General news, niche hobby news, anything - what sources do you regularly read?

  • weeeeum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I never read articles for my news. I almost exclusively watch TLDR news on YouTube. Very impartial and intentionally neutral. Just the facts and zero inflammatory language or strong emotions, which is what I hated most about other news outlets.

    They sometimes miss the nuance of certain situations but comments will usually provide sufficient insight on anything they miss.

  • Kabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    The Intercept - For their insightful investigative pieces, which are becoming so rare these days.

    Ground News - to see what different news sources from across the left/right spectrum are reporting and how they’re reporting it.

  • strawberry@kbin.run
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    8 months ago

    whatever gets posted on the fedi

    so a lot of ap news, reuters, 404, im suire youve seen what gets posted

  • Maoo [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    8 months ago

    A series of news weirdos on social media, a critical reading of major news outlets, issue-specific advocacy groups, individual journalists on YouTube etc, and criticism orgs line FAIR

  • anon6789@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    AP, BBC, and NPR for general news. Been on the hunt for some English language news covering the rest of the world and provide an outside look at US news.

    Facebook feed of 60+ raptor rescues and wildlife photography groups and Google News search for owl news to post to !superbowl@lemmy.world

    Lemmy Top 6 Hours for any breaking news and news about stuff I wouldn’t normally look for.

    If anything really catches my eye, I’ll generally Google it to get at least one other article from a different source to get more info or a second take on the story.

  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
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    8 months ago

    I dont consume news actively. I stopped watching tv and listening to radio because of ads and news. Both are not great for my mental health. Too stressful, too manipulative.

    When something pops up in the fedi, I read it. If it becomes too much, I mute it.

    • pixelscript@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Generally my policy is that if it’s news I need to hear, it will find its way to me one way or another. I need not go seeking it out. I will look up something I’ve heard if I want more info, but I don’t read news for its own sake.

      The great bulk of news that reaches me being second, third, fourth-hand and beyond means I’m not well-informed about anything. But at least I’m not wasting brain cells on whatever dumb shit <celebrity> did, or what shit <politician> said, or what breakthrough <scientist> made that does not remotely lead to the conclusion the article implies, or some journalist’s speculative opinion piece masquerading as news.

      If I could just get a dry listing of everything that happened the previous day, only including events of actual consequence like “law passed” or “person died” or “business discontinues product/service”, and leaving behind any event that can be effectively retold as “<person> scrawled message on public toilet stall” (like many celebrity and political articles) or anticipation pieces that try to predict future events, I’d be satisfied.

    • andrewta@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Basically the same. Just that I use the apple news app. Most of it is the major news organizations. Ap, Reuters, things like that

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Mostly RSS for me, incidentally there is a publlic rss api on reddit. You can add .rss to any subreddit URL to get a feed. It’s a nice way to get news from there without actually having to use reddit.