Let's give Jake some other reading materials...

[jAZ]

Let him balance out his daily NewsMax diet with other sources...

Any suggestions?

[NewPhin]

Salon.com

Not only will he get a different spin on politics, but he might also get cultured enough to land a date one day.

[patteeu]

The New York Times. Then he'd have the hard spin from both directions.

[patteeu]

Salon.com

Not only will he get a different spin on politics, but he might also get cultured enough to land a date one day.

But what if he's looking for a heterosexual experience? ;)

[recxjake]

I read articles from CNN, FOX news, Des Moines Register, Realclearpolitics.com, yahoo etc...... I just find the ones that newsmax prints to be the funniest!

[NewPhin]

But what if he's looking for a heterosexual experience? ;)

Good one. ROFL

Salon really does provide one of the best all-in-one stops for things that I read on the web: politics, literature, movies, music, art, technology, cultural trends. The one deficiency is their coverage of fly fishing and Chiefs football. It's just not that thorough...or existent. Would be funny as hell, though.

[jAZ]

When it comes to blogs, the left-leaning one that I recommend the most is Josh Marshall's TalkingPointsMemo.

He is definately left, but he's center left. He's also an investigative journalist, with an emphasis on the word journalist. So he does a great job of providing quotes, sources, citations, etc. He puts his personal thoughts in as any blogger does, but he does one of the best jobs I've seen of supporting his thoughts with facts.

www.talkingpointsmemo.com

He's also setup another sister site called TPMCafe which is a collection of many left (center-left and left-left) bloggers. It's can be a good read as well, but while he seems to hold them to a solid standard, there's definately a good deal more opinion there than at Josh's main site.

www.tpmcafe.com

[Radar Chief]

I can’t believe no one’s mentioned Drudge. :shrug:

[Amnorix]

I can’t believe no one’s mentioned Drudge. :shrug:

I used to check him out just for the humor value and the novelty of it, but even that isn't really applicable anymore.

[patteeu]

I can’t believe no one’s mentioned Drudge. :shrug:

I think jAZ was looking for left wing spin sites like the Boston Globe. Drudge is center mainstream. :)

[jAZ]

Another site that I'd STRONGLY recommend Jake read is Media Matters.

Bill O'Reilly hates them and calls them "ultra-left smear masters", so that alone should be a ringing-endorsement of the site.

But the reality is that while they are left-leaning media watchdog site, they also do a very, very solid job of using facts, sources and citiations to support their rebuttles of false or misleading reports in the media.

www.mediamatters.org


Now like I said they are a left-only watchdog, meaning they watch the right-only. And there is no doubt that at times the media gets stuff wrong that the right complains about, and in an effort to be fair, I'll also share a site that Jake will absolutely LOVE... Media Research Center.

www.mediaresearch.org

Now my opinion, is (and I think anyone who spends any time comparing the two sites) is that there is a great deal less factual support, citations, sources and links provided at MRC in their rebuttals to the media. Just a quick look at a few of the stories from each site, you'll see a stark difference... with more evidence provided by MediaMatters, and more spin by MediaResearch.

But MRC has some value and certainly if you read both sites, you'll come away with an understanding of how ineffective our fast-paced, profit-focused media has become. It's not about getting it right as much as it is getting it first and getting it in a paletable format that attracts viewers and brings in advertising dollars.

[jAZ]

I think jAZ was looking for left wing spin sites like the Boston Globe. Drudge is center mainstream. :)
ROFL

[Radar Chief]

I think jAZ was looking for left wing spin sites like the Boston Globe. Drudge is center mainstream. :)

:LOL: Good one.

[mlyonsd]

Another site that I'd STRONGLY recommend Jake read is Media Matters.

Bill O'Reilly hates them and calls them "ultra-left smear masters", so that alone should be a ringing-endorsement of the site.



O'Reilly rocks. Course you have to be more a moderate than lean too far one way or the other to like him.

The local station here yanked him and put on Rush the egomaniac instead. Bleh.

[Nightwish]

I think jAZ was looking for left wing spin sites like the Boston Globe. Drudge is center mainstream. :)
Drudge is right-wing, but not far right. He's not exactly near-right either, but somewhere in between.

[Nightwish]

www.factcheck.org (http://www.factcheck.org)

This is the site that Cheney endorsed during the VP debates last year. It's a fabulous site, in my opinion. It is unbiased. It's not a journalistic site, per se, rather it takes issues and arguments that are already being made, sifts out the rhetoric and misinformation from both sides, and puts out the bare facts.

[jAZ]

O'Reilly rocks. Course you have to be more a moderate than lean too far one way or the other to like him.

The local station here yanked him and put on Rush the egomaniac instead. Bleh.
He's afraid of facts and supporting his claims with citiations. He might have a good (entertaining) schtick, but he's about as flawed a pundit as there is working anywhere.