Where do you go to find out the news?

Kind of a poll really... I'm just interested in finding out where people get their news as the website I normally go to has suddenly started disliking that I have an adblocker.

Radio?
News site?
Search engine?
TV?
Anywhere else?

Do you think your news source is more or less biased than others?

BBC News online.
I also subscribe to a geopolitical intelligence service Stratfor.com.

At home we receive two newspapers: a local paper, and what I read - The Chicago Tribune.

I keep CNN on in the house on mute. It helps because at least I know when something important is happening, but I don't have to listen to their yapping. Very liberal, of course. Populist maybe. If the sound is on, it's generally for just a short time.

I listen to NPR in the car for my news updates. They're pretty good, if not with a slight liberal bias. It doesn't really come through in their straight up news updates.

Sometimes I will grab a paper on my way out the door from my complex.

I'll be honest.

I get all my news from Real Time with Bill Maher, on HBO.

I love that show!

CBC (especially Radio One), BBC (esp. Radio 4, though it can be a tad dry) and NPR, mainly. I have a thing for public radio.

In terms of digital news, I really try to make use of as many sources as possible - so for that reason, I love Google News. I try to get multiple perspectives on an issue so it's not beyond me to read about something in The Guardian (which I mainly prefer for their footy coverage, not proper news) and The Telegraph as well. For local stuff, the Charlotte Observer is really the only option for me: newspapers might be dying, but their local coverage is excellent and in-depth.

TV news (excepting local news in some circumstances) is next to useless, more entertainment than information. But I don't have cable TV, so I miss out either way.

I dislike nearly all the social side of things on Facebook lol, but what it is actually really useful for is as a newsfeed. I therefore regularly read from: BBC, Reuters, New Statesman, The Guardian, The Telegraph (these last three cover the political spectrum), Al Jazeera, The Economist, IFL Science, New York Times Science, NPR, Huffington Post UK, Alternet.

I think that's about it.

If I wanted military news I would go to strategypage.com

Alan wrote: BBC News online.
I also subscribe to a geopolitical intelligence service Stratfor.com.

I like stratfor and would read that too if not for most of their stories being subscription only

I usually rely on word of mouth and Facebook for the big things and I have two local news sites I check once a week or so for local news. Once I hear about a big thing somewhere I'll usually Google it and look at a few different articles on it try to get a complete picture. It's amazing to me the details that some places leave out that others leave in. It's not always a bias, just a writing/editing decision. It's always best to get as much information as possible before forming a stance one way or the other.

My first choice of news sources are online. To the extent these have a bias, they generally promote a progressive viewpoint, though there is one exception. Except for RT, these are all funded by donations from their readers and viewers:

www.commondreams.org
www.readersupportednews.org
www.rt.com
www.gregpalast.com
www.usawatchdog.com (operated by Greg Hunter, who also offers regular news reporting and
commentary on YouTube; Greg is a conservative commentator.)

Occasionally, for economic news, I'll also go to www.zerohedge.com, though the sense of anxiety that seems to be deliberately fostered there is often too over-the-top for me. Others here have cited Stratfor, which I too believe to be a great resource - but I don't subscribe, my budget for subscriptions being otherwise consumed.

I do not generally rely on mainstream media. In most cases, that's because the format of most TV and radio news is driven by a need to please advertisers and the shareholders of their corporate parents, which IMHO significantly shapes the content of what is reported. Except in urgent emergencies where fast-responding coverage is needed, I prefer news sources that go into some depth regarding the stories they cover.

Similar to Goken, I rely on word of mouth for news. I do buy my weekly local paper, and will read news links that people I care for on FB share.

I used to follow the news constantly, and had the BBC News channel on all the time. But it really affected my moods, and made me miserable. Mainstream news tends to focus on things that we do not need to know.

media consolidation is a serious problem in america

http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6

good to know, especially if youre American or if you talk to Americans about - stuff

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mostly i avoid the news orgs as such - i research particular topics and find everything i can on them from multiple sources

that being said:

http://www.alternet.org/

http://www.democracynow.org/

http://www.ap.org/

http://www.bbc.com/news

http://www.reuters.com/

there was a time when i kept a television on c-span whenever i was home

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this thread inspired me to do a search for unbiased news outlets, and these are the results i got

http://blog.debate.org/2012/08/24/a-quest-for-truth-a-list-of-the-top-8-unbiased-news-sources/

http://www.businessinsider.com/here-are-the-most-and-least-trusted-news-outlets-in-america-2014-10

i was happy to see several of the sources that i like in the first link, although im not so sure that reuters is totally unbiased - actually i dont think its possible for a news org to be unbiased, simply because journalists are people, and should be well informed people, and being well informed and intelligent often results in something that may appear to be biased to one who is not as well informed