How do you keep up with the latest news and current affairs?

I do my best to keep up .... good news about us winning the bid to hold Euro 96, don't you think. 

To be honest I rarely read the news today then again I sometimes do and think would you believe it four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire, and though the holes were rather small, they had to count them all. Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.

[I always wonder when my Mac says it supports 10,241,280 colours if I should set aside a day to count them to make sure they all there]

Most of the news is bad news, full of misery and sad things - so I prefer to just go out and pedestrianise the high street. The world will still be here long after I'm not and I'm sure it is in very good hands. But then as we have only lived on earth, we have never seen the promise of a thousand suns that lie beyond here. 

Peter you can always use http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ to keep current. 

All the best, Guy 

[Not looking forward to 5th November]. 

I was a subscriber to the digital edition of The Times and ST for a year. Realised then that  most of it was available free through other newspapers websites. I tend to listen to a bit of Radio 4 in the mornings. I also have BBC News24, Sky news, Guardian and Independent apps on the iPhone and iPad. That's what I call FREEdom of information!

KR

Tony

I hope you escape the bonfire for another year! As for me it's my birthday! Happy memories of childhood times with box after box of fireworks brought over by visiting relatives. Enough to stock a small armoury!

Best,

Peter

'The World Tonight with Robin Lustig'....unbeatable!  G

Tony,

Sounds lke you must be very well informed!

Best,

Peter

Peter,

Let's just say I like to know what's happening in the world and keep my neurons happy and moving!

KR

Tony

A daily newspaper. Lifelong habit I got from parents.

I have had a newspaper almost every single day since I was a student. It comes in an iPad version but I rarely use it.

I never watch TV news, indeed almost never watch TV apart from bits of sport.

I have stopped my habit of  watching TV for a long time starting from the time I was living in Zurich and Tokyo because I did not speak the native languages fluently (lazy me!!!).

Now I rely on digital publication of NYTimes and WSJ for casual readings, the Economist for serious reading. BBC website is also pretty good and it is free wherever you are.

BBC website suffices.

BBC website is an excellent news website, but it somehow lacks commentaries, analyses, in-depth interpreted views of the world affairs.

Surely we get enough of that on Padded Cell??

don, overcast downtown York

Radio 4 for the first news at 6am, then the BBC website during the day. It is quicker that the newspapers! I do read the papers at the weekend which have a bit more time to reflect and comment as do I! (But my family has learnt just to walk away when I do.......)

BBC radio; bbc internet.

I get all my news from The Onion....

http://www.theonion.com/

I genreally listen to Radio 4 between 07:15 and 08:00  in the car whilst driving to work, and again in the evening on the return. Bo you need a licence for a car radio if you don't have a TV licence ?

I have a quick look at the BBC website in the evening and that's about it.

If there is anything interesting, I probably follow it up via Google.

Cheers

Don

Radio NZ.

BBC World (radio)

The (Christchurch) Press.

The Colbert Report/The Daily Show.

Huffington Post.

TMZ.

NME Twitter feed

Pitchfork

Many thanks to everyone for all the replies.

It seems the internet and radio are the most popular ways of staying informed these days, with newspapers and TV taking a bit of a backseat. More or less what I expected I suppose.

Nothing beats having a good old-fashioned newspaper to lose oneself in though IMO. I guess though that the majority of people are just too busy these days to devote the time to it. Or perhaps newspapers these days are too full of superfluous information.When I come to think of it there is an awful lot of "padding" in a typical daily newspaper that is really of very little interest. I suppose it depends on whether you just want it to stay informed or whether you consider it a source of entertainment as well.....

Peter

Telegraph online gives a good account of the immediate. Obviously the BBC Radio Four news at 6 pm and midnight gives something in depth, and generally slightly left learning, and if I want something to read then the Telegraph and the Guardian give [between them] something that tends to pan out right.

ATB from George

Wall St Journal daily

Three on-line newspapers/news services daily

Economist weekly

PBS News hour nightly

NY Times couple times a week.

The i newspaper is 20p Mon-Fri and 30p on Sat.

Chris

The Telegraph and Guardian online are free. Priceless as is the BBC ...

ATB from George

I'm a Radio 4 junkie. News, current affairs and so much more.

I don't think I can sum it up any better than Damon Albarn.

My entire life has been supplemented by Radio Four, from hearing my mum tuning in to the Archers to my anxious middle-aged sleeplessness being calmed by night-time radio. I am Radio Four and Radio Four is me. And when the time comes, I want it piped into my coffin.

Certainly appeals more than the angry paranoid ignorance the media prefer.

I have found everyone's replies fascinating so many thanks to all of you.

My feeling is that I'll opt for a daily update on the BBC site and maybe an on-line newspaper, and I might buy a newspaper on Saturdays only.

Just to add an extra dimension - how do people feel about the Sunday newspapers? When I was at work full time I used to love to lose myself in the Sunday paper - absolute bliss. Now I'm not so sure - they seem full of junk and meaningless (to me) celebrity clap-trap. Expensive as well with all those glossy inserts. Does anyone still bother with them?

Peter

BBC (radio, TV and web) for me, supplemented by Channel 4 News, plus a range of papers - Mail, Mirror, Guardian, FT, Tele, NYT, sometimes the Sun and Indy. But then again I was a journalist for almost 20 years (and I still dabble part time).

Used to also read The Economist, but I rather wonder if a publication that runs all its articles without bylines can really be trusted.