Whose news? Well, we have Google with robot searches and algorithms to select new stories. I go to google because it is quick and it is built into my browser. Because it is automatic, not human generated, I feel like I know how to "play" my searches to get the edge I want. Then there is Yahoo, with its human editors. Personally, I think the Yahoo news page is ugly, so I use it less than Google. I wonder how valid aesthetics is as a guide to getting briefed on news. CNN and MSNBC sites are even uglier than Yahoo's and to me, they have the stigma of television news which obviously skews to the visual and the what is changing, rather than what might be news, but lacking visual components. My eighty year old mother likes to get "talking head" news from the experts or pundits and newscasters. I like to multi-task, so news I have to watch seems too slow for me. When I am online, I am reading (the average human reads 5 times as fast as the average human can speak-- do the math on how much news ground you can cover if you are reading vs. listening) and I have the ability to have multiple windows open, I can be listening to an audio stream and even talking on the phone. Additionally, MAGNIFIES has the corporate taint, because their news might be dictated either by an advertiser's wishes or they might shilling for other companies in their corporate silo (think news about Universal amusement parks.) I like the idea that a robot/agent scours many sites, leaving it to me to compare and contrast their quality and meaning. I can triangulate the truth of stories and make my own meaning mosaic* without newsprint. These days it is the second day stories with detail and nuance that make me read the paper newspaper. The headline stories are oldhat by the time the paper hits my front-yard at 4 A.M. I agree with this WSJ story about how we get our news now. WSJ.com - Yahoo 'Hybrid' Now Dominates News Web Sites * [old-fashioned link] McLuhan states, "With the speed-up of printing and news-gathering, this mosaic form has become the dominant aspect of human association; for the mosaic form means...participation in process." [7] Just as the newspaper is a collaboration of disparate sections, people, ideas, and writing/reporting styles, so are the people that read and use them. from http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/mitchell/glossary2004/newspaper.htm