There was a time when I didn't NEED to go elsewhere, because generally a story, ANY story, would "break" on the CMB long before it did anywhere else. Back when I was a bum there were many times when I'd turn on the network news at 5:30 and find myself thinking, Yeah, I've been arguing about this for hours already, and with people who shared all the facts and insights you are plus many you aren't. Often as not I'm at work when the evening news is on now, and I pretty much lost all faith in the major networks when they decided Katie Couric was a hard nosed journalist. Just because you have Cronkite introduce Americas Kid Sister doesn't make her his equal.

Mostly read these days, I think, usually to something linked here or something from a search prompted by something I read here. One of the things I still like about EVP is all the links to RCP and Political Wire stories. Occasionally I'll find myself at a NYT or similar link; just yesterday I was reading a CBS article about Levin predicting the demise of the filibuster doing to a showdown on the Senate floor (which is exceptionally lame, IMHO, but I'll try to avoid taking even sides one might not expect of me. ) I don't watch the News Hour as much anymore, partly because it keeps getting slowly drained of all substance, partly because I'm getting so disgusted and partly because I got used to it being opposite the Simpsons, which doesn't make me want to throw things as much.

Varies by source, but for the most part I do. Most of the bias I see is not in what they say but in what they DON'T say, and part of what I like/miss about the News Hour is that they used to tell me everything the other networks did plus a number of things they didn't.

I used to, to an extent; I still think Rather was set up (he did, after all, show the documents to Bush before he showed them to anyone else, and the response was basically that they couldn't prove them fake, which was magically done within hours of when he aired them. ) But even if you ARE very partisan, it's not smart, because then you're basically being told what you want to hear and end up blindsided by reality. I'd rather have all the data and form my own conclusions, especially if they're likely to be what a given news source would encourage anyway.

Not really. There aren't many other places that don't declare one topic or another off limits, or segregate religious and political discussion. There are also aren't as many with such diverse viewpoints. The ability to discuss even the most sensitive issues with people from every range and combination of political and other schools, in a civil yet candid way, is one of the biggest things that made wotmania irresistible to me.

I think this is it, honestly. Going to partisan or even primarily political sites usually just yields a collection of zealots and trolls duking it out through posts with very little meat on their bones.