General news, niche hobby news, anything - what sources do you regularly read?

  • Maoo [none/use name]
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    8 months ago

    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

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    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.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    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.

  • chauncey [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Democracy Now is my main source

    I also listen to NPR to hear what narratives the state department is pushing

  • ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

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    I spend a couple of hours each morning with coffee exploring a majority selection of these sites to get a quality overview.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
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    8 months ago

    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