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re: I need a website with unbiased news coverage.
Posted on 6/19/14 at 11:09 pm to sorantable
Posted on 6/19/14 at 11:09 pm to sorantable
I watch Headline News mostly. No opinion pieces and Robin Meade is hawt.
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Posted on 6/19/14 at 11:10 pm to Sleeping Tiger
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Dudebroman, I totally do the same!
I love when you get into a little tizzy because no one gives you any credence.
Posted on 6/19/14 at 11:17 pm to DanMullins4Life
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Huffington Post
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Not if you want political news
Posted on 6/19/14 at 11:22 pm to RTR America
BBC is probably your best bet for least biased news coverage.
Me personally, I figure everyone is biased so I just seek out the best reporting. This typically comes from the NYT, WSJ (although their longform has gone to shite), and - to a slightly lesser degree - WaPo. For longform articles: NYRB and The New Yorker. And for websites, I like Bloomberg and Ezra Klein's new venture Vox. If you want an overseas paper that is very good, I'd recommend The Guardian. Most of these lean left, but the reporting is first-rate.
Me personally, I figure everyone is biased so I just seek out the best reporting. This typically comes from the NYT, WSJ (although their longform has gone to shite), and - to a slightly lesser degree - WaPo. For longform articles: NYRB and The New Yorker. And for websites, I like Bloomberg and Ezra Klein's new venture Vox. If you want an overseas paper that is very good, I'd recommend The Guardian. Most of these lean left, but the reporting is first-rate.
Posted on 6/19/14 at 11:24 pm to Sleeping Tiger
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Well one, you're disqualified for not playing by the rules, I said news articles on the main page, which means I was referring to the ones bolded on the main page, not in the archive.
Two of the three were, and the other was linked in an article on the front page.
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What about the links you provided coincide with what you said?
For instance, the Wal-Mart shrimp article talks about slave labor, which is why the cost of the shrimp are so low.
It's using a report from a legitimate agency to share the news that trafficking working and slave labor in Thailand are used to keep costs down.
What is manufactured and phony about that news?
This is why its usually better to mock than debate you. Literally nothing in existence could have been linked in my post that you would have accepted as meeting the criteria of your challenge so long as it came from that site. There could have been an article blaming martians for global warming and you would have excused it because, above all else, you absolutely cannot ever be wrong. If you were ever genuinely wrong about something, it would shatter this world you've built up around yourself. Its a world in which you and you alone have unlocked the secrets of existence and are so above all of us minions who just sit around accepting lies and waiting to die.
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Posted on 6/19/14 at 11:28 pm to WheelRoute
I honestly just use twitter for majority of my news coverage. I follow multiple sites and if something pops up that seems like something I would want to read about I will check it out.
Posted on 6/19/14 at 11:28 pm to Roger Klarvin
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it would shatter this world you've built up around yourself. Its a world in which you and you alone have unlocked the secrets of existence and are so above all of us minions who just sit around accepting lies and waiting to die.
If you're not using obscure blogs to get your news, you're a sheeple.
Posted on 6/19/14 at 11:30 pm to Sleeping Tiger
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It's using a report from a legitimate agency to share the news
Maybe this "agency" is part of the deception
Maybe they all are...
Posted on 6/19/14 at 11:32 pm to RTR America
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I honestly just use twitter for majority of my news coverage
Agreed. Follow enough people from all sides and you get a feel for the spin on any issue, too.
Posted on 6/19/14 at 11:37 pm to Roger Klarvin
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This is why its usually better to mock than debate you. Literally nothing in existence could have been linked in my post that you would have accepted as meeting the criteria of your challenge so long as it came from that site. There could have been an article blaming martians for global warming and you would have excused it because, above all else, you absolutely cannot ever be wrong. If you were ever genuinely wrong about something, it would shatter this world you've built up around yourself. Its a world in which you and you alone have unlocked the secrets of existence and are so above all of us minions who just sit around accepting lies and waiting to die.
The irony is you're doing what you're claiming I 'would do'.
The article about the shrimp used a report from a legitimate agency, sharing that human trafficking and slave labor are used to keep costs down.
What is made up and manufactured about that?
