Besides Prog Archives, which isn't bad for any internet interest area.....

Your sites: hard news, soft news + entertainment, hard political, soft political + satirical, you know what I mean.
For hard news my regular stop is Reuters.com. Quite clear cut though they aren't as neutral as they pretend to be. Simple layout, simple articles, simple goals, good coverage, updated quickly and lots of independent reporting and polls.
For soft news and entertainment I consult EPSN.com baseball section, Brain Damage magazine for Pink Floyd News every once in a great while (Prog Archives news threads basically do it for me for music news), for star Trek news and facts I look at the Memory Alpha wiki, though my interest in Star Trek is on the wane of late. For information about Movies = Rotten Tomatoes, and in general for soft (and hard) information about anything Wikipedia every day all the time. I also love AllMusic for music reviews and Robert Christgau's site for infuriating insults about my favorite albums.
For hard political coverage I go to WSWS.org the World Socialist Web Site. I sometimes consult rival sites to laugh at them derisively. I occasionally visit Rasmussen the conservative polling site, Economic Policy Institute the liberal statistics web site, I don't usually read liberal sites because I already am familiar with their obsessions (Obama, Identity, The Environment...etc.) I read the conservative political opinions much more often, because I think they are more honest (or blatant?). I like conservative sites like Market Watch.com as well. Murdoch's main venture Fox News Is a little too insanely Hearst-like to read, however.
When I want to watch movies or shows its of course Hulu and Netflix (what else is there? I guess I've watched some movies on Amazon).
I listen to music on Rhapsody, which is the ONLY way to listen to music, IMO.

Interested to hear sites and maybe learn some new ones!
Edited by RoyFairbank - May 14 2012 at 09:27