OT: Better News Source?

Hi Guys,

Turns out I've replaced my food addiction with a news addiction. I repeated tab between the Men's board, MSN.com, Eric Johnson's site and CNN (US and International).

I wait for new articles to pop on CNN and read them. This is probably not a bad thing in itself, but I wonder if there is an online news source with a little more substance?

Any suggestions as to a good online news source?

Thanks,

Dave

Dave, Try http://www.drudgereport.com.  This site will give you brief headlines and link you to all of the major news outlets.  I am a daily visitor.

Ok, so I'm a bit more to the right side of the dial when it comes to selecting my new sources so for ME, CNN isn't on the dial, but now FOX News is a good source of my style of stories.  I also second the Drudge site...usually a good source of a bit more depth in reporting than one will find on the sound-bite driven news reports.

Dave, I’m a news junkie too, but a cynical one. Jim’s suggestion for the Drudge Report is a good one.  I visit it every day to get the latest headlines.  They also have links to some offbeat articles that don’t make the mainstream news. Speaking of mainstream news, is Anna Nicole Smith on the Japanese news?  (I’m the father of her child you know.)  Her death has been dominating the news here for the past few weeks, and I’m sick of it.  Thankfully she is being buried in the Bahamas this weekend. The mainstream media is already geared up for the 2008 elections.  Every day we hear a story about Hilary vs. Obama, or who is going to be the Republican nominee, McCain, Rudy, or somebody else?   Politics is getting old already too. And then on a slow news day there is usually something about Al Gore and global warming.  I take it all with a grain of salt… sometimes quite a bit of salt. For news to balance what I read in the paper, hear on the radio or TV, I like these sights on the internet. http://www.foxnews.com/ http://www.nypost.com/ http://www.washtimes.com/ http://www.worldnetdaily.com/ What's in the Japanese news?

Hi Paul,

Anna Nicole was on for 1-2 days after she died, but people here were not very familiar with her. Japan is loaded down with its own pop culture and there's not so much time for foreign stuff. Pop culture is so big, the political and internation news takes a big second place. For example, if you take a look at this Kyodo (like Japan's AP) site http://home.kyodo.co.jp/ you'll see it split between "serious" news on the left and sports/ pop news on the right. People couldn't in general, care less about what's happening in the world. This is probably, in part, due to the high level of bureaucracy in government here, which causes anything done by the goverment to not be taken very seriously.

Best Regards,

Dave 

Thanks, Fellows!

The Drudge Report seems like an excellent source of stories and collection of links.

Kind Regards,

Dave

For me it's drudge... I have it pre-loaded on my google home page.. also nascar news..golf news..and weather

Not real news but I love http://www.theonion.com/content/. always good to lighten the mood

The Onion is really funny! The funniest ones for me though are the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. I download those every week and watch them.

Dave

Dave, OK, I have to agree- I’m a Member of the Colbert Nation- http://www.colbertnation.com/ But no real shock… I’m a University Prof and in the "Entertainment Industry." How could I NOT Be a Little Left of Center??!! But also "The Daily Imus" - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3226997/

Some other favorite- (non-Comic) http://www.slate.com/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

Best Wishes- Dx