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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
I don't disagree on your assessment of the Huffington Post. It's a partisan blog like many others and to my knowledge doesn't hold itself to any particular standard of journalistic integrity. The blogs are like the Opinion page in a newspaper. Columnists are paid to create controversy, not report the news. Reporters on the other hand, along with the news editors that supervise them, are or at least should be held to a different standard. If they report something as fact, then it should be double- and triple-checked. News provided by one source should have verification from other sources. Reporters should not state or include opinion in their news stories, although I'll admit that sometimes the choice of words leave news readers with an opinion. Most established news organizations hold to these journalistic principles. What's important for us, the readers, is to understand is what stuff is someone's opinion and what is actually the news. Otherwise, it's almost certain that incorrect, or at least unbalanced, opinions will be formed or conclusions reached.
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In response to your comments I decided to do some basic searches. I typed "legitimate news sources" into google and I did alot of clicking and reading. What I found interesting is the links that the news sources provide. You click onto a news source and then click on the author and then click on his columns and you will find which way he/she leans.
The lines get even blurrier when you click on "politics" because it gives many Blogs sites like Huffingon and Slate.
My final thought: Real facts should be verified, somewhat. But when you go to a news source that has broken down the news by category...they have "politics" as a separate subject. My feeling is that once the word "politics" is mentioned...facts get blurry.
Anyways, when I first joined this site, I was a little naive as I thought it was just a site that a bunch of guys gave political opinions. I then noticed that one poster here gives more links then he/she gives his own political thoughts. At first that angered me as I thought it was just a lazy way of getting your opinion out there without putting an effort into it. As I settled in here I started to do the "link thing" myself and not really thinking about the sources of the links. Anyways, here is a link with news sources...notices where the links take you when you click onto the political section:
http://www.headlinespot.com/