you should probably be looking for both dogg

Bah. He's alluding to the general mud-slinging bullshit that basically occupies the media's time.

Anyways TGT, you sound like a pretty educated guy. This might sound like an odd question to ask, so please forgive me. But where do you go for your news/citation? I'm just getting into politics, so I'm looking for a relatively safe place to start reading up on current events.

Bah. He's alluding to the general mud-slinging bullshit that basically occupies the media's time.

Anyways TGT, you sound like a pretty educated guy. This might sound like an odd question to ask, so please forgive me. But where do you go for your news/citation? I'm just getting into politics, so I'm looking for a relatively safe place to start reading up on current events.

It depends what you want.  Hard  relatively unadulterated news I often take straight from the AP, AFP, Reuters wires, usually through Yahoo.  For larger feature articles I've often found the CS Monitor and the Washington Post have done some great work.  The CS Monitor particularly delivers such thoughtful articles on a very consistent basis.  But again it depends what you're looking for.  Washington Post is a good source for stuff on Capitol Hill and National elections and CS Monitor is much better for what's going on around the world and the social consequences of various policies.  For opinion stuff I like the National Review and The New Republic.  Their basically the opinion journals for the American right and left respectively. 

Anything is safe as long as you understand what it is and know how to sift for hype and take away what may or may not be valid.  When talking heads or articles mention data I myself can look at such as polls and such I always take a look at them and form my own opinion about the numbers. 

Blogs are eh.  A whole bunch are kept by activists who think they're fighting Satan in the aisle across.  Most of them are reactionary to shit posted on other blogs or crap that gets their goat in the news.  There are some good ones out there but they're like that saying about opinions and assholes.  Everyone has one and most don't smell nice. What's always served me well was never assuming cartoony malevolent machinations on the other side of the aisle, always following up on referenced material on things that interest me, and as corny as it sounds trying to see it from the other sides perspective (hence the fact that I read The New Republic).