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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Sun_Worshiper on July 18, 2023, 07:39:34 AM

Title: Where do you get your news and analysis?
Post by: Sun_Worshiper on July 18, 2023, 07:39:34 AM
What newspapers/sites do you read? What do you watch? Turn us on to your favorite sources for information.
Title: Re: Where do you get your news and analysis?
Post by: apl68 on July 18, 2023, 10:02:04 AM
The Arkansas Democrat/Gazette (our principal state paper)

The New York Times (Actual paper subscription--when it arrives, anywhere from several days to a couple of weeks late--apparently subscribers in Flyover Country don't deserve the greatness of their publication)

Our local weekly.  Not a bad little paper.  It's still locally-owned, still has its own in-house printing--in color, no less!--and has a youngish editor who has done good things with it in recent years.  I write a weekly public library column for it.
Title: Re: Where do you get your news and analysis?
Post by: MarathonRunner on July 18, 2023, 10:41:49 AM
CBC News (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). CTV News. Globe and Mail. National Post. Global News. (All Canadian).

Foreign: Deutsche Welle. BBC.

Local newspapers.

Those are the main ones.
Title: Re: Where do you get your news and analysis?
Post by: Parasaurolophus on July 18, 2023, 10:46:32 AM
Most of my news comes from CBC.ca/news (https://www.cbc.ca/news) and CBC Radio One (https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio).

I'll periodically check out Current Affairs (https://www.currentaffairs.org/), Mother Jones (https://www.motherjones.com/), Jacobin (https://jacobin.com/), and the LGM blog (https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/) for fun bits. I enjoy listening to Slate's Political Gabfest (https://slate.com/podcasts/political-gabfest) each week, although I find it frustrating and it frequently riles me up a bit.


There used to be more, especially magazines like Maclean's and Harper's, but they've become intolerably awful, IMO.
Title: Re: Where do you get your news and analysis?
Post by: financeguy on July 18, 2023, 10:52:32 AM
The Hill, Breaking Points, TYT Network and online independent content creators or podcasters that are largely or exclusively viewer funded. I specifically avoid print and tv legacy media. If you are funded by a pharmaceutical company or defense contractor, I will not consume your content. (ABC, NBC, CBS, NYT, WP etc are out...)
Title: Re: Where do you get your news and analysis?
Post by: Sun_Worshiper on July 18, 2023, 11:12:39 AM
I get morning emails from the NYT, WP, the Guardian, and the Conversation, as well as the local paper, and I look them all over. I also get emails from CHE and the Economist, but I usually hit paywalls when I try to read their articles.

I also subscribe to podcasts from 538, Foreign Affairs, and Right, Left and Center, and I listen to each of them when time and interest permit.

And I see lots of random things through social media or news clips on YouTube.

Title: Re: Where do you get your news and analysis?
Post by: jimbogumbo on July 18, 2023, 11:24:46 AM
WaPo, CNN, Fox, The Hill, Politico, NPR, Denver Post, Forbes, various things on Apple News, BBC

and the odious Real Clear Politics site
Title: Re: Where do you get your news and analysis?
Post by: sinenomine on July 18, 2023, 03:49:37 PM
CNN, BBC, my statewide news, a couple local news programs, my local paper, and recommendations from trusted friends.
Title: Re: Where do you get your news and analysis?
Post by: ciao_yall on July 18, 2023, 04:14:12 PM
Online - New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post and Guardian UK.

I also subscribe to the New Yorker and Economist.
Title: Re: Where do you get your news and analysis?
Post by: apl68 on July 19, 2023, 06:26:11 AM
I read New Yorker regularly, and our library subscription of Wall Street Journal occasionally.  Sometimes I read some of the online publications mentioned above, like Politico.
Title: Re: Where do you get your news and analysis?
Post by: Hegemony on July 19, 2023, 08:57:25 AM
The Guardian, the New York Times, the New Yorker. Articles from the Washington Post posted by other people.
Title: Re: Where do you get your news and analysis?
Post by: Diogenes on July 19, 2023, 07:40:12 PM
Nationally, NPR. Locally our main newspaper is still decent. There is really good hyperlocal news shows both on the FM community radio station and a podcast via City Cast. It's worth looking to see if your city has a City Cast affiliate yet https://citycast.fm/
Title: Re: Where do you get your news and analysis?
Post by: kaysixteen on July 19, 2023, 08:26:54 PM
MSNBC, CNN, NYT, WaPo, The Boston Globe, vox.com, salon.com, thebulwark.com
Title: Re: Where do you get your news and analysis?
Post by: dismalist on July 20, 2023, 04:20:52 PM
Not the NYT, the WaPO, NPR, CNN, the Guardian, BBC, the New Yorker, and the other suspects.

The Wall Street Journal is almost bearable. I pay only at sharply reduced rates.

I read the headlines from the google aggregator daily, but check out at most two articles per day. When I was a kid, I used to laugh at a distant aunt who only read headlines in a newspaper. Now I do it myself!

The analysis I do myself. :-)
Title: Re: Where do you get your news and analysis?
Post by: jerseyjay on July 20, 2023, 07:01:15 PM
I subscribe to the NYT, New Yorker, London Review of Books, and NYRB in physical copies. I read the NYT on the stationary bike at the gym.

I read the local tabloid, the NYPost, and the Guardian online on occasion.

For foreign sources, I look at the BBC, RT, El Tiempo (Bogotá), El País (Madrid), Folha de S. Paulo and Corriere della Sera on occasion.


Title: Re: Where do you get your news and analysis?
Post by: lightning on July 20, 2023, 10:20:21 PM
I've been getting online news from the MSN news aggregator for as long as I have been on the Internet. MSN is how I get most of my news. Also, I prefer foreign news outlets like El Pais and BBC.

For news from TV, BBC mostly, and occasionally from English-speaking news outlets from the Far East like Singapore and Hong Kong.

For print, the local newspaper is delivered to my university to old-fashioned news stands located on campus, and they are free to university-affiliated people (news stands accessed by university's ID card).



Title: Re: Where do you get your news and analysis?
Post by: fleabite on July 25, 2023, 06:09:11 PM
I'm a cover-to-cover, daily reader of the print version of the New York Times. During the day, I will occasionally check NPR.org or CNN.com. When a lot is going on politically, I sometimes look at Politico, as well as some neighborhood papers for coverage of local political and judicial candidates. I look at some foreign sources online (most commonly the BBC, Figaro and Le Monde), if I am interested on country-specific foreign breaking news.

PS: I was not proselytizing by adding links. They simply appeared because the system turned them into URLs.