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What newspapers/blogs do you read?
Ethan Smith
Origin name: Beart4toArlington, VARegistered User regular
Origin name: Beart4toArlington, VARegistered User regular
I'm becoming head of this groups newsletter, and the thing is that while many of the other members are farrrrrr off to the left of me, I want to be a voice of moderation but also I want the newsletter to act as an advertisement to the liberal intellectuals of the school, the journalism, lit, polisci and history majors who want to become active but are turned off by the groups percieved radicalism.
So, with the amount I'm going to be writing (I plan on, personally, trying to write an editorial of some size every 2-3 days and printing the better ones), I'd like to have a good set of news sites to read from. Generally, to get my news I watch the Daily Show, buy an economist (if I can afford it), or Foreign Affairs (if I can REALLY afford it). I check Fivethirtyeight occasionally, but the guy has a heavy democratic bias, and as good as the journalism on his site is, I plan to make it a habit not to editorialize editorials.
So I'm looking for some nice, straight facts, news sites, and I figured, hey, there are some respectable guys in D&D. I could get my question answered and foster a nice discussion at the same time!
So, what newsletters/blogs/whatever they're callin em nowadays do you read when you need news?
So, with the amount I'm going to be writing (I plan on, personally, trying to write an editorial of some size every 2-3 days and printing the better ones), I'd like to have a good set of news sites to read from. Generally, to get my news I watch the Daily Show, buy an economist (if I can afford it), or Foreign Affairs (if I can REALLY afford it). I check Fivethirtyeight occasionally, but the guy has a heavy democratic bias, and as good as the journalism on his site is, I plan to make it a habit not to editorialize editorials.
So I'm looking for some nice, straight facts, news sites, and I figured, hey, there are some respectable guys in D&D. I could get my question answered and foster a nice discussion at the same time!
So, what newsletters/blogs/whatever they're callin em nowadays do you read when you need news?
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I keep an eye on the BBC, arstechnica, slashdot & sciencedaily and I'm yet to read an actual blog, but I still haven't found a universally good source for news.
If you're going to be basing opinions on actual news, it's probably a good idea to try and get as close to the source of an event being reported as possible and to make sure that you have accurate information and not a reporter's interpretation.
The economist is great for getting the other perspective, but remember that it is all editorial commentary, not news reporting.
And I agree with electricitylikesme, never ever read slashdot. Those people are retarded.
Actually no, slashdot posters range from pretty enlightened to agenda driven retards, true for any website accepting pubic opinions.
In both cases, slashdot is just another news aggregation service. If you believe the noise/content ratio is too high for you, that's fine, but advising others to never-ever read it simply makes you look a bit too angry.
The Guardian is hands down the best English language newspaper currently out there today. The only downside is that Robert Fisk writes for the Independent.
That said, I'm a fan of the NYT, and I also read my local paper (The Indianapolis Star). I like Andrew Sullivan's blog because he seems like a pretty fair guy who "gets it." That's really about it.
But Slashdot isn't a news aggregation service. It's a user-moderated discussion forum. The problem with Slashdot is the number of completely factually inaccurate statements you see modded +5 insightful.
This is exacerbated for me because I'm in law school, and I've taken all the intellectual property classes. For every 1 post on IP issues that gets the law straight, there are 20 (all modded +5, informative/insightful) that get things completely, laughably wrong.
So yes, I recommend never reading Slashdot. It will make you dumber.
As far as watching/listening, with varying abloo bloo bloo, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Chicago Tonight, Frontline, Frontline World, Bill Moyers Journal, Meet The Press, Fareed Zakaria, Face The Nation, the one with Stephanopolus, Daily Show, Colbert Report, and whatever NPR segment is playing when I'm in my car at the time.
1. It is news aggregation. I appreciate that it's a serious compulsion to click "comments" instead of the actual content links, but some of us do try.
2. If you're looking for legally correct opinions in the "comments" column on a public website not dedicated to legal advice, it's very unlikely that you may actually get any dumber. Slashdot started and to a part still is a website about technological news. If you get foam on your mouth from the postings in a specific category, don't read it.
3. How do you survive with all those stupid people around you who are unfamiliar with IP law?
And I go for a few more conservative/libertarian blogs like Marginal Revolution and Will Wilkinson.
She and a few of the other people I read tend to get into arguments/discussions and I prefer to read the whole conversation rather than half of it. I also check out bloggingheads, but only when a particular conversation gets referenced rather than seeking them out.
I usually check ABC and CNN for news.
And when I'm feeling masochistic, I'll check out HuffPo, Crooks and Liars, and Ace of Spades for good measure. C&L and Ace of Spades are, astoundingly, the exact same type of crazy, but from opposite ends.
I also listen to NPR when in the car, but I try to boycott Mississippi Public Broadcasting based on awfulness. Gimme back Diane Rehm and take your shitty family counciling show and shove it.
I used to be like that, but I gradually got sucked into more and more. Bloggers have a tendency to only reference themselves a lot of the time, and that means some more obscure or minor names get passed over a lot. I just iPod almost all of them. I probably only skip two or so a week these days.
Since people are throwing other media out there, I listen to AM talk radio (Rush, Howie Carr, Bruce Williams, etc... you don't have to agree with them to listen) and NPR as well.
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I have a mostly similar list but include Ezra Klein, Digby, Atrios, and John Cole.
Because God knows Drudge doesn't have an ideological slant that conforms to your opinions!
You see, even nexus likes Drudge. Best dirt of the day on anything.
So the fact that I seek out opinion articles from people on diametrically opposite schools of thought means what? Am I schizophrenic?
As for me, I check out CNN every once in a while but I really don't care about world news all that much.
Unless What Would Tyler Durden Do? counts. Cuz that guy is a funny mother fucker.
Drudge takes news from other sites and links to them. So yes, in a way he is not a news "source."
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It's a simple hub, much like Blues News, so I don't have to dig my whole way through the Interwebtronthingamajig for the latest news every morning. Don't see what all the fuss is about really.
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Ok, so really: I have an RSS feed for the NYT, CNN, and the Associated Press. I also read my local (Philadelphia) paper. I don't really read editorials (ever).
News Sources:
CBC
BBC
Toronto Star
The Economist
Al Jazeera
News Now (excellent news aggregator)
Blogs:
Gwynne Dyer (great foreign affairs/geopolitics commentary, usually addressing overlooked stories)
Caracas Chronicles (fairly even-handed Venezuelan opposition blog)
Comrade Fatso's Blog (Zimbabwean poet, had decent coverage as things went to hell there last year)
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative (progressive economics and tax policy)
Paul Krugman's Blog
Economic Strategy (not a great blog - infrequently updated - but interesting view of globalisation from India and China)
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Plus the NYTimes and New Yorker.
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The only free paper I ever bother to pick up is The Onion.
Same, I don't peruse the large paid circulations.
You sir, are killing print journalism! For shame!
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You must have read some shitty opinion articles.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
The New York Times
The Financial Times
Wall Street Journal
The Guardian
The eXiled
Blogs:
Daily Howler
Glenn Greenwald
Digby (Hullaballoo)
I also skim scienceblogs
Ugh, sad but true.
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All of Chicago's major dailies are in bankruptcy at the moment.