4d ago

what are your news sources?

in and out of fediverse.

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The Guardian is not owned by a billionaire, but by a trust that was made to preserve it's integrity. So them.

World news:
!theguardian@rss.ponder.cat - The Guardian
!aljazeera@rss.ponder.cat - Al Jazeera
Climate / environment:
!insideclimatenews@rss.ponder.cat - Inside Climate News
!mongabay@rss.ponder.cat - Mongabay
!grist@rss.ponder.cat - Grist
!planetizen@rss.ponder.cat - Planetizen
US News:
!theguardian_us@rss.ponder.cat - The Guardian US
!bbc_us@rss.ponder.cat - BBC US
Tech and tech politics:
!arstechnica_index@rss.ponder.cat - Ars Technica
!404media@rss.ponder.cat - 404 Media
!theregister@rss.ponder.cat - The Register
!techdirt@rss.ponder.cat - Techdirt
US Politics:
!motherjones@rss.ponder.cat - Mother Jones
!propublica@rss.ponder.cat - Pro Publica
!electionlawblog@rss.ponder.cat - Good Politics / Political Law Blog
!drudgereport@rss.ponder.cat - The Drudge Report (I know! I'm as shocked as anybody. With a good-sized blacklist of crap sources in place, it's actually pretty informative)
- Rss is the way
- Using this thing right here as an RSS reader! TIL.
  mongabay@rss.ponder.cat - Mongabay
  An excellent source that I'm ashamed I only discovered recently. Consistently first-rate independent journalism on literally the most important subjects there are. Should be better known. Read. Donate.
  Great other choices too.
- Wow you can use Lemmy as an RSS feed? Will these posts overpower local stuff though?
  Hopefully me clicking on these won't mean the all view on my instance is now completely overtaken by this stuff...
  
  Depends on exactly which ones you subscribe to. I sub'd to the Guardian and was immediately overwhelmed.
  
  I don't think it should. "Active" sort should mostly only show the ones that have some user engagement to them, and "Scaled" sort should only show ones that are either from a few minutes ago, or have a handful of upvotes to them, or from sources that very rarely post. "Scaled" is honestly pretty good, IDK why it is not the default.
  Also, I make an effort not add feeds to it willy-nilly and to blacklist ones that tend to post spam or other stupid content. Some admins will remove everything from rss.ponder.cat from their front page feed, also, which makes sense to me.
  I was a little bit surprised to see that only a few of them are federated to slrpnk right now. These are already subscribed to from slrpnk, though, so you can check them out without a trace of guilt:
  !emulator_announce@rss.ponder.cat
  !hackaday@rss.ponder.cat
  !jesse_welles@rss.ponder.cat
  !mongabay@rss.ponder.cat
  !phys@rss.ponder.cat
  It's honestly a very pleasingly slrpnk-vibe collection of communities. 😃
- ground news
- You're my hero.
  Brb setting up RSS feeds on every device I've got

I'm usually trusting Reuters or AP news
Though I've heard of ground.news and have been thinking about subscribing, DAE have experience with them? Are they as unbiased as they claim?
- Reuters usually has half decent articles, but they're owned by billionaires out of Canada. This look into them was done late last year: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/12174374
  AP has some sketch board members as shown here: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/12174861
  
  While Reuters is obviously written from a neoliberal perspective, I think as long as you are aware of that, their coverage is fine. It's very fact based. It's designed to provide information for investors who are trying to make money from current events, so they have an incentive to do accurate coverage, but of course they will mainly cover things that are relevant to the finance world.
  
  It helps that their business model doesn't rely primarily on ads or user tracking, and instead relies on subscriptions from other news businesses. This obviously isn't perfect as they do serve some ads, and it requires those other businesses to exist and be profitable, but it's a helpful layer of insulation.
- I like AP News a lil better than Reuters. Axios and NBC News ain't bad either if you're okay with using sites that skew a lil farther to the left.
  
