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What other sources do you use, I ask as an over 30 something who wants to see how the other half lives?

skrowl 9y ago
Internet media is the new media. Check out DrudgeReport.com, breitbart.com and InfoWars.com. If you're looking for something on your TV, your only hope is OANN, but most cable providers don't carry them yet.
- theWatcher37 9y ago
  OANN rocks! Been very happy with it.
  - dhimes 9y ago
    LOL For those of you who haven't had the opportunity to view the One America News Network, they think the guys over at Fox are a bunch of liberal pussies.
  - MicroBerto 9y ago
    OAN's talking heads are obviously conservative, but if you want a REAL news reel with no trash, theirs is easily the quickest and most informative. And they play that more than pundits, which is nice.
- rybosome 9y ago
  Drudge and Breditbart may peddle a narrative that's more pleasing to you than mainstream media, but it's very biased and sensationalist.
  - skrowl 9y ago
    The OP is about media that isn't owned by one of the big 6 mega-corps, not about media that is bias-free. There's no such thing as bias-free media, because media is written / edited / produced by humans who inherently have bias.
m52go 9y ago
Eh. Tough question. You don't want to make the mistake of using sources with an opposite mindset to the prevailing media. Prevailing media has a strong democratic bias. Opposing media has a strong republican bias (breitbart, oann, etc). Better media doesn't give a shit. I suggest sott.net, global research, strategic culture, mises.org, the intercept, reason, opslens, the unz review, counterpunch, zerohedge. KEEP IN MIND: all of these sources require a STRONG BS filter. It's like startups v established companies: lots of bullshit with diamonds in the rough thrown in. It's your job to find the diamonds. When you find them, they're totally worth it. Those should get you started. In general, I tend to also follow a host of individuals on twitter of varying backgrounds to get a greater variety.
- frgtpsswrdlame 9y ago
  Brietbart and oann have strong republican bias but mises and reason don't? /:
  - brightball 9y ago
    From what I've read on Mises they are big on numbers, data, citing sources and logic. They don't deserve to be grouped with the others.
    - Mikeb85 9y ago
      Mises are shills for failed economic theories and peddle dumb conspiracy theories.
      - brightball 9y ago
        Which failed economic theories and failed how exactly?
        Mikeb85 9y ago
        'Austrian' economics.
TimJRobinson 9y ago
I've been enjoying The Economist and Aljazeera lately. Intelligent news that covers important things happening all over the world, not just the USA. I'm also interested in the same question. It's hard to find news that is both covering important long-term issues and trying to seek the truth of the matter. Plus I get frustrated at how insular news in the USA is, many of the USAs problems have already been somewhat solved in other countries but the media rarely mentions them. So citizens and politicians waste time spinning their wheels and arguing about theoreticals instead of learning from experiments that have already been done.
propogandist 9y ago
NoAgendaShow.com; a podcast that covers a wide variety of topics. They are listener funded, so they arent subject to pleasing advertiser (as these 6 big corporation and most news outlets). One of the hosts is also the 'co-founder of podcasting', took a company public and registered mtv.com, back in the day. They have a very interesting news media deconstruction process; Highly recommended.
- voidz 9y ago
  Steve Jobs himself gave him the title "The Podfather"
newswatcher 9y ago
I recommend The Real News, Jacobin, and wsws.org. WSWS has some interesting geopolitical coverage that I don't see elsewhere that makes it worth reading despite being very opinionated [1]. http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/06/17/pola-j17.html http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/06/17/pola-j17.html [1]

Internet media is the new media. Check out DrudgeReport.com, breitbart.com and InfoWars.com. If you're looking for something on your TV, your only hope is OANN, but most cable providers don't carry them yet.

theWatcher37 9y ago
OANN rocks! Been very happy with it.
- dhimes 9y ago
  LOL For those of you who haven't had the opportunity to view the One America News Network, they think the guys over at Fox are a bunch of liberal pussies.
- MicroBerto 9y ago
  OAN's talking heads are obviously conservative, but if you want a REAL news reel with no trash, theirs is easily the quickest and most informative. And they play that more than pundits, which is nice.
rybosome 9y ago
Drudge and Breditbart may peddle a narrative that's more pleasing to you than mainstream media, but it's very biased and sensationalist.
- skrowl 9y ago
  The OP is about media that isn't owned by one of the big 6 mega-corps, not about media that is bias-free. There's no such thing as bias-free media, because media is written / edited / produced by humans who inherently have bias.

m52go 9y ago

Eh. Tough question. You don't want to make the mistake of using sources with an opposite mindset to the prevailing media. Prevailing media has a strong democratic bias. Opposing media has a strong republican bias (breitbart, oann, etc). Better media doesn't give a shit. I suggest sott.net, global research, strategic culture, mises.org, the intercept, reason, opslens, the unz review, counterpunch, zerohedge. KEEP IN MIND: all of these sources require a STRONG BS filter. It's like startups v established companies: lots of bullshit with diamonds in the rough thrown in. It's your job to find the diamonds. When you find them, they're totally worth it. Those should get you started. In general, I tend to also follow a host of individuals on twitter of varying backgrounds to get a greater variety.

frgtpsswrdlame 9y ago
Brietbart and oann have strong republican bias but mises and reason don't? /:
- brightball 9y ago
  From what I've read on Mises they are big on numbers, data, citing sources and logic. They don't deserve to be grouped with the others.
  - Mikeb85 9y ago
    Mises are shills for failed economic theories and peddle dumb conspiracy theories.
    - brightball 9y ago
      Which failed economic theories and failed how exactly?
      - Mikeb85 9y ago
        'Austrian' economics.

TimJRobinson 9y ago

I've been enjoying The Economist and Aljazeera lately. Intelligent news that covers important things happening all over the world, not just the USA. I'm also interested in the same question. It's hard to find news that is both covering important long-term issues and trying to seek the truth of the matter. Plus I get frustrated at how insular news in the USA is, many of the USAs problems have already been somewhat solved in other countries but the media rarely mentions them. So citizens and politicians waste time spinning their wheels and arguing about theoreticals instead of learning from experiments that have already been done.

propogandist 9y ago

NoAgendaShow.com; a podcast that covers a wide variety of topics. They are listener funded, so they arent subject to pleasing advertiser (as these 6 big corporation and most news outlets). One of the hosts is also the 'co-founder of podcasting', took a company public and registered mtv.com, back in the day. They have a very interesting news media deconstruction process; Highly recommended.

voidz 9y ago
Steve Jobs himself gave him the title "The Podfather"

newswatcher 9y ago

I recommend The Real News, Jacobin, and wsws.org. WSWS has some interesting geopolitical coverage that I don't see elsewhere that makes it worth reading despite being very opinionated [1]. http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/06/17/pola-j17.html http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/06/17/pola-j17.html [1]