Making Light :: Get real news :: comments http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002495.html#comments Language, fraud, folly, truth, history, and knitting. Et cetera. en Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:10:38 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.34-en Get real news Live in the States? Feel like your standard newsfeed is giving you garbage? You're right. Here are some better sources:... Live in the States? Feel like your standard newsfeed is giving you garbage? You're right. Here are some better sources:... http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002495.html Get real news -- comment #1 from Stefan Jones comment from Stefan Jones on 26.Mar.03 Amen on The Agonist.

]]> <p>Posted March 26, 2003 5:10 PM by Stefan Jones</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002495.html#17865 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002495.html#17865 Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:10:38 -0500 Get real news -- comment #2 from David Moles comment from David Moles on 26.Mar.03 The Guardian also has by far the best sports coverage.

]]> <p>Posted March 26, 2003 5:26 PM by David Moles</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002495.html#17869 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002495.html#17869 Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:26:52 -0500 Get real news -- comment #3 from Ter comment from Ter on 26.Mar.03 I visit The Guardian for book reviews and literary quizzes.

The Blog of a Bookslut kept sending me there, but now I'm finding much concurrence elsewhere on The Guardian as a news source.

http://www.bookslut.com/blog.html

]]> <p>Posted March 26, 2003 7:56 PM by Ter</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002495.html#17877 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002495.html#17877 Wed, 26 Mar 2003 19:56:08 -0500 Get real news -- comment #4 from Derryl Murphy comment from Derryl Murphy on 26.Mar.03 I just blogged this site:

http://athena.uwindsor.ca/units/leddy/2002.nsf/HelpSubjectGuidesIraq2003

Iraq conflict news sources from every angle, done up by a pair of librarians. Excellent way to find other sources.

]]> <p>Posted March 26, 2003 10:03 PM by Derryl Murphy</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002495.html#17880 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002495.html#17880 Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:03:29 -0500 Get real news -- comment #5 from Bruce Arthurs comment from Bruce Arthurs on 26.Mar.03 I spend far too much time on smirkingchimp.com, a site that collects anti-Bush editorials and commentaries from newspapers, magazines and other websites.

One of them, back in October 2002, was what may have been the first piece of Iraqi War II science fiction, "The Base" by Chris Floyd of Moscow Times. Pretty chilling piece of work, I think. Check it out at:

www.SmirkingChimp.com/article.php?sid=8530

or its original Moscow Times URL:

www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2002/10/11/120.html

]]> <p>Posted March 26, 2003 10:06 PM by Bruce Arthurs</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002495.html#17881 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002495.html#17881 Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:06:47 -0500 Get real news -- comment #6 from James Veitch comment from James Veitch on 27.Mar.03 To those people on Delphi forums, on Sk8 Jesus there is a continuing war thread, with posts primarily from Keith and Marcia, who read all the news everywhere. It's a news only thread, with commentary going elsewhere, and they manage to give the highlights without repeating themselves, usually.
I believe it's worth a look, if you're in the neighborhood.

]]> <p>Posted March 27, 2003 3:31 AM by James Veitch</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002495.html#17898 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002495.html#17898 Thu, 27 Mar 2003 03:31:12 -0500 Get real news -- comment #7 from Richard Brandt comment from Richard Brandt on 27.Mar.03 As I was resting in Albuquerque early this week, the PBS station playing in the lounge was running the BBC news. Oddly, I heard all manner of news I hadn't been hearing on the PBS broadcasts all the way across Arizona and New Mexico. For one thing, it was the first time I heard of stiff resistance in Nazaria as opposed to our triumphant capture of bridges across the Tigris and Euphrates. More tellingly, it was the first time I heard the U.S. indignation over whether the Iraqis were observing the Geneva Convention contrasted with our detention of captured fighters in Guantanamo where we refuse to consider them as prisoners of war and accordingly deny them the protections of the Geneva Convention.

]]> <p>Posted March 27, 2003 9:36 AM by Richard Brandt</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002495.html#17905 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002495.html#17905 Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:36:15 -0500 Get real news -- comment #8 from Simon comment from Simon on 27.Mar.03 The Guardian is a priceless treasure, especially for pieces like this. Onion, look to your laurels!

]]> <p>Posted March 27, 2003 1:31 PM by Simon</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002495.html#17927 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002495.html#17927 Thu, 27 Mar 2003 13:31:36 -0500 Get real news -- comment #9 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 27.Mar.03 Simon, that is glorious.

]]> <p>Posted March 27, 2003 1:50 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002495.html#17929 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002495.html#17929 Thu, 27 Mar 2003 13:50:02 -0500 Get real news -- comment #10 from Quaigon-scotch comment from Quaigon-scotch on 29.Mar.03 The Independent is also good (UK) particularly the stuff written by Fisk. He's British but he's lived in the middle east for more than 20 years and knows what he's talking about. And he's not owned by any network.

QS

]]> <p>Posted March 29, 2003 11:13 PM by Quaigon-scotch</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002495.html#18083 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002495.html#18083 Sat, 29 Mar 2003 23:13:31 -0500 Get real news -- comment #11 from Quaigon-scotch comment from Quaigon-scotch on 29.Mar.03 The Independent is also good (UK) particularly the stuff written by Fisk. He's British but he's lived in the middle east for more than 20 years and knows what he's talking about. And he's not owned by any network.

QS

]]> <p>Posted March 29, 2003 11:13 PM by Quaigon-scotch</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002495.html#18084 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002495.html#18084 Sat, 29 Mar 2003 23:13:32 -0500