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I stopped following corporate news 2 years ago and started paying for independent creators and journalists instead on Substack and Locals. I follow substack, locals and other communities of of Glenn Greenwald, Viva Frei and Robert Barnes, Kim Iverson, Steven Crowder mug club, Jimmy Dore, Matt Taibbi, Aaron Mate, Michael Tracey, Alison Morrow, Sharyl Attkinson.

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I'll add Stossel to a list of good-to-follows for independent takes.

Here's a video of him directly asking politicians at a city council meeting about corruption with a local developer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99IeGqIIHj4

They have since approved a project that was competing with the corrupt developer and the corrupt developer is facing federal charges: https://apnews.com/article/f7a7fdb3057548009072601729a2dc2c

Thanks for posting this, I had forgotten this video, it's great (he has others that are really worth watching, go watch if you want "my racist bake sale" [1])

Yeah, agree, Stossel is great, and even if heavily biased, he's what journalism should be about: exposing malfeasance.

He used to be part of the media establishment, but I guess got cast out when he decided to be an actual journalist.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDVnzQD_FVU

Seems like you have a preference for a particular type of news source.

I don't know whether it is better to lean into our political biases or to just not play the game at all.

Huh? There's clearly content on both the left and the right here.

Glenn Greenwald, Aaron Maté, Jimmy Dore, Michael Tracey and Matt Taibbi might not be _your_ left but they are certainly and firmly on the left.

Yeah, and as a matter of fact, I believe it's the only way to form a proper opinion.

Yep. Viva and Barnes is also very good along with Robert Grueler for law related videos.

What preference would that be? My lists clearly consists of everyone from all sides of politics and law. So not sure where you make the claim about bias from? Seems like you aren’t a fan of non corporate anti establishment types.

I absolutely cannot fathom what would lead somebody into paying to listen to what Steven Crowder and Glenn Greenwald want to spew at them. The rest, I've never heard of so I can't comment.

I hope you manage to find whatever peace it is you're looking for in life.

So you clearly do not know anything about the vast majority of the people in my list and yet you make such sassy comments? If you knew the people, you would know that it consists of people from all across the spectrum from left to right. Greenwald is also one of the best journalists of the modern times - from Snowden and Assange disclosures for last years’ Brazilian politics where his reporting freed the former prime minister from prison.

Yeah, Greenwald has done some great things in his career, and then in the span of 3 or so years, something tripped in his brain that made him go batshit crazy and sell out the entirety of his soul and career.

If you "knew the people", you would know that about him, it's not particularly something he attempted to hide, which is why I make my comment of not being able to understand why you're paying for him. Why would you pay for somebody's outright lies?

The only think I’ve seen him do more of in the last few years is to critique the mainstream media. Is that what you are referring to?

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