Over the last couple of years I became aware that there were no broadcast news programs that reflected my views. They had all become corporate voices in the way of Faux Fraudcasting. So I began a search for more reliable sources of information. I now watch several news programs on YouTube. Here's some information about five channels I've been watching.

Many shows I watch are on the RT network, including Thom Hartmann's The Big Picture (minus the rumble), Lee Camp's Redacted tonight, Ed Shultz and so on. I always thought RT was the end of smaRT, but much to my surprise RT is Russia Today. So I realized I need to do some homework about my new media outlets. Most of them are fairly new. I guess every news outlet has its bias. I think it is important to understand what the slant is so you can filter information properly. Here's some of the things I learned. I've included a direct website for those of you who prefer not to stick your head in the Google (YouTube) algorithms.

RT (Russia Today)
watch here:
https://www.rt.com/
or here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)

RT America is a TV channel that is based in Washington, D.C. RT America is part of the RT network, which is a global multilingual television news network that is based in Moscow, Russia. RT is an autonomous non-profit organization.

RT director Svetlana Mironyuk stated: "Unfortunately, at the level of mass consciousness in the West, Russia is associated with three words: communism, snow and poverty," and added "we would like to present a more complete picture of life in our country." It is registered as an autonomous nonprofit organization funded by the federal budget of Russia through the Federal Agency on Press and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation.

Mikhail Seslavinsky, in charge of the Federal Agency on Press and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation asserted in 2005 that "Russia Today will come as an independent company". Under Russian Law RT is a fully independent organisation.

Journalist Danny Schechter (who has appeared as a guest on RT) has stated that having been part of the launch staff at CNN, he saw RT as another "channel of young people who are inexperienced, but very enthusiastic about what they are doing." Shortly after the channel was launched, James Painter wrote that RT and similar news channels such as France 24 and TeleSUR saw themselves as "counter-hegemonic", offering a differing vision and news content from that of Western media like the CNN and the BBC.

According to RT, the network's feed is carried by 22 satellites and over 230 operators, which provides a distribution reach to about 700 million households in more than 100 countries, and that RT America is available to 85 million households throughout the United States.

Reliable figures for RT's worldwide audience are not available. In the United States, RT typically pays cable and satellite services to carry its channel in subscriber packages. In 2011, RT was the second most-watched foreign news channel in the United States (after BBC World News), and the number one foreign network in five major U.S. urban areas in 2012. It also rates well among younger Americans under 35 and among inner city areas.

In 2013, RT became the first television news channel to reach 1 billion views on YouTube. In 2014 its main (English) channel was reported have 1.4 million subscribers.

Russian studies professor Stephen F. Cohen stated in 2012 that RT does a lot of stories that "reflect badly" on the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and much of Western Europe and that they are "particularly aggrieved by American sermonizing abroad." Citing that RT compares stories about Russia allowing mass protests of the 2011–2012 Russian election protests with those of U.S. authorities nationwide arresting members of the Occupy movement. Cohen states that despite the pro-Kremlin slant, "any intelligent viewer can sort this out. I doubt that many idiots find their way to RT." RT also have proliferated stories such as the police brutality in the US, the crack cocaine usage of Toronto mayor Rob Ford, and the poverty among people of Arab descent in Western Europe.

RT is one of several international channels that have challenged the United States media, which previously dominated global news coverage. In 2010 Walter Isaacson, Chairman of the U.S. Government's Broadcasting Board of Governors (which runs Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia), called for more money to invest into the programs because, "We can't allow ourselves to be out-communicated by our enemies," mentioning specifically Russia Today, Iran's Press TV and China's China Central Television (CCTV) in the next sentence. … In 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that the United States was "losing the information war" abroad to foreign channels like RT, Al Jazeera and China Central Television and that they are supplanting the Voice of America.

Seems there is an information war. Look over this Time magazine piece that spins the RT station as tin hat UFO nuts:
http://time.com/rt-putin/

Then consider this story (also from wiki) which makes RT's journalism sound better than our MSM.

On March 4, 2014, Breaking The Set host Abby Martin (whose show is produced by RT America), speaking directly to her viewing audience during the show's closing statement, said that even though she works for RT, she is against Russia's intervention in Ukraine. She said that "what Russia did is wrong", as she is against intervention by any nation into other countries' affairs. Later, Martin asserted that RT still supports her despite her differences of opinion with the Russian government. RTs press office suggested that Martin would be sent to Crimea and responded to accusations of propaganda, stating "the charges of propaganda tend to pop up every time a news outlet, particularly RT, dares to show the side of events that does not fit the mainstream narrative, regardless of the realities on the ground. This happened in Georgia, this is happening in Ukraine".
Glenn Greenwald claimed that American media elites love to mock Russian media, especially RT, as being a source of shameless pro-Putin propaganda, where free expression is strictly barred. Agreeing the "network has a strong pro-Russian bias", he suggested that Martin's action "remarkably demonstrated what 'journalistic independence' means".

