Where do you guys get your news?

[ERCougar]

I've decided I need to become a better-informed citizen.

So I'm looking for a good, single website, that I can peruse for about 15-20 minutes a day that will give me a balanced look at the non-sports goings on of the world. And it needs to be free.

Any recommendations?

[Babs]

ooh. that's a tough one. If you're only going to go with one, I would use googlenews, but that's just me. I would definitely opt for an aggregator of some kind rather than a specific media outlet.

[YOhio]

I've decided I need to become a better-informed citizen.

So I'm looking for a good, single website, that I can peruse for about 15-20 minutes a day that will give me a balanced look at the non-sports goings on of the world. And it needs to be free.

Any recommendations?

drudgereport.com

[Babs]

I think Tex and Ex recommend HuffPo.

[myboynoah]

I like Washington Post for that.

[RobinFinderson]

I've decided I need to become a better-informed citizen.

So I'm looking for a good, single website, that I can peruse for about 15-20 minutes a day that will give me a balanced look at the non-sports goings on of the world. And it needs to be free.

Any recommendations?

The News Hour on PBS is by far the best source of news that I have found from an American news agency.

All of the news programs on PBS are good. For straight news, nothing beat The News Hour. For analysis, Gwen Ifill is good with Washington Week.

For analysis with a liberal bias, nobody does it better than Bill Moyers on his program Bill Moyer's Journal. Moyers is definitely a liberal, but he is quick to take down Democrats when there is hypocrisy, and he does this often. Moyers is especially against the dangers of influence pedaling to our democratic republic. I was pleased when he did a nice piece on Jeff Flake, holding him up to be a hero fighting against the corrupting force of influence pedaling.

PBS is the bomb when it comes to news. Free, high definition, smart, analytical, and commercial free.

[myboynoah]

The News Hour on PBS is by far the best source of news that I have found from an American news agency.

All of the news programs on PBS are good. For straight news, nothing beat The News Hour. For analysis, Gwen Ifill is good with Washington Week.

For analysis with a liberal bias, nobody does it better than Bill Moyers on his program Bill Moyer's Journal. Moyers is definitely a liberal, but he is quick to take down Democrats when there is hypocrisy, and he does this often. Moyers is especially against the dangers of influence pedaling to our democratic republic. I was pleased when he did a nice piece on Jeff Flake, holding him up to be a hero fighting against the corrupting force of influence pedaling.

PBS is the bomb when it comes to news. Free, high definition, smart, analytical, and commercial free.

Speaks volumes.

[PaloAltoCougar]

I jump around, but I confess I hit cnn.com a lot. I still like reading a real newspaper. I read two locals daily, and the WSJ fairly often. And I admit I quite like USA Today, and read it four times or so during the week. It provides my only hope of keeping abreast of all the pop culture references here and elsewhere.

[tooblue]

I like in no particular order:

For my liberal content:
International Herald Tribune http://www.iht.com/

For my conservative Canadian content (still very liberal compared to US standards):
National Post http://www.nationalpost.com/

The geek in me spends too much time at:
Wired magazine www.wired.com

And for pop culture information I frequent:
Time http://www.time.com & CNN http://www.cnn.com

[RobinFinderson]

Speaks volumes.

I realize you probably don't watch/listen/read PBS sourced news very often, but I think you would be very challenged to find an example of liberal bias on the News Hour.

[Tim]

drudgereport.com

Drudge Report used to be one of the most neutral and unbiased news aggregators, but in the past two years it's taken a decidedly right-sided view. Very disappointing.

[myboynoah]

I realize you probably don't watch/listen/read PBS sourced news very often, but I think you would be very challenged to find an example of liberal bias on the News Hour.

I haven't watched the Newshour for some time now. In fact, I haven't watched an evening news program for a long time. It doesn't work with my schedule all that well these days.

My recollections of the Newshour are that it tended to be left-of center (not rapidly so like a lot of PBS and NPR, but still to the left) and that it covered fewer stories than the others. It did do a nice in-depth look at the stories that it did cover. That was my impression and I suspect not much has changed.

[Guest]

I think you would be very challenged to find an example of liberal bias on the News Hour.

I think you would be very challenged to find an example of someone with a pulse on News Hour.

[RobinFinderson]

I think you would be very challenged to find an example of someone with a pulse on News Hour.

The News Hour delivers NEWS with professionalism and substance. The fact that they are partly subsidized by tax payers, and therefore have an obligation to be content-driven, rather than ratings-driven, I find to be a great breath of fresh air compared to the show-boating of Keith Olberman, Rachel Maddow, Glen Beck, Jon Stewart, and pretty much everyone else. Plus, visually, the production standards for PBS News are the best in the business. The graphics, charts, set, etc are just about pitch perfect for what one would expect from a news source directed at mature people.

[Guest]

In no order:

http://nytimes.com/

http://www.economist.com/

http://www.drudgereport.com/

On The Economist...Here is this week's news quiz:

http://www.economist.com/diversions/...=hptextfeature