petardier ([personal profile] petardier) wrote2007-03-07 09:45 pm

Where do you go for news and information?

I'm curious about where you go for information. If you have time, add a few of your favorite sources in a comment.

In case you're wondering, I tend to treat information from web sites and blogs with more skepticism than the "traditional" sources - especially if it's a site I don't know.



Newspapers:
Boston Globe - (print version)
New York Times - (free online version, but considering paying for Times Select)

Radio channels:
NPR
Air America (but I don't think they're on the air in Boston any longer)

TV:
The Daily Show - a mix of dumb humor, interviews, and flashes of brilliant commentary
The Colbert Report - a hilarious mockery of right-wing TV/radio

Web sites:
Salon.com - (paid version)
Daily Kos - (the main articles and recommended articles)
Americablog
Firedoglake - good for Libby trial nuance and bogus WMD claims
Glenn Greenwald - (now on Salon)
Orcinus - right wing authoritarian thinking analyzed

[identity profile] leemoyer.livejournal.com 2007-03-08 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
Context is key. And until NPR stops using phrases like "Surge" and "gaming" (instead of the more correct "gambling"), and "Death Tax" I'm afraid their news is simply watered-down Rightwing talking points.

I like the sites you do, the occasional article in the Economist, and a lot
of foreign press whenever I encounter some.

I also read the saucy swishy AmericaBlog and Crooks and Liars.

[identity profile] petardier.livejournal.com 2007-03-09 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
NPR isn't all Repug talking points, but they are seen on NPR more frequentyly than I'd like.

[identity profile] leemoyer.livejournal.com 2007-03-09 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
Yup.