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[Anonymous No.11759274]

What's should i subscribe to to get a good balanced view of the current political landscape?

(also do you read newspapers fram cover to cover or is it ok to skip around?)

[Anonymous No.11759294]

>>11759274
Politics is for retards

[Anonymous No.11759300]

I don't read newspapers because it's a waste of time to form an opinion on matters of government unless you personally make political decisions of consequence, and voting is not one such thing.

[Anonymous No.11759373]

>>11759274
london review of books and private eye if in UK. new york review of books if US.

i subscribed to the new yorker for 10 or so issues this summer. it was quite good but a bit middlebrow. it wasn't especially good for politics.

the OP pic is actually quite good although daily mail should be in red zone.

anything that publishes daily is probably going to be terrible. even weekly is usually a bit caught up in the news cycle.

[Anonymous No.11759394]

>>11759274
Don't bother. Politics is a circus. Withdraw from the world.

[Anonymous No.11759402]

Why do you want a good balanced view of the political landscape in the first place?

[Anonymous No.11759411]

>>11759300
>dude just let other people control you and affect your life.


What if your government declares war on another country? Do you just go blindly into any fight they say?

I hate you, smug fence shitters need to go and will be the last to get the rope.

[Anonymous No.11759425]

>>11759373
Is The Economist good? Im an Scandinavian fag and it's pretty cheap and accessible here.

[Anonymous No.11759441]

>>11759411
I don't care if you hate me, you're an idiot with poor reading comprehension if that's what you think I meant.

[Anonymous No.11759447]

>>11759274
Consuming no news is better than consuming any news. It's the only way to negate propaganda. Also, the 24/7 news cycle makes keeping up to date tiresome, and personal fact checking to form an unbiased opinion utterly pointless.

[Anonymous No.11760437]

>>11759274
>that chart
>gaybc listed as neutral

hahahahaha

[Anonymous No.11760449]

>>11759274
>What's should i subscribe to to get a good balanced view of the current political landscape?

Nothing. Just get all your info from 4chan like me.

[Anonymous No.11760452]

>>11759274
>The Fucking Guardian not in Hyper-Partisan Liberal

this is so fake news

[Anonymous No.11760477]

>>11759274
Post real one

[Anonymous No.11760515]

>>11759274
First of all, if you haven’t studied political philosophy, start with that. Otherwise you’ll just gravitate to whatever confirms your biases with no awareness of the broader picture.

Even after you have a solid understanding of political philosophy I’m not sure it’s worth reading the news every day. Especially because it’s so hard to know what to trust. I guess if you do read the news just try to get a variety of sources. Weekly magazines like the economist might be a good idea.

[Anonymous No.11760540]

>>11759274
>Fox News on the edge of nonsense damaging to the public
>The Washington Post that close to the center
>Slate, Vox and the Atlantic as fair interpretations of the news
wew lad

[Anonymous No.11760555]

Serious reply:

WSJ. Its news coverage is unparalleled.

[Anonymous No.11760564]

I don't bother with politics as I live in arguably the most liberal city in the country. Just try to get by the best way you can.

[Anonymous No.11760608]

>>11760564
>Vancouver
>New York
>London
>Paris
>LA
What city anon?

[Anonymous No.11760705]

>>11760515
Whats the key works of political philosophy i should read?

[Anonymous No.11760731]

>>11759274
>extreme liberal

[Anonymous No.11760737]

From what i gather in this thread

>Read political philosophy
>The Economist is good
>WSJ is good

Any objections or additions?

[Anonymous No.11760745]

>>11759294
Agree
The only thing anyone should worry themselves with is becoming their very own philosopher king

[Anonymous No.11760748]

>>11760555
Checked

[Anonymous No.11760751]

>>11760737
Literally, unironically get all your news from 4chan

[Anonymous No.11760764]

I only browse Drudge really. I'd rather not sift through a bunch of bloated websites flooded with ads.

>>11760751
Yeah, everytime there's some developing report, I'm on /pol/ before any news site, they're faster than everyone.

[Anonymous No.11760768]

>>11759274

that infographic is awful, i can tell you for sure

the only way to get a balanced view is to read from all kinds of sources because they are all biased. but when they contradict each other on discrete factual statements you know what to do further research on, and that's where the truth arises

[Anonymous No.11760784]

>>11759274
I'd say buzzfeed is significantly worse than huffpo

[Anonymous No.11760790]

All you need is the dailystormer.

[Anonymous No.11760796]

>>11759274
Lmao how old is this?

[Anonymous No.11760801]

>>11760540
>Daily Beast and Guardian that close to center.

[Anonymous No.11760845]

>>11759274
Al Jazeera

[Anonymous No.11760859]

>>11760768
In the 24 hour news cycle, it's impossible to stay informed while fact checking to stay unbiased. As you are comparing different news sources to get the truth on one matter, something else happens elsewhere later. By the time you've formed an unbiased and well informed opinion on that one matter after spending hours maybe days, nobody cares about it anymore. It's old news, and they are now talking about this new thing that happened. Fact checking is ultimately a fool's errand.

[Anonymous No.11761720]

>>11759294
I think you'd qualify with a post like that

[Anonymous No.11761748]

>>11760737
Following news is a waste of time unless you have political ambitions.

If you have to though, those are good choices. Unironically, it's also interesting to add dailykos and breitbart too, because they'll cover non-mainstream stories, and they help you see partisan talking points. They're unreliable though, so they take a lot of time because you must check the sources as you read.

[Anonymous No.11761761]

Articles.

[Anonymous No.11761765]

>>11760737
The economist is interesting in the sense that you can peek into the mindset of globalist neoliberal davos-types.

[Anonymous No.11761778]

I really wanted to hate on this OP image, but then I read it and got over my initial aversion to shortening social liberalism to just a liberalism/conservatism axis (which is itself and product of and generator of damage to public discourse) and found that actually it is a somewhat fair assessment given that caveat.