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
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.
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.
Democracy Now is my main source
I also listen to NPR to hear what narratives the state department is pushing
Mostly RSS for me, incidentally there is a publlic rss api on reddit. You can add
.rssto any subreddit URL to get a feed. It's a nice way to get news from there without actually having to use reddit.One of the only apps I pay a subscription for ... Https://Ground.news (also the url)
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
- 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.
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.
I prefer listening to stuff in the backgroind over reading so: Electric intifada, empire files, secular talk, Lee camp, and various other left wingers.
to news weirdos.
