This is why I get my news from real people in real life or from the one exception, Reuters. Partisan politics is lame and has infected the entire domestic news industry to a point of being laughable.
I used to love NPR until I realized that they make their content for their hyper rich coastal elite donors and don’t actually care about rural heartland residents like myself. I don’t care at all about jazz music or political unrest in an unrecognized self proclaimed nation state, I want to know how we can get solar everywhere that corn fields destined to be turned into combustible fuel inhabit.
If we discarded every source that had a liberal or capitalist slant, we would effectively have to stop reading 99% of Western media, and we’d be blinding ourselves to the narrative of the ruling class. We are adults with functioning brains and the capacity for critical analysis. We should be able to read a piece of liberal slop, identify the ideological framing, strip it away, and analyze the material conditions they are reporting on or trying to obscure.
You need to read the Wall Street Journal because it is the mouthpiece of the ruling class that tells you exactly what capital is thinking, what they are afraid of, and how they are strategizing to protect their interests. You cannot effectively dismantle an argument if you refuse to understand its internal structure and logic.
Running away from information because it doesn’t align with their worldview is what liberals do when they retreat into their MSNBC bubbles. We should be secure enough in our own position to read sources we abhor, understand them, and approach their claims from a position of knowledge. Ruthless criticism of all that exists includes reading sources like the wsj.
This is why I get my news from real people in real life or from the one exception, Reuters. Partisan politics is lame and has infected the entire domestic news industry to a point of being laughable.
I used to love NPR until I realized that they make their content for their hyper rich coastal elite donors and don’t actually care about rural heartland residents like myself. I don’t care at all about jazz music or political unrest in an unrecognized self proclaimed nation state, I want to know how we can get solar everywhere that corn fields destined to be turned into combustible fuel inhabit.
If we discarded every source that had a liberal or capitalist slant, we would effectively have to stop reading 99% of Western media, and we’d be blinding ourselves to the narrative of the ruling class. We are adults with functioning brains and the capacity for critical analysis. We should be able to read a piece of liberal slop, identify the ideological framing, strip it away, and analyze the material conditions they are reporting on or trying to obscure.
You need to read the Wall Street Journal because it is the mouthpiece of the ruling class that tells you exactly what capital is thinking, what they are afraid of, and how they are strategizing to protect their interests. You cannot effectively dismantle an argument if you refuse to understand its internal structure and logic.
Running away from information because it doesn’t align with their worldview is what liberals do when they retreat into their MSNBC bubbles. We should be secure enough in our own position to read sources we abhor, understand them, and approach their claims from a position of knowledge. Ruthless criticism of all that exists includes reading sources like the wsj.