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FWIW I get my news from The Guardian, Vox and the Washington Post. And this thread.
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gradenko_2000 posted:FWIW I get my news from The Guardian, Vox and the Washington Post. Thank you! I'll make sure to add those to my daily reading. I always figured Drudge linked to the important articles but I didn't know it leaned right. Shimrra Jamaane posted:Stop getting literally all of your news from Politico and loving Drudge Report. No need to be a dick. I explicitly asked for suggestions and was already looking to expand my reading so thanks for pointing out something I already loving knew?
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PhazonLink posted:The GOP's only choice for 2020 is a senator from CO that can break beltway pansies with his bare hands. At least he'll be smart enough not to write his own speeches!
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Arrgytehpirate posted:Thank you! I'll make sure to add those to my daily reading. I always figured Drudge linked to the important articles but I didn't know it leaned right.  You didn't know Drudge leaned right?!?
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Arrgytehpirate posted:Thank you! I'll make sure to add those to my daily reading. I always figured Drudge linked to the important articles but I didn't know it leaned right. lol no Drudge doesn't just link the important articles. It's run by a far-right nutjob who hates the Clintons for a living. Here's a quote from the wiki page for Matt Drudge: "Drudge met Andrew Breitbart in Los Angeles during the 1990s and became his mentor, with Breitbart later helping to run the Drudge Report." And since you might not be aware, breitbart.com is also right wing.
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Jun 30, 2016 14:02
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Matt Drudge made his reputation by breaking the Monica Lewinsky story and has been trying unsuccessfully to repeat that ever since.
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Jun 30, 2016 14:06
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Lol if you get your news from anywhere other than Borowitz Report.
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Litany Unheard posted:lol no Drudge doesn't just link the important articles. It's run by a far-right nutjob who hates the Clintons for a living. Here's a quote from the wiki page for Matt Drudge: "Drudge met Andrew Breitbart in Los Angeles during the 1990s and became his mentor, with Breitbart later helping to run the Drudge Report." I knew Breitbart was a far-right crazy but I didn't know Drudge mentored him. haveblue posted:Matt Drudge made his reputation by breaking the Monica Lewinsky story and has been trying unsuccessfully to repeat that ever since. I also knew about his rise to fame being the Lewinsky scandal but that's legitimate news. I didn't know he hated the Clintons.
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Jun 30, 2016 14:09
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Arrgytehpirate posted:Thank you! I'll make sure to add those to my daily reading. I always figured Drudge linked to the important articles but I didn't know it leaned right.
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Kilroy posted:how is this possible Arrgytehpirate is actually David Brooks here to teach us all a little about humility.
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Jun 30, 2016 14:12
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Just claim you read the Drudge Report for the man candy.
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Arrgytehpirate posted:I always figured Drudge linked to the important articles but I didn't know it leaned right. The Drudge Report is one of the heaviest right-wing crazy sites I could name.
