Many (particularly right-leaning) news sites on the Internet advertize that they carry news "you won't find anywhere else". Yet, as I read WorldNetDaily ("http://wnd.com/"), Lew Rockwell ("http://www.lewrockwell.com/"), and AntiWar ("http://antiwar.com/") nearly everyday, these sites often carry each other's articles or link to the same articles (usually WND has them first). Thus the claim "found nowhere else" doesn't always hold true. However, the following sites really do have news you won't find anywhere else...
1. Suck, at "http://www.suck.com/", is a satirical site pertaining mainly to a weird slant on news found within the New York City metropolitan area, written with a literary style, almost (but not pompous as) the New Yorker. Sometimes uses foul language.
2. Drudge Report, at "http://www.drudgereport.com/" is breaking news from Matt Drudge before WorldNetDaily and others pick it up. Drudge is a Washington outsider with an insider's way of getting the gossip and hard news, about Washington DC and beyond, a real investigative journalist. Unfortunately, it is hard to find archived articles linked directly from other sites; thus if you think you are clicking on an article about the CIA you may instead get one on the FBI.
3. Original Sources at "http://www.originalsources.com/" has newsy stories written by various journalists in the field, not secondhand reports, usually from overseas-based journalists.
4. Disinformation, at "http://www.disinfo.com/", is news regarding how the mainstream media purposefully misinforms the masses (disinforms?). This site carries the study cited in my archives at "http://www.suite101.com/articles/cfm/med..." regarding how television is an addictive drug.
5. The Onion, at "http://www.theonion.com/" takes a news story and makes fiction of it using a news writing style that just might convince you it was real news, complete with news photojournalism!
6. Getting It, at "http://www.gettingit.com/", caught my eye once because it carried a story on demonstrations against the World Trade Organization that posed various (conflicting) viewpoints, from that of the greenie to that of the skinhead. Most of the articles in their archives though are rather saucy, fan-zine-type stuff about sex orgies and gossipy celebrity stuff. The National Lampoon meets the Internet.
7. Fixed Earth, at "http://www.fixedearth.com/", is the web site of the Tychonian Society, which purports to be honest-to-God science. You may remember Tycho Brahe from your Science texts. Brahe was the last great astronomer who contended that the earth was the center of the universe (or at least the solar system)--the geocentric theory, since been displaced by the Copernicus/Galileo/Kepler heliocentric theory, which others like Newton seem to have proven as law and is now accepted as fact--the Earth and the other planets go around (revolve around) our sun. Yet, there are still holdouts who claim that the sun and (apparently) everything else revolves around the Earth, a viewpoint held by everyone until the 1500-1600's when technology made it possible to find out that previously held beliefs could be proven incorrect. Thus the Tychonians and Marshall Hall in particular, author of "The Earth is Not Moving", who claim (using the Book of Genesis of the Bible) that since (using the 6-day Creation) God made the Earth before the sun, moon, and stars (on the 1st day), and since God "set" the sun, moon, and stars in motion (but not the Earth?) on the 4th day...as well as other verses in The Bible, the Earth must be the center of the universe. Yet this same group won't claim that because the angels (say, in the Book of Revelation) stand at the four corners of the Earth, this must mean the Earth is flat!!! (You won't believe this, but there are some folks out there who still claim the Earth is flat! This is despite pictorial and other evidence from moon astronauts, and that famous voyage in the 1500s by one Ferdinand Magellan, which proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Earth is round.)
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