My favorite news show (which has replaced the PBS News hour in our household) is Democracy Now!
watch here:
http://www.democracynow.org/
or here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/democracynow

From their website:

For true democracy to work, people need easy access to independent, diverse sources of news and information. But the last two decades have seen unprecedented corporate media consolidation. The U.S. media was already fairly homogeneous in the early 1980s: some fifty media conglomerates dominated all media outlets, including television, radio, newspapers, magazines, music, publishing and film. In the year 2000, just six corporations dominated the U.S. Media. In addition, corporate media outlets in the U.S. are legally responsible to their shareholders to maximize profits.
Democracy Now! is funded entirely through contributions from listeners, viewers, and foundations. We do not accept advertisers, corporate underwriting, or government funding. This allows us to maintain our independence.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Now!

Democracy Now! is an hour-long American TV, radio and internet news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The show, which airs live each weekday at 08:00 ET, is broadcast on the internet and by nearly 1,400 radio and television stations worldwide.
The program combines news reporting, interviews, investigative journalism and political commentary with an eye toward documenting social movements, struggles for justice and the effects of American foreign policy. While described as progressive by fans as well as critics, the show's executive producer rejects that label, calling the program a global newscast that has "people speaking for themselves."
Democracy Now Productions, the independent nonprofit organization which produces Democracy Now!, is funded entirely through contributions from listeners, viewers, and foundations and does not accept advertisers, corporate underwriting or government funding.

Another outlet that I've been watching has a similar model to Democracy Now! No government nor corporate money, all contributions - The Real News Network.
Watch here:
http://therealnews.com/t2/
or here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRealNews

From a skimpy wiki article:

The Real News (TRNN) is a nonprofit, viewer-supported daily video-news and documentary service. TRNN launched in 2007 by Paul Jay, who serves as the network's CEO and senior editor. TRNN describes itself as a news source "focused on providing independent and uncompromising journalism."
The Real News Network uses internet broadcasting, but it has contracts with satellite and cable television channels which it intends to use for broadcast once it reaches its sustainability goal. It is available on Roku. The Real News has offices in Baltimore and Toronto.
The Real News Network works with the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at University of Massachusetts Amherst to produce interviews and debates.

From their website mission statement:

"The question we settle in an election is not whether elites shall rule, but which elite shall rule," said conservative pundit George Will on ABC's This Week.
That's why we need daily television news that reports with ordinary people’s interests in mind. The Real News is such a network; it’s the missing link in the global media landscape.
The Real News Network (TRNN) is a non-profit, viewer-supported daily video-news and documentary service. We don’t accept advertising, and we don’t accept government or corporate funding. TRNN is sustained by viewer donations and earned revenue.
Since 2007, we have produced more than 7,000 stories that have been viewed more than 100 million times. The next phase of development is the move to television. We will compete with cable news for an audience in the millions.

I've been enjoying their news broadcasts. They streamed all four days of Nader's Breaking Through Power meeting.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=therealnews+breaking+throug...
And many interviews from the People's Summit.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=therealnews+the+people%27s+...

Another of my favorite stations is teleSUR.
Watch here:
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/index.html
or here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/telesurenglish

From:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeleSUR

La Nueva Televisora del Sur (teleSUR, English: The New Television Station of the South) is multi-state funded, pan–Latin American terrestrial and satellite television network sponsored by the governments of Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and Bolivia that is headquartered in Caracas, Venezuela. TeleSUR was launched with the objective of providing information to promote the integration of Latin America.
The founder of teleSUR was Aram Aharonian, a journalist and scholar who left Uruguay due to right-wing pressure. Aharonian stated that the idea of teleSUR was "to see ourselves as we truly were", stating that he sought more diversity in the media.
The proposed alternative Latin American television network that would become teleSUR took shape on January 24, 2005, as part of the projects approved in a council of ministers of the Venezuelan government. According to The Boston Globe, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, whom they described as a "media savvy, forward-thinking propagandist," was able to fund 70% of teleSUR's functions while also providing broadcasting facilities, with other leftist governments supporting the network as well, advertising it "as a Latin socialist answer to CNN." teleSUR began broadcasting on a limited, four-hour schedule on July 24, 2005, on the 222nd birthday of Latin American leader Simón Bolívar. The network began full-time broadcasts on October 31, 2005.
teleSUR is available free-to-air via satellite to Latin America, the United States, Western Europe, and Northern Africa. The network's availability through cable television has been very limited in Latin America because of the network's editorial approach to several events and governments in the region; the station manager in 2007, Aram Arahonian said in an interview that "cable owners do not provide us with any access [...] it's not frequent, but it has affected us in the large countries.[citation needed]
The availability of the channel via terrestrial television is very limited in the vast majority of South American countries. The only countries in the region that receive all of teleSUR's broadcasts via terrestrial television are Venezuela and Ecuador, whose governments are sponsors of the channel. teleSUR is currently available via Digital Terrestrial Television in Argentina, as part of the Government-sponsored channel line-up which includes several other public service, educational, music, sports, and news channels.

