Originally Posted by
ToasterOven
Here is the problem. Seriously, though, it's not your fault. You listed some blogs that occasionally break a story, but generally are opinion writers. Do you even know how to get news?
Get your news from the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC News etc. Republicans have been lying to you for decades and now you are totally ignorant. But you don't know it because you keep going back to the right wing bubble for your news. Stop doing that and you'll be much more knowledgeable.
As a Republican, I don't find that it's enough to only get news from the sources you listed.
They are often slanted toward the left, or more commonly, simply avoid stories which make the left look bad (unless they are too big to ignore).
I will admit that much of the "news" from right wing sites is crap. In fact, sometimes I get frustrated reading these sites, as it is clear they are purposely slanting the story so much to their own side that it's impossible to get a grip on the reality of the situation, even if a neutral reporting of the story would still favor the right.
Of course, the same happens from left wing sites. For example, I just ran into a laughable HuffPo article which takes Republicans to task for "falsely" claiming crime is on the rise. Knowing that violent crime IS indeed on the rise, I was wondering how this article was going to "prove" its point. The article cited data that "violent crime has decreased
in the past decade".
I laughed.
The past decade? Talk about a manipulation of statistics. In reality, crime was decreasing for the first 7 years of the past decade (as it was for the past 16 years before that), but has gone sharply UP in the past 3 years. So overall the crime rate in 2016 might be lower than what we saw in 2006, but it's way higher than 2013, which is much more important. The HuffPo used "the past decade" as its analyzed timespan to cover this fact up, and attempted to make Republicans look like lying snakes despite their TRUE claim about rising violent crime. Terrible.
Bottom line is that, regardless of your political affiliation, you need to read news from left, center, AND right wing sources, and then make up your mind.