Resources I Check (Rich Gibson)
NY Times (thoroughly, critically–meaning I think “Class? Race? Nation? Sex/gender?culture?” The online edition wants money, but there are ways....)
LA Times (too much Lindsay Lohan but best corporate paper in California–not saying much)
The Wall Street Journal (IMHO, really reactionary but good view of the banks)
The Christian Science Monitor (I use this less and less every year)
Washington Post (some argue this is the voice of the US intelligence services–key to Watergate)
Council on Foreign Relations newsletter (Free, online)
The New Yorker magazine (some of the best writing/journalism in the US)
CIA World Factbook--great for basic details on countries
Detroit News (hometown)
London Guardian
World Socialist Web (nope, I’m not a socialist)
Asia Times (sometimes incisive work)
Bloomberg News (mini Wall St Journal)
Russia Tv also online as RT.com
China Tv
Counterpunch (online, not as good as it once was)
Anti-war.com (Chalmers Johnson’s top source)
Military Times (subscribe to the "Early Bird daily brief"--excellent!)
Monthly Review (leftists but some good economic analysis)
Al Jazeera (more respectable as time goes by)
TomDispatch (Tom Engelhardt was Chalmers Johnson’s publisher)
The Rouge Forum Dispatch (online–leftist compendium of events, weekly)
Substance News (Chicago news online, often good on educational issues)
PBS (radio and tv, although I consider it National Corporate White Peoples’ News)
CNN (I pay little attention to TV news, really the filler between commercials)
MSNBC and Fox are like mirrors of each other. Sometimes I stop and look.
NBC/CBS/ABC really another bunch of fillers between commercials.
The San Diego Union Tribune is one of the worst papers in the US but sometimes I check online.
Once, the “Voice of San Diego” (online) had the finest education reporter in the US but they fired Emily Alpert and now VOSD is entirely dependent on donations, skewing the news.
The San Diego Reader has one of the best economic writers around, Don Bauder.
CSPAN TV= Mostly boring. But BookTV on Cspan is often excellent. It is usually on Saturday or Sunday evening.
I try to hang out with interesting people who do not agree with me but who are not stupid—and people who are from other countries or have dramatically different backgrounds. Same with online friendships.
I do not review all of this material above every day. But in a given two week period, I will have touched on each one. Pick and choose your own.
Carl Bernstein, of the Woodward and Bernstein duo who played important roles in exposing the Watergate scandals, wrote about the CIA and the media several years ago. Here is a link
http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php