alt Hacker NewsWhenever I encounter someone who jumps at the first opportunity to criticise "mainstream media", I ask them what their preferred outlets are. I tend to not get a response, which to me is quite telling.
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Depends on the topic. For some it is possible to find sources without a horse in the race. (Different countries)
Sometimes you just have to accept that you still know nothing despite 100 articles describing a topic.
I think we have over a million games that visualize war more clearly than any news agency.
Dropsite news is good, but are you familiar with manufacturing consent’s propaganda model of the mass media? A simplified explanation:
if mainstream media has gone downhill, why would somebody have a preferred outlet? What's your preferred outlet?
I think a mixture of BBC, cnn, al jazeera, economist, will get a casual reader to a decent spot, and they're all mainstream media. Possibly guardian but emlarhically not their opinion pages (I agree with them, but even so they're gratingly opinionated, hate to think what a die hard conservative will think of them :)