What are your favorite news sources?

June 21, 2004 3:08 PM

What are your favorite news sources, the most consistently rewarding ones?

Mainstream, alternative, blogs, news aggregation sites, and so on.

Don't be shy.
posted by troutfishing to society & culture (22 comments total)

MetaFilter.

Honest!
posted by mischief at 3:21 PM on June 21, 2004

www.talkingpointsmemo.com
www.salon.com
www.stratfor.biz
www.metafilter.com
posted by gkostolny at 3:32 PM on June 21, 2004

For offbeat Economic studies that don't hit the AP wire:

www.marginalrevolution.com
posted by trharlan at 3:34 PM on June 21, 2004

news.google.com - the search function. I haven't used Nexis in months.
posted by CunningLinguist at 3:35 PM on June 21, 2004

When I need the latest current events, verbatim newswire articles, and kneejerk commentary, I crack open a Pepsi Blue and go to Metafilter. Yes, Metafilter! Axes ground while you wait!

Metafilter: Because You Can't Find CNN.com Without Us.
posted by keswick at 3:38 PM on June 21, 2004

Newspapers.
posted by reklaw at 3:41 PM on June 21, 2004

www.politicaltheory.info
posted by dagny at 3:41 PM on June 21, 2004

the onion
posted by Keyser Soze at 3:48 PM on June 21, 2004

CANOE, CBC, Globe & Mail, The Register, TodaysPapers, Wired, BetaNews, Shell Extension City, ARS Technica, Gizmodo, I4U, Boing Boing, Daily Rotten, Everything Isn't, Jim Romenesko, Memepool, Motorcycle Daily, Pepys' Diary, Science Blog, Meta Efficient, The Sneeze, This is Borken, Underwater Times, Meta*, Slashdot, Red Flag Deals, a number of comics, Need to Know, I used to believe, I Cringely, Langalist, Other People's Stories, Strong Bad Email, The Onion AV Club.
posted by five fresh fish at 3:48 PM on June 21, 2004

cursor.org
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:27 PM on June 21, 2004

Topix (in addition to many of the above)
posted by ajr at 4:31 PM on June 21, 2004

I like Yahoo's Most Emailed page-- a nice mix of big stories, news of the weird, and captivating news photos that I don't otherwise run across. Most of all, it's a fascinating look into what is holding the internet's interest at any given moment.
posted by samh23 at 4:36 PM on June 21, 2004

I'll second cursor.org. Good selection of stories in a nice round-up style. Agonist is also OK. Yahoo News is great for searching News photos, and Google News for searching stories.
posted by chaz at 5:02 PM on June 21, 2004

The Economist, hands down. Because the whole magazine is one big, usually pretty intelligent, op-ed, so you know where it stands, and also because it's smart, reasonable, and covers a lot of ground. I don't always agree with their opinions, but I do find the magazine incredibly informative, and I appreciate its rational, clear-headed, discursive tone. To my mind it's the only really essential news reading, whether you're on the left or the right.

(Also, I love the letters and captions they publish, very often with ironic intent. Recently there was a great one defending the Iraq war and President Bush; it said something like, "Nothing Europeans say matters, because they can't vote in American elections. I, personally, look forward to supporting President Bush as soon as I am old enough to vote." Har har har).
posted by josh at 5:12 PM on June 21, 2004

To that I'll add that I also find The New York Review of Books very rewarding.
posted by josh at 5:14 PM on June 21, 2004

I read Google News in the text-only version, read the local papers and the Economist and Weatherwise in the paper versions, read a ton of library blogs via RSS, catch some of the talking heads stuff on C-SPAN in the morning as my landlady is watching it, and talk to my boyfriend on the car ride home about what is up in Senator Jeffords' [I-VT] office. It's a multimedia extravaganza!
posted by jessamyn at 5:36 PM on June 21, 2004

Disinformation has a great range of links.
posted by homunculus at 5:46 PM on June 21, 2004

news.bbc.co.uk
posted by bonaldi at 6:01 PM on June 21, 2004

Daypop is pretty nice.

But, for contemporary living I read The New Republic, The Atlantic, The London Review of Books, Foreign Policy, and Thrasher.
posted by the fire you left me at 8:14 PM on June 21, 2004

everything you need is here.
posted by Kwantsar at 11:04 PM on June 21, 2004

I keep a Radio Netherlands applet on my desktop at work, for the occasional "big story" notification without the big media hype.
posted by gimonca at 6:06 AM on June 22, 2004

news.bbc.co.uk
guardian.co.uk
metafilter
boing boing
Wired news
slashdot
guerrillanews.com
theregister.co.uk
posted by Blue Stone at 12:21 PM on June 22, 2004