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[Nevernose]

8. Raw story is still fairly good, IMO

For what it is. More than Twitter, less than a research-news site. Heavily biased towards reality but also with a thick layer of left wing snark and left wing curation.

What I LOVE it for is catching stories that I would have otherwise missed. They draw attention to smaller things. From there I can do further research on my own.

I think that in 2017 we all need to be more self-conscious media consumers. We need to either be trained or train ourselves at approaching things with a Critical lens (big C philosophy Critical).

Rawstory I feel is more up front about what it is and what they do. Newsweek is now basically a news aggregator with less overt commentary, but seems to still be pretending that it’s still what it was in the print days.

For instance, in the 16 years I’ve wasted at DU, I’ve had ONE post hidden. It was because I quoted Newsweek — but hadn’t realized they were literally only rewording and linking to a Fox News hit piece. Totally my responsibility, but it still pisses me off.