The news today has been skewed and people don't know who to trust or what news to follow. I took the time to research and ask the questions I feel people should ask when looking for accurate information about what is news.
NEWS 101
I finally found the answer to my question of: where do you find 'unbiased news' if you believe that regular news is biased and controlled by liberals, the elite and Goege Soros?
THERE IS NO ONE GOOD ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION
NEWS 101
I finally found the answer to my question of: where do you find 'unbiased news' if you believe that regular news is biased and controlled by liberals, the elite and Goege Soros?
THERE IS NO ONE GOOD ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION
Goerge Soros is considered to be the problem because he contributes huge sums of money to liberal agendas
Biased news plagued the 2016 campaign between Donald Trump-elect and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Social Media was reeling with articles from so many websites, the average laymen couldn't make heads nor tails of whether they were reading the actual news or just blog sites. The problem was so pervasive that it literally slanted the way people felt about legitimate news sites and created a very unhealthy distrust of the news altogether.
After the elections, I went on a quest to determine who owned the media dispensing 'the so-called news' and discovered some interesting pieces of information about them.
I read an article published by the Huffington Post that really went in depth when it came to the mentality of our audiences today. We are used to getting by without actually reading the content we are 'liking' on social media. We have a tendency to 'believe the headline' without ever really reading the content.
As demonstrated with this article titled:
click here to read the article
Another thing I discovered, was all sites presenting themselves as news weren't actually news at all. Some of them were blog-sites just like this one where anyone can create content and you just can't trust what the intention of a blogger is. Its just the truth.
The next thing I learned is to define the word news:
Full Definition of news
- 1a : a report of recent eventsb : previously unknown information <I've got news for you>c : something having a specified influence or effect <the rain was good news for lawns and gardens — Garrison Keillor> <the virus was bad news>
- 2a : material reported in a newspaper or news periodical or on a newscastb : matter that is newsworthy
- 3: newscast
Even the definition of news does not include that it must be fact.
The last thing I did was just Google who owned the websites that a Republican friend of mine was reading and posted it on my Facebook page.
1) Business Insider published an article 'Trump was unfamiliar with the scope of the President's Job When Meeting Obama'
This particular publication is considered to be liberal media:
This publication is a German-owned American publication that sponsors technology
2) The Strategic Culture - THAT SITE IS NO LONGER ACTIVE
It was a right wing media source and according to my Facebook post on November 14, 2016:
Who owns strategic-culture.com?
THIS PUBLICATION IS RUSSIAN
3) RT is another right wing news source
Who owns rt.com?
THIS PUBLICATION IS OUT OF RUSSIA!!
4) The Gateway Pundit
Who owns thegatewaypundit.com?
IT'S A BLOG!!!
Now for the Liberal News Sources
Who owns The Huffingont Post?
Who owns MSNBC?
Who Owns CNN?
I had to include an update to this and add the additional news source of Wiki Leaks. What is Wiki Leaks. Well....
What is WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks is a multi-national media organization and associated library. It was founded by its publisher Julian Assange in 2006.
WikiLeaks specializes in the analysis and publication of large datasets of censored or otherwise restricted official materials involving war, spying and corruption. It has so far published more than 10 million documents and associated analyses.
“WikiLeaks is a giant library of the world’s most persecuted documents. We give asylum to these documents, we analyze them, we promote them and we obtain more.” - Julian Assange, Der Spiegel Interview
WikiLeaks has contractual relationships and secure communications paths to more than 100 major media organizations from around the world. This gives WikiLeaks sources negotiating power, impact and technical protections that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to achieve.
Although no organization can hope to have a perfect record forever, thus far WikiLeaks has a perfect in document authentication and resistance to all censorship attempts.
WikiLeaks, its publisher and its journalists have won many awards, including:
- The Economist New Media Award (2008)
- The Amnesty New Media Award (2009)
- TIME Magazine Person of the Year, People’s Choice (highest global vote) (2010)
- The Sam Adams Award for Integrity (2010)
- The National Union of Journalists Journalist of the Year (Hrafnsson) (2011)
- The Sydney Peace Foundation Gold Medal (2011)
- The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism (2011)
- The Blanquerna Award for Best Communicator (2011)
- The Walkley Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism (2011)
- The Voltaire Award for Free Speech (2011)
- The International Piero Passetti Journalism Prize of the National Union of Italian Journalists (2011)
- The Jose Couso Press Freedom Award (2011)
- The Privacy International Hero of Privacy (2012)
- The Global Exchange Human Rights People’s Choice Award (2013)
- The Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts (2013)
- The Brazillian Press Association Human Rights Award (2013)
- The Kazakstan Union of Journalists Top Prize (2014)
As well as nominations for the UN Mandela Prize (2015) and nominations in six consecutive years for the Nobel Peace Prize (2010-2015)
WikiLeaks is entirely funded by its publisher, its publication sales and the general public.
WikiLeaks has more than one hundred other staff accross the Americas, Africa, Eurasia and the Asia Pacific.
The WikiLeaks Files (Verso, Sep 2015)
WikiLeaks legal team is lead by judge Baltasar Garzón in Europe and in the United States, Michael Ratner, president emeritus of Center for Constitutional Rights.
WikiLeaks ongoing legal cases are best described in this UN report (2015) from the Center for Constitutional Rights
Julian Assange’s ongoing detention without charge is best described here: https://justice4assange.com/3-Years-in-Embassy.html
“This great library built from the courage and sweat of many has had a five-year confrontation with a powerpower without losing a single “book”. At the same time, these “books” have educated many, and in some cases, in a literal sense, let the innocent go free.” - Julian Assange, Der Spiegel Interview
Follow our official accounts @wikileaks, @wltaskforce, @communitywl and @wikileaksshop.
It is truly up to you to draw your own conclusions about the information being presented to you. A good way to guide yourself through this maze of misinformation is to #1 look for references and links. A lot of the time, reputable news sources are going to refer you (through links) to their sources. Blogs have no obligation to let you know where they got their information from. #2 We all took 'comprehension' in school. Use those skills to determine if something even makes sense. #3 We have to cross-reference our information. If its not on all of the news then its probably NOT NEWS. #4 If it has a slant that is liberal or conservative then I would BEWARE. It's just not worth digesting misinformation. Its just not Kosher.
I hope you learned something today. My mission is to inspire people to search for the TRUTH!!!!
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