5 Hacks for Identifying Legit (or not) News Sources
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A friend asks, “How do I know what news sources are legit? Like, ThinkProgress, for example? Do they suck? I know many sites, but I have no idea which ones are regarded as actually having good information.” This is a good question, and I wish more people would ask it. The growing ideological segregation of Americans is shutting down the immune system of the body politic, driving us further and further apart, and sending us (slowly) down the path that led (in the 19th century) to civil war. One of the biggest contributors to ideological segregation is the fact that many of us – especially the most politically passionate – get all or most of our news from sources which are strongly aligned with our own ideology. Progressives do not get news from FOX. Conservatives do not get news from Salon. (We even have competing, parallel entities, Media Matters and NewsBusters, dedicated to categorically discrediting the other sides’ sources. The
5 Hacks for Identifying Legit (or not) News Sources
5 Hacks for Identifying Legit (or not) News…
5 Hacks for Identifying Legit (or not) News Sources
A friend asks, “How do I know what news sources are legit? Like, ThinkProgress, for example? Do they suck? I know many sites, but I have no idea which ones are regarded as actually having good information.” This is a good question, and I wish more people would ask it. The growing ideological segregation of Americans is shutting down the immune system of the body politic, driving us further and further apart, and sending us (slowly) down the path that led (in the 19th century) to civil war. One of the biggest contributors to ideological segregation is the fact that many of us – especially the most politically passionate – get all or most of our news from sources which are strongly aligned with our own ideology. Progressives do not get news from FOX. Conservatives do not get news from Salon. (We even have competing, parallel entities, Media Matters and NewsBusters, dedicated to categorically discrediting the other sides’ sources. The