What's your choice for the best source of news in America?

[MrScorpio]

Straight news, without the standard agendas and a tradition of journalistic integrity.


Papers, magazines, TV, radio or net... your choice.

[Uzybone]

1. Does this eliminate BBC et al?

If so then its the PBS Newshour.

And even that is strongly slanted to the right.

[MrScorpio]

7. It's totally your choice

But it has to be news about what's happening in America

[Deep13]

21. Yup, BBC. nt

[emilyg]

44. Absolutely.

[RandomThoughts]

2. Music, and it is entertaining without falsley claiming to be true. n/t

[Lasher]

3. Democratic Underground.

That's the truth.

[gateley]

8. I just posted the same thing! nt

[Balbus]

38. You've got to be shitting me...

[Snazzy]

41. yep LBN rocks on

Haven't figured out yet how to tame the recently updated google news--getting a lot celebrity crap all of a sudden. LBN and a quick check of GD, like really quick ( :beer: ), and I mostly know what's going on.

Throw in local papers for a couple of spots and an overseas aggregator mostly for the stuff US media avoids, like our damn wars, torture and anything else under the rah-rah radar.

[NorthCarolina]

47. ..

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[JuniperLea]

5. No such beast, imho...

I try to listen to many sources and note the differences, with the hope of drawing my own conclusions. There is no journalistic integrity anymore... gone with the dodo bird.

[gateley]

6. I always come to DU first - seriously. I learn about stuff almost immediately,

and even if the OP has an STRONG opinion, I can get the gist of it and follow up elsewhere if I''m interested.

[librechik]

23. Anybody watch the PBS NewsHour or check the website?

just curious

[gateley]

49. I never think to check the website, and I don't get control of the TV when Newshour is on.

I've recorded it before but found I had 'heard' most of the stuff already on DU! I'm going to make a point of checking out the website, thanks for the suggestion!!

[tularetom]

9. Pretty much DU for me.

[spanone]

10. ???????????????

[depakid]

11. Pacifica Radio and Democratcy Now with Amy Goodman

[Xipe Totec]

12. The Daily Show nt

[lunatica]

13. The internet

Hands down. Not only do I get my news from it, but I have the ability of going to look for the news, which is far more important. Before the internet we were forced to get our news through newspapers and TV and someone else decided what news I would get. With the internet I go looking for the news.

By the way that's how I found DU and my favorite blogs. Around May and June of 2001, when Bush had been in office for a few months I was growing more and more alarmed at how fast he was dismantling all the gains that Clinton had put in place. It was a daily thing to have the CNN, at the time my favorite news station (hard to believe now) happily tell us what the next program or initiative Bush had just cut or decimated. I decided I needed to find true democratic sites to see if I was the only one who was so unhappy. I googled 'democratic sites' and DU came up with quite a few others which I still frequent.

Without the internet life would be really depressing! I lurked on DU for year before I joined in 2007. The people on this site are responsible for my sanity.

[jp11]

19. +1000

Not only can we look for news we can check out the different takes on a story when it is covered or recovered by different sources, as well as doing our own follow up/research where the source or reported may not have done enough or we simply want more information.

[demmiblue]

14. Democracy Now, with a side of Rachel

:)

[vanlassie]

57. YEP.

[Telly Savalas]

15. ESPN

[EFerrari]

16. Definitely Amy Goodman. nt

[Ruby the Liberal]

17. Internet - mainly Twitter and DU

The speed in which off-the-wall news is delivered via this medium is amazing.

[inna]

27. how do you twitter for news? I haven't figured that out, but I hardly ever use Twitter.

(I just never got into it, for some reason.)

Do you follow certain posters/news sites and rely on their updates?

[Ruby the Liberal]

34. Yep.

Among others, I follow @cnnbrk @breakingnews @reuters @bloomberg.

Between them, I pretty much know what is going on before their websites are updated.

[tekisui]

45. I search Twitter by topic.

If something is breaking, twitter is where to go, IMO. Search by subject and I only pay attention to the tweets with links to an actual story.

