Media Sources

One of the topics we have not had time to cover is the role of media.  Sasha Abramsky covers it some. I found an option.  Ken Cross instructor of the course on 10 Key Decisions posted this.
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Ken Cross

Media sites

• Communications sources: On my way to the CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations -https://ca.cair.com/sacval/) event on Saturday night last Fall 2017, I had an “epiphany” (be advised this is my one and only epiphany for the year. This is as good as it gets!). In the previous Friday Top 10 seminar the class talked about reliable media sources that report the “facts” in an unbiased manner. I was fortunate enough to have a captive audience of media people at our table at the CAIR event – the CEO/Publisher/Owner of N&R Publications, 2 editors, 3 writers (one was John Flynn, classmate Karen Flynn’s son), 3 media salesmen and an experienced nonprofit leader. Collectively they conservatively have over 125 years in print media and almost 500 years of life experience. I asked them to each list their top 5 communications sources on a 3x5 card without comparing notes. At the end I read their lists and we discussed the media sources. Here they are >

·       FiveThirtyEight (538) http://fivethirtyeight.com/

·       BBC (British Broadcasting Service) (Radio) http://www.bbc.com/

·       CALmatters https://calmatters.org/

·       Capitol Public Radio (CPR) (Radio) http://www.capradio.org/

·       Crooked Media Podcasts (Podcast) https://crooked.com/

·       Democracy Now! (Online TV) https://www.democracynow.org/

·       Moyers & Company (TV archives, online stories, newsletter & podcast) http://billmoyers.com/

·       National Public Radio (NPR) (Radio) http://www.npr.org/

·       News apps 

·       PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) (TV) http://www.pbs.org/

·       PBS Frontline (TV) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/

·       PBS News Hour (TV) https://www.pbs.org/newshour/

·       ProPublica (Online journalism, newsletters & podcasts) https://www.propublica.org/

·       The Atlantic (Magazine & online journalism) https://www.theatlantic.com/

·       The Axe Files with David Axelrod (Podcast) http://rss.cnn.com/services/podcasting/axe/rss

·       The Christian Science Monitor (Newspaper) https://www.csmonitor.com/

·       The Economist (Magazine) https://www.economist.com/

·       The Los Angeles Times (Newspaper) http://www.latimes.com/

·       The Nation (Weekly magazine) https://www.thenation.com/

·       The New York Times (Newspaper) https://www.nytimes.com/

·       The New Yorker (Magazine) https://www.newyorker.com/

·       The Sacramento News & Review (SN&R) (Weekly alternative newspaper) http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/home

·       The Wall Street Journal (Newspaper) https://www.wsj.com/

·       The Washington Post (Newspaper) https://www.washingtonpost.com/

·       Vice News (Online news) https://news.vice.com/en_us