What are your main news sources?

[Blanquist]

In English my go-to sources are Bloomberg.com and I subscribe to Reuters wire service. Also I read the FT and Economist.

Socialist sites I browse just once a month or so, they arn't really updated much and never have much to say anyways, just repeat what other sources say and throw in typical left-phrases.

I also have other language source I follow but I'll keep it to English in this thread.

I'm a real news junkie, I much take in about 200 different stories a day. Very happy I live in a world of smartphones and iPads.

[TheRedAnarchist23]

mine is revleft:laugh: and the national news channels here in portugal (they are all state owned)

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

BBC News, The Guardian, freethinker.co.uk...I try to vary it and avoid tabloids and fox/sky as much as possible.

[roy]

horrible breakfast tv

[Deicide]

Mostly the business press like the financial times, but also the Guardian, Democracy now! (they tend to have marxists on..), New York Times, Russia Today (their youtube comment section is always full of conspiracy loons and fascists..), and a few others. I avoid sensationalist and tabloid papers (such as the Daily Mail) like the plague.

[Rooster]

Reuters. If you work in any tv news station, you'll realize this is where they get all of their information from.

[MustCrushCapitalism]

Russia Today, al-Jazeera, and basically whatever I find online.

[Bronco]

Normally just the BBC site, or if I read a paper it'll be the Independent

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

Russia Today, BBC, CNN, nu.nl(dutch),NOS(dutch), the new york times, and this site gives me a lot of news.

[Red Rabbit]

Fox News


I like to wake up raging in the morning. :D

[Brosa Luxemburg]

Democracy Now! is pretty good. I also like www.antiwar.com even though free-market libertarians run the site.

[Landsharks eat metal]

mine is revleft:laugh:
Honestly, this is pretty accurate for me. Revleft is where I get almost all my news. My family always watches NBC news during dinner, but I'm usually don't pay attention very much because it focuses so much on stupid shit. Every once in a while I'll read a TIME magazine, the local newspaper, or New York Times, but not often.

[Workers-Control-Over-Prod]

Junge Welt, Linkezeitung, Sueddeuscthe, Spiegel, The Economist are the ones i subscribe to in one way or another, and i like youtube's The Real News Network, which is really the best news source i can trust. Also Die Linkezeitung is good, a Trotskyist newspaper.

[Nox]

BBC, Revleft, RT

In that order

[Workers-Control-Over-Prod]

BBC, Revleft, RT

In that order

Yes, i watch RT some times as well, mainly to balance out some of the western press:laugh:

[Blanquist]

Guys if you like RussiaToday you should check out the Chinese CCTV English service. I think it's much better.

[The Jay]

I go for a lot: The Real News, Reuters, Al-Jazeera, Russia Today, Thom Hartmann, The Young Turks, Democracy Now!, Z-Net, and C-Span. When I watch TV it's going to be Current TV for news, but I don't watch TV often.

Yes, I have a problem haha.

[honest john's firing squad]

you'll realize this is where they get all of their information from.
...and then proceed to twist and manipulate it how they please.

[smellincoffee]

The BBC, NPR, The Economist, the English version of Der Spiegel, and blogs for some kinds of news that never make the main pages. I'm interested in transportation, housing, and urbanism, and the news is more focused on sex, violence, and asking people who never think about things what they think about things. I also go by DemocracyNow's main page and sometimes watch the Young Turks, but I don't like sitting and watching. I'd prefer to read.

[ColonelCossack]

BBC news. I hear world service is marginally better than their usual TV and radio news. is that true or not?

[Ostrinski]

CNN, BBC, New York Times

[ed miliband]

daily mail website

[gorillafuck]

is it common for people on the left to watch russia today?:confused:

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

is it common for people on the left to watch russia today?:confused:

Yes, probably because it's less pro-american. Although it is very pro-putin.
Around the russian election time, their pro-putin coverage almost made me puke.

[Yuppie Grinder]

Russia Today and Democracy Now.
I used to watch The Young Turks but got tired of them being liberal idiots.
I wish I new some good revolutionary leftist news sources.

[gorillafuck]

Yes, probably because it's less pro-american. Although it is very pro-putin.
Around the russian election time, their pro-putin coverage almost made me puke.well, it is russian state television after all...

[Brosip Tito]

Aljazeera, Democracy Now!, CBC, Russia Today (i already know).

Maoist rebel news is....ass. I hope nobody watches that guy embarrass himself over and over.

[Bronco]

I quite like RT, of course it's biased and you should take their reports with a big pinch of salt but we're not exactly spoilt for choice for round-the-clock news stations, and they do at least offer an alternate perspective and focus on issues the Western media normally don't. Julian Assange's new show on there is pretty good as well.

[Drosophila]

Nothing in the news interests me. I prefer to find out about things through word of mouth.

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

well, it is russian state television after all...

It's not, I think its funded by some rich people from qatar.
I remember them getting quite pissed when some other network said that about them, and getting all crybaby about it.

