Garbage in, garbage out
What's your go-to news source?
This matters.
Aaron Rupar, who publishes here on Substack, kept track yesterday of how much Fox’s floating mouth Maria Bartiromo mentioned Jeffrey Epstein, Trump’s child sex trafficker boon companion.
Obviously, yesterday’s coverage on CNN was quite different, in part because Barack Obama is no longer president and thus he is basically old news (no offense). The same goes for the coverage, even on disgraced ABC’s Sunday news shows, as well as disgraced CBS’s.
If you are ingesting propaganda (however you define that), then you are not getting good information and you are not making good decisions about your life. It’s as simple as that.
So. What are your top three news sources? Mine remain The New York Times (with an asterisk), NPR, and then I scroll through about 10 favorite news websites on Apple News.
You?
Heather Cox Richardson. Every post has a listing of her sources. She provides historical context that explain why her topics are chosen. She is clear and upfront when she has a bias. Usually.
The NYTimes, Boston Globe, The NewsHour and then a number of local news websites and national and local newsletters.