The Colbert Report, it's the only news I can trust.

AGREED! LOL

The O'Reilly Factor.

C-Span is ok, but the benefit of other news is you can search and get news faster. For issues you don't care much about, C-Span blows.

inb4"You don't care about some issues? Fuck you, liberal know-nothing."

haha

I'm addicted to C-span. Every single day there are at least two hours of content I'm glued to without one single commercial. I found out long ago how utterly worthless network news is after I started watching C-span. I would watch a hearing and Brokaw or whoever would say something about the hearing that was trivial or irrelevant. I started watching less and less network or cable news right then.

Today I watched a show on the international space station. Washington Journal had a show on job creation by small business. There was a round table on deficit reduction as well.

Nothing beats C-Span.

Sports.yahoo.com, espn.go.com, rotoworld.com, and the sports sections of various online regional newspapers. C-Span does not cover sports much, as far as I've seen.

NPR, Economist, Diplomacy Forum, various tech blogs

Here are some excellent blogs for economic thought

Carpe Diem
Supply and Demand (in that order)
Economics One
EconLog
Dr. Hurd.com
David Friedman
Kids Prefer Cheese
Krugman in Wonderland

Tettleton's Chew makes an insightful post?!? This can't be... I should have slammed into the wall at 2000 mph because the earth stopped rotating on its axis.

The Hanged Man

Try Baseball America and Baseball HQ

They cost though.

Yes, except that I don't care for baseball. I do have occasional interest in the Giants, for whom I can get coverage through the local paper, www.sfgate.com. I prefer the NFL and college football and basketball, with occasional flashes like Olympic men's hockey or U.S. women's soccer when appropriate.

@ The Hanged Man

College football is the greatest sport ever. The passion of high school football and the talent of professional football rolled into one.
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I get most of my news from various sources so I don't get brainwashed by one source. Let's face it. Everyone is biased. Even news sources that appear to be "unbiased" have a centrist bias. FOX News is my first choice as far as TV news because FOX is hilarious. Everyone knows it's a front for the GOP. They might as well change the name to "Obama Sucks News Channel".

Sorry for that little rant. I digress. I usually get my conservative news from FOX and my liberal news from NPR. I also try to make myself read a liberal article in Time or Newsweek on occasion because I realize FOX's conservative slant is greater than NPR's liberal slant.

I get most of my news from the forums at webdiplomacy

the wall street journal best paper on earth. i get economic news from marketwatch.com and cnnmoney. wsj provides just about everything i want and i an keep up with economic niceties in my websites that i crave

I scan the news and make up the details based upon my political bias. you know, just like ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, FOX NEWS, NPR, RUETERS, AP, etc....

I read news from everywhere, and form my own opinion. If anyone here thinks there in an unbiased news source, they are a fool. NPR has been caught in politically biased scandals. The networks are manned by about 85% voting demon-crats, fox news is manned by 85% voting republi-pukes....So the only way to get any real sense of any story is to read them all and sort out the facts yourself.

I agree centurion. I subscribe to the online journal.

Fantasy Football Toolbox is a great free site for the NFL
The Huddle is a great pay site.

Al-jezeera, RT, France 24, sometimes BBC. I live in the states, but I *refuse* to watch stateside news. Nothing but spin and propaganda, not to mention too many fuckin commercials.

Wait, that's not entirely true, if I wanna know whats going on domesticly (sp?) I will tune into PBS. however, the networks (ABC,CBS,NBC,FOX) can all fuck off.

Oh, and I also watch Hannity and Glenn Beck. And I listen to Mark Levin religiously.

Wall street journal almost exclusively, don't trust news channels. Fox business news if I want to watch at night during the week.

The Nightly Business Report is great for business news.

Does anything beat the Weather Channels coverage of storms for up to date on the spot news?

BBC (website + News 24), plus the websites of the Daily Mail (really, it's fun to play spot the real story) and The Guardian. Used to use The Times until it went behind a paywall.

Don't much care for Sky, and the news channels from other nations are not as relevant for me in the UK

Sport - BBC, and CBS & ESPN for US stuff

Pete U, do you know of a better site than footytube for EPL and European soccer highlights?

There is too much "news" in my opinion. Most of it is completely irrelevant.
The stuff that is relevant happens infrequently and you can't help picking it up if you are on the net. Constant repetition of it is unnecessary as is 24 hour news.
I'm a financial markets trader and find I do much better when I limit how much information I look at.
ymmv

@TC - not really. My football team are languishing in the 3rd tier at the moment, so I'm not that interested in the overpaid primadona's of the Premier League. I get about 3 minutes of highlights from every match on the Beeb, but I'm not sure that's available outside the UK