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Re: Where do you get news?

Freedom4Me73986 — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:11:19 GMT

Infowars and Prison Planet. Also libertarian news sites.

Re: Where do you get news?

MaikU — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:02:37 GMT

understand what you saying and agree completely.

Re: Where do you get news?

Bert — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:52:23 GMT

I lol'd :D

I'm almost serious on that; my reason being the stuff the Onion posts is more serious and sensible than what the locals news posts about. I have all this stuff added on my FB, so I see it first on there. I won't look at who's posting it, just what it is, and when I read the titles of some of the articles I think it's Onion, and then reality hits and it actually happened. Sometimes I think 2 of the local news stations around here are competing with the Onion for the dumbest shit possible.

For example:

Your Body as it Struggles to Process Top Ramen
Romney Tells Conservaties He's One of Them
5th Grader Stabs Classmate with Mom's Diabetes Needle
Father Shoots Daughters Computer over Disrespectful Facebook Post
Man Killed while Sleeping Under Truck
Man Catches Himself on Fire in Bathroom

All of those seem Onion News worthy, as well as an entire series on a tax service called Mo' Money and how it screwed it's customers over and the owners left town when things got violent, as well as articles such as "Does God Care about Football?" This is the "real" news.

Re: Where do you get news?

MaikU — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:55:53 GMT

Bert:

The Onion News

I lol'd :D

Re: Where do you get news?

Bert — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:34:46 GMT

The Onion News

Re: Where do you get news?

Jack Roberts — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:26:42 GMT

Some news aggregators, they basically select specific news stories from MSM and blogs.

http://www.informationliberation.com/

http://dprogram.net/

http://www.blacklistednews.com/

http://www.zerohedge.com/

If i read the MSM then I take it from where it comes, to use another expression, I take it with a grain of salt.

news.google.com and If i must read msm i will read, guardian.co.uk, telegraph.co.uk, independent.co.uk, thisislondon.co.uk Also reddit and fark are good for news.

Re: Where do you get news?

CrazyCoot — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:28:25 GMT

The Daily Show, Lew Rockwell, Intereconomia, and Left-wing radio.

Re: Where do you get news?

mikachusetts — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:06:10 GMT

The Today Show and Inside Edition. I want to be entertained, dammit.

Re: Where do you get news?

John James — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:25:18 GMT

Don't leave out

EconomicPolicyJournal.com

And while I wouldn't expect it to come up here, DrudgeReport.com is popular for a reason.

Re: Where do you get news?

Aristippus — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:52:26 GMT

International:

Lew Rockwell

Mises Institute

(I used to go to al-Jazeera but there's so much left-wing crap on it that I couldn't be bothered with it)

Local (i.e. Australia):

Andrew Bolt's blog

Macrobusiness

Re: Where do you get news?

Groucho — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:02:22 GMT

Re: Where do you get news?

Clayton — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:39:10 GMT

al-Jazeera

Russia Today

BBC

I have found that directly searching for specific topics in Google News is far more useful than trying to get your news from an editorial selection. My keywords include: "oil" "gold" "wheat" "rice" "flu" "iran" "hormuz" and so on. I might do a second search based on what I turn up from these searches. I was searching more diligently six months back when the news seemed a little more active. When things start picking up again, I might go back to more diligent mining of the news.

Clayton -

Re: Where do you get news?

Gero — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:22:05 GMT

I like the Associated Press. It does a good job covering the stories. It tries to be objective, but there are times when I disagree with it. For example, if it does an article on the economy, it will cite plenty of pro-intervention economists and no anti-intervention economists.

Re: Where do you get news?

Malachi — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:31:23 GMT

This is very true. Although it may sound both arrogant and ignorant, it is much more important to understand generally what is going on and to have a good grasp on theory and history than to understand exactly what is going on all the time and not to understand theory or the historical background of things.

yup! All data requires interpretation. One easy way to pass misinfo/disinfo is to make it time critical/urgent/new so people dont have time to think it through or verify.

Re: Where do you get news?

Neodoxy — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:44:23 GMT

"I also don't place too high of a value on news though, as having a lot of knowledge (especially that the state is evil) from your observations, patterns, etc. is probably more important."

This is very true. Although it may sound both arrogant and ignorant, it is much more important to understand generally what is going on and to have a good grasp on theory and history than to understand exactly what is going on all the time and not to understand theory or the historical background of things.

This is where so many people go wrong, especially in modern politics. For instance they might look at the "socialist" Scandinavian countries and advocate socialism without having a grasp on what the system actually is, or the reasons that events have turned out as well as they have, or any number of factors which have culminated in the realization of events as they really are. Once one realizes the fact that the mainstream news is going to be skewed towards a statist, usually nationalistic point of view, with a general effort to keep the political sphere within the status-quo point of view that people are used to dealing with, one knows most of what one needs to know about current events.

Focus on reading books, rather than newspapers.