With all this talk about "fake news", I'm curious where others are getting their news from. So please give me a list of the top 3-5 news sources you trust and where you get your news from. I want to see how many or fews sources come up.
I actually only use news for vague updates on what's going on in the world, but if I want to really learn something then I read research papers. You can be informed on a surprising number of issues in the world by reading research that has already been done rather than reading the news. For example, how does illegal immigration impact the economy? Economists and others have studied this and you can read their findings to get a sense of what the impacts might be and with what levels of certainty. Be careful about low quality research though. Encyclopedias are a good starting point for finding research papers too, or books. If you read a book then be careful because they aren't all golden. I like to read critical book reviews and do some fact checking before believing everything I read. It really comes down to how much time and energy I have for the subject.
Don't trust any "news" source. Take your sources, figure out the slant, decipher the reality for yourself.
I read Reuters, Associated Press, Lawfare Blog, CNN, Fox, NY Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic. They're all filled with various propaganda or poisoned by ideology, but reality peeks through the cracks. Put it through the lens of some real historical philosophers, ask "who benefits" a lot, and it's pretty easy to figure out.
There's nothing wrong with watching the general news. It's just that you need to be aware that it isn't an accurate view of life itself - there's a lot of sensationalism in media.
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I use an aggregator service, which puts up user-submitted articles from everything from local American papers and news stations to the BBC and Al-Jazeera. It works for me, since it lets me look at stories from a wide variety of angles and get a sense for how things are being reported.
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I read Reuters, Associated Press, Lawfare Blog, CNN, Fox, NY Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic. They're all filled with various propaganda or poisoned by ideology, but reality peeks through the cracks. Put it through the lens of some real historical philosophers, ask "who benefits" a lot, and it's pretty easy to figure out.
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"If you don't hit your adversaries wile they're down, they might get up again." --Whipkeeper
"Victory favors neither the righteous nor the wicked. It favors the prepared." -- Lay of the Land