Getting your news from local television stations and 24 hour cable channels only provides you with an extremely limited and often biased account of local and international news.
Below are several links to news outlets that are more reliable and accurate than commercial media.
also salon.com motherjones.com & guardiannews.com are all quite good as well. slog.thestranger.com is focused on the seattle area but also can have good coverage of national news.
jezebel.com is great for women’s issues focused news.