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| Oh the Humanities! Philosophy, Cultural practices, Social norms, Historical Debate, War, and Sociology. |
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# 1
2008-06-19, 07:18
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What news source do you use?
I am looking for a good, unbiased, unobstructed, solid news source. Google news just isnt cutting it. I want it to have a edge too, like noam chomsky on pcp.
Does this independent news source exist?
[blind]
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# 2
2008-06-19, 18:21
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The Meth lab down the street
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Re: What news source do you use?
For online... Reuters. It's my homepage. 
For print.. Economist and New York Times.
I think the key is to balance your news sources. Don't just rely on 1 for information. That way, you get a rounded picture of whats happening. |
# 3
2008-06-20, 00:23
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http://tinyurl.com/28ozhm
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Re: What news source do you use?
Fuck the NYT. They've gone to absolute shit.
WSJ is where it's at. Although they are focused more on financial news, they still have a wide selection of world news that is unbiased.
Check it.
http://online.wsj.com/public/us
As for non-newspaper, I use the INTERNET.
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# 4
2008-06-20, 00:25
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Re: What news source do you use?
CNN.
Because they twist it so much you just get brainwashed and forget.
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# 5
2008-06-20, 00:47
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Reading Pa USA
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Re: What news source do you use?
Fox news
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# 6
2008-06-20, 03:51
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Re: What news source do you use?
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Originally Posted by vazilizaitsev89
Fox news
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That's moronic.
Quote:
Originally Posted by BlindFighterPilot
I am looking for a good, unbiased, unobstructed, solid news source. Google news just isnt cutting it. I want it to have a edge too, like noam chomsky on pcp.
Does this independent news source exist?
[blind]
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That's equally moronic. Most 'independent' news sources have no concept of journalistic integrity and have some kind of agenda.
I use Google News. It selects the sources you see based on an algorithm that is fundamentally democratic.
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# 7
2008-06-20, 03:59
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Reading Pa USA
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Re: What news source do you use?
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Originally Posted by ThePrince
That's moronic.
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I suppose I should have mentioned that I was being sarcastic.
I use drudge report and lemonde.com
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# 8
2008-06-20, 04:04
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Re: What news source do you use?
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Originally Posted by vazilizaitsev89
I suppose I should have mentioned that I was being sarcastic.
I use drudge report and lemonde.com
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Drudge report is just a bunch of links to other sites.
Why don't you just use google news?
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# 9
2008-06-20, 07:56
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Chicago IL, USA
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Re: What news source do you use?
I would choose indymedia, nfowars and infoshop for you, OP
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# 10
2008-06-20, 09:51
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Re: What news source do you use?
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Originally Posted by Star Wars Fan
I would choose indymedia, nfowars and infoshop for you, OP
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These websites are far from the unbiased news sources BlindFighterPilot desires. Two of them are conspiracy websites, and the other, indymedia, as far as I know, has no process of scanning reports for factual accuracy.
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2008-06-20, 19:59 |
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Re: What news source do you use?
These websites are far from the unbiased news sources BlindFighterPilot desires. Two of them are conspiracy websites, and the other, indymedia, as far as I know, has no process of scanning reports for factual accuracy.
infoshop isn't a 'conspiracy' site. It's an anarchist organization site. But conceded; infowars and infoshop are arguably biased.
I thought indymedia would be good. But okay.
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#12
2008-06-20, 21:37 |
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Re: What news source do you use?
infoshop isn't a 'conspiracy' site. It's an anarchist organization site. But conceded; infowars and infoshop are arguably biased.
Ah, I know what they are now. I confused infoshop with infowars, the other website you mentioned, which is actually ran by a conspiracy nutter called Alex Jones. Sorry for the mistake.
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#13
2008-06-20, 21:38 |
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Re: What news source do you use?
Ah, I know what they are now. I confused them with some websites ran by a nutter called Alex Jones. Sorry for the mistake.
I said infoshop wasn't a 'conspiracy site'. Infowars IS the 'conspiracy' site run by Jones. :p
Sorry for the confusion
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#14
2008-06-20, 21:48 |
BlindFighterPilot 
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Re: What news source do you use?
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Originally Posted by Star Wars Fan
I would choose indymedia, nfowars and infoshop for you, OP
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Great reply. About exactly what I was looking for. Even though its not unbiased, I'd rather have an agenda closer to mine than farther. I'll try and balance it between all these sites and take the common critical denominator.
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#15
2008-06-20, 22:11 |
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Re: What news source do you use?
Great reply. About exactly what I was looking for. Even though its not unbiased, I'd rather have an agenda closer to mine than farther. I'll try and balance it between all these sites and take the common critical denominator.
