Resources
National Braver Angels website: www.braverangels.org
Below is a link to a documentary about Braver Angels on YouTube. Filmed at an early workshop that brought together liberals and conservatives shortly after the 2016 election, this 50-minute peek into a Red-Blue workshop offers hope that good people of differing ideologies can communicate and relate with respect to each other without giving up our fundamental beliefs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6kZpN5T3lU
If you are new to Zoom and want free tips on how to more effectively Zoom our events, check out this training piece on ZOOM basics.
How to talk to those who distribute misinformation: https://pen.org/how-to-talk-to-friends-and-family-who…/…
The moral roots of political beliefs: https://youtu.be/vs41JrnGaxc
Learn how to de-polarize your conversations and your social media behavior: Complete these online Braver Angels E-Courses by going to https://braverangels.org/what-we-do/take-an-ecourse/ and selecting the “Skills for Bridging the Divide” and “Skills for Social Media” courses.
Braver Angels Arkansas’s Recommended Media Sources and fact-checking sites
An important way to reduce polarization is for each of us to develop good media literacy, consuming a variety of quality media sources that are generally unbiased and objective, yet offering viewpoints from a variety of points along the political spectrum. This list is based on a consensus of Braver Angels Arkansas leaders and is not comprehensive. We welcome your feedback.
· Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (https://www.arkansasonline.com): Arkansas’s leading daily newspaper provides a strong, objective compilation of state, national and international news. Its opinion/editorial pages consistently offer balance in views across the political spectrum.
· Fareed Zakaria GPS (https://www.cnn.com/shows/fareed-zakaria-gps): This Sunday news analysis program offers a high-quality level of national and international perspectives from top newsmakers, journalists, and analysts. Discussions are invariably civil, thoughtful, and balanced.
· The Hill (https://thehill.com): This award-winning website and its newsletter offers balanced and wide-ranging coverage of the political scene and current events.
· Reuters (https://www.reuters.com): This authoritative and balanced source of news provides comprehensive coverage of events from around the world.
· Associated Press (https://apnews.com): Another news source that provides a centrist, balanced site for a wide range of important events in the US and around the world.
· The Economist (https://www.economist.com): An independent global media company operating since 1843, The Economist provides high level analysis in its reporting on matters around the globe.
· Real Clear Politics (https://www.realclearpolitics.com): This source provides many news and opinion pieces from all over the political landscape, along with coverage of polls on various issues.
· Axios (https://www.axios.com): A centrist to lean-left source of news, Axios provides a source committed to high-quality news coverage oriented to the digital environment.
· BBC (https://www.bbc.com): A generally centrist source of world and US news.
· Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com): An established news source with emphasis on business and economic matters, generally rated centrist in news coverage, whose opinions lean right.
· Christian Science Monitor (https://www.csmonitor.com): Another well-respected source of news with a centrist orientation.
· 1440 (https://join1440.com/) and The Factual (https://www.thefactual.com/news): these sites curate the news for readers in an unbiased way and deliver it via email/newsletter form.
· News Nation (https://www.newsnationnow.com/): Cable news site, a TV media source.
· Ground News (https://ground.news/): Gives news from different perspectives
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Fact-checking sites to identify & combat mis/disinformation & promote media literacy
· FactCheck (https://www.factcheck.org)
· Politifact (https://www.politifact.com)
· Snopes (https://www.snopes.com)
· News Literacy Project (https://newslit.org): Education on media literacy & identifying credible news
· All Sides Media (https://www.allsides.com/): Created to offer a sampling of news from the left, center and right politically, All Sides Media rates various sources’ perspective via a Media Bias Chart.
· Adfontes Media (https://adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/): provides an interactive media bias chart that rates sources on political leanings as well as accuracy.