News Websites?

[Stoic Beverage]

The title pretty much says it. What websites do you go to for news? (Not counting satire. I'm looking at you, onion.)

 

[A22]

I like news.google.com, multiple sources is good. I always read something from online forums too.

 

[Kuu]

News about what? Politics, science, entertainment?

 

[Czech Yes or No]

I like news.google.com, multiple sources is good. I always read something from online forums too.

I also enjoy reading from the Economist, as their articles are usually highly in depth.
Defense Technology International, Drudge Report, etc.

 

[Stoic Beverage]

News about what? Politics, science, entertainment?

Anything, I suppose, assuming you check it regularly.
Probably should've thought out the original post more. Oh, well.

 

[Psychedelatry]

Al Jazeera is excellent and so is The Guardian. I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with the BBC: It's generally great quality reporting but can really piss me off when it starts going on about the Royal family and refuses to question western foreign policy in certain respects. RT is OK but is often quite ridiculous, kinda like a left-wing Fox news.

 

[Psychedelatry]

Actually, RT is shite.

 

[keekins]

For anything science, I use physorg. Just so much science.

 

[Drokens]

collection of news sources?

I'm attempting to create a group of online news archives or journals that I can sift through for current events in order to weed out biases. I'd appreciate any online news sources that you guys commonly use.

 

[Meer]

Re: collection of news sources?

Have you seen google news? you change how frequently different news sources pop up. I like the Christian Science Monitor, despite it's name.

 

[Irukanji]

I use Reuters, BBC UK and Al Jazeera for my news. I've found that Al Jazeera and Reuters are more or less the same(although if you pay attention they get their figures either from different sources or make them up so they don't get done for plagiarising. They also like to pretend that their sources wish to remain anonymous).

 

[TriflinThomas]

HuffPost (I know, I know), Talking Points Memo, The Verge, and Popular Science. I also use YouTube for news (I've subscribed to The David Pakman Show and SciHow). Also, I've liked a couple pages on facebook that regularly post news articles, so that gives me a bit of variety.

 

[skip]

Times of India, OC Register, Irish Times, Japan Times, EWTN.

 

[contextblues]

Reddit IS GOD.

Sometimes I get bored with the pieces turning up on the science page (especially when it's flooded with news on food/health or very repetitive Higgs news), but Reddit in general is an absolutely amazing tool.

And I'm a recent but firm believer in the potential of the "like" on Facebook. I also "follow" authors and other noteworthy types on Twitter. Many organizations are providing engaging news content through these channels, in probably the best way that a modern adult (or maybe just IN*P's?) can get interested and learn (however intentionally).

Of course, the vast majority of idiots probably read post captions, say, "Oh cool," and don't think twice about it. But the small doses of inspiration give me big ideas/interests sometimes.

On Facebook and Twitter, I constantly have news content popping up from NPR, Radiolab, TED, the Library of Congress, Susan Cain (ultimate reassurance for the strongly introverted), Oliver Sacks, NdGT, WNYC, AMNH, NYFA, 99% Invisible, and a wealth of other history/science/art/music/design users I'm interested in. Also, whenever I watch a good documentary, I "like" it on Facebook, as these pages often post related news.

 

[BridgeOfSighs]

Slate, The Atlantic mostly because they have the better apps/tumblr for my phone. Ergh. New York Times until I hit the limit per month. A bunch of random design-y blogs, sites, about art and strategy, and business.

 

[Intellect]

Reddit IS GOD.

Yeah. I usually follow the subreddits with news relevant to my interests. If I'm looking for a general overview of mainstream issues, I'll look at 3 major publications from different countries, usually it's the big three:

http://cnn.com (USA)
http://www.bbc.co.uk (UK)
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/ (China)

All news is bound to be biased, but if you vary the perspective enough you come closer to getting the truth.

I'm really of the opinion that if something important is going on, I'll find out about it. No need to actively follow the news.

 

[NiceRuby]

I often visit the site:
http://news.google.com/
There are many different news.

 

[Pyropyro]

Philippine Daily Inquirer, Facebook and Yahoo News

 

[Cognisant]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/


...What?

 

[TBerg]

dish.andrewsullivan.com

english.aljazeera.net

Andrew Sullivan has allowed me to grow in my understanding of LGBT issues as well has provided me a space to understand social issues beyond the way in which politically correct liberalism arranges them. Plus the Dish just features some of the most interesting material from other sources on the Web.

