Very interesting and helpful. Are there media sources that try to highlight very important stories that large media sources are ignoring? If so, how do you find them, and do they do a good, consistent job through time?
My experience is that conservative news sources and bloggers will cover stories or information that progressive ones don't, and vice versa. So a key is to read sources across the political spectrum.
I am center left by instinct. I find NY Times, WaPo (though it's shifting lately), and NPR generally pretty credible (not saying they are, just that I find them so). I find MSN amusing but I don't believe much I find there. I find Fox totally unbelievable. GlobalPost seems believable as does 1440. I struggle to find a center right news source I feel I can trust not to be outright lying. Any suggestions? Also, I can't endure watching/listening to news. It's simply too painful. I like to read news, and to limit how much I take in in a day. I want enough to know what's going on, but I don't want the minutia of everything that comes out of, for example, Trump's mouth.
I am a left-leaning centrist as well. The National Review is a credible and independent-minded conservative magazine. City Journal (the magazine of the Manhattan Institute) and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) are also sources for intelligent conservative viewpoints, often written by conservative academics and professors. Glenn Loury, who has his own substack blog, is a leading black moderate conservative and economics professor, and a very sharp and independent-minded guy.
Thanks. I do read The National Review sometimes and find it pretty good. I have the idea that David Frum, Ross Douthat, and to some extent Andrew Sullivan are center right. But they all write some things I agree with enough that it makes me think they are really center left quite a bit of the time.
I have direct personal experience of mainstream media picking, indeed restricting. . . what you think about. In fact, two decades ago or so, I protested outside the Montreal Gazette's editorial offices with a sign saying:
A "NEWSPAPER" WHERE NO NEWS IS BAD NEWS
to protest the fact that The Gazette was "burying" newsworthy stories, and not just those newsworthy stories that I brought to its attention. . .
Since then, indeed MUCH more recently, I have directly experienced not only The Gazette, but multiple other mainstream media outlets, spreading misleading misinformation and demonstrably false disinformation about me personally, and-or Unitarian Universalist clergy sexual misconduct.
The most lucrative human emotions are fear and lust. Nearly everything we see is playing off of one or the other.
Very interesting and helpful. Are there media sources that try to highlight very important stories that large media sources are ignoring? If so, how do you find them, and do they do a good, consistent job through time?
My experience is that conservative news sources and bloggers will cover stories or information that progressive ones don't, and vice versa. So a key is to read sources across the political spectrum.
I am center left by instinct. I find NY Times, WaPo (though it's shifting lately), and NPR generally pretty credible (not saying they are, just that I find them so). I find MSN amusing but I don't believe much I find there. I find Fox totally unbelievable. GlobalPost seems believable as does 1440. I struggle to find a center right news source I feel I can trust not to be outright lying. Any suggestions? Also, I can't endure watching/listening to news. It's simply too painful. I like to read news, and to limit how much I take in in a day. I want enough to know what's going on, but I don't want the minutia of everything that comes out of, for example, Trump's mouth.
I am a left-leaning centrist as well. The National Review is a credible and independent-minded conservative magazine. City Journal (the magazine of the Manhattan Institute) and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) are also sources for intelligent conservative viewpoints, often written by conservative academics and professors. Glenn Loury, who has his own substack blog, is a leading black moderate conservative and economics professor, and a very sharp and independent-minded guy.
Thanks. I do read The National Review sometimes and find it pretty good. I have the idea that David Frum, Ross Douthat, and to some extent Andrew Sullivan are center right. But they all write some things I agree with enough that it makes me think they are really center left quite a bit of the time.
I have direct personal experience of mainstream media picking, indeed restricting. . . what you think about. In fact, two decades ago or so, I protested outside the Montreal Gazette's editorial offices with a sign saying:
A "NEWSPAPER" WHERE NO NEWS IS BAD NEWS
to protest the fact that The Gazette was "burying" newsworthy stories, and not just those newsworthy stories that I brought to its attention. . .
Since then, indeed MUCH more recently, I have directly experienced not only The Gazette, but multiple other mainstream media outlets, spreading misleading misinformation and demonstrably false disinformation about me personally, and-or Unitarian Universalist clergy sexual misconduct.