Posted on 6/19/14 at 11:44 pm to Roger Klarvin
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it would shatter this world you've built up around yourself. Its a world in which you and you alone have unlocked the secrets of existence and are so above all of us minions who just sit around accepting lies and waiting to die.
What's interesting about this take is I'm just learning from other people, so I'm really confused by this idea that I'm the only one that knows any of this stuff.
Renegade Economics, for instance, which is a youtube channel I watch a lot, has contributions from excellent thinkers and accomplished economists.
Open Culture, which is a great site for learning, I'm taking in essays from world renown thinkers and writers.
Abovetopsecret, great little site for all things tin foil. If you didn't believe the jewish coalition knocked down building 7 before you visit the site, you're surely going to believe it after you visit. (Blue font).
I think a lot of times what we do and say is self reflective. Your very angry rant might apply to you, and I think a small part of you knows it. You've invested a lot in your world view, your career rides on it, I don't have such attachments.
Posted on 6/20/14 at 12:19 am to Sleeping Tiger
My world view is derived from my experience, nothing more and nothing less. Your world view is a theoretical rant scribbled onto a napkin at 3 AM.
And for the record, it's because of what I do that I know just how dead arse wrong you are on certain subjects. You say things relating to doctors, medicine and pharm which are laughable. As an example, most doctors hate drug companies/reps and very few make any money through them.
And for the record, it's because of what I do that I know just how dead arse wrong you are on certain subjects. You say things relating to doctors, medicine and pharm which are laughable. As an example, most doctors hate drug companies/reps and very few make any money through them.
Posted on 6/20/14 at 12:23 am to Sleeping Tiger
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What is made up and manufactured about that?
The fact that the author of the article doesn't know how food distribution and subsequent pricing works would be a start. The entire premise is flawed from the beginning.
And that was the least laughable of the articles I linked.
Posted on 6/20/14 at 12:24 am to Roger Klarvin
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The fact that the author of the article doesn't know how food distribution and subsequent pricing works would be a start. The entire premise is flawed from the beginning.
But was the part about human trafficking and slave labor, as reported by the agency made up or manufactured?
Posted on 6/20/14 at 12:31 am to Sleeping Tiger
I would assume so, though I am admittedly not well versed in the field of human trafficking.
Posted on 6/20/14 at 12:33 am to Roger Klarvin
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My world view is derived from my experience, nothing more and nothing less. Your world view is a theoretical rant scribbled onto a napkin at 3 AM.
I wish this was the case, most great ideas are scribbled onto napkins at 3am.
My kindergarden cost as much as most people pay for a year of college, which doesn't really mean anything, and it's really douchey to mention, but this kind of dick measuring seems to go on a lot around here so I'll just throw that out there.
You've got the Doogie Howser thing down pretty good but you're not the only one that is educated between us.
Posted on 6/20/14 at 12:34 am to Roger Klarvin
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I would assume so, though I am admittedly not well versed in the field of human trafficking.
I am.
What's going on in here?
Posted on 6/20/14 at 12:37 am to Rebelgator
Posted on 6/20/14 at 12:40 am to Roger Klarvin
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I would assume so,
Right.
So basically the article is saying that human trafficking and slave labor are causing costs to be artificially low.
So you denounce it by saying the author doesn't know about food distribution while seeing no relevance in the use of slave labor.
Obviously Wal-Mart has pricing advantages, the reasons are obvious.
That has nothing to do with the fact slave labor is being used which is artificially lowering the cost.
Posted on 6/20/14 at 12:45 am to Sleeping Tiger
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My kindergarden cost as much as most people pay for a year of college, which doesn't really mean anything, and it's really douchey to mention, but this kind of dick measuring seems to go on a lot around here so I'll just throw that out there.
So you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth and learned to color inside the lines a few months earlier than others?
Im kidding...mostly. I never hold privilege against people, only what they do with it.
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You've got the Doogie Howser thing down pretty good but you're not the only one that is educated between us.
Is that what this has always been about?
Look dude, you know a whole lot more about multiple topics than I do. I dont join certain conversations with you on certain topics because it wouldnt even be fair. Nobody would ever accuse you of being dumb, least of all me. You've clearly passed a few tests in your life.
I dont think for even one second Im inherently smarter than you.
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