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Just me - thinking out loud again

"Respectable news services" are a near extinct species.

I believe the most reliable and respectable source for "news" today is found in the grass roots rumor mill that we all know as Social Media. The place where information is shared and consumed so rapidly that the politicians and their propaganda "news" agencies can't keep up.

Of course we have to sift through that stream of news that comes across via digital media and then in the social media sites and discern for ourselves not only what is good news or bad news but most importantly what items of NEWS are valid.

Therein lies the whole reason for the Socialist regime aka Government, establishing a new and official Department of Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board ... whose job it will be to arbitrarily control all content that does not comport with the "official gov't narrative" and then to punish those who deign to publish that information.

iThink 9 May 12
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In science, you need both data and theory. They are synergistic. Science has experimentalists and theorists. Experimentalists do the work of getting data, and theorists analyze the data and suggest the next round of experiments. Theory is guided by experiments, and experiments are guided by theory. Without theory, you don't know where to look to find good data.

Fact checkers are bad theorists. They're like terrorists to the world of theory.

With news, we need both reporting and commentary, and they should be synergistic. Above all, they should be kept separate. If you're a commentator, don't pretend you're a reporter.

Fox is honest about if they're reporting or commentating. CNN is not. CNN sees reporting and commentary as the same thing.

Not all commentary is created equal. Fox commentary is more advanced than CNN commentary.

Fox has anchors that are commentators and anchors that are neutral reporters. Democrats are being so dumb that the neutral reporters are having a hard time not laughing.

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List of conservative news sites. jaymaron.com/anchor.html [jaymaron.com]

Any suggestions for additions?

Most of those on your listing are not "news sites" per se'. They are some of the sources I refer too in my comments.
Places where we can find and glean info NOT given on actual "news" programming.
"News" programs such as ABC, CBS, NBC, News hour(s) and so on. From such sources we get content that is so slanted and sketcy and incomplete that it is difficult to discern between that which is "news" and that which is editorial content.

@iThink @angelo @FEWI

I agree, that there are few news sources that are both unbiased and complete. (Not guilty of sin by omission). My site has conservative news sources, and I would like to add neutral sources. Suggestions?

Democrats complain that Fox leans right. Democrats are bigots. The world is full of left-leaning sites, so it's fair game to have a right-leaning site. In news, it's all about the scoop. If there is news that the left declined to report, and Fox reports it, Fox gets the glory of the scoop. Shame CNN for whiffing on the scoop.

Democrats want to censor all rightward news. That's apartheid. Obama tried to exclude Fox from the press sessions. Obama is an apartheidist.

One would think that there would be a market for neutral news and for scoops. Baffling that no one is filling the niche.

Democrats don't understand the nature of the oppositional legal system. There is an advocate for both sides. Democrats attack Giuliani for representing Trump. That's as bigoted as hating the quarterback of the opposing team because he kicked your team's ass.

@jaymaron based on your listing I would say you have a good handle on the subject here already. No suggestions at this time.

@iThink

Once upon a time, Drudge was on the list of conservative sites, and now it's not. I canceled Drudge and replaced it with Revolver.

There are many types of news sites. Reporting, commentary, and aggregation. We need all types. Revolver is an aggregator.

Republican reporters understand that there is a difference between reporting and commentary. Democrat reporters don't.

The ultimate badass aggregator site is Slug.

The Shadow knows. Slug knows.

@jaymaron I was an avid fan of The Drudge Report way back in the day. It seemed rather sudden that Drudge content had shifted to the left side of the narrative spectrum. I dropped Drudge like a hot rock.
I agree with the point you make about how Repube / conservative news and information sources maintain a much closer to an even balance that the Leftist sources do.
I have heard good things about Revolver but have not visited that site - yet. I'll get to it later today; see whats up

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I think " The Spectator " is a decent news source.

maybe - as I said a "near" extinct source for news...part of being "unreliable" is content that major "news: sources do NOT report. Lies of omission and obfuscation are as harmful as are lies of any other kind.
I am not saying that we should not pay any attention at all to news organizations at all - I am saying that those sources can never be counted on to deliver the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth - objectively. What we have to do is to glean what information we can by doing our own research - via the web and in particular on social media sites that do not block posts and comments that don't fit a single or certain narrative that that site favors. IDW.Community dot .com is one such site. Rumble would be another.

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We just think we're free.

I guess it depends on what "free" means to you. I know you would not favor living in an environment where there is no law nor regulations of any kind. Sort of a "free for all" life style. That would be a place where "survival of the fittest" "might is right" rules the day.

I realize that we have lost certain freedoms that are lined out in the Bill of Rights - of the US Constitution such as the 4th and 5th amendments. And that gov't is trying very hard to put restrictions on our beloved and critically important 1st amendment.

Can you give us some content of how we are NOT free? Your assertion seems to be an absolute statement of fact. Can you flesh your comment out a little bit? I am interested in what you have to say about that.

"I realize that we have lost certain freedoms that are lined out in the Bill of Rights - of the US Constitution such as the 4th and 5th amendments. And that gov't is trying very hard to put restrictions on our beloved and critically important 1st amendment."
They are slowly taking everything away, little by little till one day, none of our freedoms will be left.
The other day I wanted to take out a substantial amount of cash from one of my bank accounts.. MY MONEY! I was told if I take out more than is ALLOWED, the IRS will be notified and I will be investigated by same. My money was not obtained illegally, an account I've had for decades.
Shit like this makes me wonder... What's next?

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