where do you get your news?

[Deity]

I use RT and BBC, and get a good bit of my news from twitter accounts (such as the popular anonymous news accounts)

So what news sources do you all use for reliable information? I am aware there are biases in almost all news, but I'm looking for one with as little as possible.

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

Eh, the internet.

[Deity]

Eh, the internet.

More specifically?

[Fourth Internationalist]

The Young Turks and occasionally RT, Al-Jazeera, and The Huffington Post

Edit: I forgot to mention the Daily Show and the Colbert Report!

[Starship Stormtrooper]

Libcom, @news, socialistworker/wsws, counterpunch, and more mainstream sites like cnn. Reddit is always good too.

[Lee Van Cleef]

Papers: The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Hankyoreh, Korean Herald

Blogs: Huffington Post, WSWS, Libcom

A variety of other places I check on occasion: Slate, The Economist, Washington Post, Signalfire, etc.

[Goblin]

Mainstream media...

[Tenka]

All over the internet. I don't even remember. Usually I browse around for it when I need some stimulation in the mornings, but am not particularly interested in it.

And then there's always RevLeft.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

For news: anything mainstream, for the commentary a wide variety of progressive and revolutionary sources.

[Rugged Collectivist]

Revleft and Yahoo! mostly. Sometimes I'll watch the young Turks or Stewart/Colbert. On rare occasions I'll watch MSNBC and FOX, but I'll usually change it due to boredom and rage respectively. I also watch the local news (which I hate) at my grandmother's house when I'm over there doing laundry.

[TheRedAnarchist23]

Portuguese news chanels, or facebook.

[Catma]

A lot of love for TYT. I haven't been able to stomach them for a while. Do they still support the Democrats? "Support" is a strong word, but listening to the show it's like "COME ON, Cenk! How long are you gonna play this game?"

[Skyhilist]

I usually get my news from leftist political pages on facebook. Sometimes huffington post if it's not a political thing that's just going to be a bunch of liberal BS. If it's non-political, really anywhere works for me (so long as it's not like blatantly anti-science or something). I also enjoy reading news on science from various science websites, and also read most of the articles that The Center for Biodiversity puts out.

[DasFapital]

Facebook, youtube, and the radio (through TuneIn).

[La Guaneña]

Telesurs' Dossier and Operamundi for leftist news sources. The first is in Spanish, and the second in Portuguese.

For articles I follow KKE's english and portuguese website, resistir.info and some other websites.

[Comrade Samuel]

I usually watch CBS every night and 60 minutes on Sunday- looks like Username beat me to mentioning Colbert and Stewart. :D

The worldnews subreddit is usually pretty good too. I've heard plenty of good things about Al-Jazeera but I don't read it regularly.

[Os Cangaceiros]

The last news publications I bought were a copy of International Socialist Review and a copy of CATO's journal. Pretty eclectic I guess, I have a bad habit of going into bookstores and just buying random shit.

As far as TV goes, I don't really watch anything except the local news. I don't have cable...

[Red Commissar]

Bourgeois motherfuckers: New York Times, Al Jazeera, NPR, Washington Post, Guardian, Reuters, Mother Jones, BBC, The Nation

Small, Alternative, or Left Media: Stranger, Indymedia, Truthdig, Democracy Now, NSFWCORP (some of the guys from exile are on there), /r/socialism, socialist alternative, socialist worker, alternet, Red Phoenix, Kasama. Sometimes Vice. Sometimes.

I don't go on all them at once but I usually come across them at some point in the month.

[La Guaneña]

Small, Alternative, or Left Media: Stranger, Indymedia, Truthdig, Democracy Now, NSFWCORP (some of the guys from exile are on there), /r/socialism, socialist alternative, socialist worker, Red Phoenix, Kasama. Sometimes Vice. Sometimes.


This is what I have been looking for. Everytime I was going to create a thread asking, I forgot.

Anymore reliable news sources from the left would be greatly appreciated.

[Asmo]

I read a few sites and I watch MRN.

(Don't hurt me, please.)

[Comrade Samuel]

I read a few sites and I watch MRN.

(Don't hurt me, please.)

