What is your opinion of the following newspapers, newsmagazines?

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

I'm just curious where people get their news. I try to at least have a look at some of the following on a regular basis. I just don't have the time to read many articles though. On most days, I'm just content to stagger out of bed (I'm not a morning person), and log on to Reuters to see that the world hasn't blown up overnight. When I have time, I try to consider a wide variety of viewpoints, and don't just read publications of one political slant. Anyway, what do you think of the following?

NY Times
LA Times
SF Chronicle
Economist
Crime Street Wall Street Journal
The Guardian
The Independent
Christian Science Monitor
Huffington Post
Washington Post
Time (ok, you can stop laughing now)
Newsweek
Mother Jones
Victoria's Secret Catalog
The Nation
The National Review
U.S. News and World Report

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

I'm just curious where people get their news. I try to at least have a look at some of the following on a regular basis. I just don't have the time to read many articles though. On most days, I'm just content to stagger out of bed (I'm not a morning person), and log on to Reuters to see that the world hasn't blown up overnight.

Me too. My reliance on the Internet is enhanced by the fact that I've been living abroad for most of the past decade.

As for some of your specific examples:

I used to like the Economist, but after I moved to Russia and saw how bad most of their Russia coverage was, I became skeptical of the publication as a whole. Maybe they're telling the truth about other countries, but how do I know?

Wall Street Journal is justly famous for the quality of its reporting. Its editorial page is laughable though - one neocon cliche after another.

National Review is allegedly a conservative publication, and may even have been at one time. Now it's just a cheerleader for the Republican Party, with a distinctly juvenile tone. Hard to take such a mag seriously. The neocon organs (Commentary, Weekly Standard) are just as bad.

For serious political analysis, I avoid the neocon and establishmentarian sources and go to publications like the American Conservative and the Nation. In theory they are diametrically opposed, but their distance from party politics and tendency to at least take subjects seriously are points in their favor.

[vandermolen]

I like both The Guardian and Independent. I also read the Daily Telegraph sometimes, although like 50% apparently of Telegraph readers I am not a supporter of the Conservative Party. On Sunday I like to read The Observer, which comes from the same stable as The Guardian; or The Independent on Sunday.

[Lethevich]

I also read the Daily Telegraph sometimes, although like 50% apparently of Telegraph readers I am not a supporter of the Conservative Party

The Telegraph is great in that way. Tory, yes, but it's a bastion of sanity in an otherwise jabbering, Daily Mail-esque world.

[knight66]

As a gift for my aged mother-in-law I bought her a six month subscription to the Telegraph. She was so effusive at the point when the renewal came up that my wife suggested that I renew it.....that was about seven years ago. They clearly think I am a devoted reader.

Personally, I would not wipe a dog's arse with it, but my protestations will avail me nothing. Come the revolution I will be on the subs. list, placed onto the proscribed list and put against the wall to be shot, with a load of people who actually deserve it, like Conrad Black and Dame Shirley Porter.

I used to read the Guardian, I liked the arts coverage, but the political side of it became so winging that I gave it up. I most often read the Times or Sunday Times. Mind you, that gives Murdoch even more money and it has become much more of a gossip/rumour/speculation rag than it once was. I also don't like the sort of rubbish that was in it yesterday; a double page spread on which celebs were up and which were down. I had not heard of about half of them.

So I tend to fall back on BBC Radio and TV plus a trawl through the the Net.

Mike 

[Scarpia]

I'm just curious where people get their news. I try to at least have a look at some of the following on a regular basis. I just don't have the time to read many articles though. On most days, I'm just content to stagger out of bed (I'm not a morning person), and log on to Reuters to see that the world hasn't blown up overnight. When I have time, I try to consider a wide variety of viewpoints, and don't just read publications of one political slant. Anyway, what do you think of the following?

NY Times
LA Times
SF Chronicle
Economist
Crime Street Wall Street Journal
The Guardian
The Independent
Christian Science Monitor
Huffington Post
Washington Post
Time (ok, you can stop laughing now)
Newsweek
Mother Jones
Victoria's Secret Catalog
The Nation
The National Review
U.S. News and World Report

I read (on-line) the NY Times, The BBC new site, the Washington Post regularly.  Sometimes I pop over to CNN.com to find out about pop-culture phenomena.  I have a print subscription to Time magazine and National Geographic,  just to have something more interesting than cereal boxes to read at breakfast. 

[sospiro]

Don't actually buy any newspaper or magazine.

I read BBC News, Guardian, Independent and Telegraph mainly for Matt, but also to get the other side's view, all on-line.




I did read The Times but won't subscribe. I would not put one penny into the coffers of Murdoch, won't have Sky for same reason.

And even if the Mail was free I wouldn't use it for the bottom of my parrot's cage, if I had one.

[knight66]

I am with you there on The Mail.

Mike

[Elgarian]

Almost without fail, reading a newspaper leaves me feeling significantly more miserable at the end than I was at the beginning, so if I read one every day the progressive loss of hope means that I feel suicidal by the end of a week. This is not a satisfactory way to live, so most of the time I don't read them. Of the UK newspapers, the only one I can bear is the Guardian, though this isn't a positive endorsement - just a least bad option (though there is a positive reason insofar as it has an excellent cryptic crossword puzzle.)

[Daverz]

The only parts of the newspaper I ever liked was the crossword.  I don't like the clutter.

I got into the habit lately of just using the default BBC News dropdown in Firefox for general news.  Often too much fluff and futbol on this newsfeed, but I'm too lazy to find something better.  I read several liberal blogs daily (Crooks & Liars, Talking Points Memo, and several others) and watch The Daily Show.  Also listen to the BBC World Service occaisonally, until they start rattling on and on about futbol.

[sospiro]

... and watch The Daily Show...

One of the best programmes ever. I love Jon Stewart!