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Cool. Yeah; balancing between infowars and infoshop is good; as the Libertarians and Socialists/Anarchists don't agree
my spew below is partly my opinion, partly some obversations, and other shit :)
(Ales Jones thinks Global Warming is natural and the Oil Peak is a farce by oil companies). And Alex Jones tends to be more religious, and if he believes some of the stuff hosted on prisonplanet (the 'Moral Meltdown' section blatantly supporting 50s BS and saying the 'second wave' of feminism was to destabilize society and allow the NWO to come in, or that the NWO is atheist and would remove your belief in god or some shit. Or how they tend to cosider any attempt at World Government (or even contintntal government, lke the EU) to be EVIL and totalitarian.
though (some of) the leftists think that holocause denial should be a crime could be arguably bad and placing people in jail for 'hate speech'
again; this is partially my opinion, partially observations. And I still disagree with some of what I said with the last paragraph quoted as it might nor be right.
Sorry :)
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#16
2008-06-20, 23:45 |
sum42dood
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Re: What news source do you use?
Ahem
http://www.totse.com/community/forumdisplay.php?f=199
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#17
2008-06-21, 00:07 |
l33t
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Re: What news source do you use?
www.digg.com
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#18
2008-06-23, 01:08 |
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Re: What news source do you use?
I get all of my important news from http://www.totse.com/community/forumdisplay.php?f=178
For example, I learned that The Spirit of Jazz has already jerked off twice today.
Fascinating!
Gorilla
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#19
2008-06-23, 04:32 |
BlindFighterPilot
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Re: What news source do you use?
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Originally Posted by Gorilla726
I get all of my important news from http://www.totse.com/community/forumdisplay.php?f=178
For example, I learned that The Spirit of Jazz has already jerked off twice today.
Fascinating!
Gorilla
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Cool, I bet you live in a crazy world.
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#20
2008-06-23, 16:29 |
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Re: What news source do you use?
Cool, I bet you live in a crazy world.
[blind]
IM JAMMIN ON THE MOON, GIRL WON'T YOU JAM A SPOON, I WANT TO DO A DREAM OF REALITY..... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajqSGcqS3mk)
sorry :P
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#21
2008-06-23, 19:19 |
Quageschi
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Re: What news source do you use?
www.digg.com
Everyone knows what a heavy liberal bias digg has. Half the political posts on the site come from some liberal blog.
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#22
2008-06-23, 21:13 |
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Re: What news source do you use?
Everyone knows what a heavy liberal bias digg has. Half the political posts on the site come from some liberal blog.
would you prefer dailykos :p 
fine; to counter it here's some 'right-wing' sites I know; freerepublic, townhall, dailymotion (not it, remember a site with similar name sorry), and humanevents |
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#23
2008-06-24, 01:52 |
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Re: What news source do you use?
would you prefer dailykos :p
fine; to counter it here's some 'right-wing' sites I know; freerepublic, townhall, dailymotion (not it, remember a site with similar name sorry), and humanevents
It's not that digg is a liberal site, its that it has a liberal community and hence only liberal sided stories tend to get to the front page.
Anyway, NPR is a great source for unbiased news.
http://www.npr.org/ |
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#24
2008-06-24, 03:57 |
BlindFighterPilot
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Re: What news source do you use?
It's not that digg is a liberal site, its that it has a liberal community and hence only liberal sided stories tend to get to the front page.
Anyway, NPR is a great source for unbiased news.
http://www.npr.org/
In the rare occasion I am left without ipod or cd, NPR is the only radio station I will endure. that or christian radio is fun.
[blind]
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#25
2008-06-24, 11:33 |
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Re: What news source do you use?
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Originally Posted by BlindFighterPilot
I am looking for a good, unbiased, unobstructed, solid news source. Google news just isnt cutting it. I want it to have a edge too, like noam chomsky on pcp.
Does this independent news source exist?
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Online and in print i use "The Independent" (from the UK) it has a slight liberal slant.
www.independent.co.uk
I also use AP and Reuters. |
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#26
2008-06-24, 15:34 |
superspeedz
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Re: What news source do you use?
online/tv
CBC
BBC
Print
The Economist
Toronto Star
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#27
2008-06-24, 15:37 |
superspeedz
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Re: What news source do you use?
IM JAMMIN ON THE MOON, GIRL WON'T YOU JAM A SPOON, I WANT TO DO A DREAM OF REALITY..... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajqSGcqS3mk)
sorry :P
Get the remix it's fucking amazing.
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#28
2008-06-25, 04:02 |
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Re: What news source do you use?
