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TheBlackAdder

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3. RawStory is a great aggregator of current news though. While many rewrites are sketchy. . .

Reply to kozar (Original post)

Sun Oct 6, 2019, 05:00 PM

Oct 2019

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Once you see their hyperlinks, with chosen words or phrases, or capture the source at the top, above the lede, you can route directly to the sourced article. Granted, they often have writers who struggle with composing the story rewrites, but I think that has to do with trying to be the first aggregator on the block to post the articles.

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I used to post links [View all] kozar Oct 2019 OP

I try to go to original source links whenever possible. That seems only fair, IMO. hlthe2b Oct 2019 #1

DU has some of the most educated and knowledgeable people anywhere lunatica Oct 2019 #2

RawStory is a great aggregator of current news though. While many rewrites are sketchy. . . TheBlackAdder Oct 2019 #3

A lot of folks are down on RawStory around here... Wounded Bear Oct 2019 #4

FireFox w/NoScript, uBlock, DuckDukGo's Privacy Essentials & EFF's Badger cuts all ads/tracking out. TheBlackAdder Oct 2019 #5

We are doing the same stuff UpInArms Oct 2019 #7

I avoid RawStory & such because they tell us what we want to hear, like Faux for the wingnuts. UTUSN Oct 2019 #6

thank you all kozar Oct 2019 #8