Your Preferred News Source for Current Events

[RedBlackStar]

Information is highly important, which is why I want to be a journalist.

I was wondering what sources you all use to gain information on current events, what that particular source has to offer and why that's important to you.

I'm personally a fan of Reuters. They're totally impartial on Current Events and provide pure information, without "accidentally" forgetting details which will effect how a story is perceived.

[The Intransigent Faction]

No matter how reliable a source seems, it's always good to seek corroborating sources.
That said, Democracy Now seems to have some quality coverage, as does The Guardian and even Business Insider.

[Bala Perdida]

I subscribed to Vice News on youtube. Also I watch Univision to hear events be mentioned.

[RedKobra]

Its not a perfect system but I tend to use news aggregator Newsnow. They collect news articles from all over the place about every topic imaginable. You just have to find the event you're interested in and plough through the news sources. That way you begin to see how much the different sources diverge in terms of their version of events.

[JahLemon]

fox

[crazyirish93]

Reuters and the real news(real news is really worth a look they got some good interviews on YouTube)

[RedWorker]

English:
http://wsws.org

Spanish:
http://publico.es
http://laizquierdadiario.com

[RedBlackStar]

No matter how reliable a source seems, it's always good to seek corroborating sources.

Well said comrade. There's always someone trying to bullshit you.

[consuming negativity]

i like the guardian and al jazeera

i also liked the bbc for a while but they're so anti-worker and pro-state it's kind of disgusting. their reporting on matters in britain is even worse. but then, al jazeera is the same way when it comes to muslims/the middle east/qatar so who am i kidding?

i've heard good things about die spiegel (german) and rt (russian) but both seemed shitty to me

alternet is a lot less shabby than you'd think it'd be too

[Creative Destruction]

Typically al Jazeera and the Guardian for me, as well. I also hit up Salon and Slate, because there's some good stuff there ever so often. I go to the Atlantic, but purely just to read Ta-Nehisi Coates. Democracy Now! ever so often. TruthOut sometimes. Jacobin if there is something interesting.

I tend to steer clear of most leftist "news" sites (like party papers and what not) because the writing is usually god awful. I did freelance reporting for a while, and the stuff that low-paid freelancers turn out, even when just covering a local band playing in some shitty bar on a Wednesday night, is a lot more insightful and riveting to read than the hacks who contribute to those papers.

[OzymandiasX]

Reuters and the real news(real news is really worth a look they got some good interviews on YouTube)

Real News all the way. Honestly I don't know why we don't corroborate and at least let them advertise on here. They definitely need the help to get their name out there.

[bricolage]

I tend to steer clear of most leftist "news" sites (like party papers and what not) because the writing is usually god awful. I did freelance reporting for a while, and the stuff that low-paid freelancers turn out, even when just covering a local band playing in some shitty bar on a Wednesday night, is a lot more insightful and riveting to read than the hacks who contribute to those papers.
I agree. It's generally awful... and slow.

For me what actually happens is there are a bunch of people I am interested in/trust/know/respect/whatever who I keep track of on facebook and twitter and so through those mediums I get a lot of news stories thrown at me. As for places I go myself, probably the guardian (uk), mail & guardian (south africa), haaretz (israel), vice - which tbh as a list makes me look like a proper liberal. if there's a story I'm particuarly interested in I'll scope around the internet to get as much on it as possible.

[Illegalitarian]

Typically al Jazeera and the Guardian for me, as well. I also hit up Salon and Slate, because there's some good stuff there ever so often. I go to the Atlantic, but purely just to read Ta-Nehisi Coates. Democracy Now! ever so often. TruthOut sometimes. Jacobin if there is something interesting.

I tend to steer clear of most leftist "news" sites (like party papers and what not) because the writing is usually god awful. I did freelance reporting for a while, and the stuff that low-paid freelancers turn out, even when just covering a local band playing in some shitty bar on a Wednesday night, is a lot more insightful and riveting to read than the hacks who contribute to those papers.

Yeah, exactly. I don't like socialist "news" sites because I'm not interested in being told what I want to hear, I just want a very general understanding of world events so I can research them further on my own and come to my own conclusions.

Though I will say that most socialist "news" sources tend to have more coverage of obscure events in the underdeveloped world, as well as great historical pieces and coverage of riots and movements that most media outlets won't touch.


CNN, MSNBC, RT, Reuters, Democracy Now, Mother Jones, Jacobin, Guardian, A-J, CCTV, and a myriad of other sources.

RT and CCTV mostly because, while they're obviously problematic for reasons I don't think I should have to state, they do provide pretty good coverage of going-ons in China and Russia respectively, that you can't get anywhere else.

[ColumnNo.4]

I source my information from Richard Wolff, Vice, Al Jazeera America, Democracy Now, Free Speech TV and occasionally MSNBC.

[bcbm]

new york times in print. npr on the radio. online i usually just browse google news and check the bbc and al jazeera if anything interesting seems to be going on.

[Atsumari]

Al Jazeera English was good until Al Gore fucked it all up.

[Sixiang]

I also agree with the criticism of many leftist news sites. I really only look at those ones after I have heard the story from some other source like NPR or the Associated Press. I do also like some of Vice News' interest pieces. I used to read my local newspaper but their quality has really gone down in recent years ever since the newspaper had to cut so many of their staff and then got bought out by a big newspaper company that makes them repeat some of the same news that's found in the childish pages of the USA Today.

When it comes to the leftist news sources, my main, most consistent one is A World to Win News Service. I get emails from them.

