In this age of partisanship, I completely agree that too many people only obtain their news from sources with which they agree. That is why I personally make a determined effort to read and view news from a wide spectrum of opinion. If you do not already diversify your news sources, you should consider doing so and urge others to do so as well.
In this age of partisanship, I completely agree that too many people only obtain their news from sources with which they agree. That is why I personally make a determined effort to read and view news from a wide spectrum of opinion. If you do not already diversify your news sources, you should consider doing so and urge others to do so as well.
If you only knew how much I read each day and how I deliberately seek out multiple viewpoints, especially those with which I disagree. Decades of reading and listening, decades of speaking with others, decades of thinking. I am hardly perfect. I make mistakes. And most especially I am always in the deepest debt to those who show me the errors of my ways.
I also go to RealClearPolitics. Their alternating pro and con views are nice. Often they surface viewpoints that I otherwise might miss. Still, as RCP has a fundamentally rightward tilt, I balance it with other sources which have a leftward tilt.
RCP is great, and yes it does lean to the right. I’d suggest it leans to the center, if you turn back the clock, 5 to 6 years. That being how far left the left has turned, at least in my lifetime
I used to be labeled as "extremely radical" and I can't stand to read the leftist articles on RCP. I don't know how long it has been since I have read anything credible or fair in the MSM. The censoring is extreme and the "stories" that are included turn out to be fairy tales a lot of the time now. I am surrounded by the same toxic nonsense in my city and state, so I don't need to seek out woke opinions elsewhere.
My take is RCP (mostly) publishes the ‘left’ stories they do to illustrate how far gone the opinion is. I do read/listen and enjoy viewpoints from left, when I detect authenticity. I find most of those voices now, here on Substack (having been shunned or otherwise cancelled by the MSM hive mind) but are still seeking intellectual honesty
I read Taibbi, Freddie deBoer and sometimes Greenwald. Taibbi is being so persecuted now by the House Dems and I am sure that will enlarge his views about who they are. The MSM are creating an alienated population of journalists, which favors the survival of a free press. The platforms are still vulnerable, though, when the rulers have so much control over the media.
You are absolutely right these platforms remain vulnerable. I have never been a Parlor user, but found it absolutely insidious to watch Amazon Web Services de-platform that site, then Apple pull the app from its store. I too read Freddie regularity, he’s my favorite Marxist ;) I don’t always agree w/ him but he sure makes me think, and I especially appreciate his expertise and objective commentary on our education system
In this age of partisanship, I completely agree that too many people only obtain their news from sources with which they agree. That is why I personally make a determined effort to read and view news from a wide spectrum of opinion. If you do not already diversify your news sources, you should consider doing so and urge others to do so as well.
I agree 100% and will admit sometimes it’s hard going.
If you only knew how much I read each day and how I deliberately seek out multiple viewpoints, especially those with which I disagree. Decades of reading and listening, decades of speaking with others, decades of thinking. I am hardly perfect. I make mistakes. And most especially I am always in the deepest debt to those who show me the errors of my ways.
I go to realclearpolitics because of the alternating pro con views.
I also go to RealClearPolitics. Their alternating pro and con views are nice. Often they surface viewpoints that I otherwise might miss. Still, as RCP has a fundamentally rightward tilt, I balance it with other sources which have a leftward tilt.
RCP is great, and yes it does lean to the right. I’d suggest it leans to the center, if you turn back the clock, 5 to 6 years. That being how far left the left has turned, at least in my lifetime
I used to be labeled as "extremely radical" and I can't stand to read the leftist articles on RCP. I don't know how long it has been since I have read anything credible or fair in the MSM. The censoring is extreme and the "stories" that are included turn out to be fairy tales a lot of the time now. I am surrounded by the same toxic nonsense in my city and state, so I don't need to seek out woke opinions elsewhere.
My take is RCP (mostly) publishes the ‘left’ stories they do to illustrate how far gone the opinion is. I do read/listen and enjoy viewpoints from left, when I detect authenticity. I find most of those voices now, here on Substack (having been shunned or otherwise cancelled by the MSM hive mind) but are still seeking intellectual honesty
I read Taibbi, Freddie deBoer and sometimes Greenwald. Taibbi is being so persecuted now by the House Dems and I am sure that will enlarge his views about who they are. The MSM are creating an alienated population of journalists, which favors the survival of a free press. The platforms are still vulnerable, though, when the rulers have so much control over the media.
You are absolutely right these platforms remain vulnerable. I have never been a Parlor user, but found it absolutely insidious to watch Amazon Web Services de-platform that site, then Apple pull the app from its store. I too read Freddie regularity, he’s my favorite Marxist ;) I don’t always agree w/ him but he sure makes me think, and I especially appreciate his expertise and objective commentary on our education system
Yes, deBoer is a really good writer, very emotionally authentic as well as capable of supporting his arguments with evidence.