Normally, in this space at this time I would be highlighting monthly Democratic accomplishments for reminding and for sharing but as I am quite delightfully watching friends of Hillary Clinton, primarily in the form of Correct the Record, Hillary Men, The Briefing and rank and file supporters, across social media platforms stand up and talk back to a Hillary biased media, in turn informing the electorate, I decided it would be more productive for the advancement of my candidate to the 2016 Democratic Nomination for President to share some of my favorite sources and if they are not on your list of favorite sources you can add them! (You should feel free to share yours, as well...)
No lectures. No pontificating. Just a nudge: Do your own homework. Go to the source whenever possible. Make your decisions based on facts. And, if you are an activist, campaigning for a candidate (or an issue), commit to perpetuating truth to the best of your ability and not GOP lies and/or media divination.
Then, perhaps, we can make the right choices and meet the challenges that face us.
In
my own daily work as a Democrat and as freelance volunteer working for the election of Hillary Clinton, my personal effort is to inform media personnel so they might, if they choose to so so, do their jobs and inform the electorate of the truth of our future President's Democratic policies. I primarily do that via Twitter.
I go to the source and and I listen and I read and I interpret for myself because even the best of
efforts being made reporting today are mixed with advocacy, commentary and
entertainment minus context and it is just not working.
I always encourage:
Trust and Google it!
My suggested list of sources is as follows:
* Directly
POTUS:
The White House Website (A great site to explore what can be available at the source that may never makes it into the main stream. Blog. Statements. Daily Press Briefing. Live speeches. Video. Etc. Every public official won't be as sophisticated but every public official should provide information that is available at it's source and not filtered by a third party.)
Start
here
Then
click on the Briefing room to begin to explore.
* Directly
Hillary:
Hillary
Clinton Website here
Correct
The Record here
Hillary
Men here
A couple of great
journalists/commentators on the politics of women's issues/campaigns:
Michelle Goldberg here
Michelle Goldberg here
Irin
Carmon here
A few great
bloggers on current campaigns/issues:
Robert
Creamer/Huffington Post (political
organizer/strategist) here
Steve
Benen (producer/writes for Maddow Blog) here
A few good/well informed reporters
whose facts are good more often than not but -- always beware Hillary pique and compulsion to divine:
whose facts are good more often than not but -- always beware Hillary pique and compulsion to divine:
Lynn
Sweet. (D.C. Bureau Chief for Chicago Sun-Times) here
Anne
Gearan (National politics
correspondent for the Washington Post on the Hillary campaign trail) here
Amanda Terkel (Senior Political Reporter and Politics Managing Editor at the Huffington Post) here
Maggie
Haberland (NYT First Draft. Beware, formerly of leans right Politico but very well connected. Also on the Hillary campaign trail) here
Sam
Stein. (Senior Politics Editor. Huffington Post) here
Kurt
Eichenwald (Contributing editor to Vanity Fair. He seems to only
step into something when it is big enough to draw him in now but he's
got a great reputation with me) here
A few good
general “news” commentators/Columnists:
Joan
Walsh (Columnist. National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation) here
Susan page (USA Today Washington Bureau Chief) here
Joe Conason (Editor-in-Chief National Memo) here
Connie
Schultz (National Syndicated Columnist. Generalized.) here
Alex
Wagner (Formerly of MSNBC Now With Alex. Generalized) here
Joy
Reid (Formerly of MSNBC The Reid Show. Generalized with a grasp of Stand Your Ground/Black Lives Matter, etc.) here
Ari
Melber (Formerly of MSNBC The CYCLE. Brings the law to bear
constitutionally) here
Ari
Berman (A contributing writer to Nation Magazine/Voter suppression
specialty) here
A couple of good
/foreign affairs military commentators:
Mikey
Kay here
Steve
Clemons here
Print:
Because I go to the source more than I do not, reading print is fairly random. I
will check articles from: Political and The Hill –
even
though they lean right -- as they are pretty good at having the current
D.C. Pulse …
And,
of course, I check a whole lot of stuff posted across social media, as well as specific newsletters I subscribe to, etc.
As is my habit here, Take the Best and Leave the Rest!
G., aka Partisan Democrat
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Other journalists have noted that Maggie Haberman (NY Times) is one of the worst offenders against Hillary.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe my point is that I only consult sources that treat Hillary well. I do not live in a bubble and I seek information from a variety of sources for a variety of reasons. I believe I noted Maggie leans right which is precisely why she is on my list. I take in information, I go to the source and I use my ow critical thinking skills in drawing my conclusions. Everyone is different and everyone should create their own list. My only hope is that they do it. Minus the Hillary shark, Maggie keeps me well informed on the more quiet machinations of Hillary's opposition.
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