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Ground News is a great alternative to Google News! (alternativeto.net)
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[–] sbv 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The Ground News team is based in Kitchener, Canada, and is made up of a small team of media industry outsiders. We are not funded by a media company, big tech, government affiliations nor institutional investors - we are supported by our subscribers and a small group of individual investors who care about the problem personally.

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It's funny, because the whole "I don't like this article, which means it's biased" seems like a US construct. I always assumed it was an American company. But Canadians can cash in on it, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Many articles are horrendously biased in the US. For lulz, I just went to the CBC website and found most of those articles quite dull, actually. (I ignored most of the articles about US politics) Even an article about a con-artist stealing $300k from his soon to be ex-wife was kind of dry.

But, bias is still there. It's extremely mild compared to what I am used to, but it's there. Interestingly, it shows in how articles are arranged, not in specific words. Good things first, controversial last for a "negative" article as an example. (How an article is structured determines how a reader feels after they finish reading. There was an article about a Chinese Bubble Tea chain right now I could use as a good example of this.)

The "I don't like this article, which means it's biased" point is still extremely valid. I would hesitate to call is strictly a US construct because it seems like a standard reaction for people who do not have the capability to be objective. The world is filled with those kinds of people.

I bounced around a bit with my point, but a poor reader will probably default to bias as an excuse for any emotion they feel. Unfortunately, the US does have its fair share of poor readers.

(Side note, I try to follow some structure with my posts online when talking about these kinds of subjects. The last paragraph will likely be something more people can find common ground with, like I did here. It's not fake or made up, but showing compromise or understanding last is less likely to result in a hostile rebuttal.)

[–] sbv 3 points 6 days ago

Journalistic bias exists. But most well written news stories contain enough truth that dismissing them as biased says more about the reader than the writer. I don't know about the state of journalism in the US, but ignoring entire news outlets seems excessive.

I just went to the CBC website and found most of those articles quite dull

Yes. Canadian journalists are excellent at putting their readers into a coma.

I try to follow some structure with my posts online when talking about these kinds of subjects. The last paragraph will likely be something more people can find common ground with

Nice. I've been trying to do the same. I've been trying to avoid inflammatory language and have a clear statement on top-level comments. It's harder when responding, because people tend to raise multiple points.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Honestly just makes me proud.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So this site aggregates external links and provides insight on their bias, right? If I wanted to read the actual article, I might get paywalled, correct?

[–] Contextual_Idiot 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes. In the listing of the actual articles, it will show you if that source is paywalled with a little dollar symbol over the source's icon. It also gives a summary of what the articles are about.

Where Google News shows you an article from one source and let's you click to see other sources, Ground News shows you all the sources it's found and let's you choose.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Very cool. Thank you for sharing.