Hi, it's Alex!
Today I want to talk about
reliable conservative news media sources.
Now, if you're liberal, you might be like:
"Oh, anything conservative is unreliable."
I don't believe this.
I'm pretty moderate,
and I think that there's a wide range of
the quality of news sources
both in left-biased and right-biased news media sources.
First, before I give you any specifics,
I want to talk about this website that I really like.
It's called Media Bias / Fact Check,
and, it collects and compiles data on
a whole bunch of different news sources,
and it ranks them, both by the liberal and conservative bias,
and by the quality of the factual reporting.
So, it has this separate left-right scale, and fact quality.
So, for example, you might have one source that is,
like New York Times, I think it rates as leaning left,
like a slight left bias,
but having high-quality factual reporting.
I think Wall Street Journal it says leans right,
but also it rates as high-quality.
Two of the conservative sources
that I hear about the most,
especially talking to liberals,
are Fox News and Breitbart News.
And so Fox News is this TV network
that also publishes written pieces online,
and, both of these sources are
rated quite poorly by this site.
They are in the category of "mixed" for factual reporting.
Now, if you check the rankings on this site,
it's actually pretty bad
to get ranked in the "mixed" category.
So I really don't recommend either of those.
Of the two of them, I think
Breitbart is a little more alarmist and inflammatory.
So, I think it's kind of a shame
that a lot of people out there think of Fox and Breitbart
as the sort of "go-to" conservative sources.
I don't ever go to them
if I want to get anything reliable.
Like, if I actually care about
the stuff being factually accurate,
I'm not gonna look at either of those sources.
So, what do I consult?
Well, it depends.
If you want to get a sort of far-right,
very conservative perspective,
or a sort-of center-right perspective,
a more moderate conservative perspective.
One of the newspapers that I really like
that has a sort of center-right bias
is called Washington Times.
Just to give you an idea of like, kind of
how far conservative and liberal it goes,
it published a piece some time back
that was talking about how
homosexuality is not a choice
and there is overwhelming evidence supporting this,
and so, they're kind of working to break down
some of the worst homophobia that you see,
and like untruthful ideas you see circulating
in some right-wing circles.
But at the same time, they don't,
they don't seem to attack conservative political candidates
anywhere near as harshly
as most of the mainstream media does.
So, if you want like a more center-right source,
that's a good one to go to.
If you want more analysis,
and a similar sort of center-right bias,
there is also this one called the Washington Examiner,
and that's more about politics
and it really goes in more depth about what's going on.
Now, another sort of center-right-ish bias
that you might have is a libertarian bias.
And, if you're looking for a libertarian bias,
there are two things I recommend:
one is Reason Magazine, which is,
it's kind of THE libertarian magazine in the U.S.,
and it has a lot of news on its website,
and it has a very clear bias,
but they're open about the perspective
that they're coming from.
Another libertarian one
that I think is a little bit more reliable than reason magazine
is the CATO Institute.
This is like a research think-tank,
and again, it's coming from a libertarian perspective,
but its stuff tends to be pretty well-researched,
and so it has like, policy standpoints
and sort of deeper analysis
about policy and things like that.
So, these are the sort of center-right sources.
What if you want to go even more conservative,
but you don't really want to be in the looney bin.
Like, you want to be reading something that is
at least sticking to the facts,
and maybe it has a pretty strong bias,
but it's not gonna be publishing stuff
that's overtly factually untrue.
There are a few things I would point you to.
And it sort of depends on
what perspective you want to read.
One thing that, I'm sort of uncomfortable
with all of these sources from time to time,
but I do check them out.
One thing that I'd point to is National Review.
National Review is very right-wing.
But, I find that it's more reliable
than any of the other things
that are as far right-biased as it is.
So, if you want something that is pretty far right,
but still factually sound,
and offers some viewpoints that I agree with
from time to time,
I recommend checking out National Review.
Incidentally, they are highly critical of the current president,
president Trump.
They have not really been a fan of him from the start,
and, I think that's one thing that makes me trust them
a little bit more than some of these other sources.
A source that is even more conservative than them,
that I don't really read, but it's like,
if you want to go more conservative,
and again you want it to be more factual
than something like Breitbart,
I'd recommend checking out The Federalist.
I don't really read it though,
it's way too conservative for me.
One last one that I want to mention
is called the Weekly Standard,
and this is like a "neoconservative" publication.
I really don't like neoconservatism.
Neoconservatism is, it's basically this ideology
that combines social conservatism
with this idea of having a strong military
and the U.S. being a sort-of dominant superpower.
And it's that ideology that got us into the second Iraq war.
Like, a lot of George W. Bush's advisors
were steeped in that ideology.
So I don't like that ideology.
But if you're gonna read something
that is coming from that standpoint,
and that's a little bit more reasonable,
I think the Weekly Standard is,
it's about as reasonable as you can get
within that perspective.
So that's basically what I have to say.
I'm gonna put links to all of these things
in the description of the video.
Why do I think this is important?
Well, I think it is important
whether you are liberal, conservative, or moderate.
Like if you're moderate like me,
you probably want to consult a lot of different viewpoints.
If you're liberal, I think it's really important
to not misrepresent and misunderstand
conservative viewpoints,
and if all you watch is Fox News
or read Breitbart news online, those are just,
I think they're pretty much garbage sources.
You can't trust the stuff that you find on them.
A lot of it is really inflammatory.
And, I don't care if a lot of people trust those sources.
I don't think they accurately represent
conservative ideology.
I think they misrepresent it.
And I think a lot of the problems
in our society right now
are due to the fact that
the Republican party has gone off the deep end.
I think that if we were to give more of a voice,
more of an influence to these more factual
conservative sources,
whether the center-right ones or the far-right ones,
I think it would fix a lot of the problems in our society,
and specifically, a lot of the problems
you see within conservatism,
within the Republican party.
Yeah, that's basically what I have to say.
I hope you've gained something.
I hope you check out some of these news media,
and find something useful and interesting in them.
Thank you!
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