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    What do you read when you go online in the morning?

    I love to get the real papers, but I also intend to make me a habit of scanning quickly through the news of major world papers.

    Which one do you read/would recommend to me? Some that are fast with uploading the latest news, with good overall access and easy to overview? Both American and European English language papers, as well as German papers are what are interesting to me. Please, if you have any suggestions, provide links as well. Thank you!




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    I get the New York Times and The Guardian (a UK newspaper) delivered by e-mail.

    http://www.nytimes.com/todaysheadlines?th&emc=th

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/

    They're free at the moment, although the NY Times is starting to make its juicest op-ed pieces a premium service. They keep me up to date with current affairs generally and occasionally have interesting opinion pieces or in-depth reports.

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    The second thing I do in the morning is to read the Times.The first thing I do is make a cuppa tea.
    Good editorials and comment.

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/global/
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    A dutch weblog called geenstijl. It is mean, adolecent and generally very bad taste, but it is a riot to read, and unlike the regular newspapers they are independant.

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    I usually pick up The Independent on the way to school, but it's online content isn't very extensive without a subscription. As Simon said, the New York Times and The Guardian both have great online content, as far as how many articles they upload. For satire on current events, like the one on the poll showing the troops wanted to leave, The Onion is fun and all online.
    Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 
    BAGHDAD—Citing the Bush Administration's ongoing refusal to provide a timetable for withdrawal, the U.S. troops stationed in Iraq have devised their own exit strategy.

    "My marines are the best-trained, best-equipped, most homesick fighting force in the world," said Staff Sgt. Cornelius Woods. "Just give us the order, and we will commandeer every available vehicle to execute a flanking maneuver on the airstrips of Mosul. By this time tomorrow, we will have retaken our positions at our families' dinner tables in full force."

    In a striking rebuke of the assertions of the Pentagon and the White House that a swift exit is neither practical nor possible, soldiers of varying rank have outlined a straightforward plan of immediate disengagement, dubbed "Operation Screw This.
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    "If the chief of staff is truly interested in ideas about exiting from Iraq," Pfc. Terland said, "I think that it would be a great idea to debate it openly. Why don't we fly home to Washington so we can discuss it together over a cup of coffee?""


    If you're interested in commentary on political events that are a bit unique, The New Yorker is great. If you're just after headlines though, I've found that Google News is very quick to update headlines from newspapers all over the world with full articles.

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    I read a bunch online: I usually start with MSNBC, CNN and the BBC. I also often check out the New York Times and sometime Fox News (to get a right-wing perspective and just for fun). I also try to read a Canadian paper (usually the right-leaning Globe and Mail, since the reporting is better, IMHO, than in the leftie Toronto Star).

    I find being able to read a story from multiple perspectives gives me a much more rounded view of events.
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    Limiting myself to English language newspapers:

    www.guardian.co.uk

    It's really a remarkable good online paper. Probably the best free site on the web. Though understandably, I read it mostly for it's non-news related content. I'm not even remotely interested in any news involving Tessa Jowell, the ashes or anything else that causes excitement only in those of British genetic makeup.

    I absolutely love their Opinion articles and their Football (Premiership) coverage.
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    I just read BBC:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/

    Local news, international news, most is covered.

    I think a recent article in the Guardian I read was strange. It thought that it was 'surprising' that Li Ka-Shing, richest Hong Konger, donated a large lump of cash towards a museum in Shantou which shows the true horrors of the cultural revolution in China. It's quite obvious that he wants other Chinese to learn the truth about the horrors of Mao's rule of China, especially as he was living in Shantou and only left because of the cultural revolution...

    Hence my reason for not reading the guardian.
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    The BBC and the Onion are my personal favourites...

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    I too read the Grauniad online. Partly because its quite good, if occasionally infuriating, partly because I wouldn't want to give them my 50p by buying it in the flesh. Every now and again it pretends you have to register but you don't, if you read the page carefully.

    Timesonline is also OK though I tend to buy the Times for real (God knows why, there's more serious news in the Beano than the Times these days.)
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    Maybe it should also be added that, while The Guardian is good for worldwide and British news, it isn't entirely special when it comes to European news. My professor has been telling us about how she got tired of calling and correcting the paper so often when they call someone a former PM who has never been one, and all sorts of silly things.

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    I usually skim Reuters, USAToday, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor and CNET (for tech news).

    To be honest though, I dont actually navigate to all of those sites- I just sync them to my Palm so I can read them all in one place.
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    I sometimes (not very often) skim through these on the Internet:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk

    http://www.nz-online.de/

    http://www.welt.de/

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/

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    Thank you for your input, gents. Cheers!




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