[gorillafuck]

It's not, I think its funded by some rich people from qatar.no, russia today is russian state television.

you might be thinking of al-jazeera, which is qatar state television.

[NewLeft]

Toronto Media Co-op
NY Times
Democracy Now!
Revleft + Libcom
The Real News
Huffington Post, The Young Turks (lol)

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

no, russia today is russian state television.

you might be thinking of al-jazeera, which is qatar state television.

Apparently you're right.
As they say themselves:
We receive state-funding but are not state run.

Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52eel-y2bS8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[Luc]

Currently

RevLeft
Anarchismo.net
Russia Today
Linchpin
CBC News
My City's Paper
Reuters (just started)
Der Spiegel (English)
Aljazeera
Balkans Insight
The Chosunilbo (used to, not anymore)
leftcom.org (Internationalist Communist Tendency site)
and thinking about


The Economist
Socialist Standard
The Industrial Worker
Revolutionary Perspectives
Democracy Now!
looking for African and South American dedicated news sources, recomendations greatly appreciated :)

[gorillafuck]

Apparently you're right.
As they say themselves:
We receive state-funding but are not state run.really? a quick scan of the internet shows that they're owned by the russian international news agency, which is state owned.

not that it makes much of a difference whether it's state owned or corporate owned, anyway.

[BE_]

I just look at the news feed on Google. I don't really look at news as much I should. I don't even touch Russia Today. It seems quite biased.

[coda]

not all of them everyday,

AP newswire
Google headlines
Indy Media
Infoshop newswire
Z-net
Common Dreams
Alternet
Mother Jones
The Nation
The Guardian

I noticed that sites like NY Times, etc. and my local newspaper are limiting the number of articles available without a print subscription. Bastards!! (is that word allowed here?) I'm sure a lot of the others will follow. Basterds!!!

[ed miliband]

libcom.org anyone?

[Brosa Luxemburg]

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert added to my original short list

:D

[Lenina Rosenweg]

Not always in this order..

World Socialist Website Somewhat sectarian but very good economic coverage

Democracy Now!

Al Jazeera They have their own biases but still interestung

BBC

NPR Their faux liberalism is intensely annoying and they are very pro-imperialist-only interviewing US State Dept officials about international crisis, etc. Still their morning news more or less tells what's happening in the world

CNN CNN International is a lot better than US CNN.

Salon.com Glen Greenwald is great.

Daily Kos Occasionally read this. Left wing of the Democratic Party. One can be banned for advocating a third party. Some socialists have snuck on.

Huffington Post Occasionally

Counterpunch

Truthdig Once in a while. Useful but just doesn't send me

Common Dreams Liberal/left. Some very good articles

The Economist Pro-business but they do tell you what's happening in the world.

The Financial Times Used to read this when I got it for free.

ScienceDaily Science news.

Z Net. Some interesting articles. Their format is not readily accessible without paying for a membership.

RevLeft The ongoing struggles subforum was useful during the peak of the Arab Spring and the early stage of the Occupy movement.

Lenin's Tomb Richard Seymour's blog, a UK SWPer. Used to be interesting, now seems Seymour is using it to promote his academic career.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

Fox News.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

I just browse the mainstream news outlets.When I want analysis is when I go to leftist places.Though I occasionally various leftist blogs and party website. Other than that I usually rely on Rev-Left and Queerty.

[The Intransigent Faction]

Globe & Mail, the Toronto Star once in a while.
Ezra Levant on Sun TV (pretty much Canada's version of Fox News) for the lulz when my cousin occasionally makes an appearance on his show.
Other than that, RevLeft and wherever Google News leads me.

[Rusty Shackleford]

too many fucking questions. though, it does increase activity.



but to contribute, id say i check the google news fees (world, US, business, local), the blaze to see what the buzz is on the far right(that has mass following), liberation news and revleft for whatever i happen to miss. dont really watch any al jaz anymore.



oh and facebook updates

[#FF0000]

...and then proceed to twist and manipulate it how they please.

yo i know this is like a "yeah come on #FF0000 this shouldn't surprise you you dummy" sort of thing but I was blown away when i saw like six different news agencies once report on some marines in a humvee opening fire and hitting a ton of civilians after being hit by small arms fire, and then saw FOX run it without ever mentioning they hit civilians.

[#FF0000]

but yeah anyway

bbc al jazeera reuters/ap russia today. libcom is also p. cool

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

really? a quick scan of the internet shows that they're owned by the russian international news agency, which is state owned.

not that it makes much of a difference whether it's state owned or corporate owned, anyway.

I only quoted what they were saying in that video.

[No_Leaders]

BBC, al-Jazeera, infoshop.org, antiwar.com, indymedia, random news sites but mostly those. I'll watch fox news if i feel like sabotaging my day and putting me in a god awful shitty mood!

[OnlyCommunistYouKnow]

Maoist rebel news *troll face*