As strange as it sounds, I find RT a pretty good source of "unadulterated news". They also have an excellent cast of independent journalists in the RT America channel.
-- steve On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Welcome to the world of centralized media, > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_media. You have to read non-US > publications to balance the skewed views following the party lines. > Reuters is a good choice. > > I still recall Reuters was one of the few mainstream publications that > covered the Israel/Palestine conflict/war/{euphemism} with > objectivity. Reuters would publish daily death counts like a score > card. At the height, Israel was killing Palestinians at a rate of 3 to > 1. > > On the other hand, US central media usually showed the suicide bus > bombers that killed Israelis. They did not cover Israel razing entire > portions of cities and killing hundreds at a time with airstrikes. I > recall seeing the aerial photos of cities like Jenin and thinking, > holy shit - that looks like post world war two Germany. > > Jeff > > > On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Paul Ferguson > <fergdawgs...@mykolab.com> wrote: > > Wow, where to begin... > > > > I love the subject line above, which I used from this 'The Nation' > article: > > > > > http://www.thenation.com/blog/177598/sad-decline-60-minutes-continues-weeks-nsa-whitewash > > > > I was unsurprisingly stunned tonight that CBS had sunk even lower than > Fox > > News in their reporting on the NSA tonight -- nothing less than pro-NSA > > propaganda. > > > > Here are a few initial thoughts that came out tonight -- and they will > > assuredly continue to roll in: > > > > 'How we know the 60 Minutes NSA interview was crap' > > > http://blog.erratasec.com/2013/12/how-we-know-60-minutes-nsa-interview.html > > > > '60 Minutes': NSA Good, Snowden Bad > > > http://www.thewire.com/national/2013/12/60-minutes-nsa-good-snowden-bad/356174/ > > > > 'Shame On Feinstein' Coalition Warns Of Silicon Valley Economic Impact > From > > NSA Spying > > > http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2013/12/shame_on_feinstein_co.php > > > > One can only scratch their heads & wonder what CBS is doing here. Are > they > > really this incompetent, or are they maneuvering somehow to support the > > Obama administration's attempt to only make 'cosmetic changes' to the NSA > > and FISA Court operations, and whitewash the NSA overreach? > > > > I've already seen several main stream U.S. news organizations 'interpret' > > the leaked recommendations from the 'oversight board' as 'sweeping' when > > they are nothing more than cosmetic & business as usual. > > > > See also: > > > > > http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/13/nsa-review-to-leave-spying-programs-largely-unchanged-reports-say > > > > > http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/16/131216fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=all > > > > > http://www.pogo.org/blog/2013/12/20131213-has-political-spending-defanged-intel-watchdogs-in-congress.html > > > > > > No pun intended, but the NSA and the Obama Administration are pulling a > > "Snow Job" on the American People. > > > > - ferg > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. >
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