By Raleigh Perry
BUFORD, Ga. | If you are getting your national news from the Atlanta Journal and Constitution (AJC), the Marietta Daily Journal, the Gwinnett Daily Post, the Gainesville Times or any other local newspaper, you are basically unaware of what is going on in this world.
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The same is true of the local television news shows, both the Atlanta news and the evening news from any affiliate like CBS, NBC, ABC or FOX. If you want that news, you will have to hunt for it.
I suggest that you look for news magazines, where you will get a more well-rounded accounting of what is going on. I suggest that you look at The New Republic, The Hill, Huffington Post, Salon, Politico and The Daily Beast, among others.
Some of them expect you to subscribe, but the prices are not high. I pay only for The Daily Beast. The annual cost is $35 for the standard, but there is more to it than that and they have a price that I find well worth it.
I have home delivery of The New York Times and the AJC. The Times is not available for home delivery in some areas, but you can buy an online subscription. As for news commentary, both CNN and MSNBC are good and you might have access to BBC. Not to be political, but there is always FOX. Other good sources are Google News For You, which is a more or less local focus but there is also a U.S. part of it. Yahoo News is pretty good and both Yahoo and Google News get their material from a variety of sources but Yahoo has many ads that are no more than “ClickBait.”
When, in the newspapers (other than the NYT), have you seen anything about the windup clacking-mouth of Marjorie Taylor Greene? A person could publish a weekly newspaper with nothing more than the inane statements she has made.
I was raised in a newspaper family. My grandfather was the Managing Editor of the Chattanooga Times for a while and an uncle was City Editor of the competing Chattanooga News (Before the New Free Press).
I graduated university with a major in European History and a minor in journalism. I am truly a news hound. I go through every day all of the sources that I recommend and others, and there are plenty of them, to stay apprised to the national and international news.
I was a traveling salesman for 35 years and when I stopped for lunch or dinner on the road, I bought the local papers and read them through, even the classifieds. From about the time I was six years old, at my grandfather’s, we literally read the morning or evening paper, depending on which meal we were eating.
I have been told recently that I read the news too much. That might be true. But I am physically disabled and cannot work in the yard and I send what I think are salient articles to a long list of people and, for some, I am about their only source.
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