I’m collecting news programs / channels that have a Right Wing Bias. Fox has now gone off to the Dark Side (in a few small steps) and is unlikely to remain a reliable news source for long, given the trends.
So with the rest of the YSM being Hard Left, what’s a moderate middle of the bird type to do for some unbiased news?
The only real choice is “compare and contrast” of Right Wing News to the Left Wing News. I’ve used this method for years with various National Advocacy News sources. So things like RT, sponsored by Russia, will not “talk dirt” about Russia, but will ruthlessly rip into the dirt on other countries / leaders. Then slide over to the EU and France 24 loves to give the dirt on Russia (Macron and France not so much…)
Similarly, war news is always one sided. In the Middle East, I’d watch Israeli news, Al Jazeera, RT, and US / EU sources. I’d get live video, sometimes from both sides of a front line during the same confrontation. The bias also stands out starkly.
So what’s the alternative news sources? Largely TBD, but I’m going to collect a set here. First TV (as I can let it run while I’m doing other things with my eyes and fingers…) then more print sources.
TV
An easy starter here is Pluto TV. They are like cable TV without the cable. Free with advertising and you can watch it on a Roku, with an App or on a browser. It is time-synchronous (i.e. appointment TV… shows have a show time. They are adding a saved section where you can replay some stuff, but I’ve not explored it yet). There are “Live” and “On Demand” buttons on the top of the menu. Lots of movies on demand, but a page search for the word “News” had zero hits for “On Demand”. I suppose news from last year isn’t all that in demand ;-)
https://pluto.tv/live-tv/ gets you to the top level where you click a box near the bottom to get a bigger menu. Scroll a ways for the news cluster in the 200s or click the “news & opinion” button on the left of the big menu.
Pluto has their own branded news channel that seems to be a little left in some short watching time, but trying to be unbiased (some).
Pluto News
202 https://pluto.tv/live-tv/pluto-tv-news
Here’s direct links to the various channels I’ve categorized as right leaning:
NewsMax
236 https://pluto.tv/live-tv/newsmax-tv
They have a web site:
https://www.newsmax.com/
With the present latest tag / headline:
Latest: Newsmax Again Beats Fox Business, CNBC in Ratings
Alan Dershowitz to Newsmax TV: Pennsylvania Suit Is Trump’s Strongest
Blaze TV
238 https://pluto.tv/live-tv/blaze-live
This is the Glenn Beck channel. There’s a blazetv web site too, but it immediately dumps you into a push to buy membership to watch the channel… and I’m not up for $100 ticket to see if I like something.
America’s Voice
240 https://pluto.tv/live-tv/americas-voice
So far, I’ve liked these folks. Seems like mostly straight news, but from a right / republican POV. Their website:
AMERICA’S VOICE IS YOUR 24/7 NEWS AND ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK
JUST REAL NEWS & HONEST VIEWS! WATCH ON DISH CH 219 · PLUTO TV CH 240 · ROKU · APPLE TV · FIRE TV
Their broadcast runs on the front page of their web site too. I did have to click the speaker icon to turn on the sound (so being polite to not blast you with sound unless you want it).
OANN
242 https://pluto.tv/live-tv/oan-encore
One America News Network. The Pluto channel is named “encore” and that leads me to think it might be time delayed to some extent, but I’ve no way to check that ATM. I think the show I’m watching on Wednesday said it was a Monday night, but wasn’t listening closely enough as it was the “happy talk” going to commercial patter…
The First TV
244 https://pluto.tv/live-tv/the-first
The First is an interesting channel. A bit hard to find with web searches as their name is a generic phrase used for all sorts of things… “The First News” lands you in Warsaw at a newspaper… Here’s their YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQVhgOxzt5W1fZhOd0l2E6g
From which, on the “about” page, I was able to find their web address:
https://www.thefirsttv.com/watch/
IIRC, this is where Bill O’Reilly landed with an occasional opinion segment. Trim the “watch” from the URL for the top page that describes them and shows their main talking heads (including O’Reilly).
