The one website everyone needs to read (apart from WB of course)

I read it every day - some of it with a grain of salt, and some of it with an earnest ear. You gotta know when to filter!

A site I would recommend for an independent view on the world is www.medialens.org. In its own words "Media Lens is a UK-based media-watch project, which offers authoritative criticism of mainstream media bias and censorship, as well as providing in-depth analysis, quotes, media contact details and other resources".

After reading through many of the articles I was surprised at how poorly written the articles were. The articles are filled with misinformation and lack hard facts. For example the piece on kosher meat being healthier, the author claimed " Additionally, kosher animals are young animals and so are less likely to contract diseases such as Mad Cow Disease." This is simply NOT TRUE!!! Mad cow disease is caused by little prions who could care less about age. The credibility of that site is suspect to me. Side note, I love your site and preach it to everyone I know. :) Raj

I'm a little disappointed---I've read about the study linking parkinson's and dairy consumption, but they fail to mention that it's homogenized milk. Milk that is chemically unrecognizable by our bodies, because it's over-processed.

I doubt that milk itself is the culprit.

It does appear to contain a lot of unsubstantiated facts and pseudoscience.

I thought I had done my research very well, having studied the site for at least 3 hours. If it's left wing to report on the negative effects of fossil fuels, factory-farming, prescription drugs and a host of other issues like this, then the site is perhaps more left than right. Today I read an article criticising Al Gore for eating meat, Home Depot (a large corp.) doing it's bit for the environment and safety concerns over energy-efficient lightbulbs. All topics that you'd more likely find on a right-wing agenda. I also loved the site's stance on the "declaration of journalistic independence" which is a manefesto that clearly outlines all the ways that the site attempts to maintain impartiality. THe sad truth is though that when you attack anything the current government does, you're a leftie. If you attack Al Gore or possible side effects of energy-efficiency, you're on the right. In the end, the old adage is true...no good deed goes unpunished. It's something that I, as a writer who does this in his spare time for pennies, come across every day for simply trying to help people out. C'est la vie.

Sorry for the double comment but it just occured to me that this article has nothing to do with WB. Please refrain from articles that push agendas and stick to the "living large on a small budget" topic that WB is very good at as I also recommend this site to friends and family.