whats a credible source, these days?

[bpilgrim]

is it ONLY the M$MWs :shrug:

what sources do you use, these days?

are they all M$M?

peace

[CityZen-X]

1. The Sewer System!

At least we can smell and know what it truly is!

[bpilgrim]

3. news source, silly

:P

peace

[CityZen-X]

6. Mir, silly

Salaam.

[xray s]

2. I don't touch the M$M for news

I haven't watched a MSM news program on television since CBS spiked the Niger uranium document forgery story last fall. Screw them all.

I read two local daily papers. I check Google news, especially for overseas articles. I check Common Dreams for commentary.

To keep my sanity I read DailyKos and Billmon every day. And DU, of course!

[bpilgrim]

7. DU is the only source i have time for ;-)

but it is so diverse that it keeps me well informed =)

i don't read any other blogs unless it shows up on DU's radar.

DU is a great place to separate the wheat from the chaff.

then i use search engines to follow up the topics.

i wonder what sources are banned from DU GD?

peace

[nashville_brook]

4. i always look where i'm not 'sposed to

there's no point using msm for anything beyond temperture gauging. or is that belly button gazing?

[intheflow]

5. I used a lot of MSM, but

as a recent master's grad, I was also able to use a number of well-respected watch dog groups' web sites as viable sources. Some of my favorites:

Theocracy Watch: http://www.theocracywatch.org/index.html

Center for Media and Democracy / PR Watch: http://www.prwatch.org/

Center for Public Integrity: http://www.publicintegrity.org/default.aspx

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting: http://www.fair.org/index.php

Media Matters for America: http://mediamatters.org/

Also, established religious, labor, environmental and labor organizations' press releases are good info stores.

Oh, yeah, and IndyMedia: http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml
Regional IMC's are listed Demopedia, here: http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/Independent_Media_Center

Edited to add a general plug for the activist organizing categories listed in Demopedia, overall. They might have specific places for you to look, as I've only listed what iterests me most (media & religion).
http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php?title=Special:Categories&limit=50&offset=0

[bpilgrim]

9. thanks, lots of good ones in that list

:toast:

peace

[Cleita]

8. Well, I just lost a source in NWI that broadcast Canadian

Broadcast Corporation's news' shows from Canada. Now it's Al Gore's MTV news channel. I watched a segment today on fashion on Melrose Avenue. This is not very relevant I think to today's problems. I hope they fix this.

I also watch Link TV, which really hasn't decided what it wants to be yet, but they do some international news and human interest stories.

As far as reading, I scan DU for links to articles and reports. Not as efficient as a good newspaper, but there seems to be none of those anymore either.

[SnowBack]

15. There's always CBC Radio online...

"The World at Six" and "As It Happens" are good sources of unbiased information... And available online at http://www.cbc.ca

Radio 1 has news programs, Radio 2 is more Arts...

Unfortunately, there's a strike on right now... but when it's over, you'll get excellent information from a more enlightened country...

[OneBlueSky]

10. Du is a pretty good source . . .

as long as you have enough common sense to weed out the stuff that either irrelevant or just plain wrong, DU (and the links contained in the posts) is probably the most comprehensive, up-to-the-minute news source on the net . . . as soon as it happens, it somehow makes its way to one DU thread or another . . .

[Generic Other]

11. Something you witness with your own eyes?

Of course, it'll have no credibility with anyone else.

[mogster]

12. BBC, usually

BUT:

The most credible source are, as always, more than one source ;-)

[rman]

13. Democracy Now

www.democracynow.org

[BrotherBuzz]

14. Is The Christian Science Monitor considered MSM?

In any event, I feel they make great attempts to report accurately. They are credible in my mind.