Web Based Channels TBD
I’m pretty sure all those folks have channels on other media such as Roku, Amazon Fire, etc. I’ve deliberately NOT included channels on YouTube to the extent possible. I also need to spend some time on Bitchute, and the other alternative streaming services, and find some channels there to share. What I have marked right now are more “Opinion Guys I like”… not exactly news. So folks like Salty Cracker. The exception is a couple of overseas channels that are on YouTube where I need to find an alternative feed.
I’ll be adding the Tim Pool sites in here first.
My intent is that, as I find those, I’ll add them in a “Web News” section here. Things like Epoch Times (good China coverage) and NTD and… But those are more ‘one topic area’ centered. I’m pretty sure folks will not be all excited about the Indian Continent Web News talking about their view of China. But if folks want that too, I’ll add it. But that’s a longer time project as each one takes a while to find on the web (I mostly watched them on the Roku, which has died, and I need to spend time making a list again…)
Printed Pages
Of course, TCTH:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/
Then Bongino has a news aggregator site:
Top story today?
Fifteen Years to Slow the Spread: Biden Coronavirus Adviser Calls for Return to Lockdowns
Others?
Unfortunately, I’ve never gone out of my way to find a news source with a particular leaning before. So any help here would be appreciated.
Yes, this posting will be a “Living Document” for a while as I’ve got to dig up the goods and save that data / links somewhere, so easiest is just to have a page up and add things as I (we) find them.
A DDGo search for “conservative news” gave this list, but I’ve not gone through them all yet. Some have names I know are good (like Ben Shapiro) but it takes time to vet sites:
Townhall: Conservative News, Cartoons, Top Stories …
https://townhall.com
Townhall is the leading source for conservative news, political cartoons, breaking stories, election analysis and commentary on politics and the media culture. An information hub for conservatives …Home – Conservative Daily News
https://www.conservativedailynews.com
Watch: President Trump Holds Post-Election News Conference – 11/5/20 November 2, 2020 Executive Order on Establishing the President’s Advisory 1776 CommissionBreitbart News Network
https://www.breitbart.com
Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, AP Call Presidential Election for Biden Trump: Joe, ‘Media Allies’ Rushing for Him to ‘Pose’ as Winner ‘they don’t want the truth to be exposed’ ‘Legal votes decide who is president, not the news media’ ‘Far from Over’ Charlie Spiering …Kamala: ‘We Did It, Joe’…Conservative Blog & Conservative News Source for Right of …
https://redstate.com
RedState – Where the VRWC Collaborates Online 11/08/2020 2:04:09 A ESTNational Review: Conservative News, Opinion, Politics …
https://www.nationalreview.com
Leading conservative magazine and website covering news, politics, current events, and culture with detailed analysis and commentary.HotAir — Politics, Culture, Media, 2020, Breaking News …
https://hotair.com
Hot Air is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Obama administration, the gun control debate, politics, media, culture, and the 2014 and 2016 elections.100PercentFedUp.com * Conservative news, social commentary …
https://100percentfedup.com
Conservative news, social commentary and breaking stories. Up-to-date election and legislation news.The Daily Wire
https://www.dailywire.com
Led by the incomparable Ben Shapiro, The Daily Wire is a hard-hitting, irreverent news and commentary site for a new generation of conservatives.
Musings from the Chiefio 
Probably not everyone’s cup of tea but I think https://www.trunews.com/ is worth a look.
InstaPundit – Glenn Reynolds – news aggregator – https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/
American Thinker – Thomas Lifson – longer form articles – https://www.americanthinker.com/
Legal Insurrection – William Jacobson – Cornell legal prof – https://legalinsurrection.com/
PowerLine – MN based lawyers – mid to long form articles – https://www.powerlineblog.com/
Must Read Alaska – Alaska politics and news – Suzanne Downing – https://mustreadalaska.com/
I’d post more, but I think it would get caught up in your spam filter. Cheers –
I went through my set of links to YouTube folks last night, and did a search for the same person on BitChute. Found most of them, added bookmarks, sorted the bookmarks to alphabetical AND with the BitChute link just ahead of the Pluto link (if any) and last, the YouTube one. (Going to do the same on dlive etc. so ‘links in depth’. As I talked about here: https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2020/10/05/for-every-action-there-sometimes-is-an-opposite-greater-reaction/ )
Watching one of them on BitChute, saw this notice:
So looks like Deep Staters are afraid of BitChute and discovered that their attempt to suppress voices has just resulted in massive growth of an alternative platform (so must attack it).
