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Washington Post Alternative?

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January 24, 2017
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Donald Trump's bizarre behaviour has got me hooked on American News, and I have been reading the online Washington Post trying to keep up with it all. Unfortunately, it seems that the Post has a Pay Meter and I now get this message:

To keep reading it would cost me the same as Photoshop and Lightroom, so I'm thinking there must be alternative online newspapers with the same honest, and independent editing as the Post. Can you people that live me give me a heads up? If anyone suggests Fox News, they had better add the winking emoticon

The Post has a great layout of stories as well as great content, with a hard copy newspaper look to it. That works well for me, and I'd love to find similar. Apparently you can get the Post online free for six months if you are an Amazon Prime customer, but I'd prefer to avoid Amazon Prime.

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Cat_s_Eye

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Just use private mode on your browser and clear your cookies. I read WaPo all the time. When I get that message, I just close my browser and start over.

D Fosse

Community Expert

BTW, a terrorism researcher at the Swedish Defense University, Magnus Ranstorp, says about the latest, the travel ban:

This is one of the most counter-productive measures they could have taken. It will reinforce al-Qaidas and IS' narrative that the West is at war with islam (...) it will in turn lead to increased radicalization and islamism.

(my translation)

He summarizes the whole order as "idiocy". Not that he is the final authority on this, it was just very well put.

And the madness goes on.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

D Fosse wrote:
And the madness goes on.

Indeed it does. Emigration & Naturalization doesn't have the means or know-how to deal with it all. They certainly didn't ask for this but somehow have to implement it. It's lunacy at the highest level.

Nancy

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

jane-e

Community Expert

I subscribe to the Washington Post (local paper) and the New York Times (better news) and don't mind paying because I want to support journalists and newspapers.

Here are some other sources that I follow. I get emails from some, follow some on Facebook, and go to the websites for others.

NPR (National Public Radio)

Huffington Post (admittedly slanted)

BBC

The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC)

The Economist

PBS (Public Broadcasting System)

Dan Rather (and his new News and Guts Facebook page)

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren

Maureen Dowd

Thomas Friedman

Nate Silver

Andy Borowitz (humor)

Steven Colbert

The Daily Show

Seth Meyers

Read this for the top and bottom news sources. It is color coded by liberal and conservative.

http://www.businessinsider.com/here-are-the-most-and-least-trusted-news-outlets-in-america-2014-10

John T Smith

Community Expert

I don't read one specific source, but I do browse the headlines and read anything interesting at these two aggregate sites

Google News and Fox News - Breaking News Updates | Latest News Headlines | Photos & News Videos

Cactus Cowboy

Inspiring

I just follow Google News. I have every channel Spectre (formerly Time Warner) has to offer so I over digest news all damn day to the point that I start having nightmares. Along with Pres. Trump's odd mindset, what Tee's me off is that the first thing he does when sworn in was to start signing all manner of Executive Orders. This is not a Kingdom, it's suppose to be a Democracy where important items are debated and then voted on in the senate but I guess not.

jane-e

Community Expert

I love Rachel Maddow from MSNBC. She is excellent! I listen to her podcast through iTunes on the way to work.

Did you see the NYT has a podcast now? This is day three. Interesting angles. I'm working to tip the scales from obsessed back to informed, and have to be very careful which articles I pick to read*. I'll check out Rachel to see if she fits my criteria. but the new NYT podcast definitely does.

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* One day a few weeks ago I scanned all the headlines and the only article on the top stories page I felt safe clicking on was https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/13/dining/cauliflower-and-broccoli-new-recipes.html?_r=0.

BarbBinder wrote:
* One day a few weeks ago I scanned all the headlines and the only article on the top stories page I felt safe clicking on was https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/13/dining/cauliflower-and-broccoli-new-recipes.html.

Oh, yum — I am checking these out! One of the great things about subscribing to the NYT is that I can save all these recipes into my recipe box!

Barb Binder

Community Expert

I'm from the DC area, and grew up reading the Wash Post every day, but gave up on them about 8 months ago due to the prevalence of clickbait headlines in my FB feed. I subscribe to the NYTimes these days.

On a related note, have the aftershocks subsided yet? Like many, I do hope he succeeds, because what is the alternative? And while lots of people exhibit bizarre behavior—perhaps due to various personality issues and reactions to early life experiences—it's the growing acceptance of this behavior by so many people that has me dreaming of living in a land far, far away. (That, and seeing whales cruising by.)

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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