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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat are your favorite news sources?
DU used to have a column on the side with a list of democratic and liberal friendly websites and news sources, but sadly that is no more. I have been using alternet.org, dailykos.com, motherjones.com, crooksandliars.com, thinkprogress.org and rawstory as my main sources, but I like to look around and not be stuck to the same.
I have just dropped rawstory. Too many times wicked websites have come up that warn "You are already infected." That sort of thing. For those who do not know, a website that does not let you leave and tries to control your browser is evil. Do not ever trust their warnings, advice, ads or anything else about them. While rawstory does not itself cause problems, they have enabled ads to have a bit more power to autorun and autoplay than is wise and they have no effective filter on their ads. I am sad to say goodby to them, but I really don't want my computer infected.
If any of you have a list or suggestion of websites that you trust to give good data and not spill toxic attacks on your computer, please post them for us to share.
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)DW & HKN
I simply cannot stomach CNN, MSNBC and the other Cable Infotainment channels.
tanyev
(42,623 posts)abqtommy
(14,118 posts)DU, Al Jazeera English, the BBC and the the Guardian. US news sources are crap...
Poiuyt
(18,130 posts)I've never had any of the trouble you have had, and I like their collection of articles.
PurgedVoter
(2,220 posts)Yet, after removing Rawstory from my list, I have found quite a few advantages.
There is a firefox app called lightbeam that can be useful in identifying issue. If you clear the data on lightbeam and open a website you can see how many other websites are connected to when you go to a website. If you clear the data after you have connected you can watch and see how many websites update and continue being linked into your experience. It is rather eye opening.
TheBlackAdder
(28,222 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,222 posts).
It's a nice quick reference that combs dozens of other news sites to pull in reports.
As some here complain, and I partially agree upon--many of them are just lifted from other sites, some are poorly summarized and others have attention grabbing headlines and ledes, which might count as click bait--but they offer a quite comprehensive list of pertinent topics without having to search multiple websites. If you want more detail, you can always click on the cited source.
RS is one of my top reference sites, for just that purpose.
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Poiuyt
(18,130 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)Buzz flash and Mueller She Wrote & Gaslit Nation podcasts.
PurgedVoter
(2,220 posts)Buzzflash often pointed to things that no one else seemed to notice. I will miss them.
imanamerican63
(13,817 posts)pnwmom
(108,996 posts)Also, if there is a topic and I want to see a number of articles on it, I either go to news.google.com or I go to google, type in the subject, and after the page opens, choose "news" from the bar at the top. For some reason there's often a different selection of choices.
PurgedVoter
(2,220 posts)Sadly on a lot of the others you list, I am not a wealthy man and I have usually used up my free articles by the sixth day of the month.
pnwmom
(108,996 posts)I look there for other outlets . . .
malaise
(269,187 posts)local news, ABC. M$NBComcast
DFW
(54,445 posts)At least when it comes to news of the USA. They don't have, as Roger Ailes put it, "an agenda."
PurgedVoter
(2,220 posts)This is a list of how many third party websites came up when I went to each of these websites.
Rawstory 138
Crooksandliars.com 124
CNN.com 105
aljazeera.com 99
Alternet.org 95
DailyKos.com 87
HuffPost.com 79
ThinkProgress.org 76
TheGuardian.com/us 58
bbc.co.uk 56
MotherJones.com 29
DemocraticUnderground 18
google.com 1
mail.google.com 0
This number does not directly indicate that a website is wicked. It does however relate to how complex the relationships and connections to other websites are. The webmasters for DU have a much simpler task when trying to track a third party problem than many much simpler websites do. Their connection list is simple enough to try and keep control of things.
As you increase the third party connections things will become more complex. A large number of third party connections may indicate a large effort to monetize every possible element that someone will pay for. A large number of analytic connections does mean that your responses and data are being sold to a large number of people. In turn, this helps feed corporate big brother.
While I am repeating over and over that a large number of third party connections does not directly indicate problematic behavior, I will say that it is at the very least a strong sign of potential danger.
Amishman
(5,559 posts)Ignoring the right wing bias issue, they all like to sensationalize to chase ratings.