Al Jazeera is just a good source for international coverage.

 

[Perfectly Normal Beast]

i view all my news via this website:

http://www.meowbify.com/

it makes the world seem far less depressing

 

[Absurdity]

VICE

Although they aren't as good as they used to be.

 

[TBerg]

Man, the Vice coverage of the Middle East is a total inducement to depression. The some of the Settlers and some of the Palestinians are just religious whackjobs with too much pride in their ethnic chauvinism.

 

[Jennywocky]

Well, I'll advise to not go to Yahoo anymore.

I've been using Yahoo news daily at work for the last few years, and over that time it went from a run-of-the-mill yet reliable AP feed to become become a virtual shit hole. The news feed is no longer really news... or it can be difficult to determine which news is reliable. The feed nowdays is full of (1) advertisements, (2) op-eds [from both left-wing and right-wing zealots] disguising themselves as unbiased news, well, at least until you read the article and bias becomes drippingly obvious, and (3) tabloid-style news.

Yes, there's still some relevant articles in there, but it's like swimming around in sewage to dig up the occasional gold bar that gets dropped in.

... currently searching for some replacement sites, so this thread is probably helpful.

 

[Polaris]

Reuters UK Edition, and sometimes this one -- or this one.

Threat Level is interesting too if you'd like to build on your paranoid tendencies.

And for different stuff...Wired

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

Raw event footage, raw event descriptions. Anything else gets worse: multiple sites to compare for similar and conflicting information. News sites are really low on the list, blogs and involved people commentary are usually more useful.
By the majority of use and success:
Google, youtube, Wiki, BBC World(they have foreign correspondents on-site most of the time and I like their commentary at times, I prefer them running around and showing what happens while talking to inhabitants), Local (native, machine or myself translated) on-site blogs, news sites, blogs, etc.

 

[Beowulf]

In general i use news.google.com. If there is a specific topic or thing in the news i want more info on i just search it through Google news. I like the fact that there are multiple sources at once at your figure tips. But I do also like vice news a lot, especially there documentary work on you tube but other then that i just use google and sometimes some select media outlets that are not in English.

 

[Red myst]

This http://angrywhitedude.com/is my latest interest. But I look at several of the more popular ones on a regular basis.

 

[XylophoneFish]

I normally just use the BBC news website, it's pretty broad topicwise, and very reliable.

 

[Violine]

In Sweden, I go on the normal news-sites; aftonbladet, metro, DN, SvD, Svt .. but I try to read more news from the companies' that the news writes about. For example, last week there was a lander on a comet. Instead of reading about it in normal media, I went to esa's website and read the news over there. That is because I don't wan't to fall for biased och angled writing.

 

[Yellow]

I browse http://slashdot.org/ for most of my news. I'm actually a little sad to admit that, but I'm really very disillusioned with the press and I like to avoid setting myself on daily rampages.

 

[Skeptinoid]

Recently been using https://news.ycombinator.com/ (Hacker News)

 

[Tristitian]

NPR and Christian Science Monitor. NPR is a better radio station than website, though. Still, it's my favourite source of news.

 

[Sockrates]

Please use www.zerohedge.com

It's great at finding news stories and adding a perspective to them.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-...rns-all-worlds-capitals-are-under-threat-isis

 

[Pyropyro]

I just remembered. Does the Daily Show and the Colbert Report counts? Not exactly serious shows (or websites) but I do get some idea about what's happening in the world + some lolz on the side.

 

[Teffnology]

Please use www.zerohedge.com

It's great at finding news stories and adding a perspective to them.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-...rns-all-worlds-capitals-are-under-threat-isis

Lets talk about Zero Hedge. Who is the wizard behind 'Tyler Durden'?

A 30-year-old New Yorker who was barred from the securities industry last year may be behind an increasingly popular financial blog known as Zerohedge.com, which is catching flack for its obsession with anonymity.
Daniel Ivandjiiski, whose most recently listed address is on the Upper East Side, was barred last September by the financial industry’s self regulatory authority, FINRA, for insider trading.
Ivandjiiski is also suspected of being one of the founders of controversial financial blog Zerohedge.com, sources tell The Post.
Ivandjiiski didn’t return requests for comment, but he recently told industry publication Hedge Fund Alert that while he writes for Zerohedge, he’s not a founder.
“He denied that he was a founder. He said he was just a contributor,” Hedge Fund Alert Managing Editor Howard Kapiloff told The Post.
Ivandjiiski told Kapiloff that he’s one of several writers who contributes to the site under the pseudonym “Tyler Durden,” the charismatic, psychopathic alter-ego of the main character in the book and movie “Fight Club.”

