What newspapers do you all read?

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Rilke_and_Roses

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Hey everyone,
This evening, I had a conversation with my family at the dinner table about political bias and the idea of a so called "bubble of information".
So I was wondering what kind of newspapers you guys find to be both objective and factual, without violating christian values?
I grew up reading the telegraph, so that tends to be my go to, together with a few other German newspapers for balance. I also really like reading the New Zurich, which is a Swiss newspaper.

German newspapers, even conservative ones, tend to pretty biased towards one American party (Democrats). Since there are so many Americans here, I was wondering whether you guys had any suggestions for someone who wants to learn more about US politics.
 
More often than not I'll listen to Albert Mohler's (President of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in the US) podcast The Briefing. It's on every weekday and covers both US and world news/politics. As for specifically reading the news, I'll sometimes read multiple sources and opposing sides (ex: Fox vs. CNN) when there is some big headline. There is a lot of garbage in the news, which is why I typically just listen to it in distilled form.
 
I read the WSJ hard copy daily unless I'm out of town. I've enjoyed reading papers that push specials my way such as $1 a month for digital access for six months. Right now I am reading the Baltimore Sun. I keep an eye on BBC.
 
Most American papers are pro-Democrat in the coverage; The Wall Street Journal isn't what it was a generation ago, but is better than most.

The New York Post can be sensationalistic, but is more balanced than most. The Washington Times.

Print newspapers are on the way out. The Atlanta paper gave up on print but still has an electronic edition, for example.
 
Edward said:
Most American papers are pro-Democrat in the coverage; The Wall Street Journal isn't what it was a generation ago, but is better than most.

The New York Post can be sensationalistic, but is more balanced than most. The Washington Times.

Print newspapers are on the way out. The Atlanta paper gave up on print but still has an electronic edition, for example.
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What a shame! I love print, I bond with my father by cutting out interesting or provocative articles from newspapers he doesn't read and slipping them under his study door for a chat.

I suppose email will have to do :(
 
I pay $8/month for a local newspaper that covers the county I live in. It gets delivered two times a week through the mail, Tuesdays and Fridays. The opinion section is definitely conservative, and it's culturally Christian which I will take over the awful fully secular and progressive newspaper that covers the state.
 
NY Times and Colorado Sun
Also will frequently listen to Al Mohler’s “The Briefing”
I seldom agree completely with any of them, but appreciate them all for different reasons
 
If I was to read a newspaper, it would be The Australian, which is essentially our newspaper of record (owned by News Corp).
 
Wall Street Journal is the only one I read with regularity; I’ll scan titles from my local news or cnn just to know if something big is happening, but I take a fistful of salt with whatever they say, given their biases…

Every journalist has a starting point for their beliefs when they write. To be fair, conservatives are the same in that regard.
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Wall Street Journal is the only one I read with regularity; I’ll scan titles from my local news or cnn just to know if something big is happening, but I take a fistful of salt with whatever they say, given their biases…

Every journalist has a starting point for their beliefs when they write. To be fair, conservatives are the same in that regard.
 
2x per day I go to the following websites:
CNN, Foxnews, Newsmax, Oann, Drudge, and (for local) the Houston Chronicle

I don't spend a long time, I mostly just skim headlines and I figure that the truth is somewhere in the mix.

1x per day, for international, I go to BBC and Al Jazeera.

This keeps me informed of most things about which I need to be informed.
 
Rilke_and_Roses said:
What a shame! I love print, I bond with my father by cutting out interesting or provocative articles from newspapers he doesn't read and slipping them under his study door for a chat.
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When I was young, I grew up reading 4 newspapers a day - The Wall Street Journal, both of the metropolitan papers, and the local paper. And we got the three major news magazines every week. Now, I'm pretty much online only. The Dallas paper is now, I think $4.99 for a daily paper and $5.99 for Sunday. And there isn't much content.

In university I started out majoring in Newspapers, but switched to Public Relations half way through because of the liberal bias of some of the newspaper faculty. It's a shame what print journalism has done to itself in America over the last 50 years.
 
I have a digital New York Times subscription. I used to have a local subscription for the county I lived in before, but after moving a year ago the best local paper is free, so I also read that.
 
I subscribe to Epoch Times online plus physical copies of "The New American" (John Birch Society) and, recently, "The Washington Examiner." But I get most of my news from podcasts like Mohler's (mentioned above) as well as Facebook and X. At this point, I consider any "news source" that isn't overtly conservative to be Marxist propaganda. If they'll lie about what a woman is, they'll lie about anything. The conservative media will often have biases, but I think I know them well enough at this point to divide the truth from the opinion/spin.

