I canceled my paper subscription, and have tried several digital subscription services. I have gone to the NYT, and several Canadian national services, but after the introductory rate they jump up to what I was paying to have someone drop an actual inkstained copy at my door every morning. I want all the info, and good essays which I most like to read, but I expect a savings over the paper version. I am somewhat Conservative, but have no problem reading the other side, although I quickly grew sick of the NYT who will go out of business when Trump is gone for lack of story ideas. On the flip side far right conservatism picks me as well. So I am looking for suggestions for a reasonably unaligned, full coverage news service delivered to my inbox. To be clear, I have no problem paying for news. I would like to pay around $10.00 to $15.00 per month which seems a reasonable discount to me over the print version.
Reddit.com/r/news
Then follow the stories that interest you down the internet rabbit hole.
Mainstream news is mostly depressing and fake infotainment. I rely on the GRM forums to filter the stories of the day and present them in a thoughtfully distilled form.
I read a variety of stuff, no subscriptions anymore. Used to subscribe to NYT and have the Sunday paper delivered. Realized it was a waste I wasn't going to spend literally ALL DAY trying to get through it.
NYT, LA Times, Washington Post, BBC, Al Jazeera, local news, etc.
I pay for WSJ and La Times in paper. I check CNN.com 3 times a day.
slefain
PowerDork
4/15/20 1:41 p.m.
At this point I've switched to Coast-to-Coast AM. Everyone's talking about the pandemic, but nobody is addressing the damn ALIENS in the room. RIP Art Bell.
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Seriously though I usually cruise through Reddit/News, then all the major outlets (CNN, Fox, CBSN, AP, Reuters, and NPR mostly). I almost started relying on Google news until I realized it only served up news stories based on my supposed interests. I try to read news from multiple angles so I can better understand all sides.
Sadly, you really need to be your own editor / fact checker with almost any news site (they ALL love the headline).
One that give an interesting perspective is Aljazeera. Obviously they have a slant on certain subjects, but useful perspective for others.
As I have noted previously, some of the more extreme websites are actually good sources of a type of news since they will give you a good idea of what "some" are thinking, and they may actually cover actual news that others will not because of their slant.
Grassroots Motorsports. Seriously. We have an incredible bullE36 M3 filter.
slefain
PowerDork
4/15/20 2:04 p.m.
aircooled said:
As I have noted previously, some of the more extreme websites are actually good sources of a type of news since they will give you a good idea of what "some" are thinking, and they may actually cover actual news that others will not because of their slant.
Thank you for including that. Sometimes I feel like Tommy Lee Jones in "Men In Black":
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Kay : [at newsstand] We'll check the hot sheets.
Jay : *These* are the hot sheets?
Kay : Best investigative reporting on the planet. Read the New York Times if you want, they get lucky sometimes.
Jay : I cannot believe you're looking for tips in the supermarket tabloids.
Kay : [front-age article about farmer's stolen skin] Not looking for. Found.
I've learned some interesting history and other things by checking news sites outside the norm. Gotta be careful though or you'll end up like this:
Washington Post and NYT online subscriptions. Orlando Sentinel in print, but recently cut back to 3 day a week delivery due to the cost.
NPR on the radio, but much less since that's what I would listen to in the car during my commute.
News hour and Washington Week on PBS, but intermittently, since we're usually having family dinner at that time.
I get some links in my browsers, may look at those, but really cautious about what the source is.
I get some ads when looking at YouTube, the political ones assume from my watch history (besides car and baking/cooking stuff, I watch history and the Forgotten Weapons videos) that I'm a far right winger, which I'm not. I look at no political ads on ytube or FB, even if it's something I agree with.
I usually just make up what I want and ignore the rest. I do watch the local news for things going on around me and the farce they call the "weather".
Ars Technica. It's the news I'm interested in.
NPR, Reuters, CBC, BBC, NHK Japan (unbiased for intl news).
Fueled by Caffeine said:
Npr.
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cbc.
Quoted for awesomeness.
NPR sometimes gets 3% editorial, but they are also very quick to issue very public corrections, announce if any of the entities involved in the story are donors/sponsors, and have an enormous, poorly-paid, empassioned staff who does far more research than a network who just regurgitates scripts from someone else.
BBC is on top of global stories and presents them without any bias that I can discern.
CBC is friggin fantastic. They are our neighbor, they have multiple direct economic and political dealings with the US, and they don't owe any sugar coated BS to anyone. I learn FAR more about the US from Canadian news sources in the two months I live there each year than I do from the other 10 months that I live in the States.
AP and Reuters provide researched facts as they find. Networks spin that into bullE36 M3. I'm liberal, but I refuse to watch CNN. They don't report news anymore. They report "the president said [this] today, and here are 6 liberals in bow ties to talk about how orange he is." I might agree with them, but I can't stand the non-stop, hard-left crap they spew. Same goes for Fox. "the president said [same thing] today, and here are six pasty white old men with MAGA hats to talk about how guns are a birthright from Jesus."
The interwebb.............no TV
02Pilot
UltraDork
4/15/20 2:33 p.m.
Depends a lot on what kind of news you're after. When I'm teaching poli sci courses, I rely heavily on RealClearPolitics as an aggregator of political news; their sister sites RCWorld, RCPolicy, RCMarkets, and RCDefense are useful as well.
TJL
HalfDork
4/15/20 2:39 p.m.
Meme's or this board. I consume absolutely zero news otherwise. If i see news on tv somewhere else i can stand about 2 seconds of it before i want to scream. Its "entertainment", not NEWS.
CBC2. It touches on a global topic or two of some importance, and then back to music.
I use news.google.com as my homepage. I scan the headlines, then assume that 90% are incorrect and the opposite of what they are saying is true. That works well. The news I make up in my head from scanning headlines on google is more accurate than anything on cable TV.
Rons
Reader
4/15/20 5:25 p.m.
As bearmtnmartin lives the CBC does have Can con and the rest have 3/5 of 5/8 of berkeley all on Canada.
RevRico
PowerDork
4/15/20 5:31 p.m.
Anywhere not based in America or owned by American businesses. RT, democracy now!, aljazeera English, still occasionally check Prison Planet too, because I've not found a better source for actual legal news short of reading the bills being passed myself.
Yes, I realize DN and PP are American, but unlike the corporate advertising wings that run the "news" networks, they actually seem to care about the population instead of the agenda, and they don't bury their updates and revisions at the bottom of the article.
