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**WilieCayote** · 13-01-2010, 12:25

Main source is the local daily paper - Yorkshire Post!!

I will watch the BBC news - You get a genaral idea on what is going on in the world on the lead stories at least.
- but I usually end up shouting at the telly at their left wing slant on some news!

Daily Mail is Ok - Certainly tells you the bits the BBC miss off!!
but like the rest of the media - you've got to question some stories, I'd like to think I've got the nounce to see through them though...

**js374** · 13-01-2010, 12:36

Originally Posted by angular

Perhaps a more interesting question would be, do you ever pay for your news, or do you get it all 'free' on the internet/Freeview/Sky subscription you bought for the sport/radio? Yes, I know the TV licence means that Freeview isn't free, but you get my point.

I generally do not pay for news, I do buy the Telegraph a couple of times a week but even then they probably make a loss on it as all the newspapers on campus (yes I am a student) are 40p each rather than their usual price. I don't have a TV so don't even pay the license fee.

Personally for the editorial section I think the Guardian 'Comment is Free' is best, not for the actual editorial but for the real-time comments section which allows pretty reasonable debating. The comments are also fairly balanced with a good political spectrum. This is much less so for the Telegraph where the balance is quite right wing with no real debate between commentators.

**tearsbeforebedtime** · 13-01-2010, 13:07

http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/

Covers foreign language as well.

**llech** · 13-01-2010, 13:14

Originally Posted by angular

Originally Posted by js374

Sorry I should have stuck in an 'other' option (and the Times). I based my list purely on the most common sources from article that get posted here on a regular basis. If I listed every possible source the poll would stretch to hundreds. My list was in no way meant to be exhaustive.

Nor were the two I mention personally my only news sources. Private eye, Guy Fawkes, The Register, New Scientist and Scientific America being some of the less mainstream sources that I read.

Guido Fawkes reads ARRSE; at least he uses the site's logo on the slide show currently on his front page, as representative of sites from which people get their news.

Perhaps a more interesting question would be, do you ever pay for your news, or do you get it all 'free' on the internet/Freeview/Sky subscription you bought for the sport/radio? Yes, I know the TV licence means that Freeview isn't free, but you get my point.

Speaks volumes about the views on Arrse, mainly right wing.

**Unsworth** · 13-01-2010, 15:13

Times newspaper?

**Micawber** · 13-01-2010, 15:42

I get my news by reading the Guardian, the Racing Post, Private Eye and Viz, along with listening to radio 4/5 and, of course, logging on to ARRSE.

Exceptions: buy the DTel on Saturdays purely for the Xword, the TV guide and to confirm in my own mind that the Guardian is a much better newspaper.

Never buy a Sunday paper, it's mostly fiction and if what they reveal is, by some remote chance, true it will be followed up by the daily papers in much more depth on Monday.

Can't stand TV news, it's written for children.

**RedCoat2009** · 13-01-2010, 15:46

I use the internet, almost exclusively, to get my news. The broadsheets have excellent websites and there are a number of sites that contain headlines and links to multiple news outlets. Drudge Report has hundreds of links to all types of outlets.

Also, for those with an interest in international news, most foreign outlets have English versions.

**RedCoat2009** · 13-01-2010, 15:47

Originally Posted by tearsbeforebedtime

http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/

Covers foreign language as well.

great recommendation, thaks.

**dogmeat** · 13-01-2010, 15:55

Originally Posted by tearsbeforebedtime

http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/

Covers foreign language as well.

It must come as a shock to some people that foreign news isn't just about wars/disasters, and that places other that the UK/USA/EU actually exist and have real news.

**Grownup_Rafbrat** · 13-01-2010, 16:20

Originally Posted by foodie

TV - Sky or BBC
Paper - Telegraph or Times (Currant Bun if hungover)
Internet - BBC (Arrse for Comment)

what I prefer to do though is read the Week, great array of international current affairs with a good mix of comment and analysis. And absolutely no Big Brother.

I was given a trial subscription to this publication for Christmas, and find it brilliant. I get news from C4, BBC (mostly radio though as TV tends to make me cross), occasional purchases of the Observer, FT, Economist, Telegraph or Independent, depending on which Editor I'm annoyed with at the time, Private Eye, The Oldie and arrse.

I avoid ITV news (bring back Reggie Bosanquet - he had REAL news and reported it well), SKY (Murdoch manipulation) and other newspapers, usually because I think their editors and/or owners are scheming, manipulative, non-tax-paying b@stards who have no right to tell the UK public what to think. Oh and I have no interest in the latest 'celebrity gossip' which seems to fill them.