In Sweden 
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1. Do you primarily read or watch?
I scan the largest Swedish morning paper most mornings, and watch SVT or listen to SR at least 4 times a week. (Both the latter are equivalent to the BBC, SVT on TV and SR on radio)
2. Everybody may fudge on the question, but do you think that show/site/paper/mag/etc is biased or reasonably fair?
Yes, otherwise I wouldn't follow them as much.
3. Do you find yourself reading/watching things that fit your view, or do you try to pick other sources to make yourself read/watch something you find less pleasant (be honest!
)?
)?The morning paper editorials are quite a bit further right than I am (on a Swedish scale). The broadcast sources don't really have much bias at all.
4. Other than read and find out, do you contribute comments to websites (having to do with news, political debates, etc- not exactly talking youtube here)?
Rarely
5. Do you typically read the comments, regardless of whether you participate? While we're on the subject, can you name a site where one can generally find semi-reasonable comments?
A bit more often, and most of the time comments on DN are quite reasonable (although in Swedish, so not much use to you
). Sometimes the wackos show up even there, though. Most recently this happened the other day, on an opinion piece on the issue of whether parental leave should be tied to each parent or not. Plenty of people argued that the lesser state involvement would be to leave it up to families, even though the authors destroyed exactly that argument through a comparison with sick leave, which is run similarly.