There's a shit storm inbound for admitting that but as opposed to ranting about how he is worse than Hitler I'll just leave it at... why?



Bourgeois motherfuckers: New York Times, Al Jazeera, NPR, Washington Post, Guardian, Reuters, Mother Jones, BBC, The Nation

Small, Alternative, or Left Media: Stranger, Indymedia, Truthdig, Democracy Now, NSFWCORP (some of the guys from exile are on there), /r/socialism, socialist alternative, socialist worker, Red Phoenix, Kasama. Sometimes Vice. Sometimes.

I don't go on all them at once but I usually come across them at some point in the month.

Care to explain what's so bad about Al-Jazeera? I don't doubt that they aren't perfect but I recently watched a piece from Fault Lines about the tea party's presence in Nevada and found it pretty insightful- it really seemed to expose just how bad the far-right is getting in America.

[Asmo]

There's a shit storm inbound for admitting that but as opposed to ranting about how he is worse than Hitler I'll just leave it at... why?
He's cute. :/ I don't agree with him on a lot of things but I don't think he's that bad when he's reporting general world news.

[Fourth Internationalist]

A lot of love for TYT. I haven't been able to stomach them for a while. Do they still support the Democrats? "Support" is a strong word, but listening to the show it's like "COME ON, Cenk! How long are you gonna play this game?"

They believe the Democrats today are not 'true' Democrats/progressives, etc. They call Obama conservative, so I think they've moved a bit more to reality (just not quite there yet, though)

[L.A.P.]

I'm subscribed to a bunch of news networks on YouTube: CNN, BBC, Euronews, RussiaToday, Al Jazeera, and by far the most interesting one is Iran's propaganda/news network PressTV

[skitty]

http://www.alternet.org/
http://anarchistnews.org/
http://www.antiwar.com/
http://consortiumnews.com/
http://www.dailydot.com/
http://www.indianz.com/
http://www.ragingchickenpress.org/
:)

[slum]

black agenda radio/ report does good u.s. austerity coverage and imperialism in africa
stop imperialism (weekly podcast on geopolitical stuff)
electronic intifada for palestine stuff

sometimes the nation, socialist worker (u.s.), democracy now, al-jazeera, pan-african newswire

i dont keep up w/ news nearly as much as i should

ETA: like xx1994xx said above, PressTV is very interesting as well

[Comrade Alex]

RT, Mormon newsroom, local stations, democracy now, the daily show and Colbert report

[Taters]

World Net Daily. A nice balanced perspective, not to mention some lovely ads.

[Red Commissar]

Care to explain what's so bad about Al-Jazeera? I don't doubt that they aren't perfect but I recently watched a piece from Fault Lines about the tea party's presence in Nevada and found it pretty insightful- it really seemed to expose just how bad the far-right is getting in America.

I don't have anything wrong with Al Jazeera (I listed it for a reason!), I'm just pointing out it's an entity that's tied more firmly with standard politics of the left and right, just like the New York Times, BBC, what ever. Not that they don't have useful information and commentary (IMO, they are much more competent than their American counterparts like ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, etc), but they are representative of what is considered to be normal and accepted positions irl. I read al Jazeera actively like I do with the New York Times but I keep in mind that it's expected they'll take positions contrary to what we'll take here.

Personally the only channel I have a problem that comes up is Russia Today. They highlight things on the foreign front that gets ignored by western outlets but for all intents and purposes I view them as a Russian version of Fox news. Same thing with Press TV.

Now with dislike, some do dislike Al Jazeera because it has ties to the Qatari government, something that started coming up a lot on this site about the time shit hit the fan in Libya. Al Jazeera was much more sympathetic to the rebels in Libya than they were Qaddafi and it is believed that was because of the positions of the Qatar government on the matter. Likewise the same deal in Syria.

[Deity]

I don't have anything wrong with Al Jazeera (I listed it for a reason!), I'm just pointing out it's an entity that's tied more firmly with standard politics of the left and right, just like the New York Times, BBC, what ever. Not that they don't have useful information and commentary (IMO, they are much more competent than their American counterparts like ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, etc), but they are representative of what is considered to be normal and accepted positions irl. I read al Jazeera actively like I do with the New York Times but I keep in mind that it's expected they'll take positions contrary to what we'll take here.