"Reason" is still worth reading--libertarian perspective. It offers good info on some issues that conservative media doesn't seem interested in, e.g. property rights and court reform. Obviously they're going to be liberal on a number of issues, but they don't push those issues to even a fraction of the extent that the MSM do. I subscribed for 2-3 years but just didn't have time to read it enough to continue.
 
DanSSwing said:
Everything not overtly Christian is a cult. Unless you’re going to go full Benedict, it’s unavoidable.
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That's a bit reductionistic.

DanSSwing said:
What have they gotten factually wrong? The Christian Science Monitor was once a very accurate and balanced news source despite its religious affiliation.
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It's not about what they've gotten factually wrong, it's about financially supporting a known cult, as was mentioned earlier, that worships their founder, Li Hongzhi, as a god.

For the record, Chinese Christians loathe them. A surprising point of agreement between the house churches and the CCP.
 
Andrew35 said:
That's a bit reductionistic.


It's not about what they've gotten factually wrong, it's about financially supporting a known cult, as was mentioned earlier, that worships their founder, Li Hongzhi, as a god.
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Can you explain how supporting Tim Cook or Bill Gates is better? Both of them are responsible for far more evil in the world than Falun Gong, yet your computer purchase almost certainly supports at least one of them.
 
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Can you explain how supporting Tim Cook or Bill Gates is better? Both of them are responding for far more evil in the world than Falun Gong, yet your computer purchase almost certainly supports at least one of them.
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This is a worthy argument.
 
DanSSwing said:
Can you explain how supporting Tim Cook or Bill Gates is better? Both of them are responding for far more evil in the world than Falun Gong, yet your computer purchase almost certainly supports at least one of them.
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Supporting them as business people, wicked though they may be, is not the same as supporting a cult org directly. False equivalency.
 
Andrew35 said:
Supporting them as business people, wicked though they may be, is not the same as supporting a cult org directly. False equivalency.
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Chapter and verse, please. You are making artificial distinctions. Everything opposed to Christ ultimately leads to the same source.

(And it should be quite obvious by now that all of this has gone WAY off topic for this thread.)
 
DanSSwing said:
Chapter and verse, please. You are making artificial distinctions. Everything opposed to Christ ultimately leads to the same source.

(And it should be quite obvious by now that all of this has gone WAY off topic for this thread.)
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You seem to enjoy collapsing categories.

I said I would not recommend. I didn't say you were sinning in subscribing. Why should I provide Biblical references?
 
Well... I kinda can't ignore this one. It's my job to read local media, and I have to pay attention to national media due to the role of the military in this community. I need to understand what is happening in Washington since it is quite likely to percolate down to the local level and our county's entire economy depends on Fort Leonard Wood.

I'll omit local media since those papers and radio/TV stations won't be of interest to anyone outside the Ozarks.

Traditional Media:
World Magazine
National Review
New York Times
Washington Post
The Atlantic
The Washington Examiner
The Nation

Cable/New/Online Media
FOX News
Townhall
Breitbart
OANN
The Dispatch
Military .com
Task and Purpose

Bloggers:
Al Mohler
Rod Dreher

I'm sure I've missed some "New Media" sources that I regularly read but just didn't remember to put on that list.

I used to regularly read Time Magazine, the Washington Times, and the Wall Street Journal, and still get the daily update for the WSJ, but the first two have cut back so much on their coverage that I can get most of what Time does from other mainstream media and most of what I used to read the Washington Times for, I now get from the Washington Examiner.

In addition to these, I have my Google news alerts set to send me any mention in any media, worldwide, of Fort Leonard Wood or the Missouri National Guard, or our two state representatives. That means I pick up stories in state, regional, national and international media that concern our community. Back when Congressman Ike Skelton, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, was our member of Congress, I had alerts set up for him as well. Our two members of congress since then have done far less that attracts media attention, being far less important in Washington, and their interests are not primarily related to the military.

Don't look at that list of media and assume I read all (or mostly) liberal material. It's my job to pay attention to what people in government are thinking and debating, and that means I need to know what the opinion leaders are reading, and that's not generally conservative media.

Also, I'm not including any of my primarily church-related media. I'm reading most of the same things many other people on the Puritan Board are probably reading. Mohler, Dreher and World are sometimes more church-related, but they aren't in the same category as, for example, the Aquilla Report.
 
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