Alfino's Information Diet

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Information Diet Source List

News and Current Information and Opinion

List your current news and information with a brief description of focus and bias.

• BBC - international news, non-US perspectives, us: liberal/socialist, europe:mainstream/centrist
• Corriere Della Sera - Italian news
• New York Times - national and international news, opinion, global: centrist/conservative, us: liberal/left
• Spokesman-Review - local news, centrist/conservative
• The Inlander - local news, liberal
• iGoogle - weather, customized aggregator for article links for news and interests
• The Economist - international news, non-US perspectives, global: conservative free market, socially liberal
• The Atlantic - news, features, hard for me to discern bias, but probably US liberal, International moderate.
• The New Yorker - New York liberal. Very long articles written by very smart people.

Information about Books, Movies, Music

List sources for information about culture and arts.

• New York Review of Books - Opinion, Book reviews, notable work across many academic discipines
• Salon
• LastFM - collaborative filter, basic information about artists
• Pitchfork - reviews of independent music
• The Inlander - local music/events, local: liberal
• Meta-critic - Metacritic compiles reviews from respected critics and publications for movies, DVDs, music, television and games. Our unique Metascores show the critical consensus at a glance by taking a weighted average of critic grades.
• Rotten Tomatoes - Internet Movie Review site
• IMDB - Internet Movie Database
• Amazon - collaborative filter site (and online store)

Sources for Balancing and Deepening Perspectives

Use this section to identify sources that would balance or diversify your primary trusted sources.

• Human Events
• Commentary
• American Spectator
• Slate
• The Nation - very liberal, downright socialist
• Reason - liberatarian perspective, "free minds and free markets"
• New Republic -
• National Review - conservative political commentary, mainstream well informed
• National Affairs - conservative and intellectual, quarterly

Special Interests

Use this section for topics or interests that you follow aside from general news and cultural information.

Education

• Chronicle of Higher Ed [1]

Science

• Scientific American Scientific American
• Science NewsScience News

Hobbies

• Fine Woodworking Fine Woodworking

Philosophy

• Philosophy Talk [2]
• The Edge [3]
• Closer to Truth [4]

New leads to follow:

Radio Shows:

• This American Life
• Radiolab
• To the Best of Our Knowledge [5]
• Radio Open Source [6]
• Radio Diaries
• Sound Opinions

Satire

McSweeney's [7] The Onion The Daily Beast [8]