncle for the high (and low) points of the politics I care most about.
I have a ton of other worthy blogs in my reader, but if I’m taking a bare-bones look at where to get the news, those are my top two choices.
Where do you get your news?
Where I get some of my info may be shocking. Fox, the local news for local crap..I don’t bother with the paper because I generally want to end up using it to start a bonfire, and a few blogs..here for one. :)
http://drudgereport.com/
Honestly, I get my news from a mix of Drudge, CNN, NPR, and Fox. I basically figure out between the four what they’re all saying, and assume if all four say the same things on a subject, those things are the actual facts. Everything else I dismiss as poo…
See, and I was of the opinion that if they were all in agreement, it was time to break out the tinfoil. That or they took the info from the same AP source.
I use an RSS feed to transfer news, magazine articles, and cartoons to my ebook reader.
i have begun mass production of tin-foil hats the next stage is full body suits…
If you want to keep up with the latest liberal talking points, Huffington Post is fun. FiveThirtyEight.com is brilliant for political analysis.
yes huff and puff is always an entertaining, usually annoying way to keep up with what the libtwits are thinking.
Much of it from RSS magic as you mention. Most major news organizations have feeds. Several conservative blog also for following news and politics. I tried to follow the Huffington Post for a while just to listen to the liberal point of view but most of it makes me way to nauseous. Most of the conservative sites to a fair job of republishing much of the interesting liberal fair anyway. Lite local news from local news websites and feeds. Anything heavy usually makes national news pretty quick anyway.
for local news, i go to local blogs…for national news, i rely on BBC.
News? Four places:
Drudge
FoxNews.com
A series of blogs (including this one)
AND Twitter.
Twitter?!? Yes, twitter. In fact I go there first. It ends up being a pretty current and topical headline aggregator. Often linking to intersting stuff.
Fair? Balanced? Why yes, of course. Would I choose biased sources? Why yes – that is how I get balance. Fair? You a concerned about fair? I don’t have to be fair. It is my mind, my life.
Tweets from Fred Thompson, Carl Rove, California Yankee, Michelle Malkin, Big Hollywood, Big Government, and about 30 others. Fred Thompson easily wins the Concentrated Snark award.
I get my news from drudgereport.com, infowars.com, and various news feeds/youtube links I see throughout my browsing day.
I’m with borisdabastid. Except, I also peruse 45-50 libertarian, gun, social commentary blogs, as well. Theo, Sean, Tam, Bobbi, Brigid and Breda are first on the list. Theo and Sean are for military perspective, the ‘Women with Guns ™’ are for prose, perspective and snark. Makes for a good morning!
Drudge and Fox. I also read several blogs (along with HuffPo, DKOS and DU) for items to go investigating for myself. I find the Conservative/Libertarian blogs to be more accurate (but not perfect) then the liberal trash.
For national news and politics it’s the Drudgereport. For Washington-Oregon-Idaho news it’s orbusmax.com
I do my best not to read any news… haven’t seen any good in it in a long time, so why bother?
I guess drudge if I had to, and I run across things now and again on the sites I visit (like here, free state wyoming, crossfit).