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[Gopher]

I already said I have no particular love for CNN.

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Gopher:

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[Gopher]

The Economist is first-rate. So is Financial Times.

What is "The Dark Side," briefly? And where, politically, is it coming from?

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[Kuros]

I like the Washington Post Online, Asia Times Online, and the New York Times. I need to get more disciplined with my online stuff and get an aggregator. I email from yahoo, so sometimes I pick up their news blurbs.

I used to like Slate, but the site has been leaving a bad taste in my mouth lately. I felt so betrayed when Weisberg distorted Giuliani's fiscal record in NYC. But more than that Slate is just contrary. Its a habit, though, and its hard to kick considering that the WaPo links to Slate, as does the Onion. Ah, well...

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[hogwonguy1979]

easy, more Angali Rao and Kristi Lu showing cleavage and less Richard Quest and Larry King

for real news on tv I go to BBC World and the NY Times online

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[stevemcgarrett]

CNN International has gotten better in some ways, worse in others.

First off, it's misnamed: it should be called CNN British Edition.

Second, as previously noted, it's become very corporate.

Third, they never seem to be able to settle on co-anchor teams. The Indian American woman they have now is cheerful but a bit vapid. Same goes for the guy who sits across from her. Jim Clancy tries desperately to add a sense of alarm to his opening segment, when what is reported is often exaggerated.

Probably their most laughable mistake four years back was pairing Richard Quest and Becky Anderson as co-anchors. The Twit and the Twitcher made for self-parody of the finest sort. That didn't last long as they tended to get into little spats--you know those outspoken British female journalists gotta get in the last word.

Quest is amusing if only because he's become a caricature of himself. I expect him to hawk up spit every time he opens his mouth. Talk about over-enunciation of words. He reminds me of the kind of British general you might find waiting for Lawrence of Arabia to appear in the David Lean film by the same name.

Now they have him spanning the globe, which is as close to his niche as they'll ever find.

Becky Anderson is once again a roving reporter. Watch her hands: she simply cannot keep them still. She missed her calling: should have been a mime. Now she just needs Valium.

Then we have good ol' Larry King. He was great on radio back in the 1980's--really. Won a couple of Peabody Awards back then too when he actually read the books before interviewing the authors. He also told some good stories and has a good on-air voice. Now he's turned to mush, fame's gone to his head, and he's in mourning over Nicole, the top *beep*, as also previously mentioned here. Does he throw out anything these days other than softball questions?

Anderson Cooper: the jury's still out on Andy for me. But he's starting to annoy me like Wolf Blitzer, who should have retired with Bernie (actually Bernard Shaw was the best of the bunch--tell-it-straight newsman).

Medical reporter and neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta is good and solid. So are a few who report from the field like Atika Shubert and Kristie Lou Stout.

I'd have to agree with other posters that the self-promotion ads of CNN coupled with their ads for luxury consumers is becoming very tiresome.

They need a change in executive producers.

As for me, I get most of my news from these sources (not that anyone here cares):

1. The Christian Science Monitor
2. PBS
3. The Atlantic Monthly
4. The Economist
5. NPR
6. Michelle Malkin (man she's hot)
7. CNN International
8. Fox (I'm balanced if not fair)
9. FrontPage by David Horowitz
10. C-Span

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[Sincinnatislink]

That's what I get for not reading a thread through.

I agree with McGarrett on something. Dang.

Oh yeah. I've generally been impressed when I had the urge to check Al-Jazeera.

I'll go straight to the wire services' pages sometimes.

NYT, Economist, etc. are not terribly different than CNN, in my experience.

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