Beware of Bourgeoisie news sources...

[Hexen]

Since the Huffington Post is revealed to be a bourgeoisie news site, what other sites to avoid that also known to be bourgeoisie sources?

[pluckedflowers]

Since the Huffington Post is revealed to be a bourgeoisie news site, what other sites to avoid that also known to be bourgeoisie sources?

'Revealed' seems to imply it's ever been anything but a recognizably bourgeois liberal news site. In any case, all news sites should be read critically.

[Obs]

Since the Huffington Post is revealed to be a bourgeoisie news site, what other sites to avoid that also known to be bourgeoisie sources?
Pretty much all of them... that's really to be expected when living in capitalism.

[Zealot]

lol thanks for the heads-up comrade.

But really, this question would make more sense if it was rephrased another way i.e. Are there any non-bourgeois news sources.

[wunderbar]

Are there any non-bourgeois news sources.

Democracy Now! (http://www.democracynow.org/)
The Real News (http://therealnews.com/t2/)
Indymedia (http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml)

Many socialist groups have their own news websites, it's good to read more than one, since perspectives may differ. WSWS (http://wsws.org/) is run by SEP, a Trotskyist party; Liberation (http://www.pslweb.org/liberationnews/?home=1) is run by PSL, a Marxist-Leninist party; Socialist Worker (http://socialistworker.org/) is run by ISO, another Trotskyist group; International Communist Current (http://en.internationalism.org/) irregularly publishes news articles from a left communist perspective.

[Ocean Seal]

Since the Huffington Post is revealed to be a bourgeoisie news site, what other sites to avoid that also known to be bourgeoisie sources?
Every mainstream website, journal, and news channel is bourgeois. Also who revealed that the Huffington Post was a bourgeois site? And what did they do to reveal it, click the about section?

[RedSonRising]

I'd like to make the point that while the news is inherently infected with overwhelming bias by the agenda of the ruling class which owns and manipulates it, we should also be careful not to dismiss any and all negative points claimed or addressed by the media when concerning a leftist group or government.

[Tablo]

Even non-bourgeois sources should be viewed critically since they have certain ideological alignments. Just view various news sources and stay critical of all of them.

[Susurrus]

Also beware of a leftist bias, or a tendency bias. All news should be read critically, even if from a leftist source.

EDIT: Whoops, what he^ said.

[Q]

Those who don't read the news are uninformed
Those who do read the news are misinformed...

That said, Al Jazeera is a pretty good news service. Possibly the best bourgeois service at the present time because it operates with some certain journalistic standards.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Those who don't read the news are uninformed
Those who do read the news are misinformed...

That said, Al Jazeera is a pretty good news service. Possibly the best bourgeois service at the present time because it operates with some certain journalistic standards.
Standards set by the state of Qatar. and by that, i mean the monarchy. Al Jazeera is property of Qatar, and though it has a nice finish on it, it is still a tool for Qatari interests. Libya for example, i saw Qatari flags in the hands of the rebels who were celebrating. It is well known that Qatar is militarily involved with the rebels in Libya.

[Sugarnotch]

As far as the free-access model goes, you won't find any good lefty news sites to my knowledge. The outlets need to sell to advertisers; to do so, they must instill the desired values in their readership - money, power, fame, image, etc. - so that advertisers are making a smart business move in choosing that newspaper to advertise. It's fairly obvious that a newspaper written in the interest of the working class is antithetical to the advertisers.

That being said, I quite like The Guardian and Al Jazeera. Tread with caution, though.

[Hoipolloi Cassidy]

Also who revealed that the Huffington Post was a bourgeois site? And what did they do to reveal it, click the about section?
There is an ongoing national strike and boycott of the Huffington post in place, spearheaded by the National Writers' Union. It is not centered on the content of HuffPo as much as on their use of unpaid writers and designers. This boycott has had some success, meaning it's a tremendous step forward in that particular front of the worker's struggle, the internet.

As I said earlier, every time you click on the HuffPo you're crossing an electronic picket line - in effect, you're a scab. Think twice.

[Tenka]

There is an ongoing national strike and boycott of the Huffington post in place, spearheaded by the National Writers' Union. It is not centered on the content of HuffPo as much as on their use of unpaid writers and designers. This boycott has had some success, meaning it's a tremendous step forward in that particular front of the worker's struggle, the internet.

As I said earlier, every time you click on the HuffPo you're crossing an electronic picket line - in effect, you're a scab. Think twice.
That's not what a scab is. Scabs, I guess, would be whoever's still writing for the useless rag.

[rollshevik]

I'm going to go ahead and say everything except for the onion. pretty much everything else I can think of is run by the profit motive.