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Well?

Random browsing of news sites.
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13%
By visiting the big sites (CNN/FOX/MSNBC)
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20%
Visits to news sites for local paper/TV/radio stations.
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E-mail service that harvests news articles for you.
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No votes
Online news repositories (news.google.com)
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7%
News and Politics forum of SD.Net
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60%
 
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So, where do you get your news?

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We've seen the many, many news articles that show up here, but inevitably, it came from somewhere else. A question for you newshounds, where do you get all the good stuff?
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Here, slashdot, and news.com, plus other cnet sites, though now I use RSS feeds from Slashdot, CNET, nytimes.com, and librenix.com, plus I might think of reactivating the google RSS feed (I have to be careful with that one- retrieving more than 1 per 15 minutes can get you banned (How do I get evolution to use local cached rss files generated from perl scripts?)

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I get my news from different news site,like CNN CBC CTV Global a few French-Canadian news sites and Sd.net news service. :D
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Google News, and sometimes BBC News.
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I get my news from online news sources, the N&P forum here, and perhaps a newspaper.
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The blogosphere, and here.
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Here, and various Danish newspapers.
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SlashDot, ArsTechnica, The Register, the N&P forum, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
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Random news servers, and the BBC.

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I had to pick here, because there's no option for NPR. I get every single tiny slice of international/national news from NPR and PRI (Public Radio international)
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I get my news from the messengers here. Pretty dandy too, the best stories. :D~Jason
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CBC radio 1 & 2 is my usual source of news.
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Freerepublic, Slashdot, Libertypost, DU~

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Back then I entertained the notion of watching Fox for news, but Ollie the criminal would always be on, with a thousand american flags on the screen :evil:
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Fox news
CNN
MSNBC


Ocassionally;
ABC
NBC
CBS
BBC

Newspapaers;
USA Today
Standard Examiner (local)
SL Tribune (local)

I read the occasional News Week and even rarer Time. Surf the net to most of the websites of the above mentioned organizations. Oh, and SDnet for hot off the press, just happened type news and all of its sources.
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Combination of several of the big news groups (BBC News, CNN, Reuters, AAP, Al-Jazeera, Fox), ABC News Radio (which is always on around me) and SBS World News as well as a few of their international bits and pieces, like News Hour and foreign language news.

I pull bits and pieces from all of them from time to time. Sometimes they conflict, sometimes it all comes together.
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Here at SD.net, sad as it may seem.
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It is really terrible... I can remain informed about politics and news by watching CSPAN and coming here.
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The Inquirer (no, not THAT one), The Register, Reuters, NPR and here. Plus some other assorted tech and news sights that I visit on an occassional basis.
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Everywhere -> http://news.google.com/
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Fortean times and the bbc.
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The BBC
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http://www.spiegle.de
http://www.zeit.de

and i have an abo of "die zeit" which is in my mailbox on thursdays.
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SD.Net, for the most part, though I sometimes visit CNN and various other places.

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