It was interesting to see how many folks had set up secondary accounts on BitChute “just in case”…
Of possible interest – Ground.news is an aggregator that classifies coverage across the left-right spectrum so you can see how biased the coverage is.
I go to twitter for news (not a TV watcher) and follow @OANN, @EpochTimes, @BreitbartNews, and smaller outfits – @jsolomonReports, @dailycaller, @FullMeasureNews, @adamhousley, @LaraLogan…in addition to topic-specific experts. If you are interested in what the “Peaceful Protestors” are up to, the only coverage is @MrAndyNgo, Ian Miles Cheong @stillgray and @ElijahSchaffer.
Odd… Going through DLive searching on names I know, I did find a Sargon of Akkad channel: https://dlive.tv/Sargon_of_Akkad (which reports ‘streamer is offline’ at the moment and is what I’d expect). BUT: Infowars turns up a couple of channels in the search, but when you click on them, it says no such channel exists.
I get the impression the channels were removed, but the search index has not been updated… Which brings up the question of why they would be banned from an “alternative” live video streamer…
But not to worry, Infowars is in several other places, including their own web site. It is more a question about DLive than about ‘how to find Infowars’ as it isn’t hard to find.
Sebastian Gorka has to be added to the list… I’ll do that soon. For right now, at his site, there’s his top 14 list:
https://www.sebgorka.com/the-top-14-best-conservative-media-outlets/
So a pretty good list to start down. Making links and checking it twice ;-)
I’ve resorted to having a folder-by-name for each presenter of choice in my bookmarks, and then inside that a list of their sites (with ewyoutube being last ;-)
Now under my rNews listing, I can just hit the folder / person I want, and see the choices of places to get their content. Works well. (Also avoids a lot of scrolling, like Styxhexenhammer666 seems to be everywhere so several lines to scroll past to get to Tim Pool otherwise…) The nice thing, too, is if any one carrier is “having issues”, I can just drop down another line in the list…
Mostly looks like bigger names are on D-Live (but it is live streams only so folks not doing live streams will find it uninteresting…).
OK, done with the Dlink sweep. On to the next alternative provider…
A good vid on Bitchute is Glen Beck has had enough.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/XymabIss9Gxc/ via bitslide
LBRY seems to have a strange kind of “mirror youtube’ feature. Searching for Mr. Obvious, now banned on ewyoutube, I ran into this interesting video / link:
https://lbry.tv/youtube.comwatchv-RVhyGM9xG7I:1
Lbry has a couple of good ones, but still less than Bitchute. Has the “annoy you with ads nagging you to download the app / sign up / give them info to sell” behaviour so will be just above ewYoutube on my lists… Finished newtube.tv and it is very sparse. Infowars was there and some folks reposting videos from other folks I care about, but not a lot yet. Then again, IIRC, it is very young and just starting out.
Hey! Found Next News Network on Odysee:
https://odysee.com/@NextNewsNetwork:8
Several folks seem to be there. (Still running the list…)
Finished odysee.com and there’s a fair number of bigger names there. Still a bit on the ramping up side, but with good folks. Sargon, Tim Pool, etc.
It has an interesting search function result. It returns what you are looking for, but if it isn’t there you also get a lot of quasi related stuff (perhaps folks talking about it?) and that’s a great way to discover other potentially interesting voices. I’ve bookmarked a half dozen to go back later and see what they are about (clicking on their names, the panel of videos to choose from has interesting images / titles).