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I can appreciate the surprise that some readers in this thread are having to someone not realizing that Drudge leans right, but I would ask that in the future a little more patience as shown. Despite the fact that the regulars in this forum are well aware of exactly who drudge is and where his biases lie, a great deal of people who are not really familiar with politics are simply not as experienced with the biases of various media outlets. One of the curious effects that Trump is having on this election as he is terrifying the living crap out of average Americans and making them sit up and pay attention to politics in a way they really haven't before. As a result people are starting to consciously engage with political news coverage, but they are doing so largely from a position of relative inexperience. I think the poster above was making a genuine good-faith effort to broaden their horizons and is probably a little confused at the reaction he got from this thread. I would like to cite a personal anecdote that I just had this morning that although entirely anecdotal those kind of illustrate some of the effect that Trump is having on the election. Just down the street from me is one of those classic Mexican Dives that's only open for breakfast and lunch that San Antonio is so famous for. The building is old and painted in the most garishly clashing colors, but the food inside is absolutely amazing. The restaurant staff is as you would expect entirely Latino. I'm a regular in there and on a first-name basis with pretty much everyone who works there (because their papas ala mejicana breakfast tacos are without peer in the mortal realm), and we chat quite a bit whenever I'm in there. This morning they had Good Morning America on television and the subject of Donald Trump came up. The entire Latino wait staff started discussing Trump and asking me questions about him. (I'm known for followimg politics). Although they were fairly unaccustomed to paying detailed attention to American politics, Trump had them genuinely furious and interested in understanding politics. Or at least, motivated to do whatever it takes to stop Trump. I've been coming to this restaurant for almost 2 years now and in that entire time the wait staff generally didn't really pay any more attention to politics than the average American. Now however they mutually recognize the threat that Trump poses and are making an effort to become more politically aware. Likewise I feel that as the general election progresses we are going to see quite a few Goons start coming into this forum, and specifically this thread, and asking questions about politics. I think the best approach is to accept that they are walking into this with a combination of genuinely open minds and inexperience in filtering out the various propaganda outfits that dominate American media. If you've been following this thread regularly for years you can probably rattle off a list of a couple dozen media commentators and exactly where they stand on a given issue, but for the average American they just have not felt a reason to engage with politics on that level. Trump however is radically changing that. One of the quirks of a generation that grew up on video games where you're constantly fighting manipulative and evil dictators is that when the real thing starts to appear people can recognize it much more readily. TLDR: Go easy on the political newbies. Explain to them what proper scouting is instead of cannon rushing them every single match. Prester Jane fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Jun 30, 2016 |
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Arrgytehpirate posted:What are some good news sources for political news? I'm looking to start reading deeper on stuff. The Guardian, New York Times, The Post, and Vox (even though they are infuriatingly oblivious at times) are good sources. Long form has to be Mother Jones, Atlantic, New Yorker, Rolling Stones, Jacobin, Intercept, and National Review (for laughs and what the "thinkers" of conservatism are saying). Browsing for giggles is Politico, Gawker, and Breitbart. You could narrow this down to certain writers like Coates and Tabbi. TV is The C-Spans, Samantha Bee, John Oliver, Maddow, Kornacki, Face the Nation, Meet the Press Sunday, and with all due respect. Podcasts would be Amicus, About Race, Benjamin Dixon, Chapo Trap House, Political Gabfest, Point vs Point, Trumpcast, keeping it 1600, and No Knows Anything. And Alex jones for some laughs.
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Mr Hootington posted:The Guardian, New York Times, The Post, and Vox (even though they are infuriatingly oblivious at times) are good sources. Long form has to be Mother Jones, Atlantic, New Yorker, Rolling Stones, Jacobin, Intercept, and National Review (for laughs and what the "thinkers" of conservatism are saying). Browsing for giggles is Politico, Gawker, and Breitbart. You could narrow this down to certain writers like Coates and Tabbi. *Bush sotto* You forgot The New Republic. Also don't tell people to read Jacobin. Also the Intercept is mostly trash.
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:Also don't tell people to read Jacobin. How else will you get your fill of ex-LF posters calling their parents liberal-interventionist in a Marxist review of Age of Empires II?
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Prester Jane posted:TLDR: Go easy on the political newbies. Explain to them what proper scouting is instead of cannon rushing them every single match. I get the point that you're driving at, but I honestly have to question the mental ability of someone who looks at Drudge Report for more than one day and can't tell it's a right wing news site.
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Luigi Thirty posted:How else will you get your fill of ex-LF posters calling their parents liberal-interventionist in a Marxist review of Age of Empires II? Read YCS or my Twitter account.
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:*Bush sotto* You forgot The New Republic. Yeah i forgot a few that I have bookmarked at home. Jacobin is good for very leftist economic pieces and I like the intercept for reporting on government infringements on citizen rights. Anything else that I missed?
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Jun 30, 2016 14:33
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comes along bort posted:Lol if you get your news from anywhere other than Borowitz Report.
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Mr Hootington posted:Yeah i forgot a few that I have bookmarked at home. MTV News' politics section is excellent, I also follow some people from Bloomberg.
