At 10:31 PM 5/1/01 -0500 Ronn Blankenship wrote:
>BTW, one student asked the question "What ONE news source do you recommend
>for us busy* students that will give us THE TRUTH?" My answer was that
>there really is no one source: a person seeking "the truth" (or some
>approximation of it) needs to look at a variety of sources whose biases
>range from left-wing to right-wing and try to strike a balance. How would
>any of you have answered her?
>
>(*Many of the students in this particular evening class are adult returning
>students who have families and full-time jobs, and some are single parents,
>so they really do not have a lot of spare time.)
My recommendation is _The Economist._ I can usually finish the entire
issue (so long as there is no bonus section) during my half-hour each-way
commute each day. It is so thorough, I've pretty much stopped watching
television news, as it seems so shallow in comparison. Plus, as a
foreign publication, their perspective on US political events is actually
remarkably solid.
JDG
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to check each other." -Andrew Sullivan 01/29/01
