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Wed Jul-07-10 07:50 PM
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What's your choice for the best source of news in America? |
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Straight news, without the standard agendas and a tradition of journalistic integrity.
Papers, magazines, TV, radio or net... your choice.
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Wed Jul-07-10 07:52 PM
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1. Does this eliminate BBC et al? |
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If so then its the PBS Newshour.
And even that is strongly slanted to the right.
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Wed Jul-07-10 07:54 PM
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7. It's totally your choice |
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But it has to be news about what's happening in America
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Wed Jul-07-10 08:19 PM
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Wed Jul-07-10 07:52 PM
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2. Music, and it is entertaining without falsley claiming to be true. n/t |
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Wed Jul-07-10 07:53 PM
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3. Democratic Underground. |
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Wed Jul-07-10 07:54 PM
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8. I just posted the same thing! nt |
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Wed Jul-07-10 08:55 PM
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38. You've got to be shitting me... |
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Wed Jul-07-10 09:03 PM
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Haven't figured out yet how to tame the recently updated google news--getting a lot celebrity crap all of a sudden. LBN and a quick check of GD, like really quick ( :beer: ), and I mostly know what's going on.
Throw in local papers for a couple of spots and an overseas aggregator mostly for the stuff US media avoids, like our damn wars, torture and anything else under the rah-rah radar.
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Wed Jul-07-10 09:13 PM
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Wed Jul-07-10 07:53 PM
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5. No such beast, imho... |
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I try to listen to many sources and note the differences, with the hope of drawing my own conclusions. There is no journalistic integrity anymore... gone with the dodo bird.
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Wed Jul-07-10 07:54 PM
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6. I always come to DU first - seriously. I learn about stuff almost immediately, |
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and even if the OP has an STRONG opinion, I can get the gist of it and follow up elsewhere if I''m interested.
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Wed Jul-07-10 08:24 PM
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23. Anybody watch the PBS NewsHour or check the website? |
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Wed Jul-07-10 09:16 PM
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49. I never think to check the website, and I don't get control of the TV when Newshour is on. |
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I've recorded it before but found I had 'heard' most of the stuff already on DU! I'm going to make a point of checking out the website, thanks for the suggestion!!
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Wed Jul-07-10 07:55 PM
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9. Pretty much DU for me. |
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Wed Jul-07-10 07:58 PM
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11. Pacifica Radio and Democratcy Now with Amy Goodman |
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Wed Jul-07-10 07:59 PM
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Hands down. Not only do I get my news from it, but I have the ability of going to look for the news, which is far more important. Before the internet we were forced to get our news through newspapers and TV and someone else decided what news I would get. With the internet I go looking for the news.
By the way that's how I found DU and my favorite blogs. Around May and June of 2001, when Bush had been in office for a few months I was growing more and more alarmed at how fast he was dismantling all the gains that Clinton had put in place. It was a daily thing to have the CNN, at the time my favorite news station (hard to believe now) happily tell us what the next program or initiative Bush had just cut or decimated. I decided I needed to find true democratic sites to see if I was the only one who was so unhappy. I googled 'democratic sites' and DU came up with quite a few others which I still frequent.
Without the internet life would be really depressing! I lurked on DU for year before I joined in 2007. The people on this site are responsible for my sanity.
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Wed Jul-07-10 08:15 PM
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Not only can we look for news we can check out the different takes on a story when it is covered or recovered by different sources, as well as doing our own follow up/research where the source or reported may not have done enough or we simply want more information.
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Wed Jul-07-10 07:59 PM
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14. Democracy Now, with a side of Rachel |
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Wed Jul-07-10 10:09 PM
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Wed Jul-07-10 08:01 PM
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16. Definitely Amy Goodman. nt |
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Wed Jul-07-10 08:12 PM
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17. Internet - mainly Twitter and DU |
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The speed in which off-the-wall news is delivered via this medium is amazing.
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Wed Jul-07-10 08:32 PM
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27. how do you twitter for news? I haven't figured that out, but I hardly ever use Twitter. |
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(I just never got into it, for some reason.)
Do you follow certain posters/news sites and rely on their updates?
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Wed Jul-07-10 08:49 PM
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Among others, I follow @cnnbrk @breakingnews @reuters @bloomberg.
Between them, I pretty much know what is going on before their websites are updated.
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Wed Jul-07-10 09:06 PM
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45. I search Twitter by topic. |
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If something is breaking, twitter is where to go, IMO. Search by subject and I only pay attention to the tweets with links to an actual story.
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Wed Jul-07-10 08:15 PM
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18. There is no news without agendas... n/t |
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Wed Jul-07-10 08:26 PM
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25. I agree, which is why its very funny to see people list DU |
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Democracy Now etc. While they are great sources they have heavy agendas.
