What is the best source of the news both domestic and international

[madokie]

[Atman]

1. The Internet Public Library

Every newspaper in the world. Pull up your easy chair and pour a drink...

http://www.ipl.org/div/news/

[madokie]

5. I'll be doing that very thing, thanks

[The Deacon]

2. BBC World

Keith Olbermann for weird stuff & commentary. Jon Stewart for domestic.

[Atman]

4. They only feed us BBC America here in Cox country

We had BBC World News for a while, then sometime mid-BushCo, Cox Communications switched to BBC America. It is only slightly less worthless than "regular" American news. Essentially, it is American Corporate News, without a Canadian anchorman.

[The Deacon]

19. Hmmm

Our BBC America (on MediaCom) carries the full BBC World News (in the morning, mind you) at seven in the morning & again at eight (Eastern.) News, Business & Sports

[jayfish]

3. DU LBN. -NT-

Jay

[Atman]

6. That actually is a very good answer.

And the one I usually give. But I tend to have to spend too much time convincing people that LBN is just raw news, and not Democratic propaganda. For that reason alone, I decided not to vote it "best" source. But you and I know it really is!

[jayfish]

8. I Can't Believe All The Folks I Tell Who Just...

can't figure it out. No amount of explanation will do. It's quite strange.

Jay

[aceman2373]

7. There is no good news source..

All news is bad news!

[BOSSHOG]

9. Hello Madokie

I think you will agree the attached site is essential for information (especially this time of year.)

http://www.hogwired.com/

[madokie]

11. Now we talking

[liam_laddie]

10. Int'l news

The Guardian (guardian.co.uk) and International Herald Tribune (IHT.com) are both
worth checking out. Maybe Asia Times. USA media, with very, very few exceptons, are
heavily bottom-line oriented and could care less about an "informed public."
A pal who worked for a Gannet rag said they consider news to be filler between the
ads. True story. Good hunting for the truth.

[madokie]

12. I wish I would have asked this question a year ago

I will be adding many to my favs,
Nothing worst than no news except untrue news

[RethugAssKicker]

13. Democracy Now

[Peace Patriot]

14. DU ain't bad! Great posts of news/blog opinion on U.S., plus Mexico,

Venezuela, Iraq War/Middle East, Israel/Palestine, peace movement, ELECTION REFORM (fab posts!), activist news of all kinds (that's what I'm most interested in--how the people are saving the democracy). DU is a little chaotic, but VERY informative--not to mention the education you get in the comments!

Google News is a good supplement--it has the GREAT practice of posting news from numerous sources around the world--hundreds of different news organizations per story. So you can learn how news is being reported in farflung areas. Don't like the corporates spin here? Find different spin! And even leftist spin!

Asia Times is another good supplement--an area of the world poorly covered by DUers, and poorly covered generally in our media. AT is excellent on Asia AND U.S. issues. (Read Pepe Escobar!)

Scoop.com is also good. (New Zealand--but it's where the U.S. '04 exit polls were first analyzed--Autorank is now writing for them on election issues.)

A couple of other sites I keep up with, that have a broad range of leftist opinion and real news: Truthout.org, Bradblog, FreePress.org, Counterpunch. AND, www.venezuelanalysis.com (excellent on Venez and other So. Amer. matters--haven't found a comparable site on Mexico, but Judy Lynn's posts on Mexico here at DU pretty much fill us in. Narconews has been great on the Mexican election.)

Dubious: DailyKos. I really can't get past the "Iron Curtain" they pulled down over Election Fraud news. What it told me is that they're trying to please the powers that be in the Democratic Party--so, although they've done some good stories, how can we trust their perspective, their editing, their focus? The Democratic Party leaders can be VERY WRONG, as we know.

Corporate news:

Any Knight-Ridder newspaper--the only good news service in this country. (--but the rightwing corporate raid might affect them, leaving us with NO good news service; Miami Herald has been good, but just published a shill piece dissing the Cuba/Venezuela doctors program--to please their new masters? dunno.)

Reuters, BBC and the International Herald Tribune: They try to be more neutral than our ridiculous corporate news monopolies. IHT can be quite good.

Read with caution: The WSJ *NEWS* section--not editorial (rabid Bush monkeys). The WSJ does fairly well on straight news. Investors have to have reliable news--I guess that's why. The L.A. Times news section sometimes has surprisingly good, in-depth reporting.

To hell with NYT: What they did on the war is so bad, they cannot be trusted on ANY story of ANY kind.

[FlavaKreemSnak]

15. I don't think there is just one

You have to read all of it, like on here people will post stories from the American papers and also Reuters etc. and then you have to go read stories from other countries because sometimes they will report things that American ones can't because it might be something that the government said wasn't true and whenever they report stuff like that there are problems and also you can read articles about how many press people have been killed in Iraq because they were warned to get embedded or else and some of them didn't.

[madokie]

16. Yes, and I have several new links now.

[ThomWV]

17. Link TV and the Internet

You can find every version of the news you want to read on the Internet. Link TV is good, though sometimes maybe a little bit too good - if you get my drift.

[EFerrari]

18. You ask great questions, madokie. Thanks!

:)