  Yeah, corporate media is definitely "the left." 🙄

My local government news. Call me a sheep but since they don't farm clicks they seem to have the most nuanced and engaging stories. For-profit news these days are just doom-posting and rage bait.
- @bigboismith You're probably referring to some sort of public broadcaster, right? That's actually quite a good source if the management is not politically controlled/infiltrated in any way by any political party
  @fuzzyfeeling

Publically owned or controlled (or at least majority owned and controlled) news services in major countries
CBC - in Canada (where I'm from)
PBS - in the US
NPR - in the US
ABC - Australia
BBC - in the UK
France 24 - in France
NHK - in Japan
DW - in Germany
Although there are criticisms for each, at the very least, they give a good guidance to relevant straight forward news without too much spin.
- What about NPR in the US as well
  
  Thanks for the reminder .... added!

I try to stick to AP/Reuters. They tend to be more direct and less wordy. BBC, NPR, sometimes Guardian, NYT, and other news sources follow in approximately that order.

I don't follow news. If it's big enough, it will reach me some or the other way.

Judd Legum, actual journalist who does the legwork.

I''m a big fan of Some More News on YouTube.

The BBC, AP, and Reuters are a good place to start.
I like Erin in the Morning, Propublica, and Bellingcat as well, but they require additional work to parse sometimes.

@fuzzyfeeling too many of them tbh. I also gotta do some cleanup at some point:
postimg.cc/7GXfY6Sn
There's plenty more in my Feedly account, some duplicates, cannot catch them all. At this point, I returned to getting what's currently in the spotlight.

Personally I love PBS/NPR (both National and my local station; support your local station!), The Verge, TWiT/This Week in Tech, Daily Tech News Show, Democracy Now!, C4 News, and Web3 is Going Great.
- I do my local national public radio every day. Great local coverage and balanced fact driven national coverage. I have donated to them for a decade now. No regrets

Democracy now is doing excellent coverage of palestine. Also the majority report.

Not a news source, but commentary. I watch/listen to breaking points https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
they cite drop site news frequently https://www.dropsitenews.com/
and I read Ken Klippenstein https://www.kenklippenstein.com/

BBC Radio 4's hourly news bulletin just before the Archers. That and BBC News headline notifications.

I got a local loud mouth who listens to Infowars
I just assume the opposite of what he says is true. So far it's working

Associated Press is great for world news. They're a bit slow but you get less mistakes.
For important news like Linux news, destination Linux, brodie Robinson and the Linux experiment are my goto.
- less mistakes
  oh the dross other outlets push aren't mistakes ...
  
  What does dross mean?
- You get fewer mistakes
  I'm sorry, the irony was too much to ignore
- I haven't noticed the AP being that slow in comparison to other outlets IMHO

Lemmy and Imgur. Before that it was reddit. And before that, digg.

https://text.npr.org/

I used to be a Google News junkie, but I stopped using their products. Now, I have a more streamlined view via these two: https://www.newsminimalist.com/ https://www.boringreport.org/app

Lemmy and the google news feed. Sometimes my family members.

Roca News @ridethenews is my go to but I've tuned most things out at this point to try and stay sane.

These days I try to avoid the news.

I have 306 RSS sources soooo you're gonna have to be more specific :)
- Curious what they are and how you manage the incoming?
  I have been trying to curate my list and they're all very chatty. I end up struggling to stay on top of it even just dismissing articles I won't read, let alone reading a significant percentage.
  
  I organize them into lists and start with the most relevant ones. Use filters to remove spam as best I can. Then skim the titles. Not every publication is pushing 30 articles/day. I won't claim to read all of them.

the comment section
- Of Facebook

PBS Newshour

I've got a MASSIVE fricking OPML file I grab my news from and punch into various apps and sites like Feedly. I grab basically as many feeds as I can, except those that typically paywall their sites (like WaPo, NYT and WSJ)

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