On days where Section A is filled with junk from the AP and NY Times, I’ll toss it aside and go straight for the metro. The Post is the last place I would look for national and international news. And if it didn’t cover news out of Jefferson City, I wouldn’t bother with the Metro section either.

I hate to state the obvious, but it is rare that I don’t know something before I get the PD on a national or international level. However, I went out Wed. night and awoke to read that Bristol Palin had broken up with Mr. White Trash. Finally, a breaking story from the PD. Way to go! I often hear parts of stories on the news, usually Fox but I hop around and hope to find the whole story in the paper and 9 times out of 10 I don’t find the story in the PD. I don’t understand why. Is is very exasperating. Then I usually go to my favorite info sites which are http://www.gatewaypundit.blogspot.com (which is local, but has mainly national news) and http://www.jammiewearingfool.com and they usually have all the national news I need to know.
I would love to see the PD get away from being AP wire shills. They are incredibly inept. I am so sick of being told that “the story hasn’t crossed our wire” when I call to see if a story is going to be reported in the PD. They have an unusual way of only picking up negative stories about the GOP and conveniently overlook negative stories about people on the left side of the aisle.
It would be nice to see someone at the PD who could grasp the pulse of the people and focus on relevant news rather than the usual stupid news we generally get about bus crashes in Tanzania. The A2 pictures are generally moronic and serve no purpose.
How is it that you all don’t notice that ever?
Personally, I don’t think you cover what the idiots in DC are doing enough.
You never tell us before Sunday how McCaskill and Bond voted on major legislation. Why? It would take all of one line. It is because you all are too lazy to find out and rather use AP wire stories.
Thurs you used an entire page on the cigerette tax. That was excessive. I don’t care to hear smokers whine about the tax. You don’t like it, then quit. Why do you waste precious news space on moronic dribble.
I am really scared if you all don’t get your act together soon, we won’t have a newspaper anymore and I love reading the PD in the morning. I read the entire paper except the sports. I get up very early.

I read the Wall Street Journal online (paid subscription), the New York Times, and the Economist for national and international news. These publications have the staff and financing to provide in-depth, relevant articles that interest me. The Post-Dispatch cannot provide this service with its own resources and the AP wire is a very poor substitute.
I enjoy the Post-Dispatch and very much want this paper/online news source to improve and succeed. I’m very interested in what is happening in our region, which is why I read the Post-Dispatch but I’m often disappointed with the very cursory reporting on issues that the Post-Dispatch should “own”. This is our city, our region, and our state; focus your full resources on city, region, and state issues.
Your readers are hungry for intelligent and thoughtful coverage of local issues – think KWMU not Fox2. Also, your reporters produce a product that is worth something and shouldn’t be posted online, without charge, for all the free-riders to pick apart and ridicule. Act like your content is worth something and charge us for access to all or at least some of your articles and editorials. If it’s worth reading, it’s worth paying for – I’ll be one of the first to sign up for quality, local journalism.

When I want real news on line

I read The Drudge Report.

When I want a laugh,

and the latest Liberal junk, I rean CNN

Really, the best place for news is Fox News. The only time I look at the PD for news is for Sports news.

The only reason I even look at the PD on-line is the entertainment in the blogs/letters or for a good laugh at the far left wing editorials. If you want to know what George Clooney is doing today, check the PD. If you want to know what’s happening in the world, go somewhere else.

Teuf - I also pay to a WSJ on-line subscrp. for political news I need to know about. There are also free places that are excellent such as Investors Business Daily. I think you sign up at http://www.IBD.com which will send you their editorials for free. Also the http://www.thehill.com will send you for free e-mail reports of what is going on in DC daily. That is for serious politcal wonks. Fortunately, we don’t have to reply on the PD for our national news, but I still like receiving and reading it and truly worry about its demise. I might have to start working out in the morning with all that free time I will have when the PD dies. I won’t bother reading it on-line. I have too many better sites to review and I don’t particularly like to read anything on-line.

International news and reports:
BBC - both internet and cable news
Al Jazeera - Internet & Cable
Haaretz - website
NPR - The World daily radio
Post Dispatch when it actually has stories on the international front
People’s Daily website
Xinhua website - these two because I teach courses on China
Foreign Policy magazine
Foreign Affairs
The Economist
National Interest

For local news:
Post Dispatch
KWMU’s St Louis based shows
KSIE & KDHX for the current Jazz and classical scene in St Louis

For incisive commentary:
Rachel Maddow Show
Jon Stewart Daily Show

For humor and laughs:
Anything written or broadcast by FOX — I mean where do these guys get their material and who are their writers?!

RH - thanks for a good laugh - I needed it! (that was satire, right?)

……………a quick scan of Google news for world/national, then STLtoday for local & regional news.

I also purchase the Weekend Post Dispatch every Saturday morning (along with some pastries).