How do you read the news?

I only gets my news from the internet. I may glimpse yesterday's paper in the breakroom on my lunch break but that is the only time I ever read one of those.
No 'live television' anymore - just netflix - and I stopped watching the news during the first Gulf War in any event.
edit: I do steal glances at the headlines on the local papers that are sitting in the store entrances if they catch my eye though when I am cleaning those areas

 

Online. Usually on my laptop, sometimes on my phone. I read some news every day, and I rotate through the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Guardian (UK), BBC News, NPR news, Ha'aretz (Israeli, Hebrew-- English version available-- major daily), The Jerusalem Post (Israeli, English-language, geared to the global Jewish community), and the Forward (American Jewish, Yiddish-- English version available). If I had just a smidge more money than I do, I would subscribe to the New York Times online and read that, also.

I also check out the political coverage at Rolling Stone online, and I read Mother Jones, with occasional forays into The Nation, which I like for their political stances in American politics, but dislike for their persistent anti-Israel bias.

I confess, I like news, and I like editorials, and I enjoy being decently informed about what's going on, if I can be.

 

Read Fox and MSNBC and figure the truth is somewhere in between?

I used to read a lot of newspapers. The good part about getting news online is that it is fairly easy to focus on topics that interest you. It's also the bad part, you may miss things that you aren't specifically looking for.

I generally look out of the country for political news. BBC and CBC seem less biased than US sites.

 

interesting. online mostly. for newspapers: guardian; ny times (it annoys me though); washington post (ditto) le monde, le monde diplomatique.
sometimes ha'aretz, liberation (paris), bbc. lots of other papers for specific things.

television: broadcast--never. i don't consider american tv a viable news source. any of it.

i read al jazeera pretty regularly. al arabiyya from time to time. al ahram (that's a newspaper. o well.)

magazines/journals--i work with them all day so read a lot of academic stuff.

a fair amount of political economy info, but not from a particular place all the time.

i've been reading jadaliyya pretty regularly recently as a function of my interest in the revolts in north africa/middle east (middle relative to what?). ny review of books, tls, london review when i think of them.
freize because i like the art coverage. the wire uk for music---but lately i've been reading a bunch of more underground/specialized music things.
lots of literary journals, but i get bored quickly with most of the writing. i don't suppose that's a news source---well it kind of is since i publish stuff and am looking for places to put things or to see what's out there already.

i really like bldgblog.
i read mute magazine (uk) when i think of it. good political coverage.

past that i get pointed to a ton of material via twitter. facebook is also useful for that. on twitter i follow more information sources because i'm less inclined to interact. on facebook, i'm more interactive, but mostly use it to post links to things. i rarely talk about my on it directly.

tfp on occasion--mostly to read stuff that a thread's based on or that gets linked. but i don't treat this in the same way. frankly, as an information source, it's slow. that isn't a criticism btw. this is just a different medium.

 

While driving to and from work (about 45 min each way) I listen to NPR radio news local and national at least half the time, music the rest of the time. Even though my wife still reads the actual newspaper format of the NY Times and Phila Inquirer every day, I stopped reading those almost a year ago and now get most news online reading it on my laptop and check on it at work from my desktop.

My home page is just the blank Google search page since most organized home pages eventually annoy me. From there I almost always hit the "news" to get a quick overview. I've tuned my Google news preferences so I don't get crap about hollywood stars or too much sports, but in addition to national and international news I like to stay up on technology and science news.

I daily hit up on BBC, Reuters, Christian Science Monitor, news from various large U.S. cities including NY Times, and every day I look through Al Jazeera English online just to get another point of view...though they sure seem to have gotten more mainstream in the last couple years. I've also started to follow more international links from Al Jazeera, again just to read other POV.

The more interested I am in the specific news item the more sources I track down.

 

I used to read the free newspaper that was dropped on my doorstep each morning. It offered a good cross section of Singapore, Regional and Global news. Since my move, I no longer receive this paper.

As a result, I rely solely on the intertubes for my input. I have three homepages: Gmail, Google Reader and Google News. The RSS feed on Google Reader provides a number of pages that I read on a regular basis. Google News, gives me a decent cross section of news from around the world. In addition to this, I also get a number of articles from various sources on Facebook and Twitter.

From time to time, I will also pick up various magazines for in depth ariticles, but this is not a regular thing.

I almost never watch television news, unless viewing the occasional piece online counts. Also, my wife has our alarm clock set to BBC Worldwide Radio, so that filters into my head as well.

I suppose I go through a number of sources for information, not as many as say, roachboy, but I make an effort to find a diversity of opinion.

 

I try to read a cross section of the various newspapers online. Pretty much the Globe and Mail every day. Toronto Star frequently, and the Post from time to time. Occasionally I'll read the Sun just to cringe. Wanna feel bad about humanity? Read the Toronto Sun's online reader comments.

 

I frequent a couple forums, including TFP, and I get my major news coverage from them. If I want to look at other news, I just use one of the apps on my iPad. USA Today and NY Times are good for standard news, and things like FLUD, Editions, and blancspot cover the rest.

 

I still like paper.

I get the local town weekly newspaper, along with the regional daily. Neither of them are great journalism, but I want to know what is happening nearby. Additionally for the nearby news, I get the RSS feed from patch.com and read the regional television channel news on my iPod Touch.

I gave up on broadcast television news when I was in college, and I've never been happier about that decision.

For national news, I listen to NPR news while packing my son's lunch or preparing dinner, on occasion. I also get Time Magazine. And, for over-opinionated stuff, I read Huffington Post on my Touch; I know it is biased, but I agree with their bias.

 

I see things that people post on facebook or other forums.

 

I read the newspaper in the morning, surf Yahoo and CNN, and watch the local/national new when I get home.... I try to keep in touch with things that are going on....

 

Local newspaper is delivered each morning. Read that at breakfast. Check out 4 other newspapers on the internet and check CNN on the internet several times each day.

Used to have three newspapers delivered! I guess we went green.

 

Online almost exclusively. I frequent CNN.com and the online version of the local paper, The Salt Lake Tribune. I would like a better source of national news though, I'm just not that fond of CNN. I also read the random postings of friends on Facebook and forums if they catch my interest. Sometimes I'll listen to online news in the car if I'm not in a music mood, but the only station dedicated to radio news is a FOX affiliate and it's heavily biased and pretty sucky. I'm never in the car at the right time to catch BBC news.

I got Time Magazine for years and years. I kind of miss it.

 

Mostly online. Fark, google news, sometimes yahoo news feeds. I surf and read. At times I read of news items on forums and click on the links, and surf from there. Haven't ever enjoyed reading a newspaper. Sometimes I like watching news on tv

 

My news habits are almost identical to Cayvmann's. Surprisingly enough, amidst all of Fark's snark, there is a decent amount of news being posted.
They're also good about posting up-to-the-minute news.

Sadly, I mainly use physical newspapers for starting charcoal, wrapping things, or putting baked/fried foods on.

As for tv news, it's mostly local news with a bit of ABC World News thrown in.
Also, I like the feel of BBC news, but I'm not that interested in international news stories.
Shallow, I know.

 

Mostly RSS - various sources. Mostly political or tech stuff. Also listen to NPR during my commute.