Information Diet Inventory
From Alfino
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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
- 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 - Review site for many media, from TV to Music.
- Rotten Tomatoes - Internet Movie Review site
- IMDB - Internet Movie Database
- Amazon - collaborative filter site (and online store)
Political Cultural Perspective Balancing
Use this section to identify sources that would balance or diversify your primary trusted sources.
Special Interests
Use this section for topics or interests that you follow aside from general news and cultural information.
- Scientific American
- Fine Woodworking
- Reason - liberatarian perspective
- Science News
Critical Questions
- Do your sources cover a range of news from local to global?
- How would you assess the relative objectivity and balance of your sources?
- If you were trying to balance your sources, what perspectives would you add?
Editorial Policies
- Commentary
- Commentary is America’s premier monthly magazine of opinion and a pivotal voice in American intellectual life. Since its inception in 1945, and increasingly after it emerged as the flagship of neoconservatism in the 1970’s, the magazine has been consistently engaged with several large, interrelated questions, such as the fate of democracy and of democratic ideas in a world threatened by totalitarian ideologies; the state of American and Western security; the future of the Jews, Judaism, and Jewish culture in Israel, the United States, and around the world; and the preservation of high culture in an age of political correctness and the collapse of critical standards.
