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General news, niche hobby news, anything - what sources do you regularly read?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Lemmy, so it's often outdated or wrong.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Honestly yeah, I might set up my own rss reader and see how that goes. I like engaging with the Lemmy community though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah i like the community not as zealous as Reddit yet.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I dont consume news actively. I stopped watching tv and listening to radio because of ads and news. Both are not great for my mental health. Too stressful, too manipulative.

When something pops up in the fedi, I read it. If it becomes too much, I mute it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Generally my policy is that if it's news I need to hear, it will find its way to me one way or another. I need not go seeking it out. I will look up something I've heard if I want more info, but I don't read news for its own sake.

The great bulk of news that reaches me being second, third, fourth-hand and beyond means I'm not well-informed about anything. But at least I'm not wasting brain cells on whatever dumb shit did, or what shit said, or what breakthrough made that does not remotely lead to the conclusion the article implies, or some journalist's speculative opinion piece masquerading as news.

If I could just get a dry listing of everything that happened the previous day, only including events of actual consequence like "law passed" or "person died" or "business discontinues product/service", and leaving behind any event that can be effectively retold as " scrawled message on public toilet stall" (like many celebrity and political articles) or anticipation pieces that try to predict future events, I'd be satisfied.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Lemmy, lemmy and lemmy

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I try to cross-reference things and then look at the critical angles. Public media generally has higher editorial standards for me. I don't trust right-wing sources or the New York Times because they lack editorial standards. State media I don't trust for domestic issues, but while I don't go to Al Jazeera for news about Qatar I trust their coverage of Palestine and France. I try to avoid sources that have an involved stake in the conflict, so something like Ukraine means no RT/Pravda but I'll watch the primary footage coming off Telegram and then compare it to multiple countries' coverage of it. I try to stay dialectical with all of it, so I'm cognizant of the history and material/social angles which create the issue and the biases of those covering it. I'll read a socialist article but I don't want to uncritically agree with news so that's more supplemental unless the media hasn't yet/won't cover it.

Otherwise I listen to a lot of podcasts that are leftist or left-liberal, keep a critical eye on social media coverage, and follow scientific journals/niche science websites that summarise those journal articles without editorialising.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

The town crier

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A series of news weirdos on social media, a critical reading of major news outlets, issue-specific advocacy groups, individual journalists on YouTube etc, and criticism orgs line FAIR

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

07 to news weirdos.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

CBC and Lemmy

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Nowhere in particular. News is comparative.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago
  • APOD - start my day with some perspective
  • techmeme - aggregates tech news
  • memeorandum - aggregates political news
  • HuffingtonPost - nice mix of serious & trashy pop culture junk
  • Politico - slightly right, but very serious analysis
  • Mother Jones - very left, but well-written
  • Then a few thousand RSS feeds, which I read in Feedbin.
  • Fediverse, Lemmy, etc.
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I never read articles for my news. I almost exclusively watch TLDR news on YouTube. Very impartial and intentionally neutral. Just the facts and zero inflammatory language or strong emotions, which is what I hated most about other news outlets.

They sometimes miss the nuance of certain situations but comments will usually provide sufficient insight on anything they miss.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

The comment section of kimcartoon.li informs me of everything I need to know about the world

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

whatever gets posted on the fedi

so a lot of ap news, reuters, 404, im suire youve seen what gets posted

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The Intercept - For their insightful investigative pieces, which are becoming so rare these days.

Ground News - to see what different news sources from across the left/right spectrum are reporting and how they're reporting it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Ground New, News Minimalist, RSS

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

RSS and Lemmy

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

AP, BBC, and NPR for general news. Been on the hunt for some English language news covering the rest of the world and provide an outside look at US news.

Facebook feed of 60+ raptor rescues and wildlife photography groups and Google News search for owl news to post to [email protected]

Lemmy Top 6 Hours for any breaking news and news about stuff I wouldn't normally look for.

If anything really catches my eye, I'll generally Google it to get at least one other article from a different source to get more info or a second take on the story.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Democracy Now is my main source

I also listen to NPR to hear what narratives the state department is pushing

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I spend a couple of hours each morning with coffee exploring a majority selection of these sites to get a quality overview.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You can take vice off that list soon.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Couple of hours... each morning? Did you win the lottery or something?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Not OP, but I am in a blue collar job and do the same. I get up at 4am and between brewing then drinking my coffee, eating a small breakfast, using the facilities, and doing general stuff getting ready to go to work, I then leave about 615am and clock in by 7am. I either read or listen to the news the whole time, or in this case, I also replied to your comment.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I sued PayPal and won

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I don't go out of my way to get news, so social media/Lemmy. Except for local news, which I do follow more closely. But that's it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I prefer listening to stuff in the backgroind over reading so: Electric intifada, empire files, secular talk, Lee camp, and various other left wingers.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Google News app mostly. Voyager for news with entertainment.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Basically the same. Just that I use the apple news app. Most of it is the major news organizations. Ap, Reuters, things like that

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Mostly RSS news. Sometimes Youtube, Lemmy or socializing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Radio and podcasts ๐Ÿ˜ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

One of the only apps I pay a subscription for ... Https://Ground.news (also the url)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Block Club Chicago, a hyperlocal newspaper I helped find when it was a startup, for local news

The Chicago Reader for music and culture news

My wife and social media for political and tech news

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Grist Magazine is pretty good, mostly focuses on environmental news

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

NPR News Now publishes great little 5 minute podcast digests every hour or 2 summarizing the big news items of the day / hour.

Their politics podcast and Trump's Trials podcast are also good.

All three of these are very U.S. centric, obviously.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Mostly RSS for me, incidentally there is a publlic rss api on reddit. You can add .rss to any subreddit URL to get a feed. It's a nice way to get news from there without actually having to use reddit.

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