Where do you get your info from?

[Drake Tungsten]

he don't know what he's getting into...

On the contrary, I think he does. He has no intention of being a serious rapper. He just want to play up the whole gay angle and sell some records to white folks who figure they can punch both their "I respect blacks" and "I respect gays" ticket with one purchase. Never underestimate the economic opportunities available in today's diversity obsessed society.

[Q Classic]

this is the list i go through regularly. opera is wonderful, since it allows me to open all the links in a certain folder: guess which ones are in those folders...
i also don't read every article on those sites, just ones that interest me.

arts and letters daily (daily)
CNN.com Asia (daily)
FOXNews.com (daily)
Google News (daily)
MSNBC/Newsweek (3+ times / week)
Slashdot (daily)
The New York Times (daily)
Wired News (daily)
BBC News (3+ times / week)
The Irish Times (3+ times / week)
Times Online (3+ times / week)
Reuters (3+ times / week)
Chicago Tribune (3+ times / week)
washingtonpost.com (3+ times / week)
Los Angeles Times (3+ times / week)
WSJ.com - U.S. Home (3+ times / week)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (3+ times / week)
osnews.com (daily)
anandtech (daily)
ars technica (daily)

occasional sites for further news on interesting japanese news:
asahi shinbun
yomiuri shinbun
mainichi

occasional sites for further news on interesting korean news:
joongang ilbo
dong-a ilbo
chosun ilbo
korea herald
hangook ilbo

occasional sites when i want to test my german skills:
deutsche welle
die welt
spiegel

periodicals i frequent, usually on a weekly basis:
scientific american
popular science
businessweek
the economist
timeasia

and no, usually i have nothing better to do.

[cinch]

I try to keep it simple. I get info regularly from:

cbc.ca
The Edmonton Sun

and I get info from time to time from:

CNN
GlobalNews
CTV

Fantastic.

[Al B. Sure!]

Drake:

sell some records to white folks who figure they can punch both their "I respect blacks" and "I respect gays" ticket with one purchase.

damn white people are crazy but yeah i do think he's just having a gimmick to get him some attention though i'm not sure where this attention is at. i never heard of him and i just asked two people and they never did either... and i didnt ask, do you know who Caushun is? i asked them if they ever heard of any gay rapper and neither did. he appears unknown in philly though very well known by ABCNEWS and gay news sources.

damn Q Cubed, you a news buff or something... thats an amazing array of sources even in different languages... but whats with the Atlanta Journal? why that paper?

[Q Classic]

damn Q Cubed, you a news buff or something...

yes.

thats an amazing array of sources even in different languages...

i actually only read the korean and german ones in korean and german (when i can. sometimes i switch to english because i read faster in english). i don't know enough kanji to be literate in japanese, so i read that in english as well. i figure it's better to have news sources near where the news occurs: korean outlets will naturally be better for finding news about say, the taegu subway disaster than say, the la times.

but whats with the Atlanta Journal? why that paper?

born and raised in atlanta. hometown loyalty. and online, i don't have to deal with all the ****ty ads that the print version has.

[Drake Tungsten]

damn white people are crazy

Only some of us do crazy **** like that.

[DRoseDARs]

Internet:
Yahoo! (news blurbs); CNN; Mother Jones

TV:
Riiight... *Sigh*
CNN; PBS; MSNBC (sometimes tolerable...); Faux News (...most times not); Comedy Central (John Stewart...who else? ); Tech TV

Print Media:
Reno-Gazette Journal (subpar); Reno News & Review (pretty small; smutty personals in the back; journalism not nearly as dull as in the RGJ)

[Victor Galis]

I tend to get my news from:

http://news.bbc.co.uk - the BBC
http://www.nytimes.com - the New York Times
http://www.economist.com - the Economist (had a subscription for awhile too, but didn't always have time to read it)
http://www.adevarulonline.ro - Adevarul (one of Romania's main newspapers)
http://www.guardian.co.uk - the Guardian

I tend to get a laugh from:

http://www.theonion.com - The Onion
http://english.pravda.ru - Pravda... ah, no better source for a good laugh or a nice left-wing rant more radical than I would seriously write. And their "science" section has stories that would make good premises for wierd science fiction stories

I occassionally read:

http://www.welt.de - Die Welt

[DanielXY]

I just go on poly ot. When something of interest happens you can read it here and get the sources listed if you want to read more + usually some ppl. debating about it. So you got all the info and viewpoints you need

[st_swithin]

BBC, CNN, /., Fatbabies, Rotten.com.

Oh yeah, and those funny little voices in my head. They have the best stories of ALL!

[Makeo]

https://www.apolyton.net/forums

[Immortal Wombat]

Poly and/or Counterglow link everything of interest eventually. I don't usually need anywhere else.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
Come on now, he hasn't been doing anything wrong on this forum and you just attacked him...

What attack? Fez is the BAM man, it's forum-wide knowledge. Just look at the thread when he was arguing about the French and German economies with el freako. It's become his badge!

AS:

Typical. You asked, I provided. Considering he's been featured on ABC News, in the New York Times and other major news and entertainment outlets, I have demonstrated I bull**** you not. He's certainly more famous than you are, ain't he? Whether or not you and your philly friends have heard of him is irrelevant, since the proof of his notoriety is demonstrated. I said nothing as to his particular talents as a rap artist (like I could judge). But I did say, in the other thread, he was becoming famous. Considering the number of awful rap artists out there who are famous (according to my rap-loving friends), Caushun would not be unique were he to be famous sans great talent.

I did provide a link to a site which promoted plenty of other gay rap and hip-hop artists, though they aren't as well-known. They exist, and are becoming a rather thriving community, by the look of it.

At any rate, you started the thread on the premise I was bull****ting you. I have shown I was not. Your apology will be accepted whenever you offer it.

[DaShi]

I have a small transceiver implanted into my brain that gives me all my information.

[PLATO]

Albert said:

made it sound like he just quoted from some odd ass source that didn't know **** about anything...

Boris replied:

http://www.thegayrapper.com/main.html

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/R...acho030619.htm

http://www.iht.com/articles/94195.html

http://www.gayhiphop.com/main.html

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet...?query=homo+hop

followed by:

At any rate, you started the thread on the premise I was bull****ting you. I have shown I was not. Your apology will be accepted whenever you offer it.

*Plato sits back and waits to see if Albert can step up and do the right thing *