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My new fav media outlet - Business Insider

Hands down, Business Insider has become my favourite media outlet. Not just for business news, but for just about any news. This is what reporting should be to me, insightful apolitical articles that have some meat to them.

With CNN for instance, 90 per cent of the articles they put out you pretty much have all the info you need after reading the headline and first paragraph. After that it's usually just a bunch of 'he said she said' noise.

With BI I find myself reading articles from top to bottom, because there's actually substance from top to bottom.

I'm definitely finding that I'm visiting top-tier media channels less and less (on a personal level anyway).

I find I'm visiting a few sites like:

  • Business Insider
  • The Daily Beast
  • The YoungTurks (on YouTube)
  • The Real News Network (on YouTube)
  • BGR (boy genuis report)
Outside of those sites, I tend to only go to CNN if something really big is breaking.

To supplement my central media hotspots, I also tend to find myself simply searching various personalities on YouTube and filtering based on 'upload' date. This generally returns any recent broadcasts such personalities have been on.

So for instance, I'll check Ron Paul and it will bring up any media appearances he has given sorted by date.

Finally, I'll round things out using Twitter to follow very specific folks that I'm fascinated with at any given time.

While the big boys are still essential, I have to wonder how many others are like me and finding new media outlets are really offering some great content.

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