Which news sources do you follow?

Cromulent

Cromulent

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Recently I've been reading BBC news and The Guardian but I'm finding them a bit lacklustre. I used to read the Finacial Times but it is £59 a month which I can't really afford at the moment.

I've signed up for a service called Ground News which seems interesting but I'm not sure if it is worth paying for just yet.

I'd also love to sign up to New Scientist but obviously that is just STEM.

So where do you get your news and information from?
 
I’ll occasionally watch BBC news in the morning over breakfast but other than that, I just pick news up from word of mouth or the forums. Not particularly trusting of any of them and wouldn’t treat them as gospel. Equally, always try to take what I read or hear about with a pinch of salt.

Edit: If I do go exploring stories, it’s either BBC, Guardian or FT, I can’t stomach the ads on the gutter press sites but wouldn’t subscribe to any of them, other than BBC’s obvious licence fee.
 
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Cromulent said:
I've signed up for a service called Ground News which seems interesting but I'm not sure if it is worth paying for just yet.
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I've heard good reports about Ground News as an aggregation website. The problem is it's basically inpossible to find impartial news sites that actually simply report events without some inherent level of bias.

In fact I'd go so far as to say that most media outlets make me feel like i'm not so much reading 'news' but simply being pushed the content/agendas their owners and other organisations are very clearly paying the "news' sites to promote!

Cromulent said:
Recently I've been reading BBC news and The Guardian but I'm finding them a bit lacklustre
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I couold happily go off on a very long rant about those two in particular but lets just say I'm not a fan given their track record in recent years........
 
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silvagti said:
I've heard good reports about Ground News as an aggregation website. The problem is it's basically inpossible to find impartial news sites that actually simply report events without some inherent level of bias.

In fact I'd go so far as to say that most media outlets make me feel like i'm not so much reading 'news' but simply being pushed the content/agendas their owners and other organisations are very clearly paying the "news' sites to promote!
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Yeah. It is hard to avoid bias that is for sure. The thing I dislike about the Guardian for instance is that a lot of it is opinion pieces which I have no interest in. I just want a nice factual reporting of events.
 
What ever pops up on Google news.

Usually guardian, FT (I use a pay wall bypass), Wales online (often poor), and other new papers. Sometimes even the daily mail slips in. A load of finance sources too.

Basically Google news presents me articles I'm interested in as if it gives some celeb news I just tell it to not push that to me.


It also tells me about tv/cinema releases etc.
 
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I also read The Guardian but I decided the paid subscription wasn’t good for me after having it for around six months.

Frankly, I don’t really want to read the news that much. I read a lot of stuff on Reddit then head into the comments to understand it better.
 
I really miss the Sunday Times and all its supplements. Shame there isn't an online subscription just for that but you also have to subscribe to The Times, which I'm not so keen on. Print copy is not an option for me.
 
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Get everything from X/Twitter.
All the MSM are on there + the smaller journalists, well, apart from the Guardian who flounced off because they kept getting community noted for pee poor reporting.
A lot of the stuff on there you’ll see before the MSM report on it (if they decide to) and sometimes it’s even free from bias + you’ll actually see what the MSM won’t or can’t show.
 
Mostly from The Times. I used to use Apple News, but got fed up with "this one weird trick" headlines swamping my feed. They curate daily emails with top headlines which is handy just to get up to date, and then can drill down as the day goes on if necessary. They do weekly emails for TV, Film and the US as well which is useful.

I heard they're considered to be right leaning which is quite funny because every time a headline about the conservatives came up, their comment base was trashing them and leaning very much more toward Labour.
 
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