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I pay for New Yorker and NY Times. WaPost is pretty ok. I also read BBC and Deutche Welle, as well as scrabbling through bits of Le Monde and the francosphere.
by pnathan 9y ago
I pay for New Yorker and NY Times. WaPost is pretty ok.
I also read BBC and Deutche Welle, as well as scrabbling through bits of Le Monde and the francosphere.
generally if it's free, you're getting what you paid for.
- boona 9y agoI would suggest that you're only getting the facts that align their chosen narrative, and the facts are being presented through a lens that limits your understanding of the world. An example I like to use is minimum wage. The very term "minimum wage" on it's own pulls you towards a certain conclusions. Who the heck doesn't want minimum wage? But what if I asked you "Should it be against the law for low skilled workers to get jobs?" you would likely say something like "Hell no!", but they are both the same policy but presented through a different lens. If you're only getting your news from left wing sources, then you would almost have to conclude that conservatives are heartless. But if you read from both sides, you might conclude that maybe there should be a minimum wage, but we have to be careful not to exclude too many people at the margins, or find a way to help those at the margins.
- pnathan 9y agoI would suggest that the narrative I choose is "educated people not committed to right wing ideology". :-)
- boona 9y agoThere are many points of view on any given topic from well educated people. If you choose to explore only a single point of view, that you're prerogative, but you are willfully choosing ignorance.