I picked "other" because of some decent coverage on another network not mentioned. WorldLink TV has Mosaic, World News from the Middle East. http://www.worldlinktv.com/ They put together a patchwork production of news broadcasts from new sources across the region... Syria, Jordan, Iran, etc. All over the place. The opinions of these countries vary too much for there to be any real sense of unbalance... and I think they get the whole concept of delivering the news. The US media? Please... sensationalist, biased... They have so much power that I've started to think they enjoy seeing what they can do with it. Al-Jazeera is very interesting to read (their English language site). After 9/11, the only news service I could bear to watch was BBC. I'll never forgive the US news services for their coverage of the event. Really, everything needs to be watched very, very carefully. Even WorldLink is sometimes not a very good source. It's made up of both independent and state-controlled broadcasts. In fact, I listened to a broadcast today that said something like, "A 17 year old boy was [XXX] by Israeli troops." the [XXX] was either "martyred" or "murdered" but neither is appropriate... so one just needs to be careful and be aware of what one is watching, reading, listening to, etc.
I picked blogs. Thanks to the internet, blogs simply provide topics and discussions that one can never see in the "mainstream" news outlets. Blogs is popular because they are two-way streets, as vs. Fox News' top down forced feed.