Alfino's Information Diet
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Contents
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
 - 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
 - Salon
 - City Journal
 - The Nation - very liberal, downright socialist
 - Reason - liberatarian perspective, "free minds and free markets"
 
Special Interests
Use this section for topics or interests that you follow aside from general news and cultural information.