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towsonu2003
January 13th, 2006, 08:52 AM
Does anyone know a left-biased* political news site (not US-only but global/universal) in the format of digg or slashdot (collecting news from everywhere, rate the most important ones, and have RSS)?

I am getting more and more geeky** reading diig.com and slashdot, I would like to spice it with some politization...

*I'm more interested in news that matters to leftists...

**Yesterday, I tried to explain my girlfriend the WMF & the Outlook/Exchange vulnerabilities... and show my new desktop theme... and my new firefox theme... and my new mouse cursor... and proposed to install Ubuntu on her computer... Suffice to say, she doesn't care at all as long as her computer isn't infected (which, I think, is the healthy way to go) after taking necessary actions (firefox+antivirus+antispyware+rootkitrevealer+win dows update)...

poofyhairguy
January 13th, 2006, 09:07 AM
Awesome you are showing off your geekiness.

This site:

http://www.alternet.org/

Is the best I know of. Also this site

http://www.kuro5hin.org/

has a leftist slant.

matthew
January 13th, 2006, 05:41 PM
You might appreciate these. I'm not sure they will be a precise fit with what you are looking for, but they might be.

http://www.slate.com/
http://www.eff.org/news/

And one just for fun because I find it amusing...feel free to ignore it.

http://www.computerworld.com/departments/opinions/sharktank/

BWF89
January 13th, 2006, 11:17 PM
Try Wikinews. I have it set as my homepage I like it so much:

http://wikinews.org/

towsonu2003
January 14th, 2006, 08:17 AM
Try Wikinews. I have it set as my homepage I like it so much:

http://wikinews.org/
I think this one will work for me... I couldn't figure out how news articles end up in the front page though.

PS. amazing, you can even edit those pages yourself :) very nice! and they even have a chat room :cool:

DigitalDuality
January 14th, 2006, 08:47 AM
http://www.disinfo.com/site/
http://www.buzzflash.com/
http://www.mojones.com/
http://mediamatters.org/

matthew
January 14th, 2006, 04:43 PM
Try Wikinews. I have it set as my homepage I like it so much:

http://wikinews.org/Great site!! This is the first time I've heard of it. I also love that they have an RSS feed. Here's the link for that in case anyone wants it: http://feeds.feedburner.com/WikinewsLatestNews

BWF89
January 14th, 2006, 05:08 PM
Great site!! This is the first time I've heard of it.
Just go to the bottom of Wikinews, Wikipedia, or any of the other sites owned by the Wikimedia Foundation and Jimmy Wales and you can find the other Wiki sites.

matthew
January 14th, 2006, 05:27 PM
Just go to the bottom of Wikinews, Wikipedia, or any of the other sites owned by the Wikimedia Foundation and Jimmy Wales and you can find the other Wiki sites.Yeah--I noticed that. I've been doing some exploring. For a while now I haven't visited the main page for any of the wikipedia universe sites as I have a search engine link to Wikipedia in the Firefox quick search box so there wasn't a need. I hadn't noticed all the new stuff.

Thanks again for the heads up!

Viro
January 14th, 2006, 07:05 PM
What about geek sites with a right wing slant? ;)

towsonu2003
January 15th, 2006, 12:46 AM
Pre-Note: No flame intended, just trying to locate an RSS digg/slashdot-like newssite...

Correction: it seems wikinews isn't working for me either. all other news sites suggested were US-focused (focused on US issues) while wikinews seems US-oriented (looking at stories with an American mind-set) and has a spice spice??? it's like a big bowl of spice soup, not even worthy to read of right-wing as well... don't wana go into detail to avoid any flames...

so, any other suggestions?? :)

and thanks all for the replies.


After a couple of days scanning wikinews: that site sucks!

DigitalDuality
January 15th, 2006, 01:02 AM
Pre-Note: No flame intended, just trying to locate an RSS digg/slashdot-like newssite...

Correction: it seems wikinews isn't working for me either. all other news sites suggested were US-focused (focused on US issues) while wikinews seems US-oriented (looking at stories with an American mind-set) and has a spice of right-wing as well... don't wana go into detail to avoid any flames...

so, any other suggestions?? :)

and thanks all for the replies.This is pretty liberal..but also US centric for the most part.

Daily Kos has a couple libertarian columnists too.
http://www.dailykos.com/

matthew
January 15th, 2006, 01:28 AM
all other news sites suggested were US-focused

so, any other suggestions?? :)
Hmm...these might be good for you. I'll list the main site followed by the rss feed if available. I wouldn't classify any of thees as extreme leftist, but they certainly are not Fox News. I tend to think of them as mainstream European, which tends to be more liberal than the U.S.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss.xml
Is the BBC liberal? Maybe, but certainly well-balanced and fair in my experience with a good international perspective.

http://www.iht.com/
http://www.iht.com/rss/index.html
International Herald Tribune. Same comments as for the BBC

http://www.worldpress.org/wprw.htm
http://www.worldpress.org/feeds/wprw.xml
I have no experience with World Press so I can't comment specifically, but I just saw it and it looked interesting so it might be worth a look to you.

poofyhairguy
January 16th, 2006, 10:17 AM
What about geek sites with a right wing slant? ;)


http://www.technocrat.net/