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snopes used to be a cool site about urban folklore and now it's a site for grandma to check and see if the email she received with "fwd: re: re: RE: fwd:" in the subject line is telling the truth. I usually just look at politifact for pure fact-checking

NPR, BBC mostly.
MSNBC for local / random stuff that isn't political based.
ICIJ for panama papers stuff, but I've slowly been phasing away from that.

Occasionally I'd watch Your World with Neil Cavuto. I don't agree with a lot of things that he says (I'm pretty moderate, a bit more on the liberal side), but he sheds some light on pretty controversial topics, and I like seeing different perspectives that differ from what I believe in without it being either liberal or conservative bs shoved down your throat.

I'd also look at Snopes now and then, they claim to be fact checking source, but I don't know how good they really are.

too many people have a preoccupation with perceived "bias," like it's something that will unconsciously hypnotize you into adopting a liberal/conservative stance on an issue. probably because the very vocal conservative media has pushed the narrative of a liberal msm boogeyman since the 90s.

a lot of stories are just apolitical, but people are convinced that there's two sides to everything. for everything else, it's pretty easy to just use your brain. for instance, maybe The Atlanic will run an in-depth story about the proposed GOP healthcare bill's effect on medicaid, and how it will impact the people who received coverage under Obamacare's medicaid expansion. on the flip side, The Hill may be reporting that the bill will drastically reduce the deficit with its cuts to medicaid expansion and Obamacare subsidies. it's not hard to discern the different political perspectives the reporting comes from.

4chan
infowars
breitbart
stormfront
daily stormer
RT
Alt-right youtubers

@xronellx: They do politics a lot, of all kinds, theamazingatheist guy has been doing it for about 11 years now too, they do about 2-4 podcasts a week mostly covering politics.

@keyan22: Are they good? And do they do the podcast towards politics? That sounds like an interesting viewpoint.

Some fat guy on YouTube that does podcasts and smokes weed in them and has another fat guy with him as well as two other people.

(theamazingatheist/drunkenpesants)

various far left and far right websites, then i average them out

Anywhere halfway reputable, but I always acknowledge the presence of some sort of bias. So instead of reading the entirety of what some half-whit journalist has to say, I just skim over the article to gain an understanding of the events and ignore any commentary. Afterwards, I determine whether what they were reporting seems either likely or unlikely; otherwise, I simply look for more information.

The issue with reading the entirety of most (if not any) news article is that you're essentially having someone do the thinking for you. Much like when someone complains about how difficult math is to them even though they claim to have completely understood the lecture, their issue largely lies in with the fact that their professor was the one doing the thinking, not them.

I just google whatever it is I want to find out about (some common things I search for almost every day are "economy, Donald Trump, North Korea, Russia, space, UFO, aliens, stock markets, driverless cars, technology) and click on the "news" tab. Normally a bunch of things come up, I'll click back and forth between some articles, skip the ones that have pay walls, and judge things for myself. I don't watch television, I don't own a television, and I don't care about cable TV news at all. On youtube I used to watch RT and InfoWars almost daily, but they lost their ways and I lost interest in them some time ago. I like Secular Talk, The Amazing Atheist, and The Jimmy Dore Show, but I don't make it a priority to watch them daily or anything. When I'm in my car I like to listen to conservative talk radio partly for entertainment, but also to get inside the heads of people I live with and work alongside daily, though I'm able to easily filter through any sort of bias.

@zoglinemusic: Yeah, it's in LA. But apparently it reaches several states on the West Coast. Also, they are on iHeart Radio so they get a lot of listeners from places that are outside of Cali as well.

Surprised you have even heard of it though.

reddit

@helpingly: I am unsure what news site to look into, my bro suggested Huffington Post and he's usually a very politically aware person but after seeing it, I don't really know who to ask for an unbiased news source (he's not even that liberal). So I just use Reddit, and read the comments, they're more on the liberal side usually. Rarely do I use Washington Post mainly due to laziness. I used to use CNN for my middle school current event assignments because they make something out of nothing which is nice on slow days because back then political topics were too much for my 13 year old brain to handle.

Radio's been talking about Trump and how DC Metro sucks.

MSNBC and Fox mostly for US politics. I flip between the two... Fox is objectively worse, but they do have their moments.

Lancet and a couple forums for medical news.

I don't pay attention to geopolitical news anymore.

@eenrite: i like to read reddit for the comments not the news. i rarely click the off-site news links

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5vwqkx/whats_the_worst_example_of_bad_parenting_youve/

since so many of you read reddit, I found this there today http://i.imgur.com/kP4Yax1.jpg

get it from pol

It scares me how many people are saying reddit.

OT: I get my news from a variety of sources, some liberal, some conservative, just to see what each side has to say. Also listen to a lot of talk radio. (KFI anyone? )

youtube (philip defranco)

Reddit

reddit. Somtimes radio because I dont have much of a music taste.

sometimes I go on huffingtonpost to see what they're whining about.

Word of mouth

Reddit.

google news and reddit

Facebook has this small section for news.

/r/the_donald

Amazon email's on "most read from the washington post" anyone? I click on articles that seem interesting when I get bored.

don't get it from reddit

also reddit

reddit

the brain