General news, niche hobby news, anything - what sources do you regularly read?
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.
AP, NYT, and PBS in my RSS reader
Various podcasts and YouTube videos on 2x speed while I putter about the house. I can read faster than I can listen, but I can multi-task while listening.
The town crier
Lemmy, so it’s often outdated or wrong.
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.
And would have a strong left spin too it.
Yeah i don’t put much salt into any of the news i see here.
I have given up on keeping up with the news really.
Although i watch simon whistlers updates on world affairs
I spend a couple of hours each morning with coffee exploring a majority selection of these sites to get a quality overview.You can take vice of that list soon.
Why what happened?
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.
- 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.
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
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 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 <celebrity> did, or what shit <politician> said, or what breakthrough <scientist> 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 “<person> 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.
https://old.meneame.net (ES-es)
Pretty bad site to view controversial content, mods have an agenda and censor.
A mix of local news paper and Ground 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
Personally I don’t like reading news very much, I just keep various live news feeds up in the background while I do other things. Typically Al Jazeera English, but they rerun segments pretty often throughout the day, at which point I’ll just turn it off, or switch over to CGTN. Occasionally I’ll watch MSNBC or CNN if they aren’t being ultra cringe (rare occurrence) for more US focused coverage, though I can hardly stand to watch either for very long.
Try DW news. I’ve found it fantastic. Also just as good for written news.
Democracy Now is my main source
I also listen to NPR to hear what narratives the state department is pushing
Lemmy, lemmy and lemmy
