Wow! Upon visiting Antiwar.com I was overwhelmed how much information is on the site. I'm not really a fan of how they played out the information on the site but overall it's in order of importance staring with the highlights and breaking news and then general news, viewpoints and spotlights. They also cover other countries which I thought was interesting. The first site I happened to randomly click on was Mariupol Is 'in the Hands' of Russia, Mayor Says which took me to Yahoo news. Most of the information seems to be coming from Antiwar.com but occasionally you will redirected to other sites.
These are multiple reasons why you would not see this kind of news is because it seems to be a independent news company that voices most of their opinions. Like me who heard of this site for the first time I think this site also does not get a lot of views which could have to do with why you do not see it in the mainstream news. Some of the articles redirect you to other sites which already arena the mainstream news that have their own channels like yahoo news does. The other reason why I do not think you would see this site in the mainstream news is because they would get backlash over their news and information where as keeping to an online presents will allow for them to be more open. I'm not exactly sure if the first amendment specifically talks about what you can or can not say online but from experience often times things posted online will never make it to mainstream news because it has gone too the extreme left or right.
The second website The American Conservative I liked a little big more than the first one. It's layout and design was more modern and pleasing to me not being too overwhelming. I've never heard of this site before because I most certianly do not understand the political lingo that much to even know who a conservative is. Without knowing what a conservative is I immediately get turned off by the site. I also feel that some of the mainstream news channels are much bigger the the American Conservative that that they get pushed to the top and is what you would see articles from first on places like Google news or MSN news unless you follow this site specifically. This site compared to the last one isn't as antiwar focused because the first article is when I was on the site was about Nuclear War and after scrolling a bit I found an article titled The Cause of The War. After skimming the article It was more about how the US is involved with "the war" or whatever you want to call it. You'll get references to WWIII and War related news but its using the world war and it's related words to describe how a war could start based on its headline but then when you actually read the article it's the complete opposite. In the article Did Blinken ‘Green-Light’ World War III? the headline suggests war might be upcoming but when you read the article it talks about how war is not really happening based on the the subject of the headline.
Specifically talking about websites on more on a digital sense you will need to seek out the more obscure antiwar sites because they do not want to risk getting flagged down and removed since the first amendment may not apply as much to the online content. I also think that people want to get the news and not so much here about extreme opinions so if you were someone that did you would have to seek out the sites yourself.
Me myself I want to hear the news as it's happening and and get the news based on someone's opinion rather then someone taking the news and skewing it to be completely different then what the news is trying to convey.
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