With so many different syndications, so many choices, so many slants, and so many medias, keeping up with current events and getting your news just isn’t what it used to be. Some might even call it a chore. I’ve spent years trying to come up with a system of getting my news that ensures that I don’t miss anything or get some terribly biased opinions added into my news. While the sources I read aren’t perfect, they offer good perspective without too much of an agenda. Here are the places I get my news.
- CNN.com – CNN runs a tight ship. They are fast, clean, and easy to navigate. CNN.com is probably the easiest website I’ve ever navigated. As with many news syndications, CNN has been accused of being biased, towards both liberals and conservatives (at separate times, obviously). But in my readings, CNN does a great job of getting the news to you without too much fluff.
- BBC.co.uk – BBC is another news source that I really like. What I like about BBC is that they are not American-based, which means that there perspective on American media does not come with an American bias. That is especially useful when reading about international news, as I often notice a difference between what is reported by BBC and what is reported by the American news syndications.
- WN.com – World News is not it’s own news syndication. It’s actually a site that pulls top stories from many sources (NyTimes, BBC, Yahoo, and many more) and shares them with readers in one place. I can assure you that you wont be getting the least biased news here, but you’ll get top news from around the world.
- Yahoo News – Yahoo news does two things really well: they get the news really quickly, and they often get the news really inaccurately. A good and a bad I guess. Using sources like Associated Press and Reuters, they often source the first article to break a story. Sadly, to be the first requires more speed than finesse or accuracy, so when you do get it from CNN or another source (just a little while later), you’ll get the real story, instead of what looks like it could have been written by a 12-year-old.
- NYTimes.com – NYTimes.com may be the worst website I’ve ever seen. I haven’t read from that site in a long time. But whether you like the site or not, their news is great. They take the time to write full stories, not just 3 short paragraphs that they hammered out in 10 minutes to be the first to publish. NYTimes has often been criticized for its liberal bias as well, but I don’t see it much. It’s no MSNBC, that’s for sure. If you want a well written, well thought out story, get it from NYTimes. But good luck getting through their website.
Those are the 5 top places I read news online. But there are hundreds of other sources and I’m sure you have a great source to offer as well. Leave a comment below and tell us where your favorite place to get the news online is!
