Best General News Site

[TromboneAl]

I've used MSNBC.com for years, but they changed their format, making it less easy to read.

I like CNN.com because they usually have a four line summary at the start of each story, which is a great feature. However, they have too many stories that are videos, meaning I have to wait through a mini commercial to see the video.

 

[Mwsinron]

http://www.foxnews.com/

 

[Deetso]

drudgereport!

 

[frayne]

Yahoo is my homepage.

 

[TromboneAl]

I set the votes to zero because I forgot Foxnews.com

 

[Mwsinron]

Like Fox news. However I like CNN Money portion. So I do the go between.

 

[Coach]

Yahoo is my homepage.

Same here.

Coach

 

[calmloki]

Fark.com, or, for news as it happens, Digg.com.

Hard hitting incisive reporting from the tickers and police blotters of the world.

Sorta.

What, T-Al - you add Fox "News" and don't balance it with Jon Stewart's Daily Show?
Uhm, fair and balanced?

 

[dumpster56]

NYtimes, BBC. Sidney Morning Herald I just love reading what is happening Tomorrow! Today!

 

[F-One]

BBC.com best by far, if you have XM radio can listen also

 

[Khan]

Start the day with news.google.com

 

[F-One]

Not BBC.com -- oops

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

 

[TromboneAl]

The BBC site is nice, but the animated text (LATEST) is annoying. I want my news page totally static -- don't want things flickering while I'm reading.

 

[Non sequitur]

Google News

 

[TromboneAl]

Also, are there any news sites that let you watch video without a commercial first?

 

[Mwsinron]

Also, are there any news sites that let you watch video without a commercial first?

CNBC did for awhile but now they got ads too.

 

[flipstress]

This site is it for me. I pretty much get from here which celebrity or important person has recently died, and that's all the news I need.

Seriously, I don't keep up with the news but it filters in from the radio that BF has got on most of the time--tuned to NPR, Wisconsin Public Radio, or the local community station.

 

[FreeBird]

Fox News Channel all the way!

 

[BigMoneyJim]

I generally use reuters.com , sometimes via my Yahoo portal.

I also keep links for foreign news sites handy as I like to get different viewpoints on big news; I have links handy for BBC news, Hindustan Times and Aljazeera.

 

[Nords]

The morning lineup, starting with a cup of green tea:
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/hnl/pages/SRF.php
http://pacific.bizjournals.com/pacific/latestnews.html
http://www.starbulletin.com/ (second cup of tea and breakfast)
http://www.businessweek.com/
http://www.sciam.com/ (first cup of coffee)
http://www.reuters.com/home
http://personal.fidelity.com/myfidelity/daily/ (more coffee, more breakfast).

No financial news review is complete without Ted's digest:
http://www.fundalarm.com/wwwboard/wwwboard.html

And if I'm feeling gossip-deficient:
http://www.msn.com/

 

[lets-retire]

Yahoo, Fox, CNN

Normally in that order.

 

[OAG]

Drudge Report, CNN, FOX in that order.

 

[OAG]

Wow 46% are "other". Expand the poll for "other" sites?

 

[TromboneAl]

Nords, Looks like you've "closed the loop." That's what I call it when you have so many different sites that you regularly check, that by the time you've checked the last one, it's time to check the first again. Very dangerous.

 

[nuisance]

Listen to NPR on the way to w*rk, and at various times when I'm at home. That gets me info about all the major stuff that's going on, as well as some background here and there.

Tim