Good Current Event/history/political Sources?
<div class="IPBDescription">Promoting better Discussion opinions</div><!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->5.: Respect other peoples newssources.
It is so tempting. Tell someone that you don't believe the newspaper they cited articles from, and the uncomfortably consistent argumentation they built up falls together, leaving you and your notion secure again.
Don't ever try that.
Discrediting a newssource requires more than that one article from three years ago that wasn't entirely correct, or an obvious political bias - you'll find few newssites without one. Accept that Leftys will often quote facts found on Salon.org, while Conservatives will cite FOX. Unless you can find contradicting factual data, you will have to accept the newssources validity and instead go the hard way, argumentatively tackling the points based upon those articles.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
As much as I want to, I tend to save myself humiliation when it comes to topics in the Discussion forums regarding history, politics, and current events. The reason is simple: I am too ill-informed to provide anything insightful.
Hopefully as a favour to everyone, I was wondering what news/history/political sources people find here most informative, and that hopefully try to avoid too much bias. With the responses given, (if any), this might be worth a sticky and help make posters more informative before giving their opinion.
Any suggestions?
It is so tempting. Tell someone that you don't believe the newspaper they cited articles from, and the uncomfortably consistent argumentation they built up falls together, leaving you and your notion secure again.
Don't ever try that.
Discrediting a newssource requires more than that one article from three years ago that wasn't entirely correct, or an obvious political bias - you'll find few newssites without one. Accept that Leftys will often quote facts found on Salon.org, while Conservatives will cite FOX. Unless you can find contradicting factual data, you will have to accept the newssources validity and instead go the hard way, argumentatively tackling the points based upon those articles.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
As much as I want to, I tend to save myself humiliation when it comes to topics in the Discussion forums regarding history, politics, and current events. The reason is simple: I am too ill-informed to provide anything insightful.
Hopefully as a favour to everyone, I was wondering what news/history/political sources people find here most informative, and that hopefully try to avoid too much bias. With the responses given, (if any), this might be worth a sticky and help make posters more informative before giving their opinion.
Any suggestions?
Comments
Only because Matt Drudge usually reports things as they are, but dear God is his layout hard on the eyes.
Aside form that, Google is your best friend. You will always have to do the hard work yourself, evaluating every argument and fact. When dealing with anything political, especially on the net, you have to set your BS Detector to Ultra Sensative.
The ammount of misconstrued information, flat out lies, and ignored truths that get thrown around every day on the net is simply staggering. I can't tell you the number of times I've read over somones post somewhere and seen them dodge the glaring flaws of their arguments with slick wording and regurgitated one-liners.
In Summary: <b>Brain + Googling = Win</b>
Mainly because they attempt/appear to be without bias.
lol yus
</li><li><a href='http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/essusa/ereserves/welcome.htm' target='_blank'>The Essential America Electronic Reserves</a>: One of the my few bookmarked history sites (I usually rely on Google and my books), because it offers lots of quoteable material in short time.
[edit]</li><li><a href='http://www.chomsky.info/' target='_blank'>Comsky.info</a>: Noam Chomsky may be controversial, but his articles are pretty much the best you can find if you are speaking English and searching for leftist ideas right now.[/edit]</li></ul>I'll update the list as I remember good sources.
yay! ^_^
Of course, there's also free <a href='http://www.nytimes.com' target='_blank'>New York Times online</a> (free registration). Great but somewhat (just a little, I swear!) biased editorials.
If you're looking for legislature there's always <a href='http://www.senate.gov' target='_blank'>Senate.gov</a> and <a href='http://www.house.gov' target='_blank'>House.gov</a>.
The honest key here is cross reference, cross reference, <b>cross reference</b>. If you feel like you're being told a story that seems a little iffy, cross reference.
If you're looking for general history I would stick with your basic <a href='http://www.encyclopedia.com' target='_blank'>Encyclopedia</a>
P.S. <a href='http://capwiz.com/c-span/issues/bills/' target='_blank'>Current Legislation</a> from C-Span is really cool.
This is actually my main news source. Despite claiming to be fake news, I find it to be the most accurate and least biased out of MSNBC, CNN, and that other one.