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What do you think about InfoWars & co?
by bostand 10y ago
What do you think about InfoWars & co?
- akjainaj 10y agoThey are rubbish. There are no serious conservative news outlets that I know of. I usually read the news on liberal websites (such as the NYT) but I take everything with a pinch of salt... or a fistful of salt :-) Could I do the same with conservative websites? No. Breitbart for example looks like a parody website. Also, being a conservative, I think I'd be more inclined to believe their lies, which is something I'd rather not do.
- alva 10y agoIs there an equivalent to The Spectator http://www.spectator.co.uk/ http://www.spectator.co.uk/ in the US? It is a conservative publication that has been running for nearly 200 years. Any ambitious conservative writers seem to have quite an opportunity at the moment.
- luckydata 10y agoI don't think so, there isn't much of a market for smart, well informed conservative writing at the moment in the USA. The Republican audience is quite anti-intellectual.
- noobermin 10y agoHow about WSJ? Some articles in the Economist tend rightward.
- cloakandswagger 10y agoDrudge Report is actually quite good, if you can parse out the obvious conservative bias. Drudge is the undisputed king of independent media, and in my experience stories get broken and fleshed out on Drudge faster than any other source.
- matt4077 10y agoThe WSJ is as much to the right as the NYT is to the left, which in actual terms is "not that much, as long as you understand that newspapers have an opinion section that is separate from the newsroom. There's a sort of "from first principle" theory of journalism currently going around that I can only assume is a misunderstanding of some middle-school civics class. In that world view, any mention of "cars" is evidence of bias in favour of those who believe cars exist.
- ktRolster 10y agoI try to remember that the most value from newspapers comes not from their political coverage, but the fact that they cover basically everything else (although politics is certainly flashy). WSJ and NYT both do an admirable job on the other stuff.
- vowelless 10y agoI personally don't blame InfoWars or Breitbart [0]. They don't have the institutional backing nor the legacy that the main stream media has. I blame the main stream media for virtually forcing a segment of the population to tune themselves out and exclusively follow these far-right sources. I'll give you my own example. Typing "c" on my address bar and pressing enter was a very common thing for me. It would take me to CNN. It was muscle memory. Same for "ny". But in 2016, most of these websites were becoming insufferable and I just started tuning them out. Even I, as someone who disliked Trump, could see the absolute blatant bias and I had the feeling that this was going to backfire very strongly [1]. Some people took it to the other extreme. They got disillusioned by the main stream media but then ended up elevating fringe far-right groups like Breitbart, InfoWars. Those groups didn't become big by spending VC money on ads... they were elevated by a new readership after the dismissal of MSM. Think Digg->Reddit. [0] It's sad that I even have to say this: I abhor what they publish and the crazy radio host at infowars. [1] I actually took out a bet in Trump's favor in Jan 2016 to validate my criticism with my friends.
- ihaveahadron 10y agothe only worth of infowars is the talk show when Alex Jones is on. For the disinformation that you sometimes hear, the info you don't hear anywhere else, makes it one of an the best news sources.