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FREMDFIRMA

Friday, January 23, 2009 12:20 AM

My only comment to that would be...

"Lately" ?

Seriously, the freepers have a well deserved horrific rep once you start looking past the heavily censored and sanitized front they put off.

If you want someone libertarian-right who isn't afraid to buck party lines I'd say go with Will Grigg, who runs a blog after a rather nasty blowup which involved him selecting principle over party.
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/

Don't always agree with the guy, but he makes his points damn solidly.

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

RUE

Friday, January 23, 2009 12:30 AM

Oh - btw - I forgot to mention that I also like to dig up original reports. The things the MSM says those reports say is often not what they really say. And sometimes you can use orginal documents to find out what happened, such as during the Microsoft trial which was mis-reported from start to finish.

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DREAMTROVE

Friday, January 23, 2009 1:44 AM

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My only comment to that would be...

"Lately" ?

Seriously, the freepers have a well deserved horrific rep once you start looking past the heavily censored and sanitized front they put off.

If you want someone libertarian-right who isn't afraid to buck party lines I'd say go with Will Grigg, who runs a blog after a rather nasty blowup which involved him selecting principle over party.
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/

Don't always agree with the guy, but he makes his points damn solidly.

I hadn't really looked into it. I barely read a lot of the stuff that I get sent (eg. huffington post) So, being somewhat lazy, I thought someone else would have already done so.

I recall Pravda as being pretty heavily Nazi at some point. I'm not sure if nazis are something you attract by putting a certain spin on things, or something you can get invaded by, like Buchananites.

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RUE
Drudge, WashPost, NYTimes, Yahoo, Salon.

Erg. Sorry. I de-liberal you. So dubbed. Minus Salon.

Contrary to conservative thing, NYT isn't liberal, it's more sort of some strange kind of neocon. Yahoo and Drudge are battling Fox for conservative sludgefest, and the Post is sort of middlish, imho.

Ironically, some of the right had some odd picks too. I put up the seattle pi, i want to add the new yorker to that, sometimes. I thought Al jazeera was a good pick. I go there sometimes. Need that different perspective. Like the people's daily. It's surprising how up front they are about policy. Also, a lot of distractions, pictures of hot chicks. I know you care

DEADLOCKVICTIM

Friday, January 23, 2009 2:42 AM

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/index.html
...bout the National Security Archive at George Washington University.

This is an independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

The Archive obtains its materials through a variety of methods, including the Freedom of Information act, Mandatory Declassification Review, presidential paper collections, congressional records, and court testimony. Archive staff members systematically track U.S. government agencies and federal records repositories for documents that either have never been released before, or that help to shed light on the decision-making process of the U.S. government and provide the historical context underlying those decisions.

....sign up for email alerts whenever new documents are made available

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Friday, January 23, 2009 10:39 AM

Old saying from Russia, where there were 2 "news" sources, Pravda and Tass. One was Government propaganda, and one was government censored "information" - one translates to "news" and the other translates to "truth". The saying was that there is no Pravda in Tass, and there is no Tass in Pravda.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Friday, January 23, 2009 10:41 AM

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Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:

Orange County Register is not right wing. Just because it's right of you does not mean any centered person would view it right. Heavily anti-military, which is not a right position.

The Hell it's not. Just because it doesn't march in lockstep with you on ONE ISSUE doesn't mean it isn't. It's from Orange County, California, the right wing capital of the Universe. I read its editorial page often. Every day, almost every word there favors a right wing cause or issue. It constantly attacks middle of the road pragmatists as far out lefties, making no distinction about folks who really are far out lefties.

I mentioned merely one issue, that was not the entirety of their content.

FREMDFIRMA

Friday, January 23, 2009 12:38 PM

Well one reason I find Pravda so amusing is that given it's history - the irony of often finding better journalism there than in the american mainstream media over the past six years cannot be denied.

That and they keep a light, goofy tone without ever taking themselves so seriously, they know and admit that they are entertainment and rather than try to hide it behind a front, glorify in it instead.

I do like my news with a side order of nutty flavor, cause you get to taking anything too seriously, you'll wind up even crazier!

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

DREAMTROVE

Friday, January 23, 2009 2:02 PM

Quote:
Old saying from Russia, where there were 2 "news" sources, Pravda and Tass. One was Government propaganda, and one was government censored "information" - one translates to "news" and the other translates to "truth". The saying was that there is no Pravda in Tass, and there is no Tass in Pravda.

Известия

That would be Izvestia you're meant to say. TASS is an acronym, not a Russian word, and was not a paper, it was the soviet news agency, the equivalent of our AP. Правда has been a tabloid for the last 15 years or so.

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, August 24, 2024 9:39 PM

when TheOnion went too leftwing

https://notthebee.com/

SIGNYM

Saturday, August 24, 2024 11:39 PM

Now I go to Zerohedge, and here* first.
Then, wherever a topic takes me.

* Gotta get my daily dose of neocon talking points!

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