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They 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 everyt

They 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 ago
Is 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 ago
  I 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 ago
How about WSJ? Some articles in the Economist tend rightward.
cloakandswagger 10y ago
Drudge 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 ago
The 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 ago
  I 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.

alva 10y ago

Is 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 ago
I 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 ago

How about WSJ? Some articles in the Economist tend rightward.

cloakandswagger 10y ago

Drudge 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 ago

The 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 ago
I 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.