My Media Sources

We don't have a television*, so I get zero amount of my news information from television. 

I used to subscribe to the Washington Post and to The New York Times, but dropped my subscriptions due to their editorial decisions.

Now I subscribe to these sources:

The Boston Globe (good, but a little too local in its focus)

The Atlantic (very good, with an in-depth reporting style I thought was gone forever)

The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (a local paper, which leans very much to the right, but at least seems sane, except for the letters to the editor section and an occasional editorial)

I also read a local free paper, The Fayetteville Flyer, which covers local events like council meetings and festivals and buildings applications. And I get some of my news through BlueSky -- not that they do reporting, but usually the news hits there first and then I can look to see what the AP site says, or the Globe. And I pick up some news from various blogs, and then do the same search.

Occasionally I will watch a segment from a television news station on YouTube, but these are so annoyingly vapid that I usually click away after a few minutes. 

If you can only have one news source, I recommend The Atlantic. Well worth the subscription fee.

*I'm not a television snob, honest. We watch TV shows -- we're watching the Pitt right now -- but we stream them. I grew up in a house where the TV was on all the time, and usually three televisions, all on at the same time, all turned up loud. When I moved into my own place and first experienced life without the racket of television, I was in paradise. So first we kept the TV in a little room of its own, and then we kept it in the closet and only brought it out to watch movies, and now we don't have one at all. It's wonderful.