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I am uncertain if this is the correct place for this question, so mods, please move as needed.
I wonder: where do you check up on current events? I find the US media so biased that I can hardly stand to read anything put out by any of the major news sources, let alone watch any of the video. So where does one go to read about what is happening in the world, especially from a Catholic perspective? I tend to go to the BBC World website in the hope that news about events in the US, and news in general, is slightly less biased than domestic media, and there seems to be slightly more emphasis on facts/less emphasis on sensationalism in the articles I read there.
I ask not only for myself, but because I want to include more current events in our school day but I find it difficult to find something suitable for my kiddos to read/hear/see.
I am looking primarily for on-line sources, though if there is a good print media choice I am not adverse to subscribing.
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I don't know if this something you would like or not.
I have used My Catholic in the past. I liked that you can customize it.
I should really go back to using it myself.
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We've subscribed to Zenit for Catholic news. I also like the BBC. In the car we do listen to NPR, because our favorite community-radio station is in that network . . . good talking points and teachable moments arise often, including how to see through journalistic bias.
My 16-year-old, who's been news-savvy pretty much since he could walk ("I know who NPR wants to win this election," he told us during the 2004 election, when he was about six), regularly reads Al-Jazeera's blog in English to find out what's happening in the Middle East. "They know the Middle East because they ARE the Middle East," he says. He also subscribes to Foreign Policy magazine. This would be the current-events-junkie approach . . .
So I guess the short answer would be that if we want to know what's going on in the world, we ask the 16-year-old. He generally seems to know. :)
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Oh, I wanted to add that when we lived in England, we regularly bought three newspapers at a time: The Telegraph, which is conservative; The Guardian, which is left-wing; and usually The Times, because . . . it's the Times, I guess. Kind of left-wingy but not like The Guardian.
I figured that by the time I'd read all three papers, I'd have some small clue about what was actually happening.
I don't watch tv news, but in reading around the net for news, I tend to follow that basic guideline -- read as many different representations as possible, and figure I still don't really know that much.
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Thanks, ladies! I guess I was hoping for a one-stop news source, but reading several accounts appears to be the way to go.
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This is how I feel. I find it so frustrating that journalism has strayed from reporting facts. I keep thinking of my college journalism professor and what kind of grades I would have gotten for the kind of reporting I so often read. 
Thanks for the link Janine! I need to look into it further, but have been using it without customizing for now.
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I use Twitter, especially this list. I'm not sure if you can see the list if you aren't on Twitter, but it might be worth signing in to check it out. It lists 43 of the top news sources and feeds their headlines.
For example, I just clicked on the list and saw a link to this topic from NBC News posted 5 minutes ago: LISTEN: Supreme Court arguments over whether Obamacare violates employers’ religious freedom http://nbcnews.to/1lbsKzT
Next, I copy the topic into Google search with the added word "Catholic" to produce these search results.
From there I chose this from Fox News..
Next, I googled the same title but replaced "Catholic" with "Vatican" which lead me to another list and I chose this one, Obama Assures Vatican That Obamacare Protects Religious Freedom.
You get the idea! All of this took me less than 10 minutes 
And a side note, stats show that a large percentage (at least 30%) of young adults are using Twitter to receive their news.
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Twitter is a really good source -- I haven't been on in a while, but that is one thing I like about it. I'm subscribed to a spectrum of news outlets -- the NY Times, various Catholic sources, the Guardian, the Telegraph (my opposite-pole English papers), NPR . . . It is easy to scroll down, read headlines to get a sense of the big picture, then choose articles to read in more depth (very like how I read the physical newspaper).
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Yes, what Sally said!
For those new to Twitter, you can:
Follow news sources and have them come right to your "Home" feed.
And/or
You can "List" your favorite news sources. This is especially helpful if you have a large Home feed so that it doesn't get mixed up with everything else.
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You can follow other peoples' Lists, like the one I linked to.
Twitter can be a little confusing up front, not too bad!, and I'm glad to help get anyone started if you're interested.
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Facebook 
Whether it's politics or weather or whatever, my friends are involved enough that I hear what I need. And Catholic enough that I get that angle too. And for "major" things I hear faster through FB than anywhere else, often seconds or minutes after it happens. Keeps me off news sites in general, where I would just get overwhelmed and worry too much.
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