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DarlingSavage -> RE: what do you read? (3/5/2010 1:20:08 PM)

NPR and BBC.



Moonhead -> RE: what do you read? (3/5/2010 1:53:27 PM)

Now I think about this more, New Statesman has a website as well. Don't think Private Eye does, though...



Level -> RE: what do you read? (3/5/2010 5:11:39 PM)


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ORIGINAL: sravaka


So, my question is:  where do *you* (lefties, righties, middlies... Democrats, Republicans, Independents, whoever you may be)  get the information you deem most reliable, and on what do you base your assessment of it?

Part of this is because I wonder where all of you are coming from.... but part is just because I'm looking for good, new stuff to read.  Help me out?


BBC online, The Economist, MSN, International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, RealClearPolitics, american.com, The Nation, are the prime ones.

Writers that I always try to check out are Alexander Cockburn, Thomas Sowell, Katha Pollit, John Stossel, and Camille Paglia.



heartcream -> RE: what do you read? (3/5/2010 6:45:34 PM)

I dont read the newspaper it bores me to smithereens. I have friends, smart friends into all sorts of exciting interesting things and they keep me up to speed on lots of controversial stuff.

I have a friend in ny who reads all the People, Us and all those sorts of mags. When I go visit her I like to get a candy headache reading them all. That is how I am well versed in Brad and Angela and all those sorts of noteworthy news. I am quite well read yanno.

I go to the library and get out loads of books and read them!



LadyAngelika -> RE: what do you read? (3/5/2010 7:19:49 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

Can't really help you with that, as I don't think you get the UK papers in the 'States.


RE UK papers, I can get the Guardian, the Times and the Telegraph at magazine stands, though really only the Guardian would interest me. Big International papers are available in most metropolitan areas.

When I can, I get a hold of Le Devoir, a French language newspaper in Montreal's.

I'm often stealing my boss' copies of The Economist and of Harvard Business Review, which are more business than politics or religion, but it does give an idea of the impact of politics on business.

I like to read online as I get many sources. I will go to Google News and when a topic interests me, I will select a source I find credible. I'm also fond of a site called The Reason Project.

I like Television shows that go in depth as well. In terms of politics and religion, I get a lot from shows like Real Time with Bill Maher as I like to watch interviews, discussion and debates.

I think the most important is to get your information from various sources.

- LA





Moonhead -> RE: what do you read? (3/6/2010 5:24:56 AM)

I stand corrected, then.
The Times is actually a pretty good paper if the conservative bias doesn't put you off. It's pretty much the Grauniad's opposite number. The Telegraph is pretty dreadful, though.



lazarus1983 -> RE: what do you read? (3/6/2010 7:12:08 AM)

NPR every morning on my way to work, and back again.

Aside from that, George Will is a definite, and Real Time with Bill Maher.



Lucienne -> RE: what do you read? (3/6/2010 7:34:38 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Level

Writers that I always try to check out are Alexander Cockburn, Thomas Sowell, Katha Pollit, John Stossel, and Camille Paglia.


Sheesh. I think that reading list violates the Geneva Convention.



Level -> RE: what do you read? (3/6/2010 7:37:35 AM)

Don't make fun of my chit without telling me what you read instead!



AnimusRex -> RE: what do you read? (3/6/2010 8:50:11 AM)

My daily read is:
Huffington Post
Andrew Sullivan
Atlantic
NY Times (Headlines only)
LA Times

Stuff I broswe as time permits:
ThinkProgress
Talking Points Memo
FiredogLake

Stuff I monitor (and mock)
RedState
Michelle Malkin



Moonhead -> RE: what do you read? (3/6/2010 8:53:18 AM)

Is paglia writing about politics now? I thought her thing was more self rigteous narcissism.



Level -> RE: what do you read? (3/6/2010 2:37:34 PM)

Andrew Sullivan is a good one.

Paglia tends more towards social commentary, so that's close enough to politics to smell the stench, I suppose.



AnimusRex -> RE: what do you read? (3/6/2010 5:54:05 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

Is paglia writing about politics now? I thought her thing was more self rigteous narcissism.


You may be amazed at how closely politics and self-righteous narcissism align.



cloudboy -> RE: what do you read? (3/6/2010 9:09:09 PM)

Russel Baker and George Packer earn my kudos.

Jeffrey Tobin is an excellent writer on all things Supreme Court.

Heather Havilevsky is good for TV, and the best movie critic of all time, Stephen Hunter, is retired. Now Anthony Lane holds the top spot.

I like the sensible libertarian streak in Evan Thomas (Newsweek.)




aldompdx -> RE: what do you read? (3/8/2010 3:41:06 AM)

Cornell LII; PLOL; IEEE Journals; Nature; PMC Physics A; Patanjali; Damasio; Wilber...

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http://news.myway.com/index/id/home.html

Democracy requires an informed electorate.



LadyAngelika -> RE: what do you read? (3/8/2010 3:58:20 AM)

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Democracy requires an informed electorate.


Quoted for truth. And I'd add, for that to happen, a literate one. They have to learn to walk before they can run.

- LA



Moonhead -> RE: what do you read? (3/8/2010 4:18:17 AM)


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ORIGINAL: AnimusRex


quote:

ORIGINAL: Moonhead

Is paglia writing about politics now? I thought her thing was more self rigteous narcissism.


You may be amazed at how closely politics and self-righteous narcissism align.

A good point.



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