Where to get your news
Posted by Marnie G on 04/11/05It’s time to start reading and quit complaining about the media.
Everyone should subscribe to the Progressive Review’s e-news at [url=http://www.prorev.com]http://www.prorev.com[/url]. The Progressive Review is edited and published by Sam Smith.
Sam is a great American hero and ass-kicker for justice. He is the author of Why Bother? Getting a Life in a Locked-Down Land; Sam Smith’s Great American Political Repair Manual; Shadows of Hope: A Practitioner’s Guide to Politics in the Age of Clinton; and Captive Capital: Colonial Life in Modern Washington. He is also the co-founder of the DC Statehood Green Party and a father of the United States Green Party.
My second tip is to read the Wall Street Journal. Yes, of course, it has a terrible op-ed page. So what? Skip it. This paper employs the most beautiful writers working in journalism today. Many of them are to the left of center.
The key is to try it. If you need a soft entry into Wall Street Journal world, here are two tips:
1) Start with column four on the front page. It is almost always very funny and interesting.
2) Remember this newspaper is not organized in the same way as other papers. In other words, don’t be distracted by the section headings. Look at the headlines.
The New York Times is not the most important news source these days. How many pictures of the dead pope did we need to see last week gracing the front page? Why would they remove Maureen Dowd from the Sunday edition op-ed page?
Please post a comment and let me know how you get your news. I’m most curious to see how many of you actually like the Wall Street Journal.
Try it. You’ll like it.
I also read my local newspaper online. Do you read local news?
I've read the WSJ. I don't like it. I find myself wanting to write to the authors/reporters to offer a different perspective that they're not likely to have any appreciation for.
Do you have some reason for suggesting we read it? Aren't there dozens of other media sources that we'd get more out of? Check out BlackCommentator.com for a different perspective.