As part of the U.S. media coverage of the 2014 Venezuela protests and after his interview with Christiane Amanpour for CNN, President Nicolas Maduro announced on March 8 that on July 24, coinciding with Simón Bolívar Day, teleSUR would launch in English, French and Portuguese. In July 2014, an English teleSUR website was launched. A 24-hour broadcast channel started in July 2015.

More media wars. Like RT, teleSUR is attacked by the US establishment which doesn't want other (non-capitalists) view points. Many of their journalist have been attacked and arrested (see wiki article above for details).

According to Christopher Walker of the US government-funded National Endowment for Democracy, in the Journal of Democracy, TeleSUR is described as Venezuela's "authoritarian media outlet" that has the ability to take advantage of both domestic and foreign media due to the censorship under regimes in native countries and the openness of democratic nations to which it broadcasts.

According to teleSUR, a few hours after their founding, Richard Lugar, then chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, began a "game of warnings and threats" against the new channel. Three days before teleSUR began broadcasting 24 hour programs, the United States House of Representatives included an amendment to Resolution 2601 introduced by Connie Mack IV, a Republican from Florida's 14th congressional district, which tentatively authorized "to fund activities which support political parties, the rule of law, civil society, an independent media, and otherwise promote democratic, accountable governance in Venezuela." The Venezuelan government replied to the U.S. reaction through its ambassador in Washington, D.C., Bernardo Álvarez saying that "in Venezuela there are 48 channels of free access to anyone with a television set and a small antenna. Only two of them belong to the government. You can also receive more than 120 channels from four continents." The chairman of the US Broadcasting Board of Governors, which runs Voice of America broadcasts in Latin America, Walter Isaacson said that the US could not be "out-communicated" by what he called enemies such as Telesur.

I like The Young Turks. It's refreshing to hear news commentators calling out folks for being "fucking idiots".
watch here:
https://www.tytnetwork.com/
or here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheYoungTurks

From
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Turks

The Young Turks (TYT) is an American political commentary web series hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian. Its stance is liberal/progressive/left-wing. It began as a radio program in 2002 on Sirius Satellite Radio and later on Air America, before airing in 2005 on YouTube and later on Roku and Hulu.
It has also spawned a multi-channel network of associated web series known as the TYT Network.
Issues that the show focuses on include the influence of money in politics, drug policy, social security, the privatization of public services, climate change, the influence of religion, abortion and reproductive rights, and sexual morality.

According to The Guardian The Young Turks is the first daily streaming online talk show, having started in that format in 2006. During the 2008 elections, the show developed close ties to Brave New Films. During the 2008 elections, the show developed close ties to Brave New Films.

(Another excellent collection of news videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/bravenewfilms )

The Young Turks claims to be "the world's largest online news show" based on the TYT main channel's YouTube views. On 20 April 2013 The Young Turks announced that their YouTube channel had received over 1 billion video views. On July 14, 2014, TYT announced that the TYT Network had hit 2 billion video views. YouTube video views for the TYT Network stood at a total of 2 billion as of July 2014. Their YouTube channel averaged 750,000 views a day in April 2012, and by November 2014 over 1,400,000 views a day. The Independent described it as "the most-watched online news show in the world."

From:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Young_Turks TYT is now broadcast exclusively on YouTube.

Although many would think journalists should report news, not make news, The Young Turks promotes Uygur's political action committee, known as "Wolf PAC." Its declared goal is to reduce the role of money in the political process.[29][30] Cenk Uygur started it as a response to the Citizens United ruling, with the ultimate goal being to amend the Constitution again to limit the amount of money that any one person or organization can give to any one politician. As of this writing, Vermont, California, Illinois, New Jersey, and Rhode Island are all on the board for the convention

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So in summary. There are alternate quality news offerings. We have three US outlets that are funded by listeners and consumers: Democracy Now!, The Real News, and The Young Turks. Although each has a slant, they make an effort to bring us a non-corporate view of the world. Other news sources are funded by other countries that promote their perspective. RT (Russia Today) is an independent source funded by the Russian government. TeleSUR is funded by several progressive South American countries and gives us stories which you will not see on US television. Next time I'll delve into some other foreign stations we can watch.

What TV media do you find reliable?