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I usually read from every source, but i have my favorites like UOL notícias, G1, Carta Capital and Metropóles (brazillian here). But to deal with international content I started to use a tool that changed my life some years ago... it´s called newsblur . I can have everything i want from that since it works on web3 sites and RSS. And when I mean everything im not only talking about news. I can catch up with my my wiki project contributions and changes, the updates from my linux distro and even news from every website in 3 different languages. Just make an account and paste link, classify as you wish, mute what you don't want to be bothered with and never get yourself chasing what to read in news matter.
My feed reader; there's a couple bloggers and a singular journalist that I follow. I have a digital subscription to a national newspaper as well.
my less-susceptible-to-depression spouse
Cnn just because it's the easiest to type one handed.
News in my mother tongue, not beneficial to English speaker people
Lemmy and Imgur
I usually check things in this order:
National newspaper
Local newspaper
Reuters
Lemmy
- Democracy Now!
- DW (Germany)
- France 24
- PBS / NPR
- Global News (Canada)
- propublica
- AP
- BBC World News
- various youtubers for niche or more world / non western news and geopolitics and trade etc
- lemmy
OK, partly off topic: I'm new here and in the fediverse in general.
Trying to find out what is what and where I want to be part of.
So I figure I go to Ask Lemmy, where I see your question and found it interesting.
To my surprise, since I was under the impression lemmy.ml was a real leftist place I see mostly horrible MSM sources.
Was I wrong?
lemmy.ml federates with almost all instances most of which aren't leftist, the admins are leftist as is a lot of the local userbase, but the moderation varies between communities and this one tends to be one of the more permissive ones. If you want one that's more exclusively leftist you're probably looking for Hexbear or Lemmygrad.
While what you said isn't untrue, .ml does Bill itself as a general purpose instance. Also, not all the replies are from accounts on .ml.
In a more general sense, I always felt that only reading sources that alligned with one's political alignment narrowed one's perspective.
Thanks for the info.
In a more general sense, I always felt that only reading sources that alligned with one’s political alignment narrowed one’s perspective.
Definitely, I'm certainly not looking for an echo chamber. It is exactly the opposite since it's very rare to find something outside the common MSM and social media narrative. Hence the dissapointment with all the news sources mentioned here.
Also the left ones I know have less 'pulp', 'trivial' -or whatever you can call it- posts and more interesting subjects not covered elsewhere. I am also constantly surprised and impressed with the knowledge the users have. They know their stuff, put effort into replies, provide sources and useful info on sometimes very specific topics or events in history. It's vastly more educational.
On my end, I tend to watch democracy now, read cbc, npr, ap, and reuters, and then follow plenty of youtube channels for different takes on a variety of subjects. Always looking for new stuff though, so I appreciate all the replies!
I listen to pods at work: NPR and DemocracyNow for my daily news, then weekly news/commentary from Labor Stoppage, Citations Needed, Some More News/Even More News, The East is a Podcast, The Deprogram, and ChapoTrapHouse.
Thank you for sharing, I'll look into these!
The Globe and Mail, CBC, and the Guardian.
Mostly from Josh Johnson
Never heard of him, I'll check it out
Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung, taz, dpa, Reuters, ap, BBC, Deutsche Welle, Deutschlandfunk. Some others, if they come up. Mostly via RSS.
Also, lots of podcasts
The Guardian, Democracy Now, and /r/politics
democracy now! is legit a core news reporting source for many unreported and underreported stories. thumbs up for DN!
edit: add link
Ya, my personal fav, I try to at least watch the headlines, but usually dig into some of the featured interviews for the day. Amy Goodman is a legend
Mostly the local Radio station. But bigger things through Mastodon.
Nice, love local radio
NPR, BBC, and RTÉ primarily. Subscribed through RSS
The classics.
The Guardian, The Tyee, BBC, CBC, Reuters and AP, with a dash of utterly unreliable press from abroad.
Nice, all that covers a lot of bases right there
The Guardian for international news because they are cool with not doing a paywall anywhere. They encourage to pay only.
Die Zeit for German news.
Wyborcza to stay more or less updated with my old country.
For real time opinions I never ever go to X. Mastodon starts to be a good replacement and for something really hot that’s also hot in Europe, my mastodon search engine (https://masto.kukei.eu) sometimes does the job, although it’s still immature and often searches nothing due to the nature of mastodon.
Damn, that's so cool, I'm going to try this out
The Tyee, The Daily Show, late night w/ Seth Meyers, The Guardian, and Legal Eagle.
LE is a good one.
Belle of the fifth column even though I'm taking a break after the election
Never heard of it, I'll give it a looksee
CNN, nbc, cbs, some from the guardian, there’s a guy called habitual line crosser ( HLC ) on YouTube. He puts humor to what he says but he has a lot of good info.