Where do you get your news on Iraq?

[Farnan]

Other. I get it straight from the horse's mouth, Iraq War Veterans...

[Tom Paine]

Gotta make this multiple choice, I use the BBC and the Guardian, but only when I can't avoid it or when its not about an IED exploding (you know... when its news, rather than human interest 'cos its a British soldier who died, oh noes....) Overall more BBC than Guardian I guess, though.

[the_mango55]

CNN most of the time.

I haven't watched much news lately though.

You should add "The Daily Show" as a poll option.

[Saladin45]

I have Arabic TV. So I get it straight from Aljazeera if I haven't seen it on CNN or something.

[Black Francis]

I have my homepage set to BBC Europe.

My obsessive relationship with the BBC began at university where I would stay up all night thanks to insomnia watching BBC News 24. I now listen to BBC radio 4 (politics and intellectual debate) or 3 (classical music) constantly.

I take a lot of the BBC reports with a pinch of salt as they tend to be a little to the left of centre politically.

[MoROmeTe]

The BBC... But I tend to seek other angles on CNN or wherever the browser takes me.

BBC - so slightly to the left of center you can't even brand it leftist... (Damn me, I am up at 02.33 in the morning writing copy for my boss and when I read the post above this poped into my head. Just had to share it with everybody...)

[Black Francis]

Did anybody else hear that during the 2nd Invasion of Iraq the UN switched from having CNN as the news channel they have piped in by default to the BBC?

[jankren]

Im suprised no one picks Fox Jews .. I mean ... News

[the_mango55]

I think you mean Faux News

[Miraj]

I picked BBC. Though I think the CBC (canada) is an excellent source of news, they have some pretty awsome BBC style enlightening documentaries too.

American news has got to be the worst, it ranges from far right propaganda to right of centre fence-sitting. Frankly I don't have a clue where this "liberal media" nonsense comes from. I have MSNBC, FOX, CNN and ABC and have never noticed any liberal-ness and nothing remotely lefist.

[Da Skinna]

BBC, Al Jazeera, CNN, and never FOX....

I chose Al Jazeera though, because I usually find them to have journalists and experts on the far sides of each issue in Iraq, so I usually take the middle ground after reading from them.

For perspective, Al Jazeera, for the factual news, BBC and CNN, yeah yeah.

[Miraj]

Al Jazeera often gets bad rap in the west because of its emphasis on looking at the news in an Arab perspective. But is this a crime? Why can't Arabs look at things with their people and self-interest in mind?

Also, Al-Jazeera is considerably more reliable and moderate than Fox news. If any of you have ever watched Al Jazeera it has many talk shows that regularly have pro-americans, feminists, atheists and shias on the show - something which is astronomically tolerant compared to the other Arab media.

Finally, Al-Jazeera has no offending 'figure' that's remotely similar to trash like O'Reilly or Glen Beck.

[turtle]

I like Democracy Now. They seem to be pretty accurate when I compare them to other sources. It is on the Free Speach Television channel. Other than that, I check out almost all the networks online, just to get more than one tv networks point of view.

[Last Roman]

choose other, either from the local paper or pbs news on tv (which is kinda boring but very non-sensationalist)

[Ahiga]

MSNBC out of a force of habit, but I've been weaned off of tuning into it except for Hardball. I'd like to see Al jazeera in the US, but it's not on any cable providers yet I think. The BBC for me tends to be -too- dry, kind of the polar opposite of say, Fox news.

[Hansa]

Does one have to get it from one source? Lets see. NYTimes, BBC, TWC, NRK, CNN, Aftenposten, Bergens Tidende, Time, The Economist, Klassekampen, etc (no particular order), know one Iraq vet, but he hasn't been there since 2004, so he hardly has any news to come with. Good perspectives on the conflict though.

[Siblesz]

I used to get it from BBC, but the BBC is banned here in China.

Now I view MSNBC. I find that MSNBC usually has some great articles and it's sometimes more sober about touchy issues than BBC.

[MaximiIian]

Eh. I don't really keep track of it. Hell, I don't even care about it anymore, it's dragged on so long.
If I hear anything about it, I'll probably find it on BBC.com or MSNBC.

[aorz]

My cousins in Iraq and I talk to him on instant message weekly, generally a pretty good source. Also I like BBC, Colbert Report, and my local newspaper.

[Caelius]

CNN, BBC, MSNBC, ABC, CBC, NY Times, Newsweek, various US Armed Forces Dispatchs I get, and from messages sent to me from friends and my cousin.