Far East Cynic

The 50 worst places to get your news.

Regardless of your political persuasion. The list that is given below is a rogues gallery of misinformation, diatribe, uninformed commentary, factually inaccurate reporting-and general all around mean spiritedness that can be found in the civilized word. When you hear someone saying, ” I was just reading or watching (fill in the blank) and it’s one of the names on this list, consider it a warning sign. Some have been asterisked to denote their special status as deserving of having the living stuffing beaten out of them.

1. Fox News *
2. Rush Limbaugh ***
3. Glenn Beck **
4. Michael Savage **
5. Alex Jones
6. The Heritage Foundation *
7. The Wall Street Journal * (Was once a good paper then along came Murdoch).
8. Neal Boortz***
9. Sean Hannity ***
10. Bill O’Reily**

11. Rightwingnews.com
12. National Review *
13. Mark Levin***
14. The Weekly Standard * (Except for “William the Bloody” Kristol. He gets three stars.
15. Washington Times *
16. The American Conservative
17. The Drudge Report *
18. The Cato Institute *
19. Media Research Center
20. Townhall.com*
21. Red State***
22. Andew Breitbart’s Big Government ***
23. The American Cause
24. Christian Coalition**
25. The John Birch Society**
26. Citizens United
27. Freedom Works***
28. Tea Party Express ***
29. Tea Party Patriots ***
30. No Left Turns**
31. News Busters **
32. News Max
33. The New York Post *
34. Conservative HQ
35. Sirius radio “Patriot” *
36. Conservative American News
37. Conservative Daily News
38. Judicial Watch*
39. The Source Daily*
40. Republican National Committee*
41. American Spectator **
42, Reason Magazine **
43. Where Freedom Rings
44. Conservapedia
45. The Right Side of the Web
46. CNS News
47. Michael Reagan**
48. Family Research Council***
49. Conservative Underground**
50. Hugh Hewitt*********************** ( Needs an extra ass whupping).

* Biased exclusively towards the GOP

** Totally deranged

*** Deserving of a five iron across the forehead repeatedly.

H/T to Addicting Info!

  1. No no! You’re all wrong!

    Worst places to get your news:
    PBS
    NPR
    CBS
    ABC
    NBC
    CNN
    MSNBC
    PRI
    New York Times
    Los Angeles Times

    Funny how all the ones I named are declining in ratings, share, subscriptions and all the ones you named enjoy soaring ratings, share and subscriptions. When one wants accurate timely news, one watches FOX.

  2. Clearly you have lost sight of what the word “accuracy” means.

    NPR
    CNN
    NYT-except the editorial page
    The Atlantic Web Site
    The Economist
    The Kiplinger Letter
    Far East Cynic
    Channel News Asia
    Bloomberg
    Google News
    The Financial Times
    Business Insider

    Are some good ones to name a few. If the ones I named are increasing in readership ( something I doubt) then it just means that brain damage is increasing.

  3. Skippy,
    I actually enjoy Savage. He has no love for the GOP and O’Reilly and the rest of Fox news.

    One thing about those sites that you listed, they may lean towards the right, but the stories that they report are real. They are not made up. Sure they may have a slant in how they report, but the bottom line is, they are stories that they report that do not get put on CNN or MSNBC or NPR.

    Like the teacher from LA Unified School district who was shown on Fox at the OWS rally in LA shouting “it is a zionist plot as to why the banks are doing what they are doing.” So maybe they spent a little more time on her, but she was not alone. Take that to the supposed racists at the Tea Party (and trust me I am keenly aware of racist remarks), but on CNN or MSNBC, you will hear nothing about that, or the endorsement that the CPUSA and the American Nazi party endorse the OWS cause.

  4. Clearly you are being carried away by consumption otherwise there is no excuse for such a diseased mind. Honestly, CNN?!! NPR?!!!

    Good God that you find Krugman, Dowd, and Friedman icons of truthiness and fact. Sad really.

    Here is the test. Spengler.

    Michael Kelly was very good. Pity he died in the war.

