The Summer of the Shill

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Campaign 2016 won't just have lasting implications for American politics. It's obliterated what was left of our news media.

PREVIEW: "Trump is considered so dangerous that many journalists are beginning to be concerned that admitting the truth of negative reports of any kind about the Democrats might make them complicit in the election of the

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[blackjedii]

I try to stick to only online and/or local newspapers. Ofc that means nothing given that a lot of local papers were gobbled up by Murdoch / etc.

but heeey the Roanoke Times has been running features on the big cats at the local zoo. That's pretty loltastic.

[meadowphoenix]

Red-state media obsessed over a series of emails about the Clinton Foundation obtained by Judicial Watch (a charter member of the "vast right-wing conspiracy") as part of a Freedom of Information lawsuit. The emails hinted that Foundation donors might have had special access to Hillary Clinton's State Department.

Meanwhile, the cable-news channels consumed by Democrat-leaning audiences, MSNBC and CNN, spent most of last week hammering Donald Trump's latest outrages, especially the "the Second Amendment people" comments seeming to incite violence against Hillary Clinton or her judicial appointments.

Whatever for MSNBC, I don't watch them since they de-colored their programming. But I've been forced to watch fucking hours of CNN because my mother likes it and the only tv is currently in my room and this is a straight up lie. 1) They have 3 stories they run every hour. Every hour of television will talk about the same fucking stories (for goddamn hours I was going to cry last week). There is always one trump bullshit story and one

[meadowphoenix]

I legitimately don't believe "breaking news" is a real meaningful phrase anymore.

[blackjedii]

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[cherriesarered]

Sooo...what are your favorite news sources, if any? (This question is for anyone, not just the OP.) I don't own a TV, so that pretty effectively limits the amount of Fox/MSNBC/CNN that I watch, but I also feel like I'm under-informed a lot of the time.

[chocobeans]

After Al-Jazeera went off the air, I have been completely uninterested in the usual suspects. I feel the same way about being uninformed often but it's better than being assaulted with nonsense and no accountability from those sources. I think I'll try heading over to PBS because that seems to be the next best harmless option.

[riotdorrrk]

AlJazeera http://www.aljazeera.com/news/
BBC http://www.bbc.com
CBC http://www.cbc.ca
Deutsche Welle http://www.dw.com

[cherriesarered]

Thanks! I've heard good things about Al Jazeera and BBC, but didn't really know of the other two.