Im Trying to be kept informed of stuff and still in the loop while taking a break from social medias and aggregrators like reddit/twitter/ig/etc. Not sure where to start because i always just kept myself informed through social media.
I like Al-Jazeera because it's state-funded by a king's oil money so that means it's usually less biased than most western news with their various advertisers and such. They have good international news that doesn't blow the US, which is really enough to make it pretty good.
Al-Jazeera has slightly less US-fellating reporting, but does run anti-China hit pieces
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/12/uighurs-forced-to-eat-pork-horror-stories-told-by-chinese-defector-seem-to-evolve.html
I’d maybe add Mint Press to this list but otherwise same. I follow a lot of journalists on Twitter so if there’s anything newsworthy that’s usually where I hear it first.
I can see how it can look overwhelming, but quite honestly I just scroll a bit from time to time and read whatever catches my eye and seems especially interesting whenever I feel like it.
And for daily/major world news I usually just skim my local/national media’s page once a day, keeping their biases in mind, and that is that basically.
Fun fact: Newsmax was founded in 1969 and is named for its founder (and only reporter at the time), Maximillian News
