Yes, it habitually shills for nasty industries like big oil and big tobacco.
Yes, it’s partly funded by the left’s least favorite family, the Kochs. You could start at libertarian flagship Reason. So what are the thoughtful sources where we can not only learn how the other half thinks, but maybe pick up something useful? Reason Stephen Bannon and the alt-right in the White House Guardian In fact, it might be the chance to sharpen our own arguments as we encounter things we can’t stomach.
And it’s also permissible to approach rightwing sites critically, knowing there are certain arguments, and certain writers, that we will never agree with. No one really needs to listen to Alex Jones for four hours a day, and some conservative sites really are nests of unreconstructed conspiracy theory and bigotry. The first thing to say is that it’s still possible to be selective. Let’s assume, then, that all of us, including progressives, do need to broaden our horizons, and seek out more views that differ from ours. Herein lies the problem: many of us now live in “ filter bubbles” wherein social media algorithms tend to feed us only those perspectives that we already agree with. Barack Obama told the New Yorker that new media’s capacity to spread misinformation makes it “very difficult to have a common conversation”. And the way we see news now is micro-targeted.” “But a healthy media diet has to be broader than that. “There’s nothing inherently wrong with shows that have a viewpoint this show has a viewpoint,” he said. In his last broadcast of the year, John Oliver talked about how his own show offered comforting political catharsis to people who already agreed with him.
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