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Jun 30, 2016 14:35
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I also have the BBC for general news, and 538 for analysis kind of reporting. I do also have Daily Dot, and Vice if you wanna read about cool poo poo. And for LGBT news I have the Advocate and THe New Civil Rights Movement.
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Jun 30, 2016 14:36
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Vice News? I know Al-Jazeera America already shut down, but then I think it was their international desk that was good to begin with.
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Jun 30, 2016 14:36
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Arrgytehpirate posted:Thank you! I'll make sure to add those to my daily reading. I always figured Drudge linked to the important articles but I didn't know it leaned right. • http://talkingpointsmemo.com/ • http://www.economist.com/ • https://www.theguardian.com/us • http://www.motherjones.com/ • http://www.vox.com/ Huzanko fucked around with this message at 14:39 on Jun 30, 2016 |
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Jun 30, 2016 14:37
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The Blaze is pretty good.
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DemeaninDemon posted:The Blaze is pretty good. 
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DemeaninDemon posted:The Blaze is pretty good. lol Glen Beck's site? not sure if serious
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Jun 30, 2016 14:40
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https://twitter.com/AriMelber/status/748508415379537920
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Jun 30, 2016 14:44
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Jun 30, 2016 14:44
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DemeaninDemon posted:The Blaze is pretty good. Noam Chomsky posted:lol Glen Beck's site? I'm going to pull a Drudge Report on this one as far as The Blaze occasionally gets some news worth reading and so even if in the back of my mind I know its Glenn Beck's I'm just not sure if it's necessarily right-wing.
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Jun 30, 2016 14:46
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gradenko_2000 posted:I'm going to pull a Drudge Report on this one as far as The Blaze occasionally gets some news worth reading and so even if in the back of my mind I know its Glenn Beck's I'm just not sure if it's necessarily right-wing. The Blaze is absolutely a right-wing idiot sphere that anything of value they might report, is almost certainly being done elsewhere.
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Jun 30, 2016 14:48
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Fark's not bad for news, either.
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Jun 30, 2016 14:49
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The Blaze is good at telling you who to delete off Facebook.
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Jun 30, 2016 14:49
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Get yer news off twitter, kiddos.
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gradenko_2000 posted:I'm going to pull a Drudge Report on this one as far as The Blaze occasionally gets some news worth reading and so even if in the back of my mind I know its Glenn Beck's I'm just not sure if it's necessarily right-wing.  Nope. Not right-wing at all.
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DemeaninDemon posted:The Blaze is good at telling you who to delete off Facebook. This is 100% accurate
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Jun 30, 2016 14:51
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I exclusively follow the Opinion section of Fox News and just believe the exact opposite of whatever is said there.
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Geostomp posted:You can see this in the sheer anger they expressed that their loyal rubes jumped ship to the shining orange Trump boat when he promised the same things they had for decades, but louder and angrier. The real reason they can't combat him is that doing so would require them to have anything else to offer beyond their unearned sense of legitimacy and they simply don't have that. Trump's narcissistic incompetence while attracting all the worst of the country gives me hope that the GOP really will start to collapse on itself when he fails so their death grip on policy will wane. Well, the problem is that their traditional social platforms are currently non-starters. The only the Republicans can promise accurately is that they'll be a significant anchor on the Democrat's aims. We're not going to make abortion illegal or make gay marriage illegal or throw out all the foreigners, all the Rs can do, at best, is keep us exactly where we are. Trump's calling them out on the fact that they haven't actually accomplished any of their goals, and he's right - the issue is that he's not any more capable of doing those things than they were. Less, even. If Trump ever did become president, it would be interesting to watch the righteous anger of his voters as he didn't change a drat thing on their social agenda. (please please don't let him win, though)
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My future mother-in-law claims to watch CNN to "get the other side's viewpoint." She's also an idiot total fox news drone.
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Noam Chomsky posted:
The Blaze is a right-wing site, but I do not understand how your screenshot proves your point. The "blasts Obama" headline, maybe? Very little of what's shown in your shot is right-wing-centric.
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