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Where do you get your news?

 
 
 
NPR, NYT, Talkingpointsmemo, electoral-vote(and-their-links), local paper, Economist, BBC, FAIR
 
I get my news from you guys.

I figure that if it's not important enough to get discussed here, I don't need to know about it.

Of course, a lot of what gets discussed here is also unimportant (at least to me - my life is far less impacted by US political issues than the average person who posts here); But it's rare for a major and important event to occur without being raised on these boards.

Breaking news is generally low quality news. I don't need to know what's happening right now, at the expense of accuracy, and would rather have a considered and informed report about something that occurred a week ago, than a breathless and inaccurate summary of something that's still unfolding.
 
I am hard of hearing so I get all of my news reading.

First I go to the New York Times, which I subscribe to. No other American news organization has more resources and direct reporting than the NY Times. I don't generally read the opinion columnists there, I use to read Paul Krugman's economics blog but quit it before it was discontinued, mainstream, American neoclassical economists are pretty much all of a type, politically liberal but in denial of just how much damage they have done by validating the neoliberal, "public choice" model of academic economics in order to fund their research and to have a chance to obtain the prestigious chairs of economics. Krugman was head of the economics department at Princeton.

Sorry, I drifted. I also subscribe to,

  • Washington Post, yes, that one
  • The Economist, from the UK
  • The Atlantic, US magazine
  • The Atlanta Journal Constitution, my hometown newspaper
  • Medium, US, a compiler of responsible journalism for moderates
  • American Affairs Journal, "is a quarterly journal of public policy and political thought". It was founded to provide a forum for Trump supporters to provide the factual evidence for Trump's policies. When they discovered that these didn't exist they became those "who believe that the conventional partisan platforms are no longer relevant to the most pressing challenges facing our country."
  • The Guardian, UK, primarily for their coverage of association football, soccer to Americans
  • Reason Magazine, US libertarian magazine, because I deserve a good laugh now and again, besides, the libertarians are the source of many if not most of the bad ideas of neoliberalism, movement conservatism, "public choice" -the economic racism, etc., despite the protests from our rapidly diminishing number of libertarians here. For example, I first read about what is obviously Trump's plan for the federal government's Covid-19 virus pandemic response here first, herd immunity and state's rights, although when I read them I quite frankly didn't believe that they were serious, that they could be so stupid.
  • Patron or monthly support for Professor Steve Keen, UK post-Keynesian economics, The University of Missouri at Kansas City Economics Dept., a modern money think-tank, Arseblog, an Arsenal FC fan blog, and a few others
  • Too many economics journals, news letters and blogs to list here.
  • Too many Arsenal FC blogs to mention here.
As to free publications I go to Reuters US because I know reporters who work there from when I lived in New York, McClatchy Washington Bureau, currently in bankruptcy and bought out by a hedge fund so certain to disappear in any form I could accept, Forbes, NPR, I record their news program every night but can't remember the last time I watched, the hearing thing. der Spiegel to try to keep up with my German.
 
I'll watch some local news and NBC/CBS Nightly news.

Sometimes I will just Google on an issue/topic, and will tend to follow the links to sites such as (in no particular order): Al Jazeera, The Atlantic, The Economist, WP among others. I'll look at CNN mostly to just see what is in the news at the moment.

Other sites I will directly scan for articles a couple times a week;
https://www.project-syndicate.org/ (particularly Barry Eichengreen)
https://asiatimes.com/ (though more of it is going behind a paywall)
538

More on economics/finance, but it bleeds over:
Marketwatch, and blogs like:
http://creditbubblebulletin.blogspot.com/p/credit-bubble-bulletin.html
and I get emails from John Mauldin among others.
 
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