Decent news site?

[Hawkmoon]

Until today, I had my home page set for AT&T's web site. Not the corporate one, the one with news, etc. Well, as is always the way with the Internet, AT&T "improved" their web page. I HATE the new one. It's busy, cluttered, chock full of stuff that is of no use or interest to me -- and does not have a link to current U.S. news.

I tried CNN ... horrible. More horrible-er than I even remembered. They must have "improved" theirs since I last looked at it, too.

So what's out there that I can set so that I see a summary of current news stories when I fire up the browser, and not a lot of entertainment news, advertising, and other assorted dreck?

[Brad Johnson]

I stopped using a news site as my home page because they ALL have the new clutter-fied look, sometimes taking a bit to load because of all the crap they pile on.  I have mine go to plain old Google, making my choice from there.

Brad

[Ben]

Same as Brad. I like to read FoxNews, but I hate going to their site -- way too much animated crap going on, and I have to switch Firefox to an IE rendering engine to read stuff right. Their mobi news site is actually really nicely setup.

I have various news feeds, stocks, weather, etc. setup in My Yahoo, and I really like the simple setup and layout, but they don't have all the news sources I like. If they did, that would be my main page instead of Google.

[GigaBuist]

I start at fark.com and work out from there.  But I don't rely on that for serious news, really.  I get all my gun and politics stuff from an RSS reader that crawls interesting blogs and hit up a local news site (mlive.com) for the rest.

http://news.google.com might give you what you want.  You can remove all the entertainment and sports crap from it, tell it where to put US news, how many articles you want to see, etc.

[sanglant]

tried fox? a link to an rss feed is interesting, it's what i use now. you click it and it opens like a folder of links/headlines that update every 15 min or so. bloomburg used to have a good page. /. if you want geek news.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/
bookmark a google news search for "current"? or this
straight to the inflated head?(or should that be whitehouse.gov?[lol now that was a lowroad and very funny typo, pity no one got to see it.])
news from the front lines.
always good for a laugh, well sometimes you want to cry.

the company that inspired tomorrow never dies.(prolly not but it was funny.)
ka-BOOM!

[taurusowner]

Drudge?

[vaskidmark]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index

News from all over, and all over the political map.

stay safe.

[RocketMan]

I used to like FoxNews, but like Ben found, they have added massive clutter to their site that causes slow loading even with broadband.  To add insult to injury, they have more bad story links than in the past.

[S. Williamson]

http://www.theonion.com/  

Thought this was... awesome.  http://www.theonion.com/articles/white-house-jester-beheaded-for-making-fun-of-soar,17495/ 

[Marnoot]

I used to like FoxNews, but like Ben found, they have added massive clutter to their site that causes slow loading even with broadband.  To add insult to injury, they have more bad story links than in the past.

Ditto. FoxNews.com is more and more just a trashy online tabloid.

[roo_ster]

Drudge has all the feeds and is the least annoying aggregation web site out there.

As has been stated above, the MSM news sites are awful to look at.

[eyebrows]

Drudge is my home page on the blackberry and on my home PC it's my own site but Drudge is where I usually start the nights reading.

[HankB]

Drudge and World Net Daily. (But be aware, WND ought not be regarded as 100% accurate all the time . . . i.e., don't believe everything they write just because you happen to like their spin.)

[drewtam]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/

Very good at catching the new and interesting stories before big media gets it wrong.

[lupinus]

If you want good headline type stuff without having to go through a cluttered page, why not work off an RSS feed?

I know in firefox you can create a live bookmark fairly simply.

Go to your favorite news site, find the link to the RSS feeds (normally at the bottom) or click on the little orange icon in the address bar, and add the bookmark (I prefer to the bookmark toolbar).

Quick and easy browsing of headlines from your preferred news source and you can then make the home page what ya like.

[Sergeant Bob]

If you like RSS, try using "Feedly". Create a magazine like start page, with whatever feeds you want.

Check out biggovernment.com for political news and muck raking.

[never_retreat]

http://www.infowars.com/

[Perd Hapley]

http://www.infowars.com/

Classic.

[seeker_two]

www.insideautomotive.com

Really good and somewhat balanced....and not just about the auto industry....

[DonTron]

+1 for BBC:   http://news.bbc.co.uk/ 

Also the International Herald Tribune:

http://global.nytimes.com/?iht

[Waitone]

Install a speed dialer, roll your own content and place on the speed dialer.  Then set you home page to the dialer.  Works for me.

[Ron]

MyYahoo is my homepage, I see breaking stories there when I log in.

For editorials I go to http://www.realclearpolitics.com/

[gunsmith]

I ( used to ) like drudge- its refreshing a million times a minute got to be too much, I'm trying to find an alt too.

[RocketMan]

FoxNews remodeled their site today.  It loads faster, looks cleaner.  Let's see if it lasts.
(Except for the damn pop-up that covers the whole front page for the first minute, bragging about their newly remodeled site.  I expect that will go away soon.)

[Ben]

(Except for the damn pop-up that covers the whole front page for the first minute, bragging about their newly remodeled site.  I expect that will go away soon.)

I saw that and hate those things with a passion. I hope it goes away, but I noticed over the last couple of weeks that those would randomly pop up when I went to the site. I hope that wasn't a test of something that's going to be a standard ad, or I'm never going to their website again.