Democratic strategist James Carville talked about his media diet on the latest edition of “Politics War Room” with co-host Al Hunt. The two praised the Drudge Report and RealClearPolitics in a call with a listener from Charleston, South Carolina.

AL HUNT: You don’t want to get your news from any one or two or three sources if you can. If I had to pick one, it would be the New York Times. I think the New York Times does great work, particularly during this administration. But also, I think the Washington Post, despite its internal problems, still is doing good work. The Wall Street Journal is doing good work. And then there are other sites. I mean, we talk about Jim Fallows and breaking the news and how important that is. And you know, there are, Ryan Lizza has a new blog, which I think is really, really interesting. And you can watch that. And I do watch some cable news, not much. I don’t like a lot of it. I think Jen Psaki is doing a good job on MSNBC. I’ll tell you what I do, Hick, and you know, if you’re watching our show, you may be sympathetic to our point of view. I try at least once a week to spend an hour or two watching Fox. And I can’t say that I’m educated a lot, except I will see that what topics they’re talking about, namely Joe Biden, most of the time. So don’t limit yourself to one or two. And I hope that the Charleston [Post and] Courier is doing a good job for your local news. That’s a long-winded answer, but it’s the best I can do, James. I’ll give you a more short-winded answer. JAMES CARVILLE: First, listen to Politics War Run. HUNT: Good point. And James, can I jump in? I forgot the most important. Please watch the PBS NewsHour, otherwise I’m in deep trouble with my wife. CARVILLE: PBS NewsHour is great. I’ll tell you, now I think the Times is doing a really good job, but boy, they got a lot to atone for, but that’s OK. We all got a lot to atone for. The Post is now hiring AI to do the stories. I saw it, but whether it’s true or not, but you can look it up. I know I saw the story. Honestly, I think, you know, I agree with you, Fox should be part of your diet, at least some of these right-wing blogs. You know, it’s not bad, it’s drudge. That’s true. I mean, they have some stories, I can see some, but they don’t create content. You can just link to everything else. Then at the bottom, there are probably 50 sites that you can look. Some of them are really good, Politico being, Politico’s a, you know, honest publication. I know you can link to anything on there. Man, if I had one place to go and one site to go to, I think I would go to Drudge because I get, because you can get so many things off of there. The other one I really like is a site called Mediate. The graphics on it are very clean. It’s the same thing. They produce some original material, but not much. But most of them, they link, and that’s the attitudes of Dan Abrams’ idea of what a significant story is. But I don’t think they have an ideological bias, and the stories they link to are pretty interesting. And just of necessity, if you’re just the facts, you’re going to have a lot more stories that are not going to be very favorable to Trump because if you just go like Paul Krugman famously said, you know, it’s just a fact that facts have an inherent liberal bias to them. Yeah. And they do. HUNT: Well, another good aggregator is RealClearPolitics. I usually look at that. CARVILLE: Yeah. And they’re definitely not a left-wing crowd. HUNT: No, they’re not. CARVILLE: But they — HUNT; They tilt right, but you can get a good survey of interesting stories. CARVILLE: And these aggregators, it doesn’t, their tilt doesn’t matter that much. What they’re looking for is interesting stories, obviously, that get clicks, and you got to be aware of that. So, I mean, you should. The other one I really like is the Saturday Wall Street Journal. HUNT: Yeah. Yeah. And the Saturday FT.

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