I occasionally get linked to here. It seems like a pretty decent site. Interestingly, right now there's a big banner at the top of the page that says "it's not too late -- fiat currency or REAL MONEY??"

As for objective news: the difficult part is being able to tell when someone is letting his ideology get in the way. Some say you should read both left-wing and right-wing sites to get an accurate idea, but in my experience the high-quality left-wing sites are usually quite good on their own, as a fundamental part of the right-wing ideology is to simply be ideological. Everywhere in the world, conservatism is linked to narrowmindedness and favoritism towards old and long disproven ideas, whereas progressivism is essentially the advocacy of reform.

What I'm saying is that you shouldn't be fooled into thinking that newspapers, blogs or media outlets that have proven themselves to be tainted, like virtually all the self-proclaimed right-wing sites that I've ever seen, have a valid opinion. The point of these sites is to hide or distort information from you so as to make their ideology work in practice. Some are very seriously open about that goal too.

Personally, I think http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ is good, as is http://thinkprogress.org/. I also occasionally watch the Countdown (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/) because it's a good and entertaining daily source of information about the political process, despite Olbermann's in my opinion unnecessary habit of making fun of people he disagrees with.

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

When my car radio worked, I would always listen to NPR.  Aside from some great music (SOUNDSCAPES... with jon d libretto... are you high yet???), they always have very objective reporting concerning all types of subjects, covering all parts of the world.  They never seem to have a slant towards any idea, usually keeping listeners informed about all sides of an issue.  At first, some of their reporting sounded trivial, but it concerns somebody in the world. 

I guess before I listened regularly, I was used to very U.S.-centric reporting.  Fuck that! I want to hear about the relationship between tribal Africans and endangered lions in the savannas, and after that, Obama's latest ideas on fiscal policy (with fair commentary!).

Lol when I read the afrocentric part of your post and then saw fresh air, I read it as fresh prince of bel-air.

Hehehehehehe LOL!

but yeah dietcoke dont you love how there is literally no representation of any sort of marxist (or truly leftist of any stripe) commentary or representation in mainstream political life in this country at all? I bet that really grinds on you after a while