Personally the only channel I have a problem that comes up is Russia Today. They highlight things on the foreign front that gets ignored by western outlets but for all intents and purposes I view them as a Russian version of Fox news. Same thing with Press TV.

Now with dislike, some do dislike Al Jazeera because it has ties to the Qatari government, something that started coming up a lot on this site about the time shit hit the fan in Libya. Al Jazeera was much more sympathetic to the rebels in Libya than they were Qaddafi and it is believed that was because of the positions of the Qatar government on the matter. Likewise the same deal in Syria.

Care to go more I'm depth with this? I read Russia Today quite a bit, so I definitely don't want to be using something equivalent to fox news.

[Tenka]

They believe the Democrats today are not 'true' Democrats/progressives, etc. They call Obama conservative, so I think they've moved a bit more to reality (just not quite there yet, though)

As well, Cenk regurgitates the occasional Lolbertarian term (Corporatism, Crony-Capitalism...) and is a big supporter of some idealised Capitalism, so I'm not looking forward to the cumulative effect of his ongoing disillusionments with the Democrats.

[Narodnik]

I found this lecture awesome:

http://www.collativelearning.com/choose%20your%20news.html

[Ele'ill]

cnn, msnbc, 325.nostate, fox, etc..

[Diogenese]

I still go on Currents community news links section although I don't know how much longer its gonna be up with Al-Jazeera buying it. Other then that I go to Al-Jazeera. Anyone else know any other news links sites like Current where people post links to different news sources?

[Vanilla]

I usually just watch the local news. For world news, I get the wsws newsletter, but a lot of it is biased, and while I don't really mind that much, I prefer it to be neutral. However it does present some very interesting stories a lot. I also like BBC. And who couldn't forget the colbert report?

[Crabbensmasher]

I've been watching major mainstream media for awhile. BBC, The Guardian etc, but I'm getting increasingly annoyed by it.

The other day, I had an article open from the onion on one tab, and an article from BBC on the other. I was absent-mindedly reading the Onion article thinking it was BBC. It wasn't until I got to the end that I realized I was reading satire.

Just goes to show you how shitty BBC can be sometimes. It's real purpose, like so many other news media is for entertainment firstly, and news, secondly.
I swear to god, half their articles are about Kim-Jong-Un's shitty haircut, or how Sweden is the freaking garden of Eden. Then they have the African "success" stories about how embracing entrepreneurship has made everybody happier, as if they were living in a dark hole during the previous century.

I heard somebody mention Pan-African newswire awhile ago. I'd be interested in checking out something like that. I think that to get proper news, you have to see many different perspectives, and 99% of the articles you see will be biased anyway. It's really an uphill battle.

[Kalinin's Facial Hair]

Bourgeois newspapers.

And Operamundi.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

World Socialist website..excellent economic coverage. Hyper sectarian at times, still very useful

http://www.wsws.org/

Wartard-left view of current military conflicts, his writing isn't always politically correct but he is interesting

http://wartard.blogspot.com/

Democracy Now...liberal left, interesting and useful

http://www.democracynow.org/

Real News Network I don't look at this often but I probably should, good for in depth coverage of issues

http://therealnews.com/t2/

Counterpunch

http://www.counterpunch.org/

Common Dreams
http://www.commondreams.org/

IMT Some interesting articles on world events

http://www.marxist.com/

CWI

http://www.socialistworld.net/doc/6252

mainstream...

Salon.com is quite interesting

http://www.salon.com/

Huffington Post...moving more and more into celebrity gossip but still useful

NPR...pretty much filled with right wing propaganda now. Morning edition is a little better. Vermont Public Radio is very good, I think, had coverage of the Quebec student movement.

http://www.vpr.net/

Al Jazeera

BBC, sometimes

The Economist

Financial Times, Wall Street Journal

Stratfor-geopolitics

Harpers has some good stuff

Believe it or not Yahoo news can be informative

[MrCool]

Helsingin Sanomat, CNN, BBC, KCNA :rolleyes:

[L.A.P.]

