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Latest post on 17 March 2011 - 17:01

Where do you source your news, has your time spent keeping up increased in recent months? What are the biggest news stories you are currently following? Do you just rely on the local media for your view of world news?

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Latest post on 17 March 2011 - 18:15

Watch the news on TV (in the morning and the evening if im home), read/scan news online, addicted to twitter and have my google alerts setup to receive hot topics I'm interested in. Also like to watch programs like Hard Talk, the colbert report (for a laugh),.. Current topics im interested in: Japan, Libya, Bahrain, Syria (and other countries currently havin uprisings), Christchurch EQ, Wikileaks latest, Middle East conflict, global economy, stock prices and oil prices, etc. Watch some local tv networks of my home country, AlJazeera, BBC, CNN, euronews (sometimes). Scan local papers in dubai (arabian business, GN,7 days, the national) and I also check these online along with stuff.co.nz and the guardian and some news blogs. I obviously dont read all these sources every day, i might focus on one or the other depending on what's hot in that period of time..But I must say that Twitter is amazing

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Latest post on 17 March 2011 - 18:02

When in Dubai, I had [i'>The Guardian[/i'> and [i'>The National[/i'> delivered every day, and [i'>The Observer[/i'> on Sundays, as well as reading the [i'>Irish Times[/i'> and listening to BBC radio online. Now I'm back in the UK, with the usual news outlets, I still read [i'>The National[/i'> and [i'>Gulf News[/i'> most days online, as well as snooping around occasionally on EW to see what people are saying about Bahrain, Oman etc. I've never considered Twitter - I know I'm being unfair, but I tend to regard it as just full of Stephen Fry mouthing off about things, though I realise it's becoming an important way of hearing breaking news on the ground.

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Latest post on 17 March 2011 - 17:58

zero minutes :\:

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Latest post on 17 March 2011 - 17:58

zero minutes

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Latest post on 17 March 2011 - 17:52

I'm not at the stage yet where I can quite trust twitter updates, despite there obviously being real 'breaking news' and live updates from the 'service'. And while I will admit that there's an argument against relying on the view of journalists alone these days, I'm still a bit old-fashioned; I want my news to come from qualified sources, if that makes sense. I'm sure I'll get with the program sometime [!!'> -- I do have a Twitter account -- but for now, I'm happy with what I'm being fed. :) Yes re twitter, although al lot of the news reporters are now using twitter where media is blacked out. I'm watching twitter posts via google live feed on a subject.

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Latest post on 17 March 2011 - 17:51

Hmm, well i * must check* all news/twitter/livefeeds on Bahrain, Japan, Libya presently. Economy, world, esp US dollar, Oil price and then the racing. Your list is about the same as mine... except for racing That's for my betting sin.

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Latest post on 17 March 2011 - 17:50

I'm not at the stage yet where I can quite trust twitter updates, despite there obviously being real 'breaking news' and live updates from the 'service'. And while I will admit that there's an argument against relying on the view of journalists alone these days, I'm still a bit old-fashioned; I want my news to come from qualified sources, if that makes sense. I'm sure I'll get with the program sometime [!!'> -- I do have a Twitter account -- but for now, I'm happy with what I'm being fed. :)

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Latest post on 17 March 2011 - 17:50

Hmm, well i * must check* all news/twitter/livefeeds on Bahrain, Japan, Libya presently. Economy, world, esp US dollar, Oil price and then the racing. Your list is about the same as mine... except for racing

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Latest post on 17 March 2011 - 17:49

Thanks AS, do you follow any twitter on a subject at all? I don't use twitter, as I haven't figured out how to use it so my account is idol. I do however go onto google and check their live feeds if there's something going on that I want to get information about. I was checking the live feeds for the situation in the middle east recently.

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Latest post on 17 March 2011 - 17:45

Hmm, well i * must check* all news/twitter/livefeeds on Bahrain, Japan, Libya presently. Economy, world, esp US dollar, Oil price and then the racing.

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Latest post on 17 March 2011 - 17:43

Now we are getting somewhere! So based on responses which stories are your *must check* presently? You mean what do I have 'searches' on or something like that? Welllll .... some of mine may sound 'light' but hey-ho, I generally get the news I need from 'Top Stories' on Google News or from doing that cover-to-cover thing I mentioned below. ;) I have alerts for: wallabies rugby, wasps rugby, cricket australia, dubai, wisconsin, nuclear japan, health insurance usa, bank bonus, wall street, booker prize, kindle, slow food and climate change. That's what I have right now anyway. ;) Sorry, forgot one: women rights . <em>edited by WaxMuch on 17/03/2011</em>

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Latest post on 17 March 2011 - 17:35

Now we are getting somewhere! So based on responses which stories are your *must check* presently?

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Latest post on 17 March 2011 - 17:33

I do neither, really, I tend to listen to the Beeb for my news. I also read BBC and CNN online, occasionally read 7 Days, look at the Grauniad and NYT online, but am in news fatigue phase at the mo. Husbad has Sky or Greek news on whenever he can. We should probably read local newspapers more. I find local radio news doesn't really cut it, though.

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Latest post on 17 March 2011 - 17:31

Is this a job interview? I'm a news fiend, but only [i'>watch[/i'> it in the morning or when there are big stories [like the crisis in Japan'>. I kick off with the Beeb to ease into the day, and then jump between CNN and Al Jazeera depending on my mood. I avoid Fox like the plague and only very very occasionally dip into Sky News [and only when there's a breaking story from the UK'>. I read the Torygraph cover to cover every day [buy it at the eye-watering sum of 17dhs from Spinneys'> and the Sunday Times on Sunday, and the Observer [when I can find it'>. I do NOT read the Daily Mail. Or the Sun. Or anything like that. Online, I go to SMH and The Age several times a day, and Google News even more regularly. I have Google alerts for issues/interests which I follow. I read Google 'Spotlight' for fun. I get NY Times and HuffPost alerts [I subscribe to NY Times online as well'>. For local news, I check out my 'Dubai' google alert pages, plus I also scan Gulf News and The National and Emirates 24/7, plus Arabian Business. I don't read 7Days.

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Latest post on 17 March 2011 - 17:31

Thanks AS, do you follow any twitter on a subject at all?

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Latest post on 17 March 2011 - 17:28

Oh, and MSN and Yahoo if anything pops up that grabs my interest, I tend to read it...

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Latest post on 17 March 2011 - 17:24

I usually read the news rather than watch it, and my local sources are 7days and The National, as well as a few articles that pop up online in the Gulf News.... Internationally though, I tend to follow the BBC as well as the SMH. I've been following the unrest in the ME as well as the Japan situation, to be honest I drift in and out of news reading/watching sometimes I follow it a lot, and other times I just can't be bothered! I like financial news though, find that very interesting... but I usually follow the financial news in oz, not so much here

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