[Palmares]

I actually watch alot of news on a given day. There are times I would go without TV for years, but with my health, I'm home alot.

Daily (most days), I watch:

Al-Jazeera News
BBC Impact
BBC World
ABC (Australia Broadcasting Corporation) 24 News
Sometimes other news programs, more corporate type news etc. I can't stand to watch too much news such as this though, as often it simply drives me insane, hence why I watch BBC, ABC, and Al-Jazeera so much.

I also occasionally read articles online from BBC, ABC, Al-Jazeera and the Guardian. and if I haven't exceeded my free subscription limit, I read some articles from SCMP (South China Morning Post) for news in China (a friend in China recommended it to me).

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

I read (and occasionally produce content for) the Halifax Media Co-op (http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/). It's pretty scattershot - ie sometimes not much going on - but sometimes they're the only source for pretty important breaking stories (e.g they were the first people to cover the anti-fracking blockades at Elsipogtog in New Brunswick).
It's also kinda nice because it's one of a limited number of spaces that most of the "left"/anarchists in Halifax all agree is worthwhile, and don't, like fight over.

More broadly, I tend to read the local shitty free daily, the local shitty "alt" weekly, The Globe and Mail periodically to get some insight on what the Liberal Toronto bourgeoisie are thinking, etc.

[MarxSchmarx]

Any more its just ap , afp and Reuters apart from the sports pages for me. The other sources are just too obvious in their human interest agenda, and on the whole these outlets I find to be the only worthy reads ' tho Reuters oddly enough is better than things like colbert

[motion denied]

The Onion.


but srs The Economist, Le Monde and big national newspapers

[Art Vandelay]

I generally check out CBC, CNN, and Al-Jazeera for the most part. Plus I'm subscribed to a few left wing papers, which I read fairly frequently.

[Mad Frankie]

Mostly RT.

[RedKobra]

I can't watch the BBC for news or Politics anymore, its just so right wing its ridiculous. According to the Beeb most of the right thinking people in the world are centre-right or right wing, then there are those pesky bleeding-heart liberals in the LibDems sat in the centre left and the hard left of the Labour Party and then everything to the left of that is just crazy, terrorist loving anarchy. Its infuriating. The bias in favour of reactionary social-conservatism just saturates the airwaves. They feel the need the qualify every news article about the left with a "balancing" view from the right but never do the same when reporting on events on the right of politics, its just taken as a given.

The BBC has always been some way to the right of the left in Britain but none the less it used to be functionally liberal. Those days are long gone.

[Sosa]

Al Jazeera English (I hate Al Jazeera America), NPR on the radio, NYtimes, VICE, The Nation, Jacobin, ROAR, PBS Newshour, MLive (for local/regional coverage)

I haven't watched any tv news in a very long time, as most of my news info comes from online or radio outlets.

[mutualaid]

pariscommune.org , leftist news aggregator

[Aslan]

most of the news I've watched is from VICE, they have done some pretty extreme stuff. (i.e going on the ISIL side of war in Syria several times!) They actually go to places where no mainstream news reporter would

[mutualaid]

democracy now is very good

[ComradeAllende]

New York Times, Vox, Jacobin, Al Jazeera, and NPR all seem pretty reliable for me. Whenever I'm bored or really adventurous I just go on sites like Reason and the National Review just for the helluva it.

[WideAwake]

You know, many philosophers claim that the goal of news sources is not really to inform and to increase knowledge, but to alarm people. But anyways, I think that one of the most leftist news sources are http://www.wsws.org http://www.marxist.com http://www.informationclearinghouse.info and http://www.venezuelanalysis.com



Information is highly important, which is why I want to be a journalist.

I was wondering what sources you all use to gain information on current events, what that particular source has to offer and why that's important to you.

I'm personally a fan of Reuters. They're totally impartial on Current Events and provide pure information, without "accidentally" forgetting details which will effect how a story is perceived.

[Comrade Jacob]

RT

[Burzhuin]

When I have time (sometimes it happens) I watch Al Jazeera. Since I fluent in several languages I also watch online KTV (Krasnoe TV) from Russia.

[WideAwake]

Hey comrade Jacob: Beware of The Russia Today News channel. The other day in one of their TV news shows "World's Apart", there was this historian Stephen Cohen, doing an anti-Soviet Union propaganda. Take a look at this Youtube video of that show where Stephen Cohen said that:


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[Burzhuin]

Hey comrade Jacob: Beware of The Russia Today News channel. The other day in one of their TV news shows "World's Apart", there was this historian Stephen Cohen, doing an anti-Soviet Union propaganda. Take a look at this Youtube video of that show where Stephen Cohen said that:

It is no secret that current Russian government is trying to through a lot of dirt to Soviet socialism. They have nothing to show. 98% of Russian people are getting poorer. 2% - richer. But more and more people getting back to realize what wonderful country they lost. I hope the Russian communists would not lose the opportunity. That is why Obama and Putin are playing game "how much hostility between them".

[Citizen]

Has no one mentioned Telesur? Because Telesur. Follow Latin America.

[VCrakeV]

The local city paper (free!), MSN (it's on my phone by default, so why not?), CTV, and, of course, this place. :p

[willowtooth]

RT and al jazeera for mainstream news, CNN for breaking news like a plane crash or a mass shooting or something, salon.com, mother jones, daily kos for leftish internet news, I would say huffington post but their websites formatting sucks and its hard as fuck to read :)

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