I think I only have d.tube to do and then a double check on just what all names of streaming sites I’ve done. So far the results are interesting. Name names with clue tend to be all over on most platforms, prepared for any ban. Banned folks tend to show up on one or two. Misc. interesting unknowns show up on almost all of them, some more than others. The older a site, the bigger the selection / population. But, the biggest take-away for me so far is just how “the bits must flow”…
Sure, folks with 100k followers on ewtube tend to just have 10k on the ‘alternatives’ (as an order of magnitude point), but the transition is early. Clearly a LOT of folks in aggregate are learning about / using the alternative sites. As that grows, the advantage of the legacy sites in ‘reach’ will diminish. More folks “like me” putting up a set of alternate ways to get stuff. Its happening…
So as of now, for most of the folks I like to follow, my link chosen will take me to an alternative provider, growing them, shrinking ewtube… And if a site goes “poof!”, no worries, just pick another one…
Interesting. d.tube https://d.tube/ is substantially devoid of ‘name’ YouTubers (of the ones I watch anyway) but searches return copies of their videos being posted by what seems to be semi-random folks / channels.
Must be something in their terms of service or their operational pattern. Anyway, might be interesting for random dives into the global randomness, but not for big channels (at least at this point).
So, OK, my perception so far is:
Bitchute best place to look first.
Lbry and Odysee right after it.
DLive for live streams.
then the also-rans.
So now I’m done with the big “check everywhere for the usual folks” and I’m going to take a break. Then I’ll double check against whatever lists of video streaming providers I can turn up and make sure I’ve not blanked on anyone important.
Interesting video from Tim Pool.
https://odysee.com/@TimcastNews:0/new-lawsuit-filed-by-voters-not-trump:2
He seems puzzled about why The Left would be ginning up ‘coup’ talk. It’s the standard play book of a Color Revolution. They don’t care if Trump causes the “talk of election irregularities” or if they do. All you need for the Color Revolution playbook is that the election is seen to be irregular and in dispute. Then you go to the violence in the streets… and call coup on the leader you wish to depose.
3speak.co is another one you need to check….. I like the Brad Johnson
https://3speak.co/watch?v=vladtepesblog/dcdconjg&jwsource=cl
I found him via vladtepesblog.com, another good site!
Oh, and someone created an app for Android and f$&/>>÷&×Phone.. called Bitslide
I have dumped Foxnews for OANN and Newsbusters. Like you, after getting my news there, if I find something that seems too good to believe, I search for other sources and read their take. That actually has the added benefit of ruling out any fake news media as they will never cover it. So usually a UK source that is whining about the same story from the other side. I know that, but then I have confirmed the story, and just have to discern the facts. A lot easier than trying to sift through lies looking for truth.
Good aggregator. https://thelibertydaily.com/
https://mobile.twitter.com/imamofpeace/status/1327597849849131008?ref_url=https%3a%2f%2fthedonald.win%2frising
The propaganda is scary.
@Jon K:
OMG that video is creepy. So many faces, only one voice / script…
The good thing is you can watch any single MSM “news” channel and know the assigned Talking Points of the day…
No one has any commercial presence there yet, but if the public ever gets to the point where they understand that they can’t outsource hosting to anyone – because hosting can always be taken…we’ll see channels bloom all over ZeroNet.
ZeronNet is not really free. As a citizen you must take the time to find an old laptop and build it into your local server. Then YOU supply hosting via TOR onions.
ZeroNet is not hard to setup – but you must make some commitment to learning it. Once accomplished, ZeroNet is very trouble free.
@Taz:
I was going to ask about ZeroNet on a R.Pi but decided to DDGo…
http://yoestuve.es/blog/install-and-run-zeronet-on-your-raspberry-pi/
So looks like barrier to entry drops to $35. I’m good with that. Thanks!
I’m now of to investigate it!
Looks like a lot of sites… even if they have limited content…
https://zeronet.link/popular-zeronet-sites
I have a dedicated “Guest net” just off my telco router, with nothing in it. I have an idle Pi. I have an empty GB disk. Maybe I’ll put them all together….
The guest net was originally going to get my Roku, but then I found the Pi Hole blocked some crap on it too… so now it’s just sitting there…
Well, that’s a disappointment. There’s an app you need to browse zeronet sites. Attempts to install it on my Android tablet give parse error. So I can’t see any sites. So I’m uninterested right when most willing to be interested…