One website what I find particularly reliable is snopes.com. It is an urban legend website that determines whether or not farfetched stories and forwarded chain mail is true or false. The editor, Barbara Mikkelson does research and cites her sources at the end of each story, and she also signs her name in a witty and ironic way. For example, in an article about radiation from granite countertops, she signed her name "Barbara 'counter measures' Mikkelson." I like the site because it helps to shed some light on what stories and pictures are real, and which are fake.
The second site that I have been looking at recently is the New York Times. I do not read it much, but it is the site that my government professor gets quiz questions from. Therefore, it is in my best interest to read the same material the quiz questions come from. What I can tell from my brief time reading it is that the NYT has a sort of liberal bias. Large amounts of this bias could be from Obama being more active in the media than McCain. Either way, the NYT tells me what I need to know for class.
Finally, the site from which I get local news is news4jax.com. I am from Jacksonville, Florida, and now that I can no longer watch their news broadcast, my last resort is to read their website. The reason that I chose news4jax opposed to firstcoastnews.com is because it is not affiliated with a major broadcast network. News4jax is an independent news station. And that is how I get my news from the murder capital of the south.
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