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Publically owned or controlled (or at least majority owned and controlled) news services in major countries
CBC - in Canada (where I’m from)
PBS - in the US
NPR - in the US
ABC - Australia
BBC - in the UK
France 24 - in France
NHK - in Japan
DW - in GermanyAlthough there are criticisms for each, at the very least, they give a good guidance to relevant straight forward news without too much spin.
What about NPR in the US as well
Thanks for the reminder … added!
Lemmy and the google news feed. Sometimes my family members.
I’m usually trusting Reuters or AP news
Though I’ve heard of ground.news and have been thinking about subscribing, DAE have experience with them? Are they as unbiased as they claim?
I like AP News a lil better than Reuters. Axios and NBC News ain’t bad either if you’re okay with using sites that skew a lil farther to the left.
Yeah, corporate media is definitely “the left.” 🙄
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If only your mother would have loved you then you wouldn’t be craving my attention so badly.
Let me be perfectly clear: I don’t give a fuck what a fascist troll parrots from the brainwormed “thought” leaders that know he’ll gleefully guzzle gallons of garbage for the mere hope of tasting of Elon Musk’s grundle.
Now piss off.
Reuters usually has half decent articles, but they’re owned by billionaires out of Canada. This look into them was done late last year: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/12174374
AP has some sketch board members as shown here: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/12174861
It helps that their business model doesn’t rely primarily on ads or user tracking, and instead relies on subscriptions from other news businesses. This obviously isn’t perfect as they do serve some ads, and it requires those other businesses to exist and be profitable, but it’s a helpful layer of insulation.
While Reuters is obviously written from a neoliberal perspective, I think as long as you are aware of that, their coverage is fine. It’s very fact based. It’s designed to provide information for investors who are trying to make money from current events, so they have an incentive to do accurate coverage, but of course they will mainly cover things that are relevant to the finance world.
Agree. The whole idea of “balancing” news coverage by combining together US-left and US-right is pretty boneheaded, but there’s actually a solid concept somewhere in there. I think combining factually strong sources, with a genuine variety of slants and takes on the news, will set you up to understand things pretty well. Reuters / NYT / Wapo is okay (for now), Al Jazeera is okay, The Guardian or some other establishment-left news is okay, and all of them are mostly unlikely to just straight-up lie to you factually, so if you combine them I feel like you’re set up with a decently complete picture of the facts. And then of course there are details and opinions that can come in a lot higher quality from some other more niche sources.
Not a news source, but commentary. I watch/listen to breaking points https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
they cite drop site news frequently https://www.dropsitenews.com/
and I read Ken Klippenstein https://www.kenklippenstein.com/
These days I try to avoid the news.
Lemmy and Imgur. Before that it was reddit. And before that, digg.
I’'m a big fan of Some More News on YouTube.
the comment section
Of Facebook
I got a local loud mouth who listens to Infowars
I just assume the opposite of what he says is true. So far it’s working
I don’t follow news. If it’s big enough, it will reach me some or the other way.
Judd Legum, actual journalist who does the legwork.
Associated Press is great for world news. They’re a bit slow but you get less mistakes.
For important news like Linux news, destination Linux, brodie Robinson and the Linux experiment are my goto.
I haven’t noticed the AP being that slow in comparison to other outlets IMHO
You get fewer mistakes
I’m sorry, the irony was too much to ignore
less mistakes
oh the dross other outlets push aren’t mistakes …
What does dross mean?
waste, garbage, trash, The scum that forms on the surface of molten metal as a result of oxidation, worthless
I used to be a Google News junkie, but I stopped using their products. Now, I have a more streamlined view via these two: https://www.newsminimalist.com/ https://www.boringreport.org/app
Personally I love PBS/NPR (both National and my local station; support your local station!), The Verge, TWiT/This Week in Tech, Daily Tech News Show, Democracy Now!, C4 News, and Web3 is Going Great.
I do my local national public radio every day. Great local coverage and balanced fact driven national coverage. I have donated to them for a decade now. No regrets
Democracy now is doing excellent coverage of palestine. Also the majority report.
