Where do you get your news?

smiaras

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simu

I read the print Irish Times usually. It's easier to read a paper in one go - you could spend the whole day looking at news online.

I'd only look at news online if a disaster had just happened or if someone linked to an article for a discussion on somewhere like boards.

luckat

Google News, IOL news, breakingnews.ie, newsnow.co.uk, the Irish Times, the Indo, the London Review of Books, the radio news, the TV news sometimes if I remember to turn the thing on, mediahopper.com for news from around the world.

flogen

I usually use BBC Ceefax in the morning, will pick up a Times now and again but never get to read it as much as I'd like.
Online is very easy, and I don't even use RSS (yet). I'd go to BBC, Google and a few others like breakingnews.ie, IOL and RTE.

In an ideal situation I'd get both print and online news, but I never really have the chance to do both

quarryman

BBC News always. Quality site.

damien

Irish Times, RTE News Online, Irish Indo via Unison

For RSS my subscriptions are on the left on this page:
http://www.bloglines.com/blog/mulley

I read most news via RSS now. Though it's more specialist stuff then general news.

OfflerCrocGod

I just don't get RSS, it seems over hyped, is it really that hard to visit the sites? Well I use the Beebs it's by far the best.

<edit>website not the RSS feed - I've tried but there's simply to much crap in RSS feeds.

angry_fox

The irish times and and bbc news online

damien

OfflerCrocGod wrote:

I just don't get RSS, it seems over hyped, is it really that hard to visit the sites?

You open up 100 tabs in firefox then and click refresh 5 times a day. Bit of a pain isn't it? This is what RSS does for me automatically and puts all the newest stuff together in a single window that I can read. When I've read the new items it remembers it and wipes them when new content comes down.

I've tried but there's simply to much crap in RSS feeds.

Uh, RSS feeds contain the exact same content as what is on the website. If there is crap in the RSS feed then there is crap on the site, so what's your point?

Flukey

If I am up and going to work, I'll have my walkman with me, listening to Morning Ireland and then 57Live on my way home, catching the News at 1 at lunchtime. Papers, normally the Independent. For TV news, RTE, TV3 and Sky News, sometimes. Occasionally BBC and ITV, where there bulletins aren't clashing with other providers. As to the net, I only really search for news on special occasions or where I see or hear about a particular story.

OfflerCrocGod

damien.m wrote:

You open up 100 tabs in firefox then and click refresh 5 times a day. Bit of a pain isn't it?

Well I don't do that you see I open the website maybe two or three times a day and only read the interesting stories from the regions (BBC website) I care about. With an RSS feed in the bookmarks I get 30-40 lines in my bookmarks with mainly stories I have no interest in.

damien.m wrote:

This is what RSS does for me automatically and puts all the newest stuff together in a single window that I can read.

Eh, the front page of the BBC news website does that too.

damien.m wrote:

When I've read the new items it remembers it and wipes them when new content comes down.

This was my major problem with RSS using the bookmark in Firefox it doesn't seem to do this at all, I would have kept using it if it would stop loading stories I had already read! What do you use? the Firefox in built bookmark feed or something else?

damien.m wrote:

Uh, RSS feeds contain the exact same content as what is on the website. If there is crap in the RSS feed then there is crap on the site, so what's your point?

My problem was the huge long list of stories that would turn up when I refreshed. I can navigate a site and see the stories I have already read based on the colour of the links in half the time it takes me to scroll through a long list of text. Are you using a stand alone RSS reader? Granted I tried using the Firefox when it was first put in the browser during the nightly builds so it may been buggy.

damien

Well I don't do that you see I open the website maybe two or three times a day and only read the interesting stories from the regions (BBC website) I care about. With an RSS feed in the bookmarks I get 30-40 lines in my bookmarks with mainly stories I have no interest in.

Eh, the front page of the BBC news website does that too.

I'm talking about 100 different websites here not stories. The bbc would be one website with various stories. I'm talking about 100 different news sources.

You can have feeds that give you headlines only or the full story too.

This was my major problem with RSS using the bookmark in Firefox it doesn't seem to do this at all, I would have kept using it if it would stop loading stories I had already read! What do you use? the Firefox in built bookmark feed or something else?

Eugh. The firefox one is dire. I use Bloglines for my news aggregation. Gives you a look a bit like BoingBoing or Slashdot.

28064212

If you use Firefox, I would strongly recommend that you get the Sage extension for RSS feeds. Have been using it for about a week now, it's absolutely brilliant. And if you don't use Firefox, switch to it, then get it.

toiletduck

i read the print indo most days, watch channel4 news and i quite like bbc online. however i would never limit myself to those, particularly on the net, ill visit foxnews, skynews, rte, al-jazerra, google news etc.

Cabaal

BBC News
RTE News
ENN.ie
The Register
Slashdot
CDFreaks.com
news.com

Thats about it,

jrey1981

Sky News
BBC News
Irish Independent Tuesday - Saturday
Sunday Independent, Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, News of the World
Daily Mail every day
Sun every day
Irish Times & Guardian on Monday
bbc.co.uk business news
guardian.co.uk every day
MediaLens.org
independent.co.uk on Sunday
observer.co.uk on Sunday

(I live at home and my parents get 2 daily papers and 3 on a sunday and my brother gets the Sun or NOTW on Sunday.)

toiletduck

oh and newsnight of course, gotta love jeremy paxman

poetbloggs

Avantgo on a PDA is great - BBC, Reuters, the Guardian and the FT all updated regularly and downloaded everytime I sync... Closest to home though is the BBC N.Ireland news which can be quite small.