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CuriousFerret

Which news source do you turn to most often?

I was part of a survey for a friend's college thesis study that asked me to list the last twenty news stories and what media I used to view them in.

As I read almost excusively online at this point I simply called up my search history and compiled the list.  The result was a bit surprising to me.

I found that I was focusing on mostly Business Insider and their related subsidiaries as my top choice, followed by the BBC, and occasional the Washington Post.

Now it may have been a subconscious slow transfer over from other sources that have become more editorial and opinion related then fact based, I do love having the stats and links to actual research that Business Insider provides.

It could be more effective headliners and placement on part of their ad campaigns.

I'm not sure fully, but it was an interesting exercise and I am curious if others might be surprised by their own news consuming habits they may be unaware of.
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Added: 7 years ago
 
moyomongoose
7 years ago
It use to be BreakingNews.com until they went down at the beginning of this year.
All the rest of them seem to be Pinocchio the long nose lair at best.
CuriousFerret
7 years ago
An annoying trend I see with some sites putting up little more then a teaser and just linking to a diffrent outlet that has the actual story.

You'll see the same exact content reguratated word for word as if it's just cut and paste.
lunaborg
7 years ago
PBS Newshour/PBS
New York Times
ProPublica
Vox

I've recently just started tuning into the BBC so I've heard that's a good news source.
CuriousFerret
7 years ago
BBC is good at linking up their research for siting and does avoid unnecessary commentary.

And it's good to have a view from outside the states looking in.
CubSnuffer
7 years ago
BBC News is the agency I trust the most.
soggymaster
7 years ago
Drudge report is usually the first place I go.
Shokuji
7 years ago
NPR & BBC, but even then I'm not too trusting of any news agency lately.
Teko
7 years ago
BBC News and NPR seem to be the most even-handed and unbiased.

Al Jazeera America was terrific during its short lifetime.

I used to read Huffington Post but it slid into clickbait and alarmist BS far too often; I really can't trust it anymore.
sedkitty
7 years ago
Google News.  Multiple sources are good.
Nemmy
7 years ago
Politico, Democracy Now, BBC News, and NPR here.
jadestyx
7 years ago
BBC
Business Insider
Daily Mail
The Atlantic
Drudge Report
ColeDragonKnight
7 years ago
Onion
Gizmodo
...that's about it, oh
John Oliver
zyfer
7 years ago
I focus mostly on tech news.. basically the daily NCIX news short and Level1Tech's weekly news show. I might hear news from other places like say an article from a search engine but then if i do i triple check it with different sites...  

If it's something major like an devastating earthquake or incident or something like that I'll usually stumble across it from because it's somewhat broadly talked about.

Once in a while i might pick up a local newspaper but overall i don't really trust official news agencies and I don't really care that much about current news since it's usually nothing but bullshit distracting you from the actual news.
IzzySable
7 years ago
For me, it's New York Times, followed by the BBC, with occasional dips into the Wall Street Journal.  Oh, and I read my local paper for local news stories.  Well, not the LOCAL rag, but the Worcester Telegram and Gazette.  XP
Creideiki
7 years ago
CBC NewsWorld and CBC Radio One, The BBC World Service, Deutsche Welle for specific broadcasters.

I also hit up Google News and Reddit's r/WorldNews, which I both take with a grain of salt as they are aggregators.

For local news, I just watch the evening news on CHCH, and read the Hamilton Spectator paper occasionally. (I also occasionally look at The Silhouette, which is my university's student paper; but it's kind of blah.)
CuriousFerret
7 years ago
I never used Google news, I assume it just provides links to other sites that provide the stories much like yahoo does.  But it does provide its own commantary and story articles themselves?

Creideiki
7 years ago
No, it's just an aggregation site, like Reddit's r/news and r/worldnews; hence why I prefer CBC, BBC, and DW.
BrokenPupper
7 years ago
So far I go to Politico, Daily News, El Diario. I was recommended NPR but was too lazy to install their app. Hey does Youtubers count? I tend to watch this Phillip DeFranco guy for some fact checking, he's pretty dedicated on it.
BrokenPupper
7 years ago
Oh and occasionally the New Yorker.
VelveteenVixen
7 years ago
PhillipDeFranco and NPR
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