Which Newspaper Site Do You Use?
As much as I love to sit in the toilet and read the morning paper, I think I should give up this wasteful and archaic form of media. And although i could just google established newspaper sites, I feel as though this site would be much more helpful since the linked here tend to be much more reliable and any buffoon with opposable thumbs can suggest an unobjective news site.
so yeah, any free news sites? plox
It won't help you but anyway:
http://www.nzz.ch
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
You're. . . at college, right? You're school should be maintaining subscriptions. Start there.Originally Posted by Omega
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
Tsk, the Fuzzball making a Lewkesque grammatical mistake.
I get most of my factual info from: nytimes.com and bbc.co.uk/news (and occasionally washingtonpost.com and economist.com). If there's anything big happening in Israel or Central Asia/Caucasus, I go to haaretz.com and eurasianet.org, respectively. That leaves me with a fairly mediocre coverage of Africa and South America, but I don't really have the time to read about the specific situations there.
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Was about to post the sameTsk, the Fuzzball making a Lewkesque grammatical mistake.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
I am not surprisedWas about to post the same
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
I only read BBC News
How do you expect to run with the wolves at night when you spend all day sparring with the puppies?
- Omar Little
We have subscriptions to Le Monde (a french newspaper) and whatnot. the library is approximately 30 minutes away from me though and I cannot pick up any of the relatively well-written and good newspaper since the Toronto Star kind of sucks dick and it's the only one within a 3 minute walk from my dorm. and the library is no where close to any of my classes, so...
and thanks everyone!
Edit: I'm surprised no one suggested Fox yet. lol
I think some newspapers here also have e-subscriptions which are cheaper, you get the full newspaper every day, but digitally. And of course full access to the website and online archives.
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
I've yet to see a college in the US that didn't have an e-subscription to every major newspaper. I assume the same applies to Canadian colleges.
Since we're talking about obtaining information, I don't see why you're so caught up on the paper's editorial line. The problem I'd have with Fox News isn't that it's biased but that it's going to have a fairly narrow area of coverage.
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Hope is the denial of reality
reddit.com
The main subreddits, the ones across the top of the screen, are overpopulated and commonly suffer from the Dumbest Common Denominator. But you can search for subreddits that are more specific to your tastes, hobbits, and locations.
99% of my news comes from the "new" submissions from reddit, but I'll load up the local TBO.com or cnn.com if I'm bored.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Fuzzy made a punctuation error, not a grammatical one.
Omega, nothing is stopping you from enjoying your morning dump while reading a newspaper. You don't even have to pay for the pleasure. "Free" newspapers are commonly found in diners, donut shops, hotel lobbies, even at McDonald's....being previously read or 24 hours old doesn't matter much for your *cough* intended purpose.
Er, yeah, pretty much every major university in the US has electronic access to most newspapers and periodicals. You shouldn't have much trouble if you're on your school's network (or VPNed in); I can't imagine Canadian schools are any different than ours.
Major sources I regularly read:
BBC News
Ha'aretz
Yediot Acharonot
Google News (just for headlines... used to use CNN for this before their website became unreadable)
The Economist
WSJ
NYTimes
I also read some other odds and ends from time to time... from subject specific blogs (e.g. Danger Room, Free Exchange) to conspiracy theory pages with occasionally useful bits of information (DebkaFile) to local news sites (the Globe, the Trib) and the occasional bit of demagoguery (Arutz Sheva, Ma'ariv, the Guardian).
That is quite the comprehensive list I got. I think i'll either be neglecting my social life or depriving myself of oh so sweet sleep. And I didn't know major universities had e-subscriptions. I'll definitely look into it; it would facilitate my little quest. Thanks!
BBC news stories are generally no more than a page long. You can read the entire front page in 5 minutes, easily. The NY York times has perhaps 1-2 good stories per day, which take perhaps 3 minutes each to read. Economist stories are somewhere in between. You can easily keep up to date with the news with about 10-15 minutes a day.
Hope is the denial of reality
Le Monde is not a bad newspaper.
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
Fuzzy made a typographical error, a muscle memory mistake arising from having just used "you're" properly which I did not notice making after posting.Fuzzy made a punctuation error, not a grammatical one.
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
I see references to Ha'aretz, but not Al-Jazeera. Any particular reason for this?
Ha'aretz's journalistic standards are far higher than al-Jazeera's. I do read them on occasion, though.
How are those two errors mutually exclusive, how is that even a correction of what GGT said? A punctuation error does not care how you made the error or why only that, in fact, it is an error in punctuation.Fuzzy made a typographical error,
How does a punctuaton error care about anything?
We often personify objects that are inanimate. For example, a physict might say: gravity doesn't care about whether an object is blue or red it pulls on it all the same. (using a newtonian concept of gravity). Obviously we are simply referring to the structural definition of how gravity operates. Similiary i'm referring to the definition of what constitutes a grammatical, typographical, or punctuation error.How does a punctuaton error care about anything?
Because Haaretz provides actual news. Its editorial line is crap. Al-Jazeera finds it difficult to separate one from the other, and the quality of either isn't particularly great.
Hope is the denial of reality
jews.bbc.co.uk
Today program in the morning, PM in the evening.
Should really follow the Economist more, it's a classy paper. I guess I can never quite believe that a magazine with a name like the Economist would put all their shit online for free.
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
It isn't, at least in the US. Without a subscription, you can only read 5 print articles a week.
No quick way around that either, unlike the NY Times.Too lazy to log in through my school.
Hope is the denial of reality
NYT (iPad subscription)
Economist (iPad subscription)
Volkskrant.nl (free)
Telegraaf.nl (free)
FAZ.net (free)
Telegraph.co.uk (free)
Guardian.co.uk (free)
Spiegel.de (free, also in english, very cheap mobile subscription)
NZZ.ch (free)
Hurriyetdailynews.com.tr (free)
Todayszaman.com (free)
CNN is useless most of the time
Congratulations America
CNN is only good for big US elections. They tend to have very coverage, including lots of pretty polls and charts.
Hope is the denial of reality
The former carries connotations that include mental error while the other explicitly claims any error is mechanical in origin. The latter is also more a more precise term and we all know my fondness for precision.
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
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