What are 5 news websites you log onto first thing in the a.m.?

[librarycard]

I want to broaden my knowledge base by adding sources I'm not accessing.

[bigtree]

1. http://www.newsnow.co.uk/

try the searches

also:

http://releases.usnewswire.com/default.asp

http://www.alertnet.org/index.htm

http://www.opednews.com/

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/

[Canuckistanian]

2. Mostly blogs for me

Firedoglake, Talking Points Memo, Eschaton, HuffPo and the BBC.

[salvorhardin]

3. I like to use some of the newer social bookmarking type sites

Although I avoid news in the A.M except for the BBC on the radio, you will find me checking out these sites:

http://digg.com
http://reddit.com
http://newsvine.com

And not as frequently any more but also http://slashdot.org

Oh, and of course, http://www.neuralgourmet.com/brainsnacks

[Syrinx]

4. Democratic Underground is usually first

This is a news site, right? At the least, it's a source of my personal volunteers that scour the web for me. ;)

Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo.

Atrios/Eschaton. (Though, I'm getting tired of that one, especially "Yeah, yeah another stupid open thread." And shrillness doesn't necessarily equal news. Looking for a replacement.)

Slashdot. (I check them for issues of encroaching fascism, especially in the electronic world.)

New York Times.

[Cooley Hurd]

13. DU's LBN - if it ain't there, it ain't news...

:)

[Up2Late]

5. FIVE?!? And why "log on" when we have DU and RSS?

On my RSS I have a lot more than 5, but here are what I use most (other than DU):

<http://www.afp.com/english/>

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/default.stm>

<http://go.reuters.com/newsEarlierArticles.jhtml?type=topNews>

<http://www.npr.org/>

<http://www.workingforchange.com/>

[librarycard]

12. Buzzflash is my homepage. I get good immediate overview there

which the MSM doesn't provide. Then I cross-reference that with MSNBC for a sense of what the MSM wants to avoid discussing. I vote up or down on stories worthy of the star system, 1/2 or 5. (Many on DU cross-reference w/Fox, Free Republic or Drudge. I never log on to any of those due to high BP and the need to keep stress levels low.) Then I go to DU for Latest Breaking and Greatest posts (doing my bit to vote up posts I feel should make the list). I check out DailyKos for research, and then Common Dreams for editorials I may have missed elsewhere.

Ray Taliafero has mentioned sites he likes to read. I didn't write them down, but since I hadn't heard of them before, I thought it would be a good idea to get into the habit of checking other sites out, especially since bloggers have filled the vacuum that the MSM has left behind.

[Dinger]

15. Buzzflash Is Excellent

So many sources, links to other sites, etc. I have seen nothing that compares to it.

[rucky]

6. CLG

www.legitgov.org

[Emit]

7. I get email alerts from

Information Clearing House
Project for the Old American Century
NYT
WaPo
Citizens for Legitimate Government
Americans United
MediaChannel.org
Alliance for Justice
Democracy Now!
From The Wilderness Email Alert List
ActForChange/Working Assets
Consortiumnews.com
The Free Press
Brave New Films/Robert Greenwald
Progressive Democrats of America
Grist Magazine
Sojourners
PINR Dispatch
NOW National Action Center
NARAL Pro-Choice America
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
Various Democratic sources, like Reid and Boxer and my local Dem party

And, for my black-ops work, I get email news alerts from:

NewsMax.com
A couple of hawkish blogsites/groups
The Chalcedon Foundation

Edited to add: But I log onto DU first.

[Skittles]

8. after DU

buzzflash.com
bushwatch.com
cnn.com
bbcnews.com

[walldude]

9. www.crooksandliars.com is always my first stop

DU is next, then on to
www.mediamatters.com from there it's
www.smirkingchimp.com and finally
www.newshounds.us

Then back to DU

[enigmatic]

10. This is a good question

Depending on what's going on that day, in no order:

firedoglake- I think this the best political blog out there right now.

Raw Story- Indespensable.

DU- For breaking news, it's the best site.

CBC- It gets alot of flack by Canadians that have never really how bad the dearth of straight-ahead news is in the US. Since I've been up here I always go here for National and Internation news.

Edmonton Journal- Hometown news.

[flamingpie2500]

11. Democratic Underground FIRST--then.........

http://www.buzzflash.com/
http://www.crooksandliars.com/
http://www.hoffmania.com/

http://www.cursor.org/

[chaumont58]

14. I don't do five, I do two, LA Times and WaPo

I used to do NY Times, but quit when they started that pay BS.
After the two news sites, I go straight to the blogs. Right now, firedoglake is first on the list.