Unchained Preppers
General Category => News & Politics => Topic started by: Well-Prepared Witch on March 14, 2014, 05:34:57 PM
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I wanted to share my favorite news sources. I like to check the starred ones daily, and the non-starred ones at least once a week to try and avoid the "filter bubble" effect. I know this is a lot. Typically I will visit my regular sites in the morning and, if it's slow at work, a couple of the others in the afternoon. For the most part, these are all mainstream journalistic sites, in English. Do you have any sites you visit regularly for news?
US-based mainstream
http://abcnews.com/ (http://abcnews.com/) - ABC News
http://www.cbsnews.com/ (http://www.cbsnews.com/) - CBS News
http://www.nbcnews.com/ (http://www.nbcnews.com/) - NBC News/I *hate* their redesign. I used to visit this one daily, but now find it nearly unreadable
http://www.foxnews.com/ (http://www.foxnews.com/) - Fox News/I have to force myself to read this one - it's not what I'd call real news, but it's important to know what they're putting out there.
* http://www.cnn.com/ (http://www.cnn.com/)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/) - Washington Post
http://www.washingtontimes.com/ (http://www.washingtontimes.com/) - Washington Times (conservative to WaPo's liberal)
(There's tons of other newspapers out there, NY Times, etc. and of course there's Reuters & A.P., but this list isn't an exhaustive resource, just my favorites.)
US-based, less mainstream and/or less news-oriented
http://www.motherjones.com/ (http://www.motherjones.com/) - Mother Jones News Left leaning, investigative reporting, but slightly conspiracy-theorist
http://spaceweather.com/ (http://spaceweather.com/) - Space Weather
* http://online.wsj.com (http://online.wsj.com) - Wall Street Journal/unfortunately most info is behind a paywall, but even the headlines can be interesting
http://www.bloomberg.com/ (http://www.bloomberg.com/) - Bloomberg/financial and other news
http://www.npr.org/ (http://www.npr.org/) - NPR/Less news-y, more public interest stuff
Foreign news organizations
Good for both seeing what is going on around the world, and how the world sees the US. As a side note, if you browse in Google Chrome, you can go to the main sites of many foreign news organizations and get an easy translation!
* http://www.dw.de/ (http://www.dw.de/) - Deutsche Welle/Germany, in English
http://www.spiegel.de/international/ (http://www.spiegel.de/international/) - Der Speigel/Germany, in English
* http://www.theguardian.com/us (http://www.theguardian.com/us) - Guardian/England (US focused page)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/) - The Telegraph/England
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/ (http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/) - NHK/Japan
http://elpais.com/elpais/inenglish.html (http://elpais.com/elpais/inenglish.html) - El País/Spain, very limited English content, but still interesting.
* http://america.aljazeera.com/ (http://america.aljazeera.com/) - Al Jazeera America/Arab based, US focused
http://www.france24.com/en/ (http://www.france24.com/en/) - France 24/France
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/ (http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/) - People's Daily Online/China
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/ (http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/) - Xinhua/China
Found/Not Yet Read
In compiling the links for this post I found that Africa, India, and South America are areas I really need to improve my coverage. I also could improve my western European and non-US North American coverage. I found a couple of sites that I am going to look into and possibly add to my regular reading.
http://allafrica.com/ (http://allafrica.com/) - African news
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ (http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/) - Native American news
http://indianexpress.com/ (http://indianexpress.com/) - The Indian Express/India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/international-home (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/international-home) - The Times of India/India
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Great list.
I typically look at these:
http://www.foxnews.com/ (http://www.foxnews.com/)
http://www.cnbc.com/ (http://www.cnbc.com/)
http://www.cnn.com/ (http://www.cnn.com/)
http://www.bbc.com/news/ (http://www.bbc.com/news/)
http://www.dw.de/ (http://www.dw.de/)
http://www.cbc.ca/news (http://www.cbc.ca/news)
http://www.ammoland.com/ (http://www.ammoland.com/)
http://www.reuters.com/ (http://www.reuters.com/)
http://spaceweather.com/ (http://spaceweather.com/)
http://www.weather.gov/ (http://www.weather.gov/)
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt (http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt)
http://www.usgs.gov/ (http://www.usgs.gov/)