midcan5

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"Reading, and reading widely, is for me the great means of expanding my being. It is in reading that I have learned all I know about thinking." Alan Jacobs

When everything is a lie or fake, where does the sane person turn. There are actually several media sources worth your time today. On TV, 'Deadline: White House', with Nicole Wallace and 'the Beat' with Ari Melber are both worth a listen or a DVR. In print, The New York Times and Washington Post still make sense, I especially like Kathleen Parker of Washpo, and Bret Stephens of the NYT. Jonathan Swan of Axios is often on target, in two words he defined Trump's appeal as 'emotional sustenance'. Of course Trump only cares about Trump. See my thread the 'Emasculated American' too.

And while there are many excellent media sources one has to ask so what? Democrats, liberals and progressives appear unable to understand the power of social memes. As noted in my thread 'Dog Whistle Politics' the right knows how to spread the word. There are several links below for the educated reader. Information is power an helps you think too.

On the web:

Understand the News
The Week - All you need to know about everything that matters
Home — ProPublica and Help Us Identify the Officials Helping Trump Roll Back Regulations
Common Dreams
Brookings - Quality. Independence. Impact.
Quartz

Also of broader interest: Aeon | a world of ideas

Conservative sites such as Breitbart, The Federalist, Drudge Report, Townhall, the American Thinker, and Newsmax among others are 'dark money' funded ideology for their followers. Their goal while not always dishonest is often slanted when it isn't total BS as defined by Harry Frankfurt. Anyone every check Breitbart comments? So much whining, so many comments, you seriously have to wonder at the number and the repeated finger pointing. Is it for real or is it feeding some beast? One conservative site that often gets it right is 'the American Conservative'. The American Conservative

"What if the right-wing media wins? Conservative critics of the press want more than just a louder voice. They want The New York Times and The Washington Post to go away." What if the right-wing media wins?

Fox isn't news, I wish there were a better word for whatever it is they think they are doing. They are still bamboozling their fan base with Hillary's emails and Uranium, and from this old news covered and covered and covered they come to grand conspiratorial conclusions, I love the strained faces they make when reporting, almost like they have gas. Constipation has a news face, Fox. They and Trump are the 'emotional sustenance' for the aggrieved who haven't figured out yet they are being played by 'dark money'.

For checks on fake news and even political positions see these sites.

Snopes.com
FactCheck.org
Fact-checking U.S. politics | PolitiFact
Data on Campaign Finance, Super PACs, Industries, and Lobbying
OnTheIssues.org - Candidates on the Issues

OP Examples:

Bret: Opinion | The Happy Hooker Conservatives
Jonathan: https://www.axios.com/million-dollar-tax-bracket-trump-2501439805.html
Kathleen: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...fafda8-b8f6-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html

"[A] nation in which 87 percent of eighteen - to twenty-four year olds (according to a 2002 National Geographic Society/Roper Poll survey) cannot locate Iran or Iraq on a world map and 11 percent cannot locate the United States (!) is not merely “intellectually sluggish.” It would be more accurate to call it moronic, capable of being fooled into believing anything …” Morris Berman or

A few books, you know books, those paper things for the reader willing to challenge themselves. Wanna understand America today, read them.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2751831-invisible-hands
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833494-dark-money
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28695425-strangers-in-their-own-land
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30724304-the-making-of-donald-trump
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33917107-on-tyranny

"Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state." Adolf Hitler

"We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms." Philip K. Dick
 
You lost me at, "The New York Times and Washington Post still make sense..."
middy needs the echo chamber, it sooths him and helps him forget that Hillary went down in flames like the Hindenburg.
"Oh, The Humanity! What a glorious sight to behold, wasn't it?

Think it's time to again fire up the recordings of MSDNC's election morning coverage - where the L-word was bandied about - followed by the evening broadcast with the election night A Team descending into utter shock as the returns poured in. The body language expressions alone are worth the price of admission!
 
Your list of "fact" checkers are all left wing moonbat websites filled with partisan crap.

Your list of web links are all extreme left wing moonbat websites that make even Hillary blush.

You are just a partisan hack
 
While there is lots of good stuff in OP I wanted to add to this thread various pieces that are thoughtful and maybe even helpful. Below is one of my favorite contemporary writers. Check her books too.

This one is for the women but men could learn too. It helps explain why we have a total incompetent as President. Even in our presumably advanced nation our culture for women is often as backward as a third world nation.

"Men Explain Things to Me"

"Yes, guys like this pick on other men’s books too, and people of both genders pop up at events to hold forth on irrelevant things and conspiracy theories, but the out-and-out confrontational confidence of the totally ignorant is, in my experience, gendered. Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they’re talking about. Some men."

Men Explain Things to Me

And this on Donnie John.

Rebecca Solnit, 'the-loneliness-of-donald-trump'. Rebecca Solnit: The Loneliness of Donald Trump
 
Trumpism...? Is that a thing? If so... What the hell is it?
This:
Young-Woman-Crying-AP.jpg
 

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