Recommended news sites and blogs

[Second Summer]

The mainstream media suffers from many ills such as the tabloid disease, undeclared bias disease, herd disease and phobia of certain topics.

Fortunately, in this day and age there is a plethora of alternatives for the news-hungry public, so I thought we could share some of the ones we appreciate.

 

[Second Summer]

Some random sites off the top of my head:

Snowblog - The blog of Channel4's news anchor Jon Snow
AlJazeera - Although this is in a sense a mainstream news channel in some parts of the world, it doesn't quite have that status in much of the western world. It provides a different perspective compared to the mainstream western channels and covers areas that we don't usually hear about.
Russia Today - Horribly biased and never has a critical word to say about affairs in Russia, but does provide a different perspective and covers some news stories the other media outlets don't care about.

I've heard good things about Democarcy Now!, but I haven't been following it myself yet. Is it worth my time?

 

[ledboots]

I like therealnews.com and the New York Times.

 

[beanstew]

Also from Channel 4 Factcheck Blog is good stuff.

Tabloid Watch
The Media Blog

I mostly follow these two on twitter as @TheMediaTweets and @tabloidwatch.

 

[Amy SF]

Here's the website for FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting http://fair.org/

They study how the mainstream US news outlets cover the news, and also look at the news that doesn't get covered.

 

[SummerRain]

It's not online, but I've re-ordered The New Internationalist since they gave me a 3 issues for £1 offer.

From what I remember, they tend to give in-depth coverage to issues across the world with a focus on social injustice and development.

 

[Spang]

Socialist Worker
Dissent Magazine
Columbia Journalism Review

 

[Second Summer]

I highly recommend Shirvan's CaspianReport on Youtube which I've been following for a good while now. He covers current events of geopolitical, social and economic natures across the globe in a very objective manner, without any obvious agenda that I can detect. He's got a large number of videos, each usually of around 10 minutes.