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Wed Jul-07-10 08:29 PM
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26. Indy media does some of the best reporting any more. n/t |
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Wed Jul-07-10 08:36 PM
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29. But every Indy media site has its own agenda. That is human. |
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The most important thing we can do is to be aware of the agenda's so we can despin what we hear a litt.
For instance, I try to look for at least 3 sources for a story.
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Wed Jul-07-10 08:16 PM
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20. BBC (the US news is sooo inept) |
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Wed Jul-07-10 08:22 PM
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22. FSTV (Free Speech TV) and that fucking Comcast doesn't carry it! |
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Wed Jul-07-10 08:26 PM
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24. C-Span, you get to watch the event, not somebody's explanation of the event. |
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Wed Jul-07-10 08:34 PM
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C-Span, of course.
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Wed Jul-07-10 08:38 PM
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I try to pull in as much as I can. CNN, MSNBC, some FOX (although that is usually wasted time), Sunday shows, C-SPAN, John Stewart, Stephanie Miller, Ed, Hartman, DU, WSJ-on-line, Newsweek ... some BBC.
My view is that by listening to these, I hear the talking points but through different people ... and when they each explain them, they vary .. and that's where you can find the truth ... they inadvertently open the curtain in different places.
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Wed Jul-07-10 08:41 PM
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31. The Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart |
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Wed Jul-07-10 08:43 PM
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32. I like McClatchy wire service and BBC |
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Wed Jul-07-10 08:46 PM
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33. Notice how, so far, no one has said... |
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...Fox, CBS, NBC, ABC, etc.? DU and C-Span(1, 2, and 3) for me.
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Wed Jul-07-10 08:52 PM
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35. BBC, The Guardian, The Independent, Common Dreams |
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Wed Jul-07-10 08:54 PM
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36. Al Jazeera English is streamed live online |
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Edited on Wed Jul-07-10 09:05 PM by Turborama
Here: http://www.livestation.com/channels/3-al_jazeera_englishThey frequently add to their YouTube channel (check out the Playlists and Shows, too): http://www.youtube.com/user/AlJazeeraEnglish#g/uAnd their website regularly self refreshes: http://english.aljazeera.net/And what IndianaGreen said above.
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Wed Jul-07-10 08:55 PM
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37. Democratic Underground |
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Besides Best of the Left podcast and local news programming, 100% of my news comes from reading DU.
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Wed Jul-07-10 09:01 PM
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Wed Jul-07-10 09:03 PM
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40. Two weeks ago I was in Europe... I got more news from 1 hour of the BBC |
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then I get from an entire year of TV news in America. There is no "news" here.. it's all "infotainment".
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Wed Jul-07-10 09:04 PM
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42. I like McClatchy, Democracy Now!, The Nation, PBS, and NYT. |
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I also like some of the British papers, The Guardian and Times Online.
I enjoy reading Newsweek, The Economist and Time as well.
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Wed Jul-07-10 09:05 PM
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PBS Newshour, NPR, C-Span, internet (various), CNN for "big" news events, news magazines for background such as Nation and Texas Observer, local newspaper for local & state news
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Wed Jul-07-10 09:12 PM
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After checking DU's LBN, I go to Huffington and Buzzflash, if I have time.
On TV, I flip between C-span, MSNBC and CNN during the day.
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Wed Jul-07-10 09:57 PM
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backed up with the NY Times, the LA Times, the Chronic, and the local paper. :P
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Wed Jul-07-10 09:14 PM
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48. Jon Stewart & Rachel Maddow. eom |
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Wed Jul-07-10 09:17 PM
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50. Mr. Scorpio's posts.... |
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Wed Jul-07-10 09:39 PM
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Edited on Wed Jul-07-10 09:46 PM by IDemo
http://www.atimes.com/Also a good selection of news sources from FAIR ("fairness and accuracy in reporting"): http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=134
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Wed Jul-07-10 09:50 PM
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53. WBAI, KPFK, McClatchey, Reuters, Christian Science Monitor |
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WBAI has good shows like Wake up Call, Law and Disorder, Guns and Butter. KPFK has Ian Masters Background Briefing/Daily Briefing, Lila Garrett Connect the Dots, Beneath the Surface, Counterspin, Free Speech Radio News, Uprising. WNUR has This is Hell on Saturday always some good long format interviews with intelligent, informed guests. Good information is out there but you do have to search for it.
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Wed Jul-07-10 09:55 PM
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54. The Christian Science Monitor... |
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... is the only news source I implicitly trust.
And I am not a Christian.
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