Lemmy, so it's often outdated or wrong.
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Honestly yeah, I might set up my own rss reader and see how that goes. I like engaging with the Lemmy community though.
Yeah i like the community not as zealous as Reddit yet.
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I have these in my rss feed:
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/headlines.atom
- http://rss.sciam.com/ScientificAmerican-Global
- https://thewalrus.ca/feed/
- https://api.quantamagazine.org/feed/
- https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml
- http://lxer.com/module/newswire/headlines.rss
- https://www.linux.com/feed/
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/feed/51120/rss.xml
- https://theintercept.com/feed/?lang=en
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/feeds/index.xml
- https://newrepublic.com/rss.xml
- https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
- https://www.wsws.org/en/rss.xml
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.
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.
Sounds pretty good. I personally enjoy computers and science stuff so that I do read but I get real pissed if the article is loaded with political opinions disguised as science, independent of it is aligned to my view or not.
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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.
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
to news weirdos.
Nowhere in particular. News is comparative.
- 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.
CBC and Lemmy
Ground New, News Minimalist, RSS
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.
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 !superbowl@lemmy.world
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.
Democracy Now is my main source
I also listen to NPR to hear what narratives the state department is pushing
whatever gets posted on the fedi
so a lot of ap news, reuters, 404, im suire youve seen what gets posted
RSS and Lemmy
Repeats of The Simpsons
The comment section of kimcartoon.li informs me of everything I need to know about the world
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.
I spend a couple of hours each morning with coffee exploring a majority selection of these sites to get a quality overview.
Couple of hours... each morning? Did you win the lottery or something?
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.
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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.
A mix of local news paper and Ground News
Mostly RSS news. Sometimes Youtube, Lemmy or socializing.
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
Google News app mostly. Voyager for news with entertainment.
Basically the same. Just that I use the apple news app. Most of it is the major news organizations. Ap, Reuters, things like that
I prefer listening to stuff in the backgroind over reading so: Electric intifada, empire files, secular talk, Lee camp, and various other left wingers.
Grist Magazine is pretty good, mostly focuses on environmental news
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.
Not American, so I usually check the front page of CNN to get a general sense of what the media is talking about right now. I get a lot of my political news from Seth Meyersβ and Stephen Colbertβs monologues as well, since the snark is fun.
For local and regional news I use the CBC and my local newspaper.
And I guess Lemmy, but thatβs more of a secondary source than a resource I think of when Iβm searching for current events.
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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