The News

[cook]

I've never been into watching the news on TV or reading the paper but I feel like its time I start getting more informed.

I generally wake up and put on ESPN for awhile before I go to work, but I'd like to find some good sites I could check out while I'm at work to get me more in touch with whats going on in the world.

Any recommendations?

 

[stealthbomber]

reddit and aljazeera are the only sources i trust for news.

reddit is user submitted news, so only the good stuff gets voted to the top, its almost like a huge messageboard. its very liberal though, so be warned. aljazeera is more of a traditional news source.

r/politics- Politics

r/news- News

aljazeera- AJE - Al Jazeera English


check out this reddit piff too

r/hiphopheads- Hip Hop Heads

 

[cook]

thanks, i'll check those out

 

[TrueEpic08]

Yeah, Al Jazeera English is great stuff. Probably one of the two or three best news channels/aggregators/sites out there.

The only other one I really look at is Democracy Now! Democracy Now!

Great interviews and reports there as well. Their blog (Democracy Now! | Blog) has quite a few other writings, audio interviews, and video interviews, often of stuff on the main show that got cut.

 

[No1]

thanks, i'll check those out

Al Jazeera English is good, but despite the fact that a lot of posters on here don't like US News Sources, I would definitely recommend looking at the NYTimes when you wake up in the morning. You get an idea of what is being talked about in the American mainstream and what issues are getting the most traction.

RealClearPolitics is a pretty good aggregator of numerous sites.

But honestly, I don't think you can go wrong with Google News. Mainly because it just aggregates the top stories from around the country and the world and you can customize it to have different categories that are important to you. For example, I have added in a custom "education" setting so that the latest and top stories involving that show up along with "US" "World" "Science" "Sports", etc. If you like something in particular, just give it its own spot.

 

[thatsright]

First site I check out in the morning is Newsmap
It's a pretty good aggregate site and you can sort and group the stories pretty much however you want to.

 

[Alexander The Great]

thanks, i'll check those out

ditto

 

[No1]

First site I check out in the morning is Newsmap
It's a pretty good aggregate site and you can sort and group the stories pretty much however you want to.

Too bulky. Less organized version of Google News

 

[thatsright]

Too bulky. Less organized version of Google News

yeah but you can sort it to be as bulky or un-bulky as you want

 

[BAMBINO]

I watch RT.