  5. “most of the stories are real” ? Got to throw the BS flag on that one. Breitbart, as I have noted before lies the way other men breathe. Boortz? Same problem. Tea party cites don’t print their preachy columns in context. Glenn Beck? Factual? He’s been fact checked as being off his rocker more times than not..

    Take the OWS stories. They zero in on snippets and isolated things while ignoring the greater context. Namely that lots and lots of people are do pissed off that they demonstrate world wide. The point about OWS is that they are mad at the right people- unlike the Tea Party , many of whom are decent people, but are aligned with the same fringe type lunatics. Or are the militias and gun toters just a mirage?

  7. Skippy,
    If the OWS are just snippets, then I would have thought that with the greater media bias towards the left, you would see far more cases of the KKK and skinheads at Tea Party rallys. They would be front and center on every news program on MSNBC, CNN, and the rest. But I don’t recall seeing them.

    Beck, don’t care too much about him nor Hannity or Rush. I am a Savage fan as well as Jerry Doyle. Savage has no love for Fox, and he goes after them on a regular basis for their toting the GOP party line. Nor does Jerry Doyle. They both will give you an honest take on how things run at Fox and how O’Reilly is a very vain and jealous person. Don’t get me wrong I like O’Reilly but the rest of the blond haired news people at Fox are not really my cup of tea. Savage is banned in England, and yet no one talks about the only media personality in America being banned from being able to enter a country, based on hersay. He has shown the evidence that he was placed on a list by the Cameron government to balance it out with the other radical muslim terrorist and Russian skinheads.

    My advise to you, when you get to Germany, find stations that you can stream Savage or Doyle. They are much better to listen to. But be warned, stations that stream on I-heart are no longer being streamed overseas. They went into effect last week, and I am cut off from my talk radio.

  8. Gosh skippy, I would have thought that the “Far East Cynic” would have been at the top of your second list.

  9. Isn’t it funny Skippy that Breitbart has a standing offer to pay $100,000 to anybody who can come up with film or audio of ANYONE shouting racist comments at the thieves parading behind Nancy Pelosi on the Mall? Been out there for many many months and for all that the black caucus claims they were called names, nobody has any proof of it and yet there is plenty of video and audio shot by the TEA folks clearly showing that nobody lies like a democratic member of Congress. I think all of your valued media injects side with the black caucus on that one and yet, nobody has collected Breitbart’s money. You see, your media is as dishonest as the day is long.

    Tiny little handicap. No TV. No radio unless I’m driving somewhere

  10. Breitbart, as he so often does has fabricated a video that purports to prove him right on this-where there is clear evidence of selective editing. I’ve already documented that this worthless piece of shit is a fabricator-and all the signs are present here. Breitbart supports his claim by submitting “conclusive” video “evidence” that nothing “racially charged” occurred on March 20, 2010. Take a closer look at the NY Times correction, and Breitbart’s video, and it doesn’t take much to poke some pretty big holes in Breitbart’s basic claim, which somehow presupposes that the failure to meet a burden of proof is, in and of itself, “conclusive evidence.”

    Then there is the accountability free violations of the law that Breitbart and his minions have done. Ask yourself why his “boy” is on probation-and was caught violating that probation trying to infilitratge the OWS protests. Then there is is paying for hacking into private correspondence-in clear violation of the law, to create a story where there is none. See Matt Taibbi’s take down for further details. The little piece of shit was trying to create a story where there was none-and in the process violate the privacy of American citizens. And the douchebags give him a free pass on it.

    So this is where a cherry, “Fuck Brietbart” is in order-if not a wholesale battering with a Louisville Slugger.

  11. So you got no evidence but you’re willing to make up shit. You don’t hold Breitbart’s $100K in your hand or in your pocket. You can’t find it in yourself to prove a “nothing”. But you lambaste the man for showing just how sick and diseased people like you are.

    Hacking correspondence yeah? Like that little monkey did with Palin’s email account? I really don’t understand how you can support such crooks and thieves.

  12. I enjoy Jerry Doyle, as he has good sense of humor and a wide ranging background. I listen to and read both Dem and Repub media and notice how each side accuses one another of the same sins. Glad both sides are around to be heard. May it ever be so.