Apsu Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 No sane and rational person should have any confidence that the opinions they receive from Fox News, CNN or MSNBC are factual information. One of the principal goals of Russiagate was the censorship of alternative news sites, disingenuously labeling them as Kremlin tools or racist. Link to comment
ZRod Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 2 hours ago, Apsu said: No sane and rational person should have any confidence that the opinions they receive from Fox News, CNN or MSNBC are factual information. One of the principal goals of Russiagate was the censorship of alternative news sites, disingenuously labeling them as Kremlin tools or racist. These two things have never claimed to be the same thing... Link to comment
Apsu Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 25 minutes ago, ZRod said: These two things have never claimed to be the second thing... Including my post. But if you want to get reliable information, you cannot rely on Fox, CNN or MSNBC. You need at least a dozen or more sources with known biases, so you can triangulate toward the most likely version of what happened. Unfortunately sites like Google, Yahoo, YouTube, twitter and even Wikipedia are censoring alternate non-mainstream news. Link to comment
ZRod Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 19 minutes ago, Apsu said: Including my post. But if you want to get reliable information, you cannot rely on Fox, CNN or MSNBC. You need at least a dozen or more sources with known biases, so you can triangulate toward the most likely version of what happened. Unfortunately sites like Google, Yahoo, YouTube, twitter and even Wikipedia are censoring alternate non-mainstream news. Like what? Link to comment
Apsu Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 15 minutes ago, ZRod said: Like what? Let's start with one that is more conservative, and one that is more progressive. https://www.zerohedge.com/ https://theintercept.com/ Link to comment
ZRod Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 You don't need a dozen sources. You need a brain and critical thinking skills. Despite their bias journalists from The Washington Post, The New York Times, CNN, and other mainstream sources have had extremely accurate reporting surrounding all of Trump's scandals. Additional sources should be from outside the country. Things like the BBC, and Al Jazeera add a good global rounding to information. Now if you want to argue opinion pieces, then I think you should generally ignore them. As they typically serve little if any purpose other than advancing someone else's agenda. 1 Link to comment
Apsu Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 I mentioned a dozen sources because not all international sites have the same expertise. For example Haaretz (https://www.haaretz.com/) had the best coverage of the Israeli elections, Al Aribiya (http://english.alarabiya.net/) gives you the Saudi perspective as opposed to that of the Emir of Qatar (https://www.aljazeera.com/). You can use this site (http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/index.htm) to find world newspapers. Link to comment
sho Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 Just seeing the headlines from The NY Times, I swear people are just telling the press anything about Trump and the Times will run a story. Two latest I saw, Trump wanted to build a moat filled with alligators or snakes at the southern border to prevent immigration and Trump wanted to shoot immigrants in the legs so they couldn’t run. This cant be real. I just can’t believe he suggested either one of these. 1 Link to comment
ZRod Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 1 hour ago, sho said: Just seeing the headlines from The NY Times, I swear people are just telling the press anything about Trump and the Times will run a story. Two latest I saw, Trump wanted to build a moat filled with alligators or snakes at the southern border to prevent immigration and Trump wanted to shoot immigrants in the legs so they couldn’t run. This cant be real. I just can’t believe he suggested either one of these. I have to believe these were off the cuff, sarcastic, comments like shooting someone on 5th Ave. Link to comment
commando Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 1 hour ago, sho said: Just seeing the headlines from The NY Times, I swear people are just telling the press anything about Trump and the Times will run a story. Two latest I saw, Trump wanted to build a moat filled with alligators or snakes at the southern border to prevent immigration and Trump wanted to shoot immigrants in the legs so they couldn’t run. This cant be real. I just can’t believe he suggested either one of these. i am shocked he added "in the legs" Link to comment
Apsu Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 1 minute ago, ZRod said: I have to believe these were off the cuff, sarcastic, comments like shooting someone on 5th Ave. So in other words... a routine communication. Link to comment
NM11046 Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 9 hours ago, commando said: i am shocked he added "in the legs" Confirmed later last nite by WaPo. Link to comment
TGHusker Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 2 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said: Yes, I've noticed that very thing. He's is posting everything and not 'protecting' the president from negative stories. Link to comment
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