What Are Your Top News Sources? Least Amount of right wing Propaganda?

[TomCADem]

I am interested to see where DUers get their news. I am not talking necessarily about politics, but just general news, which could very well have political and policy ramifications.

1. NY Times - They make mistakes, and sometimes buy right into a Fox News driven media cycle, but they are one of the few newspapers out there that is still independent, and not owned by some huge media conglomerate like News Corp (Rupert Murdoch). They aren't perfect, but they at least make an effort to report and find out the facts, rather than resorting to the he said, she said debates that dominate the media.

http://www.nytimes.com/

2. NPR - The interviewers are usually pretty informed, and they are willing to wade into the weeds of policy issues. They interview people on the ground in foreign news, and do not simply trot out professional spin meisters who know nothing about the subject matter being discussed.

http://www.npr.org/

3. CNN - Their talk shows (Glenn Beck and Larry King) are a real drawback, and too often, they simply let spin doctors beat the crap out of each other, rather than engaging in any fact checking. However, Fareed Zakaria's show is pretty informative, and they usually are not the ones breaking the newest RW talking points, though they do usually report them after they've made the rounds on right wing media. The one thing I do like is that their interviews, unlike network news, do not simply consist of reading a right wing talking point, and asking a Democrat to respond to that attack. List to ABC news, and you will see what I mean. They actually do generally know how to conduct interviews.

http://www.cnn.com/

4. BBC - It is always interesting to get a foreign perspective on world events that does not have a direct stake in painting the news in American idealogical colors. The BBC often reflects an angle that you just don't get from any American media sources.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

5. Washington Post - When I do want to get some insight on the inner political workings of D.C., WaPo is a pretty good source. Unlike Tweety, who will take the latest setback and declare the Obama presidency over, WaPo provides some nice insight on the back door political game. I also understand that they are not a subsidiary of one of the giant media conglomerates.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

6. MSNBC - I LOVE Rachel Maddow, the Ed Show and Keith Olbermann. However, the rest of the network sometimes looks like they are trying to be a poor man's version of Fox News. Their morning shows are absolutely terrible. If there was a little more consistency to MSNBC, I would rank them much higher. However, as it stands, I don't watch MSNBC, except to catch Maddow, Ed, or KO.

[abumbyanyothername]

1. I use DU General Discussion.

And follow up the links.

I also get fed a lot through facebook.

Occasionally my.yahoo (mainly reuters, some AP).

Even more rarely, CNBC.

[DJ13]

2. DU..... of course!

The smartest people scouring the net for the latest news.

[valerief]

3. PM MSNBC, links off DU and other progressive sites. nt

[Hannah Bell]

4. links above all = opo (official propaganda outlets)

npr in particular has very little news.

it specializes in anecdotes masquerading as news.

[abumbyanyothername]

7. Not to get all mushy or anything

but Hannah Bell is an excellent source solid information for . . . I guess I'll just say it . . . the proletariat.

[TomCADem]

14. Disagree With You On The NY Times - They Are Not Completely Bias Free, But...

They have the best in-depth discussion on a consistent basis. I really hope they do not go under or get bought out by Rupert Murdoch. Having independent news outlets is getting to be a rarity, and we should not take outfits like the NY Times for granted. The growing concentration of the media is the biggest threat to Democracy in my mind, and if the media boils down to the AP and Rupert Murdoch, then Democracy is truly dead, because we will have lost an informed electorate.

[drmeow]

5. DU plus

AlertNet:

http://www.alternet.org/

and Raw Story:

http://www.rawstory.com/

[TexasObserver]

6. Now, I use GD at DU as my news clearing house.

If it remotely matters, I'll see it on GD.

That's the unsung value of this board. It is AWESOME for making sure I read anything that is going on anything that really matters. I wade through the merely conversational for the gold nuggets that appear often here daily.

I judge the sources, of course, and that's based upon decades of judging sources and reading most of them.

[gateley]

8. DU -- stuff gets posted here before I get my 'breaking news' emails from

WaPo, NYT, CNN, etc., and often before it gets put up on their websites. Plus, I don't have to wade through the MSM bs -- just the DU bs :7

I listen to Thom Hartmann and most of the others on progressive radio, but my TV is usually tuned to MSNBC -- most especially Rachel (the best), Keith and yes, Tweety and I really like David Shuster.

[donheld]

9. Democracy NOW!

[bananas]

12. and stations which carry DemocracyNow! usually have other good programs

http://www.democracynow.org/stations

[DeadEyeDyck]

10. The guy in the office next door ran over and told me

that Rush Limbaugh said he reads Democratic Undergroud. So, who I am to argue with Rush!

ditto!
ditto!
ditto!

[AuntPatsy]

11. Du with much gratitude for those that share thier links and or knowledge...

[PSzymeczek]

13. Buzzflash.com

One-stop shopping for the best in news.

[Octafish]

15. ConsortiumNews.com, TruthDig.com, InTheseTimes, Dave Emory, MotherJones...

For History:

JFKLancer.com
MaryFerrell.org
History-Matters
EducationForum
SpitfireList

Bunch more of both.

[steelmania75]

16. The Daily Show and The Colbert Report

[Stardust]

17. Thom Hartmann and Mike Malloy provide my news, in addition to DU, KO, RM, and ES. nt

[Apollo11]

18. Democratic Underground, Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart

These are the 3 sources I try to keep up with on a daily basis (all via internet).

For written stuff I mostly look at a couple of liberal newspapers based in London: The Guardian and The Independent. But then again - I'm a Brit!

It makes no sense to me that the OP ranks CNN 3rd (despite brainless tabloid crap like Larry King Live), and MSNBC 6th (except to catch Maddow, Ed or KO). If you like The Ed Show, Countdown and Rachel Maddow - that's 3 hours every single weekday! How can anyone watch CNN for more than 10 minutes? Blitzer bugs me. And they are always taking a commercial break.