1/ The BBC World Service (available through the BBC Sounds app or online) is still excellent. It reports on global issues fairly evenhandedly. But there is a 'western bias' and their reporting from inside the UK is oriented via their general UK news departments and tends to be slightly right of centre.
2/ PBS is still one hell of a good news source in the US. While it may feel biased leftwards, a closer examination of its content proves it's actually traditionally centrist.
It doesn't cover the world much anymore and focuses on US due to a dramatic drop in funding.
3/ The Guardian This is the only online newspaper I still actually give money to. It's not paywalled, but their demand for donations is pretty aggressive.
It has a centre-left bias, but it's hard reporting arm is pretty scrupulous and easily identified. You can quickly see whether the post is reportage, analysis or opinion. This is helpful.
They also have fairly good global coverage, but tend to be Westerncentric. It will also let you sort by region.
Why on earth would Harris agree to a debate a convicted felon on a station that pleaded guilty to perpetuating total lies about the last election and was fined 787 million dollars for knowingly doing it? #Harris#Debate
If you will allow, this old lady would like to bore you with a story.
In my teenage years, from the mid-70s onwards, there were scores of racist marches and riots.
While having a little less hair, the bastards looked the same as they do now. They screamed the same obscene things, they attacked with bricks and bottles, just like now. The ones you see today are probably their children.
There have always been racists. But society can either empower them, or refuse them. That's on us.
"The excess death rate in Massachusetts, the state with the tightest Covid restrictions during the study period, was less than one-fifth that of Mississippi, the state with the loosest rules."
Now, if the argument was that looser covid rules would be better for the economy... how's that working out? Is Mississippi's economy going gangbusters compared to Massashusetts? Er... no.
@benroyce@zenkat@JuliusGoat I do think you’re honing in on a certain very contemporary psychological outlook. I see that there is an unacknowleged enjoyment in a position of paralysis. I personally despise both parties positions on Gaza/Israel. I could choose to condemn them all equally. But how would that help change anything? The best you can do is vote for the most viable progressive candidate on offer to edge the less murderous party closer to something fairer.
@benroyce@zenkat@JuliusGoat But to paint both parties as equally atrocious allows for a position of eschewing all personal responsibility to engage, while enjoying a perpetual righteous indignation. You get to look like you care while making sure nothing you do moves the needle. There is a bit of exploitation of the misery of others hidden in that position.
I'm getting Kamala is a cop and she's power hungry posts on my timeline.
FUCK YOU.
She's not a cop. She's the Vice President.
And if she were truly THAT power hungry, she'd have bowed out of this election and waited for a level playing field some time in the future - like all the others. This endorsement is no gift. It's a burden.
She's got 4 fucking months. She's a woman and she's Black. She's got a sense of responsibility and courage.
Harris's endorsements will eat up all the media oxygen and drive Trump crazy.
The Biden/Harris war chest can be used by her.
The MAGA crowd are going to go full-on racist, and there are independents and some Republicans who, while willfully blind to the dog whistles, won't be able to swallow the out loud racism, and vote for her quietly.
Her championing of the cause of abortion rights will confront women in a way Biden couldn't.
Biden wouldn’t have endorsed Harris if she hadn’t agreed to step up.
Make no mistake, the woman is making a fucking ENORMOUS sacrifice. No one else with real presidential aspirations would choose to run under these dreadful conditions - 4 months out, with the GOP planning another coup.
Harris must truly love her country with every fibre of her being to accept this insane challenge.
And once again, Black women save the world. #USpol#harris
Perhaps the real paradigm shift is for us all to wake up and realize that we don't have to be informed about what is true or right by organizations whose primary motivation is to generate revenue.
You know what is right. You know what is generally true. You have a moral compass. Use it.