Curious to get the pulse from lemmy on where y’all look to for your various sources of news.
A centrist mainstream national newspaper to be aware of what the political mainstream is concerned about.
Al Jazeera for international news.
Articles sent to me by friends and comrades for news on more specific matters that may not make more mainstream news.
And groupchats and internal publications of organisations I’m in for both more politically-relevant news (eg news of local strikes that often aren’t otherwise reported on) and commentary.
I stopped using Google News because all it did was depress me. Lemmy and podcasts now.
https://www.npr.org/ and https://www.mprnews.org/ are my go to sources
About ten separate sources. A little bit of right, a little bit of left, some national, some international. I find this really exposes the bias some sources put on stories, and after a while you can tell which source it is just by words used in the headline and even by what news they don’t report.
Some good suggestions in this thread, I’ll be adding some new feeds.
Lemmy primarily, Podcasts, The Daily Show, Google News, Bluesky a little
Don’t you dare downvote me for the Google News. I KNOW.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events is the most neutral source of news I know. I read it every day.
For any German, correctiv should be a must go to…although it’s not necessarily daily news but rather weekly and investigative journalism. Politico.eu for europeans, deutschlandfunk, Tagesschau, lemmy, reddit
But as some people have hinted as well… Visiting news sites nowadays can only make you depressed really…
Lemmy, Reddit, Instagram, local communities on Signal and Discord
just lemmy and reddit for me and then cross reference
- Democracy Now!
- DW (Germany)
- France 24
- PBS / NPR
- Global News (Canada)
- propublica
- AP
- Al Jazeera
- BBC World News
- various youtubers for niche or more world / non western news and geopolitics and trade etc
- lemmy
National and local newspapers, national and local news stations.
my less-susceptible-to-depression spouse
I mostly don’t follow the news; I value my mental health too much for that these days…
Cnn just because it’s the easiest to type one handed.
OK, partly off topic: I’m new here and in the fediverse in general. Trying to find out what is what and where I want to be part of.
So I figure I go to Ask Lemmy, where I see your question and found it interesting.
To my surprise, since I was under the impression lemmy.ml was a real leftist place I see mostly horrible MSM sources.
Was I wrong?lemmy.ml federates with almost all instances most of which aren’t leftist, the admins are leftist as is a lot of the local userbase, but the moderation varies between communities and this one tends to be one of the more permissive ones. If you want one that’s more exclusively leftist you’re probably looking for Hexbear or Lemmygrad.
While what you said isn’t untrue, .ml does Bill itself as a general purpose instance. Also, not all the replies are from accounts on .ml.
In a more general sense, I always felt that only reading sources that alligned with one’s political alignment narrowed one’s perspective.
Thanks for the info.
In a more general sense, I always felt that only reading sources that alligned with one’s political alignment narrowed one’s perspective.
Definitely, I’m certainly not looking for an echo chamber. It is exactly the opposite since it’s very rare to find something outside the common MSM and social media narrative. Hence the dissapointment with all the news sources mentioned here.
Also the left ones I know have less ‘pulp’, ‘trivial’ -or whatever you can call it- posts and more interesting subjects not covered elsewhere. I am also constantly surprised and impressed with the knowledge the users have. They know their stuff, put effort into replies, provide sources and useful info on sometimes very specific topics or events in history. It’s vastly more educational.
News in my mother tongue, not beneficial to English speaker people
Do you ever compare it to news outside of your region?
