Can everyone list a few sources of where they get their news?
I’ve been pretty loyal to reading the Washington Post as my main newspaper source, but it’s getting weird lately. Just a ton of stories about the Koran-burning and Mosque-building, and then special pages for Sarah Palin. They don’t seem as on-top of everything as they used to.
Someone just posted a link about Cuba cutting one million jobs, and I really think stories like that are important, so if everyone could list a few newspaper (or magazine) sources for news, that would be great. Thank you!
Is that really a good site for news? Alex Jones is usually quite informative, but I feel like he uses fear tactics too much. Maybe there’s another news section on the website I’m not familiar with, but I remember he just kept getting all mad at the move Machete recently, which made me mad since he’s all about free speech.
Can you explain what you mean exactly by “rss feed”? I feel like that’s a dumb question, but maybe I’m just not used to the terminology.
it stands for “really simple syndication”. rss feeds allow you to get frequent updates from your favorite blods or news outlets and read them in a single location (I use google reader).
I know it’s probably anathema to a lot of people here, but NPR, especially BBC Newshour, is tough to beat.
Not everyone- I use that, what Comcast.net has on its front page, and for a while the FL Times-Union (no longer in the coverage area, and their website is not user-friendly enough for me to learn it)
I generally try to get a grasp for all perspectives whether it’s from the political end of an issue or an economic end. So, I read the following on a daily/weekly basis:
Newsweek
WSJ( I enjoy the “Marketplace” and “Money and Investing” sections much more than the rest of the paper)
I usually find news to be distracting, and they just rehash the same old perspectives on the same old issues. Usually if something is important (Stuff like Katrina/Haiti, important legislation, etc.) I’ll find out about it reading many of my favorite blogs. RPM, LRC, etc. I once spent an entire summer consuming news from multiple sources for 5+ hours a day, and there’s just so much ‘news’ out there, you really don’t even need a tenth of it. People read news so they can read about narratives that confirm their biases.
LRC, of course. I check RT.com sometimes and I look at Al-Jazeera’s English site on occasion. I have a list of keywords that I search in Google News and I just sit down and blast through them once every month or two (some I search on a weekly basis or so). I’ve been tracking the upcoming Cancun climate conference because of the big blowup at Copenhagen and I’m curious to see if they’re going to try to sneak in a taxing world government again. Many news stories are saying that expectations are being set low, and so on. They might try to slip it in under the radar this time, rather than trying to make a big splash and end up with egg on their face as they did at Copenhagen. Dumbasses.
Here’s my list of search terms (it morphs with time):
bp
pemex
china oil rig
greece
cancun climate
gold
guns
oil
irs
euro
bis
wheat
rice
crops
drought
shortage
bernanke
zhou xiaochuan
trichet
mervyn king
duvvuri subbarao
masaaki shirakawa
robert gates
mullen
petraeus
putin
cia
pentagon
nsa
isi
london
washington
vatican
zurich
brussels
berlin
tehran
gaza
mogadishu
kabul
karachi
beijing
riyadh
dubai
port-au-prince
Sad to say, but most of my news comes from the Daily Show/Colbert Report. Despite their somewhat liberal leanings, I find they have a good way cutting through at least some of the BS the rest of the media feeds us(with humor). I also listen to Glenn Beck on occasion(usually whenever I’m in my car and his show airs), I often disagree with him, but I do find him entertaining to listen to him on occasion for some reason.
That said, I find most news sources out there deploreable…
I used to get my news from them a lot. The only reason I sometimes like biased news sources is because they really want to make the other side look bad and therefore investigate more than usual. For example, Glenn Beck’s team found out about Obama giving taxpayer money to that Brazilian nationalized oil company Petrobras that Soros has a lot of stake in. I feel like many un-biased reporters wouldn’t have found that if they weren’t looking to tear apart the other side.
I wish the entire point of the news was to try to ruin the government’s reputation with facts.
I read The Economist magazine, a very elitist “classical liberal” magazine. While it says that it is meant to deliberately have a classical liberal bias, since it was started by the Liberal Party of UK back in the 19th century, it is really a coverup. Yes, I am glad that they admit they come from a certain side of politics, and they repeatedly say, “We have a decidedly liberal bias”, they are not really much of liberals.
You see, they recently lamented that Hong Kong was implementing minimum wage laws, thus ending its “free market”, even though they admitted that Hong Kong’s past had many concessions to corporate welfare and government subsidisation. So you see, Hong Kong makes its property developers, friends of local authorities, rich because it had a monopoly on land that was sold selectively, and once bailed out its banks. But to have minimum wage, GOD FORBID. I thought it was disgusting, even though minimum wage laws are a redistribution of possible opportunity for job skill and experience from the young, the disabled, and the elderly to the very few low income workers of young adult age in married families.
They do this all the time, especially with its frequent condemnations of Angela Merkel for not bailing out Greece to help German banks with international sovereign bonds, while also criticising the American government for not raising tax rates for lower income groups.
They call themselves a magazine that supports liberty? Even washed up Harold Laski style “positive liberty”?
But it’s one of the few serious and comprehensive magazines. For news, it is necessary. Otherwise, I read in.reuters.com.
I listen to talk radio, NJ101.5 NJ’s biggest radio station
They actually have a libertarian host on from 10-2pm. Today he talked about Public pensions killing NJ. He got this one caller on that was a retired police officer defending his pension. Dennis (host) ripped him a new one. Pretty much saying there were too many police officers and they hasstle the public too much. Then he goes on to say he supports a flat tax :-/
They usually have a different topic every hour.
Other than that, Reason.com, google new, drudge on occasion, and the local station.
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