They highlight things on the foreign front that gets ignored by western outlets but for all intents and purposes I view them as a Russian version of Fox news. Same thing with Press TV.

true, but their is pretty much no one else that covers the Bahraini uprising except PressTV.

I wish I knew of more reliable independent news sources

[Crabbensmasher]

also, I just remembered this, but isn't RT funded by the Russian government. Actually, wasn't it created by the Russian government?

[Comrade Nasser]

Mostly daily news, BBC, Al-Jazeera, Huffington post, and more recently the "Jerusalem Post" for a laugh every once in a while.

[Comrade Nasser]

For new's considering the Far Left I mostly use:

http://socialistworker.org/ (because why not)

and of course: http://maoistrebelnews.wordpress.com/

http://istenbizony.hu/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/funny_panda_10.jpg

[L.A.P.]

I'm really getting worried with the amount of love MaoistRebelNews is getting from new users on this site

[Comrade Nasser]

I'm really getting worried with the amount of love MaoistRebelNews is getting from new users on this site

Why lol? Would you recommend any other sites to me?

[Red Commissar]

Care to go more I'm depth with this? I read Russia Today quite a bit, so I definitely don't want to be using something equivalent to fox news.

They have a problem in like Al Jazeera they tend to be mum or whitewash what's going on in their country. Look at how RT covers Putin and his administration.

However to its credit Al Jazeera has some journalism and analysis. RT on the other hand largely seems to be focused on just reporting or making people aware of dumb shit the US or friends are doing without any real analysis. It seems more similar to fishing for outrage more than anything.

That's just my perception of it at least. If you're fine with it then keep using it.


also, I just remembered this, but isn't RT funded by the Russian government. Actually, wasn't it created by the Russian government?

The state news corp RIA-Novosti is involved in RT's finances and management, so there is an involvement in it by the government in the same way the US works through Voice of America, Britain with BBC World Service, France24, etc. The Russian government sees it as a way to counter what it sees as anti-Russian bias in foreign media. To be fair this does exist, very obvious during the Georgia war a few years back.

[slum]

the above is an accurate description of RT and RIA-Novosti but so long as you're aware of that i find it a useful news source if you live in the US, not for analysis, but to see what "dumb shit US and friends" are doing which you aren't going to hear about from US news outlets.

just look at it like you would any bourgeois news source, with great skepticism, and get analysis from people you trust more.

[Deity]

the above is an accurate description of RT and RIA-Novosti but so long as you're aware of that i find it a useful news source if you live in the US, not for analysis, but to see what "dumb shit US and friends" are doing which you aren't going to hear about from US news outlets.

just look at it like you would any bourgeois news source, with great skepticism, and get analysis from people you trust more.

Thats my favorite thing about RT hahah. They seem to have a rather anti-american standpoint which is good to counter the other big news providers that are always pro-U.S.

I do get the more in depth analysis from multiple smaller news outlets; they just give me the heads up.

[Crixus]

I watched RT the other day. A good interview here.

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[X5N]

>RT
>News

Pick one.

But anyways...

I mostly get my news from Al-Jazeera English, and the political board on a forum I'm a member of. Once in a while I'll watch the Rachel Maddow Show, or go to the BBC and NPR websites.

[urstaat]

Ha'aretz can be good but a lot of their web content is subscription based.
news.bbc.co.uk is usually where I go to check in on day to day and developing happenings.

I'll glance through Counterpunch a few times a week, but mostly out of boredom. They were always hit or miss, but way more miss than hit lately.

Twitter seems to be a decent place to keep up with news, opinion, events, and publications for things that are more immediately relevant to my political interests/leanings. @AKPressDistro, @jacobinmag, @VersoBooks, @EuroGradSchool are active with links to somewhat worthwhile content, @DougHenwood from Left Business Observer is interesting, and I'd imagine there's probably plenty of better ones to follow.

I've long avoided reddit just because it seemed like a nonsense stream, but it's been mentioned a few times in stuff I've read here recently. Apart from r/socialism, what are some good areas people have experienced?

[soso17]

Always: Liberation News/Liberation Radio

Sometimes: Red Phoenix, Huffington, Al Jazeera

Rarely: CNN, BBC

--soso