also spin is way less important than omission. if i could level a single criticism against western leftists and really have it be absorbed, it would be to spend less energy on media criticism of spin (or more accurately fandom of media critics who traipse after the NYT, Reuters, BBC, Guardian, France24, etc) and calling out internal inconsistencies and more time getting around the omissions completely
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The most important bit of wisdom I've gotten from 
is that the basic unit of propaganda is emphasis, not lies. And emphasis goes both ways; you amp it up beyond emphasis by not even acknowledging the things you really don't wish to emphasize.
something something media isn't good at telling you what to think, it's good at telling you what to think about 
Oh, for sure. I guess I hadn't considered spin as a precise term - I was including omission in it. Yes, omission is by far the worst offender.
the hexbear news bulletin, of course: https://hexbear.net/post/2526093
so mainly twitter and al jazeera
Hexbear.
I've mostly stopped engaging with mainstream news. I sometimes have a look at Al Jazeera, maybe the Guardian and Reuters if I see something is happening, but more and more I don't. All that is relevant comes from Hexbear/Mastodon and my immediate work surroundings. Stopping reading my national warmongering news has especially made life better. I did not learn anything from them about Palestine, about the USA or any AES country.
I see plenty of the discourses in the few social media sites I am on. I also read a lot of books and slower format leftist articles (monthly review, naked capitalism etc.) and such, but the daily spectacle seems manufactured to distract and brainworm us.
Not really a good answer I know.
Democracy Now unfortunately succumbed to the liberal brainworms about Russiagate and Ukraine, but otherwise is pretty good. Same with a number of other Pacifica Radio programs.
Reuters is good at getting some key points and missing full state department spin
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i feel bad about even reading naked capitalism since they're fundamentally contrarian investoids how do you come out swinging like this but yeah like most gommunists on here i start my day with activitypub, nakedcapitalism, monthly review's newswire, presstv, telesur, and about 5,000 other things in my rss feed
Thankfully where I live we have radical left newspapers and their corresponding online portals, so leftists here can get some quality takes about ongoing events without looking too hard.
From global ones I honestly just go on Hexbear, but I've noticed Al Jazeera, Naked Capitalism and Reuters are good.
I shake a magic 8 ball
I regularly check: Financial times, Al Jazeera, Cgtn, Daily Sabah, Vietnamnews, The Guardian, Telesur, People's Dispatch and Ndtv.
Also Twitter
Tell me which part of Vuvuzela report did Bloomberg make divergent?
I only saved one of the sources, but they kept popping up around Operation Gideon stuff and some of the sanctions. This one, about JJ Rendon's election hacking was the only one I saved, and it was info that was hard to come by elsewhere:
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-how-to-hack-an-election/
In retrospect, I suppose 2016 was before Rendon was implicated in Venezuela, and before Venezuela was the media's new punching bag, so they didn't exactly avoid spin.
I found this one... https://archive.ph/Gjutd
After reading this, I say, death to Rendon and Sepulveda... the gusanos can fuck off
aye that's the Bloomberg one
Rendon filed a lawsuit against them over it and lost