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[G-Man]

^ You joke right? I mean right wing news is fine and dandy but to get it from someone with the IQ of a rotten potato (Coulter) is just dumb. That is like trying to get factual information from a creative three year old.

Slanted news should at least come from someone that understands what they say and I would even consider Limbaugh in that category.

[VicHockeyFan]

^ You joke right? I mean right wing news is fine and dandy but to get it from someone with the IQ of a rotten potato (Coulter) is just dumb. That is like trying to get factual information from a creative three year old.

Slanted news should at least come from someone that understands what they say and I would even consider Limbaugh in that category.

I'm more than inclined to agree. Coulter's message, when she has a reasonable one (rarely), gets wrecked by her attempts to always be offensive.

[yodsaker]

Ann Coulter is there to sell books. As a serious commentator she's, well, not serious. Deranged comes to mind though.
I find I'm looking a bit less at HuffPost these days, although Jason Linkins' Sunday talking heads live blog is funny as hell. But the HuffPost web page is quite clumsy IMO.
New Yorker is very good on-line and every week there's an audio segment (upper left of the page) worth listening to.

[Savannah]

Over 2 cups of tea (1/2 hr to 1 hour) CBC radio Vancouver goes on, and I hit - BBC News, ABC News, Drudge Report, Huffington Post (gotta have balance!), Reuters, TC, Saanich News, Bloomberg, and, of course The New York Times.

Whoa. Are you me?

Over two-three mugs of tea, CBC radio Victoria goes on, and I check out:

Globe and Mail
CFAX's local news
TC
I'm so used to checking CNN.com that I still do, though the "news" content is astonishingly low.

My personal start page includes:

BBC News
CBC News
CTV News
NPR
Northwest Public Radio
TC
The Guardian
The Globe & Mail
CFAX local news
The New York Times

...but it's always subject to additions and subtractions.

After that, I look at funny pictures of cats and dogs with captions, and read Globe & Mail's Social Studies.

[Caramia]

I had forgotten about Gordon Price's blog. I used to follow it routinely. I'll add it to my bookmarks again. Thanks!

[groundlevel]

every single one of my British Columbia grandaddies -- and my mommy and daddy -- were British Columbia Socialists -- and then supporters of the CCF and NDP as they came along.

(Big kisses and a rhubarb or two from my folks to Phil McAvity)

The apple not falling far from the tree (actually, this apple fell even farther into the long grass of the left field), I tend to approve of left wing opinion and sniff rightously at right wing nonsense
however
there is one conservative Daily Me I enjoy --Norman Spector (Canadian journalist, diplomat, civil servant, newspaper publisher and Victoria resident) NORMAN'S SPECTATOR. Link Here (edited by Mat)

(damn! this socialist too dumb to forge link -- anyone smarter who can link for VV viewers?)

right wing
but
intelligent and thoughtful commentary

postscript -- the great-grandfathers, the grandfathers and the mother and father -- every single one a successful business owner -- and me and hubby doing (knock on wood) AOK with business and store -- socialists as prosperous capitalists -- ain't that a *****!

[Caramia]

Oh and for right wing blogs - try American Thinker. The articles are a mixed bag - some good, some just stupid. I use it to balance Al Jazeera on my menu of sources.

[Holden West]

This is your grandparent's version of the news aggregator. Everything at a glance, continually updated.

[G-Man]

PriceTags is great but he hasn't put up a new one in a couple of months. The last one on Vaughan sp? was very good if not a bit depressing.

[Holden West]

PriceTags is great but he hasn't put up a new one in a couple of months.

The blog goes quiet when he's traveling but it's now back up to speed with a flood of new posts. This guy never stops.

[http]

Slashdot for computing news, Google for miscellaneous, and WSWS for international (though those trotskyists could make a case for bread falling buttered side down being a failure of captialism, at least they're blatant about their bias). Doonesbury once per week to keep things light.

I don't go seeking news that agrees with my viewpoint (that's what yesmen are for) The viewpoints on /. are all over the map; its moderation system allows for diverse viewpoints to co-exist visibly. The wsws.org articles regularly challenges me to think about where my assumptions end and where my reasoning begins.

[mat]

I thought some might be interested in a blog Q/A post by Bruce Tognazzini

Bruce Tognazzini spent 14 years at Apple Computer, where he put together the company's Human Interface Group, a team of psychologists, writers, visual people and engineers that could explain the philosophy of the Mac and how it's used. He later led the Starfire project at Sun, which predicted the rise of the World Wide Web and helped to establish the healthcare site WebMD. He has published two books on interaction design.

Ms B and others have been correct in identifying links as the ultimate goal to drive both a news source/agenda, and also potential ad revenue. My personal pet peeve (and it drives me nuts every day) are interstitial ads that cover the page - BT's point...

You've made a career out of looking at how inviting and usable everything is around you, from light switches and faucets to keyboards and menu bars. When you sit down to read a news site, what keeps you reading and what stops you from reading?

Tognazzini: Interstitial ads that come between you and the story.

When you go to a news site, instead of getting the story, you get this giant ad that completely fills the screen. Up at the top, there's a tiny little "x" box. If you can find it, you can click it and close it before the 20 seconds are over.

I'm sure they get a nice little piece of change from whoever buys those ads, but what I do is just hit the back button and hit one of the other links from Google News. I stop reading those publications. It's as simple as that.

The entire post is available here.

[mat]

[Phil McAvity]

I find this more edifying since so much of what passes for news these days is trivial nonsense.

[Holden West]

Jody Paterson's personal ethics code. Journalists (mainstream and bloggers) are encouraged to write their own.

[http]

I thought some might be interested in a blog Q/A post by Bruce Tognazzini [ . . . snip . . . ] The entire post is available here.

There's been more than a few times when Tog's writings have made me go "so THAT is why this (webiste|device|program) is driving me nuts." Good stuff, and I wish it was required reading for website designers.

asktog.com

[Holden West]

KOMO Seattle is launching a series of hyperlocal websites:

http://www.komonews.com/communities

[Mr_E_Squirrel]

I like that hyperlocal idea

Today Sept 16th Police officers were swarming the Burnside/Finlayson Area and I did not find out sort of why until I went to get Gas. Supposedly a genius was avoiding the Police by hiding under a car at Metro Toyota

[Victoria Watcher]

A new report suggests Canadians' television viewing habits continue to shift toward streaming platforms at the expense of traditional cable and satellite subscriptions, at a time when the federal regulator is considering new rules to help level the playing field across the sector.

 

The annual Couch Potato Report released Monday by Convergence Research says 42 per cent of Canadian households did not have a TV subscription with a traditional provider by the end of last year. It forecasts that by the end of 2026, half of all households won't be traditional TV watchers.

 

Meanwhile, the report says more than 80 per cent of Canadian households subscribe to a streaming service, while 70 per cent subscribe to both TV and one or more streaming services.

 

Last year saw 2.6 per cent of Canadian TV subscribers cut the cord, as the revenue brought in by traditional TV providers declined three per cent to $7.2 billion — a pace the report predicts will continue through 2026.

 

Meanwhile, streamers' Canadian subscription revenue rose 14 per cent in 2023 to $3.73 billion and is forecast to reach $4.24 billion this year.

 

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...-report-8503329

[Nparker]

I still can't give up traditional cable. The cost for each of the streaming services to which I would need to subscribe to have the variety of programming I want to watch would be equally or more expensive.