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You can already subscribe to The Week for a buck an issue. Or you can subscribe to opinion journals, some of which have been around for 150 years.

The best news comes from classic, old-fashioned, boring "objective", print sources (which are still the main place where real in-depth investigative reporting takes place), like the NYT, LAT, the Economist, and so on, with some more explicitly partisan sources to draw your attention to particular things you might have missed (usually found in those boring sources).
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So whats the difference between this and news aggregators like news.yahoo.com or news.google.com?
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Perhaps rating the "credibility" of news sources is a slippery slope towards censorship (he is aware that "slippery slope" is the name of a logical fallacy, right?), but the slippery slope going the other direction is one where all disputes of fact are treated as mere differences of opinion. A world where flat-earthers are given equal time with astrophysicists, so viewers can form their own opinions about which is right.

In short, a slippery slope that leads us to exactly where we are right now.
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mediocre "objective" outlets

We seem to have lost the handle on what "objective" means with respect to media.

Some seem to think it means a sort of averaging of claims from the left and right, however absurd those claims may be. That's obviously not right.

Others seem to think it means channeling The Truth without any subjective filtering, which is impossible to do, so why bother. That's a lazy cop out.

What is actually means is journalism that is honest, factually accurate, intelligent, and transparent. We could use a lot more media outlets like that.
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This guy is another person like Jeff Bezos who is too big for his britches.

Basically he invented the web equivalent of Garfield the Cat and made millions selling web mugs, web calendars, and web pencil sharpeners about cats.

Ok...I respect that.

But it doesn't mean we have to listen to him.

You know...unless he has a lot of money to spend or invest.
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Does he still pay workers minimum wage?
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It's a good sentiment, but I Can Haz Cheezburger has profited as a parasite on internet culture, appropriating memes that originate elsewhere and repackaging and putting them back out there, with ad space, and watermarked branding.
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I find it hard to take seriously anyone who believes that society has gotten really good at the facts.
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If there's one thing the world needs, it's more internet web sites.
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@8 - Exactly. His next sentence is equally as silly.
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I hate to find agreement with Supreme Bailo, but he's right here.

Not about Bezos specifically, who seems to be inordinately skilled in his own autistic way; I would have chosen a different example, like Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Page. There is a preponderance of idiot savants in the Web 2.0 world, people who became instantly wealthy beyond all imagining based on the strength of one good, simple idea, who are then stroked and coddled by the sycophants around them into thinking that they are geniuses at every subject that comes to mind. But none of these bozos knows anything about the world around them; reading the sub-Ayn Rand philosophy that creeps like Peter Thiel tend to spout is just tragic, which was also true of the industry titans of old, but at least they knew how to MAKE STUFF. The perfect entrepreneur today doesn't even make the crappy cat gifs and mouth-breather Farmville crap they sell; they steal it, or buy it off of someone else. And then, purely at random, boom: billionaire. Their wealth and influence is completely accidental.

Huh is like Peter Sellers in "Being There", a nobody who hit the jackpot. There are guys just like him, down to the tiniest detail, with the same skills and the same worldview, working in gas station convenience stores all over the country for $11 an hour.
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@1

Seriously? The NYT is objective?

Christ. I can haz Russian Roulette?
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@8++. Sure, a universal credibility measure holds no water, but not because of his argument, but because it's turtles all the way down. Who rates the credibility of the credibility raters?

But this guy is "absolutely right" that the "notion that there is a truth" is "idealistic", on all subjects? Like, on evolution, and gravity, and basic facts about physics and chemistry? He's "absolutely right" that "weโ€™re actually really good at the facts", which is why there is any doubt about global warming the public discourse?
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Differing opinions ares not differing facts. Facts may change with study and observation but they are the best thing on which to base opinions. If your opinions are based on beliefs in contravention with facts, that's fine but just don't base public policy on beliefs unless you want waste and misery. And misery is just what you get. There are those who actually want misery for those they dislike and use beliefs as the justification.
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@11 - One million points to you, sir, for not only making a Being There reference, but additionally for the final scene of the movie that at last portrays how these people probably see themselves.
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Wow... news aggregation from Mr LOLZ. Peeling back the foreskin of journalism. Gimme a break.
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I know too much about this guy to think that this concept is actually his - who else is on this project? Who are the tech people? I bet they thought of it and are using B.H. for access to money.
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@3: "he is aware that "slippery slope" is the name of a logical fallacy, right?"

It helps to actually understand logical fallacies before you quote them. A slippery slope is not necessarily fallacious.

Anyway, so is Huh still gloating over and boasting about paying his employees just above minimum wage?

http://gawker.com/5488509/inside-the-low…
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I've heard Tom Waits'(?) "What's He Building in There".
Great Stuff.

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