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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOddly Enough...it seems I trust DU now more than any other news website.
As the economy pulls down another news agency, or the print-media's failure to realize early that the "paper" in "newspaper" was pretty much a thing of the past the day the internet was invented, I have noticed that more and more I am starting my day with the Breaking News section of DU.
As side-boobs took over Huffington Post, Lindsey Lohan's latest idiocy took over the news and the main-stream media began running with stories that they weren't even fact checking, DU seems to have become my first source for news. You Duers with your thirst for knowledge and your willingness to call a turd a turd have become some of the best fact-checkers and information sharers on the internet. I have had some of my facts corrected by the best on here, that's for sure, and no matter how awesome and progressive the story is on here, you still have someone saying, "Link, please?".
Hats off to you my DU buddies. Happy Sunday Morning. Happy fact hunting to you. Thanks for catching me up on the news.
(and also a shout out to my organic, family farmed, sumatra dark roast coffee, french pressed (with an extra half a scoop of beans to make it extra dark, sugar and some fat free half and half...man-oh-man is this a good cup of jo)
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Using DU as a source of information is as misguided as trusting Fox News.
DonRedwood
(4,359 posts)lindsey lohan stories, sideboob photos, etc. etc. give me a good starting point.
Lol...I'm no saying I ONLY get my news from here, I pay for The NY Times, read the WA Post, LA Times regularly, Mother Jones and some blogs that I find appealing.
But DU is a good start point. There are posters on here that I trust very much. MadFloridian, for instance. I can't say that about any other website.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)But, let's be honest -- there's a lot of meaningless pop culture crap we must sift through every day.
NRaleighLiberal
(59,940 posts)take this more than a small cut above Faux news...
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)And there is no shortage of pure bullshit here.
NRaleighLiberal
(59,940 posts)something about DU...or is that just instances to use your "bullshit" meter?
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)I post here because I like posting here, not because this place is a great source for accurate news.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)Calling you out on that.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Call all you want.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)Fox does it's best to lie and promote a single agenda, we here at DU are a mob of similar leaning folks discussing and often correcting each other.
there is no liberal equal to Fox, so any comparison will be false.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)and it requires you post a mainstream source, so I don't know what you are talking about here.
Obviously, if you use General discussion or Politics 2013, you are not going to necessarily get correct information depending on the poster. But then again, those are not billed as news sections.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)There's very few falsehoods that stand unchallenged at DU. In the major media however, most - nearly all - falsehoods are allowed to pass with no challenge.
sibelian
(7,804 posts)I'm not sure that DU attracts better information but I've seen that pretty much everything is pulled to bits and something that has been made to make some kind of sense usually surfaces... It's actually very interesting to me, we start out with a "spun" story and gradually the spin is stripped off. I think. Sometimes spin is added, however...
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)be vetted by replies and you can check sources yourself. Most folks here fact check for you and you can usually locate the source and verify. I have been taken to task myself for things I've posted and that's fine with me. If I'm wrong I want to know it and I want it 'proven' to me.
DonRedwood
(4,359 posts)They do a lot of my homework for me!!
peace13
(11,076 posts)This place is tried and true! The news and links are always a good picture of what is going on.
My mother has been hooked on Faux for many years. At this point she still desperately needs to believe them but....she says that she can barely stand to watch it. She asked me where I got my news from and I said, 'Mom as much as you have mocked it over the years, DU will give you good sources with links.' I know that she will never come here but it is interesting to see her squirming and ungrounded. If she quits Faux then I know that our country has a chance. She is the benchmark for Faux insanity!
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)and if you don't see what you're looking for...you can post it yourself!
Blue4Texas
(437 posts)I may be wrong but it does appear as sources are vetted and only those deemed reliable are posted. I enjoy the debates and opinions where often the facts are exposed. Viewing through the DEM philosophy which is not safe in many other venues is priceless and learning to frame issues within that context without offense is helpful.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)Links and commentary allow me to form my own opinions unlike other sources who try to tell me what to think.
K & R!
world wide wally
(21,719 posts)and this is totally lost in MSM. The false equivalencies abound on regular news and it does nobody one bit of good except those perpetuating negative forces into our world.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)They start off the morning with a cup of coffee and the Drudge Report, then go to the Huffington Post thinking that lets them see "both sides" of the issues.
pscot
(21,023 posts)It's the world's biggest block party.
In_The_Wind
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just1voice
(1,362 posts)They're all good sources of news in depth.
DonRedwood
(4,359 posts)Alternet is the only one of those I have visited.
I will get my butt going and do my homework!
reformist2
(9,841 posts)I'm not disparaging messageboard-websites like these, but as many here have pointed out, it's really just a hodgepodge of information, misinformation, and opinions. With nobody in any editorial position, it's up to each individual to decide what's true or not. Which is fine, but I cannot deny that the public is ill-served when they have to wade through so much misinformation and invective on every single issue to get to the truth. Serious discourse with those with opposing viewpoints is on the decline, and that is not good. At all.