Not all news is equal...

What news do you check out?
Here are some good sites:

http://www.democracynow.org
http://www.truthdig.com/
http://www.alternet.org/
http://www.factcheck.org/
http://www.centerforinquiry.net/
http://mediamatters.org/and closer to home:

http://www.policyalternatives.ca/
http://thetyee.ca/

(more on my podcast list later)

Rules and advice about information and news:

1) Just remember don’t just trust anyone (yes, even me).

2) Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

3) The more sources of news you can get (even occasionally from the evil ones like CNN) the clear the truth will filter its way out.

4) If you listen to enough, you start to cross-reference stories; hear them from different biases and our of that you discover the truth is usually not what you have been told but somewhere in-between.

5) If someone suggest something big (9/11 was a Nazi Conspiracy), in your mind, assume its true and work out the implications. If those implications also are true then maybe its true but often most big things fail this test. For example – IF 9/11 was a Nazi Conspiracy, then the Nazi’s would be in power, we would be racially segregated and the Jews would be dead; none of this happed, so its most likely there was no Nazi Conspiracy involved in 9/11.

6) Use your head.

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