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wario  ·  3916 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reddit censors big story about government manipulation and disruption of the Internet

I wish I knew a newspaper I could trust.. The guardian maybe but apart from that I feel a bit lost looking for "reputable sources" these days. I must admit a large part of my news comes from reddit. It's just too damn easy to get it there and get swept up in the hive mind.





user-inactivated  ·  3916 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I feel a bit lost looking for "reputable sources" these days.

The trick is, when you find a particular news report, don't take that as fact. Go through the net and find lots of different reports on the same thing, then make a decision as to how you feel about it. It takes more work, but you become better informed.

And give NPR a shot, it's the bee's knees.

wario  ·  3916 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ill try NPR it is honestly too much effort trying to wade the shit from the good. I need something reputable delivered right to me. The guardian politics podcast is quite good so I imagine ill like NPR

kleinbl00  ·  3916 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Daily Beast cheat sheet every morning. Curated aggregation done mostly right.

Paper subscription to The Week. Curated aggregation done mostly right.

Anything beyond that, dig deeper.

ecib  ·  3916 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I wish I knew a newspaper I could trust..

There are some good publications, but increasingly it is better to follow certain authors rather than the newspapers/publications themselves. The best individual reporters have much more respect for their craft and their audience than any collection of them on a payroll.

OftenBen  ·  3916 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I recommend Matt Taibbi. First Class journalist.

blackfox026  ·  3916 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've been tuning into Democracy Now! recently, and it's pretty good (though it's not a newspaper, it's a show). It's certainly biased pretty far to the left, but admittedly and unapologetically so. I think bias is only really a problem in journalism when the authors try to hide it.