Opinions Please. Most Rounded News Source

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smashp

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If you had to get your news from one source, which would it be? Which would be the most Rounded? Although its better to use multiple sources, Im curious to this boards responce.
 
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Doboji

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I'd have to go with CNN.... they shift back and forth on their bias... Better than most news networks, who tend to stay tilted in one direction or another...

-Max
 
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heartsurgeon

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there is no one single source of complete, unbias news.

i enjoy the Drudge Report precisely for that reason.
he lists hundreds of links to al sorts of news sources..liberal, conservative, radical, communist, statist, foreign, print, electronic, opinion/editorial, you name it!
heck you can read the news from North Korea that they put out!.

if you are a news junkie, try the drudge report. you will find links to everything!
 
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chess9

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The BBC is best.

NPR is a close second, though their coverage is very limited and they toady too much to the current administration because they still get some public funding.

Drudge? Excuse me while I have a cerebral accident, better known as shrinking lobally. :)

-Robert
 
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tnitsuj

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Google news owns YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I haven't found a better way to get news from all kinds of sources.
 
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Witling

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I like the Guardian. The Christian Science Monitor is also very good. It tends to link to what other sources are reporting. This Link is to a service that keeps track of and links to worldwide sources that report on the Middle East. It doesn't seem to choose news slanted one way or the other. Suprisingly enough, Pravda, the Russian newspaper, tends to have accurate, in depth articles based on investigative reporting -- kind of like we used to do. Unfortunately for me, I'm usually not interested in the subjects they report on although they did do a long article on the fracassing going on in central Asia over oil and pipelines.
 
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The guardian?
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I say Reuters/BBC/CNN
 
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yellowperil

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The News Hour with Jim Lehrer is better than most, but watching it after dinner makes me sleepee.
 
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MonstaThrilla

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Drudge Report??? Yeesh. It signifies everything wrong with American journalism...


Anyways, I enjoy the Christian Science Monitor. They have totally original news reporting, and its probably the most unbiased source out there, completely independent from the international news services, untouched by the corporations, and with no real religious slant (its merely funded by the Church of Christian Scientists) despite its name.
 
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heartsurgeon

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Drudge Report??? Yeesh. It signifies everything wrong with American journalism
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do you even know what it is?

99.9% of the site consists of links to every possible online newsource on the planet....including the Christian Science Monitor..

i doubt you've even been to the site.
 
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I personaly dont like druge report at all because it basicly symbolises the word "æsifréttamennska" in iceland, which could mean in english trying to make the news more than they realy are, just trying to work on the sentimental value or something alike, hard to explain exactly
 
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MonstaThrilla

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Originally posted by: heartsurgeon
Drudge Report??? Yeesh. It signifies everything wrong with American journalism
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do you even know what it is?

99.9% of the site consists of links to every possible online newsource on the planet....including the Christian Science Monitor..

i doubt you've even been to the site.
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Of course I've been to the site, which is why I would make that comment, sir. There's no vast conspiracy I ascribe to that tells me to blindly despise Matt Drudge and his website. Sorry to disappoint you if you thought that sir. Its sensationalist journalism at its worst. The media isn't liberal, nor is it conservative, its sensationalist. Plain and simple. CNN, Fox News, et al are guilty of rampant sensationalism as well. The Drudge Report appeals to the worst in us with its use of headlines and selective articles. It exploits people's emotions to deliver news and get hits. Let's see what's on it now:


Flat Tax System Imposed On Iraq; U.S. Administrator Orders 15% Rate - stirs up the anger of economic conservatives
MAG: CBS MAY GIVE 'REAGAN' TO SHOWTIME... - gives a sense of victory to those up in arms about this stupid little made-for-tv movie
Screaming Woman Rams Car Into Arena at Bush Rally - makes one think that this was some loony Bush-hater, when in reality she was having a bad day and lost it
Study: 'Oprah' Fans More Likely To Be Stressed... - appeals to those who don't like Oprah or her viewers
TEXAS SCHOOL OFFICIALS INVESTIGATE JUNIOR HIGH SEX IN SCIENCE CLASS INCIDENT...
Women Account for Hefty Portion of Web Porn Viewing...

The last two I'm not even going to comment on. Do those stories merit to be placed next to stories about Iraq, the 2004 elections, or foreign affairs (China's aspirations to go to the moon)?

This is why I don't like Matt Drudge or his Drudge Report. Its bad and irresponsible journalism that is designed to infuriate rather than inform. I'm sorry if you disagree with me sir but its a free country. I didn't appreciate the implication you made that I was some ignorant knave who had never read the site (a ludicrous assumption IMO).

If you'd like a news "supersite", Google News uses a computerized algorithm to pick its headlines. Can't get much more unbiased then that...
 
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cnn
bbc
npr
time/newsweek/us news
newspapers

can't use just one source. certainly not the fairly unbalanced network:p
 
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