Where do DUers get their news?

[Loyal]

I posted this in another thread in GD:

<<Let me say first of all, that I'm a political novice. I watch political talk shows sometimes and I watched the debates, but I don't consider myself an expert by any stretch of the imagination. Let me say this though: I have seen a lot of 9/11 documentaries and other Bush biographical things like the one I am watching right now, on tv lately. I am beginning to think that the media, which is controlled by fewer and fewer corporations each year, is favoring Bush over the Democratic candidates seeking to replace him. I feel like they are trying to prop him up because they feel he is friendlier to their corporate interests. I don't mean to start conspiracy theories or anything, this is just the way I feel. Any thoughts, links, or comments to help me understand this would be appreciated.

Thanks.>>

Where do you people get your news? I check LBN sometimes but are there any good websites to get all your news from?

[haymaker]

1. Buzzflash.com, links-a-plenty

Good liberal commentary too.

[wryter2000]

2. Links on DU

Also CBS evening news and several political columnists -- Jon Carroll in the SF area, Molly Ivins, Paul Krugman. We also get the SF Chronicle

[gristy]

3. NY Times, CBS evening news, The Nation, many other mags

LBN too. I read way too much.

[Brucey]

4. All over the place...

Local newspaper, news from other countries on the Internet, New Yorker, the Humanist, Harpers, Yahoo news, DU, local TV, cable, scientific publications, the Progressive, etc. I think hearing it from many different sources is important... however, I avoid Fox, and during the invasion of Iraq would not watch CNN because it was just cheerleading.

[ixion]

5. Guardian, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Int'l Herald Tribune

are some journalistically sound rags...

[Redneck Socialist]

6. try alternet

lots of good stuff on a variety of topics.

[fleetus]

7. Don't forget www.truthout.org

www.truthout.org

As a bonus, truthout has a mailing list that will send daily headline links to your inbox. I like the mailing list myself.

It's already been mentioned, but Harpers is a great magazine. It has everything from very long to very short articles... so it fits the mood you're in at the time.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

8. A couple of my favorites...

http://news.google.com/

and

http://news.yahoo.com/

in addition to the many mentioned previously, especially BuzzFlash.

[TheReligiousLeft]

9. My favorites

<http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage>
<http://allafrica.com/>
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/>
<http://www.buzzflash.com/>
<http://electroniciraq.net/news/>
<http://news.google.com/>
<http://www.newsdirectory.com/go/?f=&r=as&u=www.yementimes.com>
<http://www.newsdirectory.com/go/?f=&r=as&u=www.yomiuri.co.jp/index-e.htm>
<http://www.weeklystandard.com/> (See what Bush's next plan is)
<http://www.themoscowtimes.com/indexes/01.html
<http://www.wyomingnews.com/>
Enjoy.

[Don_G]

10. AP Breaking News

BBC and CBC shortwave, BBC television feed to PBS, C-Span 1 and 2, Dan Rather, New York Times, LA Times, Seattle P-I, UK's Independant and Guardian, Canada's Globe-And-Mail, several blogs and the Daily Rotation for a nexxus of geek/political related news.

Then there's Fark....

[devinsgram]

11. From right here on DU

I come on-line and come right here every few hours. Everything I need to know is right here from all the wonderful people on DU. I just sit back and read. Television news gets me too upset and angry.

[Room101]

12. My sources.........

http://democracynow.org/
http://www.pacifica.org/check to see if they on your radio dial
http://buzzflash.com/
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/fronts/HOME
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/default.stm
http://www.c-span.org/
http://www.independent.co.uk/
http://www.fair.org
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/
http://www.truthout.org/index.htm
http://mikemalloy.pmachinehosting.com/index.php
http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/fscm2/genx.php?name=home
http://www.indymedia.org/
http://www.gregpalast.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/paulkrugman/index.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-columnist-rscheer.columnist?coll=la%2Dutil%2Dop%2Ded

What you are expressing is no conspiracy, your sentiments are right on the money. The Media functions within a propaganda model explained in Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent(must read). Go check out the documentary “Manufacturing Consent” (Noam Chomsky) from your local library to get a birds eye view of the Electronic Berlin wall(I.E the mainstream media).

You have only begun to scratch the surface. I don’t ever watch the media, I know too much about it.The more you watch the less you know. If you stick around long enough here, you will learn about the blatted conflicts of interest in the media, and all the nasty details the bewildered herd would never concern themselves with about the media. There I go again;)

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