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by bryanlarsen 4362 days ago
Given that a large percentage of the mainstream media is moving towards X articles/month free, register to get Y articles/month free, pay to get full access, you're basically asking that no main stream media links get posted here.

That pretty much guarantees that the only posts we'll see are from the tech bubble, and one I'd like to avoid.

As long as the workaround is as simple as it is here (right click, open in incognito), I don't think we should avoid posting articles from the Economist or other mainstream media sites here.

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Sorry, I didn't ask "that no main stream media links get posted here." - I just didn't want to register.

In any case, I'm here for discovering non-mainstream-media news.

There are plenty of free outlets for political and economic news. Some examples include CEPR, DemocracyNow, Tom Dispatch, http://ceinquiry.wordpress.com/, etc