What's the best newspaper in the U.S. today?

[Stoic]

I already dropped my Washington Post subscription and am considering dropping the Baltimore Sun (really, can the daily get any thinner?). As for the New York Times, I'd like to take their editorial board out and beat them with several sticks. I used to LOVE reading my daily and Sunday papers but they've become so.....pathetic.

What's the best newspaper left in America today?

[ZombieHorde]

1. The Independent.

[nichomachus]

2. Newspaper have become like presidential candidates

You have to choose the "least worst" -- you never get a chance to get "the best"

[MNDemNY]

3. Despite your misgivings, it is , by far, the NYTimes.

[Kolesar]

9. NY Times is best for climate protection coverage :)

[EFerrari]

10. Why? The writing may be a little better in general but they're not more reliable

as far as reporting goes than some other papers. Their editorial page gets more names maybe.

The only "by far" area I can think of is their book review section. :shrug:

[MNDemNY]

15. I feel they are more reliable, and if you read deep,

they are, more often then not, well in front of other media.

[EFerrari]

16. I've found their reporting circling the drain too often in the last few years

to feel that about them any more and I'm not meaning their WMD reporting alone but a host of other things, too. Maybe I'm being unreasonable but, for example, Scott Shane's last piece on Ivins/anthrax had a bunch of factual errors in it -- and he's one of my favorite reporters. Yesterday they published a Simon Romero article and he's an infamous hack. The last time there was a referendum in Venezuela, the NYTs propagated the falsehood that there would be no election monitors. It went all over the country as gospel, just as their State Department source intended.

All papers contain errors and stories are always in progress but that being said, I miss the days when I could just read the NYTs and not have to fact check their fact checking.

[MNDemNY]

17. One should "fact check" any and all media.

If that is your tipping point, good luck.

[EFerrari]

4. I don't even have a favorite paper any more but only some favorite reporters.

We used to take two papers, too. :(

[mrsadm]

5. How about the Christian Science Monitor?

I don't subscribe myself because they are infuriatingly fair in representing both sides, but they are well respected as a news source. They will soon no longer be in print; only on the web.

[4 t 4]

6. ask Sarah

[TechBear_Seattle]

7. This would be my choice, too

I'm saddened that it is going paperless, though.

[JVS]

8. That one about horse races

[NYC_SKP]

11. The Santa Cruz Comic News...

http://thecomicnews.com/

[begin_within]

12. The Progressive Populist

http://populist.com/

[LeftHander]

13. the Onion nt

[Dawgs]

14. Toledo Blade

:hi: