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So i dont go to news sites, DakkaDakka is my only source for news.
IS it like this for anyone else?

Nope.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/

I get pretty much all my news from here, but I find a lot of the news on the stations and papers to be too depressing for my tastes.

I use BBC when I really want to know something.

Other than that, my usual rounds through Reddit get me caught up on enough events.

Seriously though, its hard to BBC for excellent journalism. I only wish the CBC was as good, but its a hell of a lot better than what my counterparts to the south have to deal with it.

*Edit* Maybe I should actually answer the question.

No not really. I read some interesting stuff here, and mainly to see what quirkiness Frazzled with come up with. But here is not where my news is gathered from.

Since this is a top site for me to run through, I do get a lot of news from here. I also get a good amount of news from yahoo, though most of what I read is AP re-posts from by yahoo.

I get news from Dakka, but I don't rely on it for such.

I get my news from the BBC but I do get the odd bit from here, mostly breaking news or odd bits from the colonies.

How can anybody take news here at face value

 Jihadin wrote:
How can anybody take news here at face value

The same people who get their news from tabloids?

I get my news from Face Book, one drunken relative at a time...

 AduroT wrote:
I get news from Dakka, but I don't rely on it for such.

This.

Maybe not all, but definitely most of the news

I get my news from the only good news source:



But no. I have Yahoo! set as my home page solely so that I can peruse their news section and see what's going on. Their articles suck. Horribly. But it at least tells me when something happens.

Most of my news I read on Dakka or hear on the radio while going to work.

I don't.

I get news from The Economist, CNN, and a few other places.

Why would anyone get their news from a place so full of hateful Know Nothing bigots? And I'm saying this as someone that regularly checks Drudge and RedState to see how hysterical those folks can be.

I check BBC every few hours at work, sometimes Sky News. At home our default log out channel is Sky News, and if we are considering what we are going to watch next, we'll flick to Sky News while making the call..

I like to know whats going on. Been like that since it took my three days to discover Diana was dead.

I usually read CNN when I wake up in the mornings ... but I listen to NPR and BBC on SiriusXM pretty much whenever I'm in my car. I enjoy the BBC's reporting style ... plus where else are you going to hear hour long conversations about Prince Harry's newest internet pictures?

A lot of my internet is VIA phone. I don't get all my news from dakka all the time, but I'm here anyway, and the news sites are just too full of scam ads, videos, and graphics for my phone to handle it well. I use dakka OT more as an indication if there is something I need to follow up on.

So, actually, between dakka and headline reposts on Facebook, that covers pretty much all my news consumption.

Besides, when Z-Day goes down, it will be posted here, first, guaranteed.

Edit- clarification

I either get it from my morning commute to work, or from here. The only time I actually watch the news is for updates on my favorite sports teams

I get my news from here too. If it's worth reading, someone will post it, so it makes for a good news filter and this way I can avoid the stuff I don't wanna read and don't even see the stuff I already know I don't want to see anyway.