Which news sources do you follow?

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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?

 

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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!

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.

 

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I always got the impression that the readers of The Financial Times were middle class with high paid jobs in the finance industry. So when you state that £59 pcm is unaffordable then it makes a mockery of my idea of an FT reader.

I read the BBC news Internet

I'm interested in business which is why I like the FT. I've been planning on starting one for awhile now.

 

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Signed into Twitter for the first time in a couple of years because of this thread.

 

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Don’t do it, place is toxic

I kinda want to see Musk have a brain aneurysm.

 

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I'd hardly call the BBC communist or socialist.

 

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Correct, the content isn’t any good, hence why 500K refuse to pay for a TV licence.

The BBC is more than just the BBC news channel. BBC World Service is respected around the world and provides an insight into things without the propoganda of extremism.

If we lost the world service it would be a sad day.

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1875904634419859928

 

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I guess he didn't like Farage not backing him over Tommy Robinson.