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False, Misleading, Clickbait-Y, and Satirical “News” Sources

9 points by splawn 10y ago

thequickeninger 10y ago
wow, talk about showing your bias in one post.
basch 10y ago
in the end, this is probably the backwards way to go about your daily news reading. a whitelist of good sources is easier. facebook interest lists and twitter lists, follow good sources. https://redef.com https://redef.com http://www.aldaily.com http://www.aldaily.com http://www.techmeme.com/ http://www.techmeme.com/ http://www.mediagazer.com/ http://www.mediagazer.com/ http://www.memeorandum.com/ http://www.memeorandum.com/ https://longform.org https://longform.org http://hckrnews.com/ http://hckrnews.com/ redef has a source chart, aldaily has a great left column of sources, you can add LB after the slash of techmeme, mediagazer, and memeorandum to see their leaderboards. longform by publications or writers. https://redef.com/charts/sources/total https://redef.com/charts/sources/total http://www.aldaily.com http://www.aldaily.com http://www.techmeme.com/lb http://www.techmeme.com/lb http://www.mediagazer.com/lb http://www.mediagazer.com/lb http://www.memeorandum.com/lb http://www.memeorandum.com/lb https://longform.org/archive/publications https://longform.org/archive/publications https://longform.org/archive/writers https://longform.org/archive/writers I apologize, redef's source chart is broken today
- splawn 10y ago
  I agree. Also nothing beats critical thinking in the end when it comes to evaluating a news source.
- basch 10y ago
  I found the aldaily source page after this post locked http://www.aldaily.com/media http://www.aldaily.com/media
  - basch 10y ago
    also http://scitechdaily.com/resources/ http://scitechdaily.com/resources/
makomk 10y ago
This has a pretty obvious left-wing bias - it's full of right wing sites whilst completely faiiling to list any questionable left-wing sources. For example, the Daily Kos lets basically anyone post articles and isn't on the list.
- splawn 10y ago
  They mention Daily Kos. "It’s always best to read multiple sources of information to get a variety of viewpoints and media frames. Some sources not yet included in this list (although their practices at times may qualify them for addition), such as The Daily Kos, The Huffington Post, and Fox News, vacillate between providing important, legitimate, problematic, and/or hyperbolic news coverage, requiring readers and viewers to verify and contextualize information with other sources." If you know of some left-leaning sites that should be added let her know about it. I don't think the goal here is to be partisan.
ry4n413 10y ago
this entire thing is a joke, right?
- splawn 10y ago
  Is there a site on there that is misscatagorized? Is it missing something that you know of? Let me know and I will fwd it on to the creator if you don't want to. :)

9 points by splawn 10y ago

wow, talk about showing your bias in one post.

basch 10y ago

in the end, this is probably the backwards way to go about your daily news reading. a whitelist of good sources is easier. facebook interest lists and twitter lists, follow good sources. https://redef.com https://redef.com http://www.aldaily.com http://www.aldaily.com http://www.techmeme.com/ http://www.techmeme.com/ http://www.mediagazer.com/ http://www.mediagazer.com/ http://www.memeorandum.com/ http://www.memeorandum.com/ https://longform.org https://longform.org http://hckrnews.com/ http://hckrnews.com/ redef has a source chart, aldaily has a great left column of sources, you can add LB after the slash of techmeme, mediagazer, and memeorandum to see their leaderboards. longform by publications or writers. https://redef.com/charts/sources/total https://redef.com/charts/sources/total http://www.aldaily.com http://www.aldaily.com http://www.techmeme.com/lb http://www.techmeme.com/lb http://www.mediagazer.com/lb http://www.mediagazer.com/lb http://www.memeorandum.com/lb http://www.memeorandum.com/lb https://longform.org/archive/publications https://longform.org/archive/publications https://longform.org/archive/writers https://longform.org/archive/writers I apologize, redef's source chart is broken today

splawn 10y ago
I agree. Also nothing beats critical thinking in the end when it comes to evaluating a news source.
basch 10y ago
I found the aldaily source page after this post locked http://www.aldaily.com/media http://www.aldaily.com/media
- basch 10y ago
  also http://scitechdaily.com/resources/ http://scitechdaily.com/resources/

makomk 10y ago

This has a pretty obvious left-wing bias - it's full of right wing sites whilst completely faiiling to list any questionable left-wing sources. For example, the Daily Kos lets basically anyone post articles and isn't on the list.

splawn 10y ago
They mention Daily Kos. "It’s always best to read multiple sources of information to get a variety of viewpoints and media frames. Some sources not yet included in this list (although their practices at times may qualify them for addition), such as The Daily Kos, The Huffington Post, and Fox News, vacillate between providing important, legitimate, problematic, and/or hyperbolic news coverage, requiring readers and viewers to verify and contextualize information with other sources." If you know of some left-leaning sites that should be added let her know about it. I don't think the goal here is to be partisan.

ry4n413 10y ago

this entire thing is a joke, right?

splawn 10y ago
Is there a site on there that is misscatagorized? Is it missing something that you know of? Let me know and I will fwd it on to the creator if you don't want to. :)