in and out of fediverse.
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
PBS Newshour
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?
waste, garbage, trash, The scum that forms on the surface of molten metal as a result of oxidation, worthless
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
The Guardian is not owned by a billionaire, but by a trust that was made to preserve it’s integrity. So them.
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.
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/
Roca News @ridethenews is my go to but I’ve tuned most things out at this point to try and stay sane.
Democracy now is doing excellent coverage of palestine. Also the majority report.
BBC Radio 4’s hourly news bulletin just before the Archers. That and BBC News headline notifications.
@fuzzy_feeling too many of them tbh. I also gotta do some cleanup at some point:
postimg.cc/7GXfY6SnThere’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
Lemmy and the google news feed. Sometimes my family members.
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)
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?
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.” 🙄
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.
Agree. The whole idea of “balancing” news coverage by combining together US-left and US-right is pretty boneheaded, but there’s actually a solid concept somewhere in there. I think combining factually strong sources, with a genuine variety of slants and takes on the news, will set you up to understand things pretty well. Reuters / NYT / Wapo is okay (for now), Al Jazeera is okay, The Guardian or some other establishment-left news is okay, and all of them are mostly unlikely to just straight-up lie to you factually, so if you combine them I feel like you’re set up with a decently complete picture of the facts. And then of course there are details and opinions that can come in a lot higher quality from some other more niche sources.
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.
These days I try to avoid the news.