That being an abstract of this much better, in-depth article

http://nymag.com/guides/money/2009/59457/




The site says its mission is five fold:

-to widen the scope of financial, economic and political information available to the professional investing public.

-to skeptically examine and, where necessary, attack the flaccid institution that financial journalism has become.

-to liberate oppressed knowledge.

-to provide analysis uninhibited by political constraint.

-to facilitate information's unending quest for freedom.
The other assumption of some one reading the Zero Hedge post or the Streetwise reference to it is that the author(s) is/are trying to drive down the price of Canadian bank stocks. Perhaps because they are short the shares, or because they want to get in cheap.

Reading what Zero Hedge calls its non-policy on conflict of interest, you should assume that's what they are doing. They say as much. Here's a link to the policy, but here's the upshot, in Zero Hedge's inimitable style:

"So how do we plan to handle conflicts? We don't. You should assume that at all times we are so totally just talking our book it would shock and awe you like the unexpected, early-morning arrival of a cluster of BGM-109C Tomahawks (were you a believer in the importance of "optics" that is)."

And if that's not clear enough, Zero Hedge goes on to say:

"The reality is, critical readers should read analytic posts and the rest of Zero Hedge with the blanket assumption that the author is totally 'conflicted.' (Phrased more logically, that the author stands to benefit from being right- imagine that)."


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repo...o-hedge-and-why-should-we-care/article616768/

This perspective you are talking about them adding to found news stories, seems to be generated with an agenda in mind. A self serving agenda that's main goal is sensationalism.


One-stop shop for bears: Zero Hedge enthusiasts find real value in understanding and debating all the scenarios that could bring down the stock market.
"Sure, it's got one view of things. But isn't it nice to get the other side of the rosy, cheery side of every bullish analyst on the Street?" asked Joe Saluzzi, who co-wrote a book on market structure in 2012 titled Broken Markets. "If you were to follow it religiously, then you're crazy. You have to put it into your own investment philosophy."
If some obscure credit instrument sparks another panic on Wall Street, readers of Zero Hedge will likely be familiar with it.
"If you read Zero Hedge consistently you will have every bear case covered. It's a one-stop shop. You will have everything that could go potentially wrong in the economy and geopolitics," said Colas.
The first rule of Zero Hedge: Zero Hedge itself warns readers that making investment decisions based on information posted on the blog -- or any Internet site -- "is more than unwise, it is folly."
It's safe to say that those who did make investment decisions based on Zero Hedge's bearish views missed or all part of a bull market that has carried the S&P 500 200% higher.
"The contra trade mentality has gotten its [butt] handed to it on a platter for years," said Peter Kenny, chief market strategist at The Clearpool Group. "I turned bullish five years ago. I may have missed 12% of the move -- but I didn't miss 120% of the move."
And yet Zero Hedge's loyal audience doesn't appear to be jumping ship as stocks shatter record after record.
"The people who don't like him will say he was wrong. That's factually correct but misses the point. The fact he's still here and relevant is interesting," said Colas.


http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/25/investing/zero-hedge-wall-street-blog-finance/index.html


It kind of seems that you are using this site as Gospel to fit your predetermined worldview, while disregarding other sources because their agenda doesn't jive with yours. Am I mistaken?

 

[Sockrates]

You are mistaken. I read nearly everything that ZH posts about, prior to their posts, but ZH does a good job at making sense of issues that the mainstream media refuses, or isn't allowed, to do. There are a multitude of posters on ZH, they just all go by the same name. As bearish as this person makes it sound, they have plenty of bullish article as well, in relation to investing. They offer much more than that though and their sources are all verifiable and trustworthy sources. I hardly read the actual articles, I generally check their graphs; I'll read a few articles if they are important to me.

""The reality is, critical readers should read analytic posts and the rest of Zero Hedge with the blanket assumption that the author is totally 'conflicted.' (Phrased more logically, that the author stands to benefit from being right- imagine that).""

