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by k_sze 2394 days ago
I'm an avid reader of Chomsky. He often gets his sources from financial and foreign policy publications. I think I remember him writing something to the effect of: the best source of truthful journalism is in the finance and foreign policy publications, the reason being that those publications help powerful people form their opinions and make decisions, and none of the powerful people would be subscribing to publications that do a shitty job and that compromise the powerful people's decisions. So those publications are necessarily honest, the articles they publish would often be devoid of emotion or moral judgement (e.g. a "member of the communist party" would be just that, not a "commie"), they would even openly admit about, for instance, how some policy protects the interests of certain circles of powerful people.

I can't remember where exactly I've read that and what the exact wordings were though.

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Foreign Policy has biased publications. I know this because I've been involved in events they talked about and it was indeed biased and lacked information, and some of the context. The job was still better than main stream media, that's true.
You're right. He has been saying that for many years and I've heard many variations. The WSJ is famously his favourite newspaper, though that may have shifted post-Murdoch.