[Ozymanithrax]

18. There is no news without agendas... n/t

[Uzybone]

25. I agree, which is why its very funny to see people list DU

Democracy Now etc. While they are great sources they have heavy agendas.

[EFerrari]

26. Indy media does some of the best reporting any more. n/t

[Ozymanithrax]

29. But every Indy media site has its own agenda. That is human.

The most important thing we can do is to be aware of the agenda's so we can despin what we hear a litt.

For instance, I try to look for at least 3 sources for a story.

[AnArmyVeteran]

20. BBC (the US news is sooo inept)

[Bozita]

22. FSTV (Free Speech TV) and that fucking Comcast doesn't carry it!

[ThomWV]

24. C-Span, you get to watch the event, not somebody's explanation of the event.

[elleng]

28. PBS and BBC, tv

C-Span, of course.

[JoePhilly]

30. Broad Spectrum ...

I try to pull in as much as I can. CNN, MSNBC, some FOX (although that is usually wasted time), Sunday shows, C-SPAN, John Stewart, Stephanie Miller, Ed, Hartman, DU, WSJ-on-line, Newsweek ... some BBC.

My view is that by listening to these, I hear the talking points but through different people ... and when they each explain them, they vary .. and that's where you can find the truth ... they inadvertently open the curtain in different places.

[Initech]

31. The Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart

[old guy]

32. I like McClatchy wire service and BBC

[YvonneCa]

33. Notice how, so far, no one has said...

...Fox, CBS, NBC, ABC, etc.? DU and C-Span(1, 2, and 3) for me.

[IndianaGreen]

35. BBC, The Guardian, The Independent, Common Dreams

[Turborama]

36. Al Jazeera English is streamed live online

Here: http://www.livestation.com/channels/3-al_jazeera_english

They frequently add to their YouTube channel (check out the Playlists and Shows, too): http://www.youtube.com/user/AlJazeeraEnglish#g/u

And their website regularly self refreshes: http://english.aljazeera.net/

And what IndianaGreen said above.

[Earth_First]

37. Democratic Underground

Besides Best of the Left podcast and local news programming, 100% of my news comes from reading DU.

[Scurrilous]

39. Internet only. n/t

[walldude]

40. Two weeks ago I was in Europe... I got more news from 1 hour of the BBC

then I get from an entire year of TV news in America. There is no "news" here.. it's all "infotainment".

[tekisui]

42. I like McClatchy, Democracy Now!, The Nation, PBS, and NYT.

I also like some of the British papers, The Guardian and Times Online.

I enjoy reading Newsweek, The Economist and Time as well.

[northoftheborder]

43. fav. news sources

PBS Newshour, NPR, C-Span, internet (various), CNN for "big" news events, news magazines for background such as Nation and Texas Observer, local newspaper for local & state news

[femmocrat]

46. DU for me.

After checking DU's LBN, I go to Huffington and Buzzflash, if I have time.

On TV, I flip between C-span, MSNBC and CNN during the day.

[XemaSab]

55. DU for me too

backed up with the NY Times, the LA Times, the Chronic, and the local paper. :P

[NorthCarolina]

48. Jon Stewart & Rachel Maddow. eom

[WCGreen]

50. Mr. Scorpio's posts....

[MrScorpio]

51. Aw shucks...

*Kickin' the dirt*

[IDemo]

52. BBC, Asia Times

http://www.atimes.com/

Also a good selection of news sources from FAIR ("fairness and accuracy in reporting"): http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=134

[tech9413]

53. WBAI, KPFK, McClatchey, Reuters, Christian Science Monitor

WBAI has good shows like Wake up Call, Law and Disorder, Guns and Butter. KPFK has Ian Masters Background Briefing/Daily Briefing, Lila Garrett Connect the Dots, Beneath the Surface, Counterspin, Free Speech Radio News, Uprising. WNUR has This is Hell on Saturday always some good long format interviews with intelligent, informed guests. Good information is out there but you do have to search for it.

[sendero]

54. The Christian Science Monitor...

... is the only news source I implicitly trust.

And I am not a Christian.

[ananda]

56. Democracy Now!

nt