I agree with this short passage completely, such as what all readers should do when reading anything.

You appear to be out to get me and everything I post on this thread, I appreciate it. Please keep trying to keep me in check.

 

[Teffnology]

I actually got a kick out of the website, the Zeitgiest movies, Dark Legacy (latest JFK and JFK Jr conspiracy docs), and since 2009 have been all over economic policy and was apart of a national top 10 Economics program for a breif stint.

I have just seen a lot of my generation take these sources as gospel and not critically think about the presented information and instead take it at face value. Zero Hedge actually looks like a great insider tool, with seemingly obvious caveats that aren't in plain view on the surface. As with anything it is up to the individual to inspect the credibility of their information but the reality is people don't and this site may lead some down a misguided path, intentionally or unintentionally.

I guess I violently agree with you on a lot of things but happen to notice a particularly closed off point of view. I guess my Pness is bigger and your J tendencies irk me a bit. Otherwise it seems like we would get along (Socrates, Madden, Finance, conspiratorial themed history documentaries, etc). I have enjoyed keeping you in check as you phrase it, lets keep the good times rolling.

Possibly a new thread starter question. So you remove the Central Banks, then what? What is to prevent the instability that existed in a free market before these banks came into existence?

 

[Sockrates]

I actually got a kick out of the website, the Zeitgiest movies, Dark Legacy (latest JFK and JFK Jr conspiracy docs), and since 2009 have been all over economic policy and was apart of a national top 10 Economics program for a breif stint.

I have just seen a lot of my generation take these sources as gospel and not critically think about the presented information and instead take it at face value. Zero Hedge actually looks like a great insider tool, with seemingly obvious caveats that aren't in plain view on the surface. As with anything it is up to the individual to inspect the credibility of their information but the reality is people don't and this site may lead some down a misguided path, intentionally or unintentionally.

I guess I violently agree with you on a lot of things but happen to notice a particularly closed off point of view. I guess my Pness is bigger and your J tendencies irk me a bit. Otherwise it seems like we would get along (Socrates, Madden, Finance, conspiratorial themed history documentaries, etc). I have enjoyed keeping you in check as you phrase it, lets keep the good times rolling.

Possibly a new thread starter question. So you remove the Central Banks, then what? What is to prevent the instability that existed in a free market before these banks came into existence?

Your "Pness" is bigger than my J, that made me lol at the library. Back to the topic at hand.

Your first passage, and the things your mentioned all have had an affect on me. I've always been leery and skeptical ever since a youngin and never did well with authority figures, I'd do a lot to push buttons while staying out of trouble, generally. I've my instances of dumb trouble though.

And I agree, nothing should be read as a gospel. People aren't the holiest of all, even the humans who wrote every religious work in existence. Indeed, I have a closed off POV in regards to many issues, this is because I try to look at the underlying causes of why certain things happen, I don't take (most) things for face value and like to find the root cause of things since that is the only way there can be any true change.

Don't be irked, but I understand why you would be since my attitudes go against most of what yours do. This is valuable in the sense that we both have much to learn from each other.

In regards to your question, I have a general answer... but it isn't good enough to post. I will think about that more and offer you an actual answer and a new thread as well since I find this to be extremely interesting. Thanks.

 

[Teffnology]

Indeed.

Look forward to the thread. Im better at disecting other's opinions than presenting my own.

 

[Teffnology]

I just felt the urge to share this with y'all and seeing as how I am finding sports nerd INTPs to be a rare breed indeed, most on here likely have not heard of this website but it is a staple in my weekly rotation.

Grantland.com

It is a subsidiary of ESPN (who is partners with ABC who are all owned by... the big mouse, Disney) that was started by Editor in Chief Bill Simmons (who interestingly has his contract about to expire and was recently suspended for his criticism of NFL commissioner Rodger Goddell but has one of the largest Twitter followings and this site has a substantial niche following).

Aside from Bill Simmons now kind of kooky persona and the corporate ownership, the contributing authors have full autonomy to take whatever position they desire on current events in Pop Culture, Celebrities, Music, Movies, TV Shows, Sports, Politics, and Books.

It is mostly long form style writing which I appreciate in juxtaposition to the USA Today style blurby news sites.

Check it out it if you are looking for some tips on Movies or Music. They also do a good job of honoring recently deceased famous people. Enjoy.