IF YOU READ 1 NEWS SOURCE A DAY, WHICH ONE WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

The Washington Post - love that newspaper. When I lived in D.C. thought I did crave a reguar home town paper and always asked my husband to bring me the local papers in his business travel. Finally one day I realized politics was the home town news in the D.C. Metro area.

Who can possibly consider TheOnion a "news source"? Its atire!

OOps\, that should read "its satire!" (I'm not a typist<g>.)

It's satire, but it's based on real news.

There is always truth in satire or it would not be satire I think.

I like the Boston Globe very much. I grew up on it.

I also like the Wash. Post very much. I read it often on line.

If I had to choose one source of news?
The NY Times. The others are not even close.

Polymermom, you can edit your own posts. :-D

Hey! You left out the San Jose Mercury News. This paper always wins many awards from the media awards committee every year. They're the ones that revealed the secret contracts that gov Davis made with the energy companies, and lost the taxpayers over six billion dollars. c.i.

CI, A2K polls only allow 10 choices. I guess that would go under "Other," along with heaps of great international news sources not included.

(edit): I voted 'The Onion.'

NYT!

Although The Onion would be choice #2. It's "America's Finest News Source", after all.

Well, if it had to be just one, I'd pick the WSJ. though Internet runs a close second. I find The Journal covers major National and Global news fairly objectively. Not infrequently, a WSJ article will lead me to other publications or media for further research. Of the others, The NYT, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post and The Times of London can be considered "Global" papers, in that all have large Foreign Bureaus, huge Foriegn Subscriber Lists and are widely available at commercial newstands throughout the world. Additionally, all are referrenced as source for articles in many other papers. All in all, however, I find The WSJ pretty adequate a source for major news. I'm glad there ARE other options, however.



timber

That's my fault...I meant to cut the Onion and leave San J. As to the choices, they were defined by the members in a prior thread.

I voted for CNN although I usually go BBC, with the choices listed, I would definately go CNN.
Well, if I just wanted to laugh maybe Id go Onion

Monger, I did vote "other." c.i.

Well, good on ya mate.

I know we have a different slant on things down under but since I have been on the Net I have browsed all the available news sources I can find and have settled on the Sydney Morning Herald. It seems to give more detail on the major issues and more of the interesting "snippets" that I often don't see anywhere else.

eve, I appreciated your comment; especially since you provided some details. Most Americans probably don't see a need to spend time with the foreign press. Canada has the dubious distinction of being considered almost American and Mexico has not yet garnered our respect (read: don't waste your time reading Mexico papers.) Historically, our isolated position on the globe has freed everyday citizens from daily contact with individuals from a foreign country as well as provided a natural barrier to invasion.

If I can use only one source, I shall have no alternative to choosing the Israeli online news. They cover not only international events, but domestic as well, and we have too many news inside the country, part of them being so important that it is impossible to skip over them.
But if my choice list is broadened to 2 sources, I would add the "NYT online edition".

Canon City Daily Record, it keeps me up to date on PTA meetings, dui arrests and the school lunch menu.