Reply #22: What the MSM is good for

[Dogmudgeon]

The kind of news that is "Public Postings" -- like, that Jill Carroll was released, or that the Idiot Bastard Son made some bone-headed remark, or that industrial capacity fell 2.2% this past quarter. Stuff like that.

The editorializing? It's just about all shit topped with a worm-eaten bing cherry. Even my once-beloved Philadelphia Inquirer has turned into a rat's nest of neo-con fulminating (though I hear that the Big Dog is in bidding for it).

The mainstream European media are far more reliable -- and stuff from Agence Presse France is good practice for French. (Which reminds me, I have to start reading the Spanish press now that the Aznaristas are out of power). So is Ha'aretz (even its pro-Israel slant is from a progressive p.o.v.) and Tokyo Shimbun. And, of course, there are many good papers from Canada, though my preference is for that big-assed, glossy, hard-drinkin' grubstake-town woman of a magazine, Macleans.

They're all on-line. The only regret I have is that without a notebook computer, I can't read the news while I'm eating my morning cornflakes.

--p!