where can i find real national news ?

[gevorg]

 

[Texashiker]

Russia Today

I second RT.

 

[Atreus21]

Meh: FOX, CBS, NBC (FOX has improved recently, moving it up to Meh in my opinion.)

 

[momeNt]

I get most of my news from this website.

Things that are important or relevant to my life are generally discussed here.

This forum acts as a filter for all the partisan cheerleading you get from MSM.

 

[First]

News aggregation sites are generally able to filter out the noise quite well. So Google News and RealClearPolitics (RCP) are generally the best, despite the rightward slant of RCP. Politico is fantastic as well, with a huge volume of political content as up-to-date as they come, though they lack any in-depth business news beyond the monthly employment report.

NY Times is also fantastic for straight news and investigative reporting, including politics and beyond, with their overall depth and quality 2nd to none if you can stand the leftward op-eds. Same goes applies to CBS, just less so.

Overall, least informative would be the two partisan networks, MSNBC and Fox, with Fox taking the cake but MSNBC really not far behind.

 

[Fern]

Fox actually has two decent straight-up news shows (the rest are op-ed) with foreign correspondents etc like we had in the old days of journalism. One is Special Report with Brent Baier. The other is Fox Report with Shepard Smith.

Fern

 

[werepossum]

It is sad, yahoo news used to be really good, but is now complete and utter crap.

For good balanced news that has in-depth articles I prefer Christian-Science Monitor (www.csmonitor.com). Don't let the name spook you, they are very non-biased. They do have some of the normal tabloid crap on their home page, but their other articles are really good.

Seconded on the Christian-Science Monitor - excellent news source. NPR is pretty good as well, but without a national or international network of even marginally trained stringers they are best on in-depth reporting on a few issues. Both recognize their biases and make a clear effort to be unbiased in their reportage.

Fox actually has two decent straight-up news shows (the rest are op-ed) with foreign correspondents etc like we had in the old days of journalism. One is Special Report with Brent Baier. The other is Fox Report with Shepard Smith.

Fern

Agreed, but I'm almost never home to see those and by the time I get home I've heard it on the radio. (Speaking of which, ABC Radio News is excellent, much better than CNN or FoxNews.) Almost all my network news comes in the morning and CNN Headline News is far superior to all other morning news shows.

 

[iGas]

Rooted in terrorist country, fuck no! It's failing miserably here. It was about as welcome as a turd in a swimming pool.

Qatar own Al Jazeera, and isn't deemed by international community as a terrorist country. However, Qatar financially supported "freedom fighters" and movements in Egypt and Syria. If you deemed Qatar as a terrorist country, then in the same breath the USA is a bigger terrorist country because it supports much more terrorists organizations and countries with weapons, money, and intelligent.

IMHO, Al Jazeera is bias toward the ME, however most if all news agencies are bias, but they are much better than the so call news agencies/propaganda machines of the USA.

 

[First]

Fox actually has two decent straight-up news shows (the rest are op-ed) with foreign correspondents etc like we had in the old days of journalism. One is Special Report with Brent Baier. The other is Fox Report with Shepard Smith.

Fern

lol, no, not really. You're not a straight newscaster with those interviews in your backpocket and his nightly newscast is no different. Baier isn't straight news, he reports the news with the veil of straight reporting reserve, but it's utterly transparent. And besides, he consistently has on more conservatives than liberals, with Juan Williams being the only persistent liberal and a squishy one at that. Over the last year it has been some combination of conservatives from National Review (Hayes, Goldberg, Kristol) in addition to the usual other popular conservatives media titan commentators like Kristol or Krauthammer, often hocking the typical hawkish neocon line on foreign policy that has proven disastrous for Republicans for 30 years (indirectly supporting apartheid in the mid-80's, Iraq).

The only exception is Shep Smith. Consistently bipartisan and holds his commentators and guests accountable.

 

[overst33r]

www.democracynow.org

 

[Scotteq]

BBC.
Wall Street Journal
Reuters
New York Times

More or less in that order, too.

 

[First]

WSJ must be added to the list too, of course. Bloomberg for business too.

 

[chucky2]

CSPAN, although it's not really news.

 

[schneiderguy]

look up the young turks.

lol

 

[Svnla]

Here are what I do like:

BBC, the UK version, not the US one, for world news.

NHK for Asian related news.

I usually go to news.google.com and pick and choose from different sources of news.

 

[Ganiy]

BBC and Google are the best sources to get real and fresh news.

 

[OGOC]

Russia Today

:thumbsup:

 

[Agent11]

Fox actually has two decent straight-up news shows (the rest are op-ed) with foreign correspondents etc like we had in the old days of journalism. One is Special Report with Brent Baier. The other is Fox Report with Shepard Smith.

Fern

Fox loses a few points for their ridiculous news deck though.

 

[rudeguy]

Fox loses a few points for their ridiculous news deck though.

but in their defense they have been attacking the hell out of stupid repubs.

 

[Ken g6]

npr: not enough funding or personnel to do national news justice

So, get a better-funded public news source:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/

 

[HeXen]

I don't take the news that seriously, just enough to get an idea of what's goin on. I take news about archeological or astronomical stuff more seriously than what politics and people are doing.