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• Polls
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• Miscellany

Chicago

• Newspapers
  • Chicago Sun-Times [SunTimes.com]
  • Chicago Tribune [ChicagoTribune.com]
  • Chicago Reader [ChiReader.com]. Free alternative weekly. The best classifieds for housing in Chicago. Great restaurant finder too.
    • ChiReader.com/Movies. Theaters close to me:
      • City North 14. 2600 N. Western. An AMC branch.
      • Biograph. 2433 N. Lincoln
      • 3 Penny. 2424 N. Lincoln
      • Webster Place. 1471 W. Webster. A Loews branch.
      • MusicBoxTheatre.com. 'Chicago's year-round film festival'. 3733 N. Southport Ave. (773)871-6604.
• Radio
  • ChicagoPublicRadio.org. WBEZ, the Chicago branch of NPR.org (Nationa Public Radio).
• TV
  • ABCLocal.go.com/WLS. WLS TV, Channel 7, ABC.
  • CBS2Chicago.com. WBBM TV, Channel 2, CBS.
  • NBC5.com. WMAQ TV, Channel 5, NBC.
  • WTTW.com. WTTW TV, Channel 11, PBS.
  • WYCC.ccc.edu. WYCC TV, Channel 20, City Colleges of Chicago.

Newspapers

• US
  • Chicago.Tribune.com.
  • LATimes.com.
  • NYTimes.com.
  • USAToday.com.
  • WashingtonPost.com.
  • WSJ.com. The Wall Street Journal. (Not free)
    • OpinionJournal.com. Blog version.
• Non-US
  • Guardian.co.uk.
  • TheAge.com.au.
  • TheSun.co.uk. A fun British paper.
• List of links
  • Top 100 Newspapers. Google search for "top newspapers" will turn up many links like this.
  • NewsLink.org. "NewsLink Associates is an academic and professional research and consulting firm studying electronic publishing and visual journalism." Links to 100s of US and foreign papers and TV stations.
  • NewspaperIndex.com. 'easy access to major national and daily updated news sources from all over the world, whether you are journalist, researcher, online media designer, concerned traveler or student.'
  • OnlineNewspapers.com. Links to 1000s of world newspapers.
  • Online Foreign Newspapers by Title
  • 10 Best Foreign Newspapers (English)
• Miscellany
  • Newseum.org.
    • Today's newspaper front pages from all over the world.

Polls

• Gallup.com
• Zogby.com

TV

• ABCNews.go.com.
• CBC.ca. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
• CBSNews.com.
• CNN.com.
• CSpan.org.
• FoxNews.com.
• ITN.co.uk.
• MSNBC.com.
• News.BBC.co.uk. British Broadcasting Company. Since 1922.
• PBS.org/NewsHour.

Miscellany

• AlterNet.org. "AlterNet.org is a project of the Independent Media Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism."
• ATSNN.com. Above Top Secret News Network. 2004-01-19
• AxisOfLogic.com.
• ALDaily.com. Arts & Letters Daily.
• AlterNet.org. "a project of the Independent Media Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism."
• AP.org. Associated Press. News since 1848.
• ArtsJournal.com.
• BusinessDailyReview.com.
• CEOExpress.com. "designed to be the executive's interface to the Internet".
• DisInfo.com. Alternative and underground news.
• DrudgeReport.com. Cutting edge news bordering gossip. His right-wing slant has been showing more and more.
• Economist.com.  "...analysis of world business and current affairs, providing authoritative insight and opinion on international news, world politics, business, finance, science and technology, as well as overviews of cultural trends and regular industry, business and country surveys."
• Fair [fair.org]. "the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986".
• FreePress.net. 'Free Press is a non-profit organization working to involve the public in media policymaking and to craft policies for a more democratic media system.'
• InTheseTimes.com. ' a national, biweekly magazine of news and opinion published in Chicago. For 27 years, In These Times has provided groundbreaking coverage of the labor movement, environment, feminism, grassroots politics, minority communities and the media.' [2004-06]
• Janes.com. "The world's foremost civilian authority on Military Intelligence." 2004-01-19
• MediaTransparency.org. Following 'the money behind the media'.
• Military.com
• MindFully.org. 'The goal of mindfully.org is to provide useful information to people who would not obtain this information otherwise. Mindfully.org is to be used as a nonprofit research tool. We are located in the San Francisco Bay Area, but attempt to maintain a broad focus on the world.'
• News.Google.com.
• Newsmap [marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm]. This is a news site that shows Google news using treemap technology. In this case:
  • Each rectangle is a link to a news story.
  • Stories in the same category are grouped together and share the same hue.
  • Older stories are darker, newer stories are brigther
  • Stories that are ranked higher in Google are larger.
• News of the Weird. By Chuck Shepard. Collections of actual but odd news stories.
• newsvine.com. Like a wiki or public blog for news stories.
• Princeton.edu/Siteware/NewsEvents.shtml.
• PropagandaMatrix.com
• Reuters.com. News since 1851.
• Salon.com. Opinion articles.
• Stats.org. 'we check out the facts and figures behind the news'
• Stripes.com. "Stars and Stripes got its start as a newspaper for Union troops during the Civil War. It resumed publication during World War I and World War II, and has been published continuously since 1942 in Europe and 1945 in the Pacific."
• TerraWar.com. "Your portal to war on earth". With headlines from SpaceDaily and TerraDaily.
  • MarsDaily.com. "Your portal to mars".
  • SpaceDaily.com. "Your portal to space".
  • SpaceMart.com. "Your space business portal".
  • Space-Travel.com. "Your portal to space flight".
  • SpaceWar.com.
  • TerraDaily.com. "Your portal to earth". Focus on environment and natural disasters.
• TheNation.com. "The Nation will not be the organ of any party, sect, or body. It will, on the contrary, make an earnest effort to bring to the discussion of political and social questions a really critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is marred." -from The Nation's founding prospectus, 1865
• TheOnion.com. Fake news.
• trendite.com. See what people are searching for the most on Google or Yahoo on a given date.
• Voice of America [voanews.com]. " The Voice of America, which first went on the air in 1942, is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA broadcasts more than 1,000 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of more than 115 million people."
• Wired.com. Wired News. On tech life.
• UPI.com. United Press International. News since 1907.

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