I read too much shitty news like cnn and bbc.co.uk.

What are some good news websites? I've been kind of reading Slate but I noticed they've got guys like Christopher Hitchens writing for him and that guy is a d-bag. I don't really like a lot of what they say but they at least try to analyse things and the writing is a bit better than I'm used to.

I really should know more about news considering I'm doing a politics degree and I consume so much of it but it all comes from shitty sources and I want some good ones. I don't want all mainstream stuff, some pure partisan news sites would be good to throw into a mixture too like radical socialist news or whatever - I sometimes read the usa radical socialist site. Good blogs on general news or specific issues would be great, too.

also: news stinks huh? how about that news. Let's Dish Dirty on the news.

i'll start: fox "fair and balanced" more like "unfair and biased". FOX news? FUX news.


I'll edit the post with good sites people suggest. I dunno what I'm expecting but I bet I'm missing out on some good stuff.

I don't read online news :o
how old-fashioned of me

Usually if I want news I just check Google News since it pulls articles from all sorts of places.

This is where I've been getting mine recently;
http://rawstory.com/

Infowars.com

There is a war out for your mind

yeah I knew you were gonna try that slick shit again.... fuck you chief

Infowars.com

There is a war out for your mind

why does that site have a special section devoted to 'ron paul on the rise'

Because its fuckin alex jones

touche

next question: on a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate infowars.com concerning the objectivity and overall quality of their reporting

Objectivity is not something I look for in news because the appeal to objectivity or 'balance' is often used to reinforce ideology and frame issues within a narrow field of acceptable discourse.

Infowars/alex jones uses sensationalist reporting for the purpose of growing a sort of paleoconservative/libertarian social movement to oppose what they see as a new world order being set in place by a shadowy global elite. A lot of it is exaggerated and speculation based on the writings of people and thinktanks that have influence or the ears of those in power. They address some important issues that mainstream media overlooks, but I tend to disagree with them more than I agree. At least they make no attempt to mask their agenda.

Usually if I want news I just check Google News since it pulls articles from all sorts of places.

This.  I check and see if the major news places have what I am looking for because that way when I show it to peeps they are more likely to believe it.

Also:  Fox News = Faux News
CNN = Controlled News Network
www.outfoxed.org

whoa! And I thought CNN was "Christian" News Network!

you could always keep up with blogs a little but eh. honestly if you are on the cusp of figuring shit out, it might be best to try and formulate it from as objective news as possible so you can read something like infowars, roll your eyes at what's appropriate, and then not be wholely dismissive at the same time.

honestly this is a shit reply but you could really keep up with the day via the daily show. avoid most 24 hour news networks imho.

with the death of newspapers this is all going to get a lot worse and soon local corruption will just be life heh.

you could really keep up with the day via the daily show. avoid most 24 hour news networks imho.

I've always thought the daily show was weaksauce when it comes to keeping up with the day. Aside from the fact it's 80% cringe/20% funny, they don't really hit very hard, you know? alot of the criticisms they make are pretty superficial and if the show was funny, which is all it really sets out to be, then that wouldn't really matter but i dunno. it just feels a bit like buying into the system using that as a source of news. jon stewarts whole "the show leading into us is puppets! we aren't serious!" argument on that crossfire interview, and elsewhere, comes off as disingenuous to me cos he's got to know that people do take them semi-seriously. Al Gore came on the show and said so!

I mean i'm saying this but i watch at least a couple eps of it a week. the daily show is one of the things i think i'm trying to stop relying on. I'll probably never stop watching it intermittently though.

hmmmm i dunno.

Objectivity is not something I look for in news because the appeal to objectivity or 'balance' is often used to reinforce ideology and frame issues within a narrow field of acceptable discourse.

Yes, I'm not really hoping for any kind of objective news source at all cos there can't be any such thing so I don't care if it's biased as hell I just want it to not be stupid and trying to deny the fact. I'll find a couple of places to go to so all the craziness is just a drop in the water cos who believes anything they see in the news anyway.

i think i'll have a search for some blogs.

Democracy Now is cool. Also the daily show is pretty funny (not funny as in HAHAHA good joke, funny as in you're stupid!), just because it's so fucking liberal and they think they know exactly whats going on all the time

Democracynow is really good but kinda frustrating because amy goodman is such a sweetheart and needs to be a little tougher on her guests