seriously I'm struggling here. I currently read NY Times and BBC with a very critical eye but it's fucking exhausting.
Grayzone. Almost every other western outlet is bad. Places like the Intercept or Jacobin or even Democracy Now regularly parrot imperialist lies.
My rounds are: Al Jazeera English, Reuters, CNN, TeleSur English, dw.com, Intercept, and Grayzone. I try and post anything interesting to !news@hexbear.net along the way (but haven't done so in a while.
Ideally people would do the same and I could just say "/c/news is a reasonable news aggregator" and leave it at that. Needs more general interest stories, and to be a bit less chapo-ey in posts. I'd love to see a "regular" news site with a very left comment section.
I am always very skeptical of Al Jazeera English and El Interceptor, they have written very critical stories of Venezuela.
Is this in character?
Nevertheless, TeleSur and maybe Greyzone are really the only leftist news publications on the list, and I'm sure that if I read more from them I'll come up with my own criticisms. Many people on here listen or have listened to Citations Needed and are very media literate, so I don't mind using liberal sources since the comments will usually provide plenty of criticism of the article. When reading and/or posting, I definitely avoid articles that have imperialist headlines, but there are plenty of articles with informative headlines and content that we should be aware of that are imperialist in tone. Not to mention that only relying on state-media (due to bias/major blind-spots) or independent socialist media (due to blind spots and lack of resources to do primary reporting) will leave one short of being fully informed imo. There are enough comrades on chapo that I feel comfortable having discussions that I wouldn't have in other spaces (such as about CNN and Reuters articles).
I do not know what you mean? both of these publications said very hurtful things about Venezuela's fight for freedom y democracia. Things such as "maduro is legitimate" and "Guaido know nothing".
They are not trusting. I instead recommend CNN or 700 Club.
My apologies Mr. Guaido, please send me a downvote and carry on in your mission to liberate the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
AliJ's coverage of latin america (particularly VZ and Cuba) is - and I cannot stress this enough - dog shit. But that's really the only major gripe I have with them. They're run by the Quatari royal family so they are by nature anti socialist. Other than that they have really good journalism and documentaries
I’d love to see a “regular” news site with a very left comment section.
That could actually be very useful
TeleSUR and the Grayzone are consistently good and correct. I don't shy away from the Chinese state-owned outlets like CGTN, but I understand that other people might feel differently. MintPress is also good. Really, whatever left-wing outlets are banned by Wikipedia.
Democracy Now! is generally good when it comes to domestic stuff but regurgitates imperialist narratives more often than not when it comes to foreign stuff, unfortunately. The Intercept can be iffy; sometimes they do genuinely good investigative reporting, but other times they do imperialist propaganda, which I think has something to do with their billionaire backer.
Venezuelanalysis and Kawsachun News for Venezuela and Bolivia, specifically.
Otherwise, just read any liberal outlet with a critical mind.
I recently came across this project recently:
https://www.mutualinterest.coop/
It's relatively new but it seems like an excellent platform.
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That's a fair shout! I only read the international edition. Didn't realize it wasn't very good for UK stuff!
The Guardian was really anti-Corbyn and was the newspaper with the most falsities/lies about anti-semitism weaponised against him, more so than even the Daily Mail (may Allah curse me for typing out the name of that rag). It's all Blairites and they switch between endorsing Labour/the Lib Dems when General Elections happen. That said, they do pretty good analysis of the shitshow that is the current Conservative government. There's also some flat-out hilarious political commentary (e.g. old one about IDS here and newer one about Raab here )
Right, I could totally see The Guardian lapping up that anti-semitism nonsense, of course. Fuck, I can't believe that shit. How is the UK so based as to have Labour, and yet so shitty as to fall for something like that, smh
Dominic Raab Reduced to the Lowest Common Denominator of Stupidity
aahahahahaha
How is the UK so based as to have Labour
UK's Labour party is anything but based. They have "elected" a pro-austerity neocon nobleman that was a member of the Trilateral Commission as party leader. They're literally doing the same playbook the US is with the dems: when the current conservatives fuck everything up, it will naturally make voters gravitate towards the other, more competent conservatives. That is how politics works, I'm told.
I see a major political party that identifies as demsoc and socdem, and claims to aim to socialize the entire economy, I’m gonna call it based.
I will admit to knowing little-to-none about UK politics tho, haha, and I’m not at all surprised they’re overrun by neocons. Looking a little closer, I see they’ve largely abandoned the aim to nationalize the economy. Fuckin’ Blairites.
I read many sources of information! Some that I read in last month: NYT, CNN, MSNBC, CIA, ABC, FOX, LA CEBOLLA, TELEMUNDO, NBC, CBS, NPR, PBS, DISCOVERY CHANNEL, y 700 CLUB.
If you're talking about news, that's different than opinion or other analysis.
The MSM is mostly fine for standard reporting. Outside of that in terms of still just being news rather than something more analytical or investigative, democracy now is good.
South China Morning Post is solid. It’s like the NYT, but run out of Hong Kong, so you get the same sorta journalistic tone that you’re used to, without the imperialist undercurrents. It’ll do you for most major events in China and the word.
Albadora, VenezuelaAnalysis and TeleSUR are good choices for Latin America.
If you’re still worried about missing out, you can just go Reuters, AP and AFP. They’re the three reporting agencies that put out all stories of note. Everyone else just syndicates them for the most part.
Oh, and I guess the Financial Times can be good. Unlike most media, it’s designed to be useful to the reader, since the readership is mostly capital.
SCMP is becoming good ass content for me every morning. Boosting this one
NYT and BBC are not bad for straight news. It's the opnions stuff that sucks
BBC is good for domestic American stuff, but their UK stuff is hopelessly skewed. They used to be nominally independent but right now they're getting their funding cut by the government (and also threatened with more cuts) plus half the board is directly appointed by the PM. Their foreign affairs stuff is better than most mainstream media, but only if it's about conflicts etc that are a few years old. The takes they pulled out for Morales were shit-tier and they were broadly pro-intervention in Iraq.
Financial Times (you can pirate via this extension), WSWS, Tampa Bay Times, the BBC (both the porn and the british rag), social media to some extent, and you libs.
Am I understanding it correct that the extension doesn't work on firefox? I'm not really what they call a "digital native"...
Yes. But if you click on the auther "iamadamdev" at the top left, it takes you to that users page . I figured he made one for firefox too, people who care enough to make an extension like that and upload it to github are usually bombared by requests for other browsers and frequently make one.
And it he did in fact make a firefox version. The firefox page however tells you that its been merged with the chrome version, so you can just get the "chrome version" and it will work with firefox.
The download link for the firefox version is further down the page (on the chrome page), the direct download link is here