Get the remix it's fucking amazing.
have a link? If it's a .torrent tinyurl it and post it here.
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#29
2008-06-25, 04:16 |
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Re: What news source do you use?
It's not that digg is a liberal site, its that it has a liberal community and hence only liberal sided stories tend to get to the front page.
True, but then again a conservative geek/nerd seems to be an oxymoron. :p
If the American Internet had more of a
'conservative' bias (in some places it does; see the lack of free speech sites on the web)
Anyway, NPR is a great source for unbiased news.
http://www.npr.org/
It's LIEBRAL PROPAGANDA! LIEBRALS AND THEIR FAIRNESS DOCTRINE
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#30
2008-06-25, 04:48 |
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Re: What news source do you use?
http://www.wnd.com/
http://www.halturnershow.com/
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#31
2008-06-25, 08:11 |
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Re: What news source do you use?
indymedia, as far as I know, has no process of scanning reports for factual accuracy.
Which would make it different than broadcast television... how, exactly?
IMO, same shit. Both just forward press releases with little to no review. Only difference is the question of access - corporate/government oligarchy versus free access.
OP : have you considered counterpunch? It's slightly right-wing, but prerollback right-wing... libertarian, I guess, pretty good...
Crap. I might try to dig you up an actual list...
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#32
2008-06-25, 16:46 |
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Re: What news source do you use?
http://www.halturnershow.com/
lol...
and JoePedo; do you have an email addy/contact I can use to email you?
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#33
2008-06-26, 09:02 |
Eldorhan
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Re: What news source do you use?
None.
In the US : News equal jews.
In the UK : News equal left-wing, interracial, pro-civil enslavement state propaganda.
In AUS : Guilty right-wing leaning to "centrism" (ie. do nothing douches).
In the EU : Wholesale mess of socialist propaganda (west & south ) vs ultra-liberal garbage. (north & east).
No mass media is reliable. The only valid and credible source of info these days are blogs, albeit most are biased, but not doctored to the point of being flipped upside-down like the "official" medias do.
90% of medias just pump Reuters/AP feeds anyway these days, they're not reporters, they're bureaucrats.
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#34
2008-06-26, 09:52 |
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Re: What news source do you use?
BBC
The Real News http://therealnews.com/t/
The Guardian
For comment, I also read The Economist, New Statesman, NYT, Financial Times, The Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian and The Spectator, as well as various blogs.
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#35
2008-06-28, 10:39 |
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Re: What news source do you use?
There really is no completely unbiased and impartial news site - it just doesn't exist. And if it did, not only would it be accused of being the most biased of all sites - because everybody would be in disagreement with it - nobody would use it and it would be shut down within a month.
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#36
2008-06-30, 13:49 |
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Re: What news source do you use?
lol...
and JoePedo; do you have an email addy/contact I can use to email you?
...if you've got a throwaway I can bounce it off of...
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#37
2008-07-03, 19:23 |
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Wasilla, Alaska
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Re: What news source do you use?
Fox news
You must be joking. At best, it is low-brow entertainment .
BBC news.
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#38
2008-07-03, 21:25 |
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Re: What news source do you use?
BBC News and Al-Jazeera International for English language news, ANSA for Italian news and AFP in French.
I usually spend the first two or three hours of the day gathering information, reading articles, in-depth analysis and so on, I guess in some ways I'm a bit of a news junkie.
I also like to get different perspectives on the same event, especially when it comes to Middle Eastern affairs, Al-Jazeera always tends to have a more balanced position in reporting news from the region.
I don't want to sound like the usual paranoid, but the Western media does indeed always side with Israel in pretty much every occasion, and tends to over-report anti-Israeli activities while under-reporting Palestinian casualties.
If a rocket lands in Israel injuring five Israelis you bet it's gonna be on the first page for days, if an Israeli air strike kills 9 in Gaza you find a little note at the bottom of the page and the next day it's gone.
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#39
2008-07-06, 20:04 |
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Re: What news source do you use?
FT for news, WSJ for opinion.
http://www.ft.com/world
I'm not too familiar with "alternative" news sources, just AlterNet which is more liberal than I prefer.
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#40
2008-07-06, 21:24 |
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Re: What news source do you use?
I like to go on alot of news websites to get a broader picture of the days events.
www.the-sun.co.uk
www.dailymail.co.uk
www.bbc.co.uk
www.telegraph.co.uk
www.rense.com
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#41
2008-07-11, 03:28 |
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Re: What news source do you use?
...if you've got a throwaway I can bounce it off of...
huh?
oh well, here's an account I made a while ago and hasn't been used:
popeyes 69 @ gmail (dot) com
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