Opinions: What's the most best place to get your news?

[Borgholio]

What Europe calls the Left is often described as Communist here in the US. :-/

[K. A. Pital]

Bloomberg. Embrace the evil within you.

Seriously Stas? That's -1 commie cred for you.

Well, you said it yourself: there's less bullshit in their news than in other news outlets. Plus, the CEO gossip segments I found are few and far between - what they actually have are interviews, and the interviews are often with interesting people, like central bank chiefs, government goons and billionaires which are a lot less public and therefore more interesting than Branson or Zuckerberg.

Their reporting is mostly super-calm, it is as if you'd be looking into the eye of the storm. Mass deaths and destruction for them are just an investment downgrade; they wouldn't be reporting on how millions of silly believers gather to see the Pope arriving from Vatican.

I sometimes need a healthy dose of cynism and clean information unlike the typical dumbed-down mass media: when everything irrelevant, like puppies, kittens or some stupid internet memes, gets reported, while the important news - how the ruling elites see the world - is not reported at all.

[Starglider]

Of the four or so trading floors I've worked on (all in the UK), the ubiquitous overhead plasma TVs were all on a mix of Bloomberg and BBC News 24. So 'news for the 1%' is fairly accurate, with the BBC perhaps providing the UK civil service perspective

[Crossroads Inc.]

I pretty much use NPR for 100% of my "real" news. Anytime I actually want to get informed I'll listen to that. And that is only because I don't have Cable and can't watch BBC.

[General Mung Beans]

Left of center for the world at large, especially Europe, or left of center for the US? There's a huge distinction.

Left of center for the US and parts of Canada.

Then maybe don't laugh when other people call them conservative. In all reality even the left in the US is to the right of the rest of the west.

Beyond the (admittedly very large) exception of accepting universal healthcare and certain social issues, this isn't really the case. For instance the Tories, Spain's PP, and so forth have been far more hardline austerians than Obama-part of the reason why the US is doing better currently.

New York Times and Washington Post are generally very good newspapers for reasonably detailed and objective accounts and also have fairly good columnists like Paul Krugman and blogs like the Upshot and the Opinionator. Atlantic publishes excellent pieces of in-depth reporting along with a lot of interesting stories on matters that don't usually appear in newspapers. New Republic is a fine source of sensible centre-left opinion (its neo-liberal tendencies definitely seem to have been toned down).

[Melchior]

I know them by reputation. They published a lot of the big leak materials, as I recall? I'll go over their headline sections and see how sensationalist their core material is.

Just carefully avoid the "comment is free" section, where all the worst clickbait opinion pieces are quarantined.

[Lolpah]

Beyond the (admittedly very large) exception of accepting universal healthcare and certain social issues, this isn't really the case. For instance the Tories, Spain's PP, and so forth have been far more hardline austerians than Obama-part of the reason why the US is doing better currently.

Yes, but remember that the social and economic policies of most European countries were more left-wing than those of America already, so even after cutting the social programs etc. they likely remain more left-wing (except maybe in countries truly devastated by the crisis, like Spain and Greece).

I usually read international news from Reuters and BBC websites, and if I'm more interested in a particular subject I search for news articles with Google news search.