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Twin peaks makes me nostalgic for a life i never had
Probably more reliable that most content on my news feed .... do your dreams have an RSS feed?
Ooh, now that's an interesting engineering problem.
I could design the myoelectric sensor interface, but they'd have to learn to lucid dream to use it. From there pushing it to RSS is easy.
Associated Press, Reuters, sometimes BBC and CBC. Most other news sources are just repackaged AP newswires with some commentary added.
Mostly the same here with NPR and the Economist thrown in.
Reuters, AP, NYT, WP, and to a small extent, Ground News. I filter for high factuality. My viewing is rated as slightly skewing left, but this is caused by so many Right sources are not credible sources. Known lies are not worth my time. My biggest gripe about Ground news is that to be balanced, I must waste time on sources that are not credible. Sadly, I can listen to RT or certain USA Right leaning politicians after a little time, and hear the same news.
I forgot FP Foreign Policy and the Economist.
For what it's worth, I would say those sources mostly lean center right.
I'm a big fan of Ground News. Helps wading through the pool
Previously, NYT, Washington Post, NPR. Now, I avoid it. Iβm happier.
I listen to old ladies at the supermarket from across the aisle
Here lol
I usually find it one way or another because I can count on people I know to talk about it, though I never seek it out.
I have also stopped seeking news, knowing that Iβll likely hear all I need to know on the grapevine, and that I can look an article up if I need more context.
The consensus I've learned is to read, read, read.
Try to be as careful as you can with sources and facts and reliable verified journalists.
Then read a whole bunch more.
Question your sources, question what you're reading and question yourself.
Then draw your own conclusions from the information you've read. You may get it wrong but realize that no one ever fully gets it right.
The only restriction I place is that whatever it is one concludes is that it is kind, does not hate, does not endorse war, does not endorse killing. If something or someone is wanting you to feel hate, anger or fear, then you will know that you are moving away from facts.
As long as you work your hardest to stay informed, you will be more informed than most people.
As long as you're trying, you're doing better than the average person.
Here.
RSS feeds of multiple news sources I gathered over time.
I check out Ground News sometimes. It compiles and groups news stories and you can swipe through how the story is presented from different outlets and shows whether they lean left, right, or center. I don't really agree with the political leanings all the time, but it's nice to see that caveat and compare how the same story gets framed differently. There are interesting features for paid subscription, but I use the free one and it's fine enough for me.
What A Day is a short daily podcast that's easy to put on during your morning shit.
Some More News and their podcast Even More News especially are informative and entertaining. They're interesting because they're actually leftist and not CNN leftist, which is really just center-right and less authoritarian than far right outlets.
Somebody else already mentioned First Thought. Their videos are short but it's because they don't waste your time. They seem to generally have more of a global focus than other stuff I find on YouTube, so I find it's most unique and valuable for that aspect.
Tangential: I bought a paper newspaper recently. It cost $2 for a weekday paper. I remember when that was $0.25 and the Sunday paper was $2.
a dime, and 50c on sundays when i was a kid; and sunday papers had stacks of coupons and fliers from stores with actual sales in them. mom sometimes sent me to get extra sunday papers when the coupons were especially good.
The Onion - America's Finest News Source
lemmy, ycombinator, arstechnica in that order. I prefer news aggregators over individual sites.
Democracy Now
Itβs great but hard on the old heartstrings.
Al Jazeera, Telasur, and CBC for the most part, though no where is perfect and all have their blindspots/weaker areas. Plus a bunch of assorted other sources on a lesser basis (BBC, guardian, independent, fox if I want a peek into 
brain) and hexbear news megas of course
Iβm paying around $50/month USD for news & analysis, with my Patreon & Substack subscriptions being the biggest chunks of it. Obviously a lot of people canβt afford to do that.
Nathan J. Robinson: The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free
None of that money is for getting around corporate media soft paywalls, because 1) I have tools for getting around those and 2) they donβt need my money and 3) most of their content is capitalist-biased & imperialist-biased schlock. No, the money all goes to non-profit and independent media.
recently found AllSides news aggregator. Good mix of typical sources and it flags article bias as left, center, right.
I recently found out about Axios which does short bullet point coverage of just the interesting/most important parts of stories. It seems to be a bit biased liberal overall, but being able to get the highlights without wasting time reading all the fluff is pretty convenient.
Aren't thous bullet points useless if you know that the writer have biased opinions and can just misinterpret the source because of their views? Even if unintentionally
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For international stuff I mostly follow the BBC and Al Jazeera. More locally there are a few pretty cool news sources in my area.
Sometimes I use an app called Flipboard, but mostly I watch news channels on YouTube. (The big news channels, like ABC and NBC, not βSkeeterβs News Showβ.)
Rarely Iβll actually buy a copy of USA Today at the grocery store. I used to get it delivered every day, but they took my house off their route.
Thanks for the clipboard suggestion
AP, Propublica, Lemmy
RT
Newspapers and rss feeds
BBC and then here for the more obscure stuff.
I do this round most days:
- AP News: To find out what the US wants me to know
- Reuters: To find out what the UK wants me to know
- Financial Times: To see what's actually important to the investor class who are causing the events which make the news published by the above 2. This information is what very wealthy people rely on to be true for their own financial interests, so it's by far the most reliable and forthcoming of the 3.
c/news
Ground News.
Just a reminder that it's only News if it comes from the ReportΓ©r region of France. Otherwise it's just Sparkling Journalism.
I just kinda hear about it here and on Twitter/Bluesky. I also like to watch Hasanabi and sometimes listen to NPR
Apple News+ comes with my icloud subscription so I listen to the Apple News daily and read their articles
NYTimes, The Atlantic, and the Akron Beacon Journal ... Plus a number of RSS feeds and lemmy content
Used to use r/all sorted by top of hour. You would see major stuff get posted and then get removed really fast. But, the overall, would paint a picture
Newsminimalist, readtangle, lemmy
Everywhere, basically. I check several aggregators and news feeds, because everything has some sort of bias. I avoid anything with a far-right bias, though, because itβs full of Nazi propaganda and I refuse to give them the eyeballs. I do watch a few far-right watchers, though (they click so I donβt have to), in order to stay apprised of what theyβre saying. (eta: people who post screenshots of threads from right-wing sites.)
I like international news sources because they seem to be slightly less biased.
The tubes and friends.
Reuters, AP
https://slashdot.org/ and the euronews app ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.euronews.express ) -> Menu -> All Programs -> Top News Stories Today (at the very bottom of the list)
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