[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Is there a news source you read everyday? If...
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Ask HN: Is there a news source you read everyday? If so, what is
it?
Honestly the more random the better
Author : dope
Score : 24 points
Date : 2023-09-05 20:48 UTC (2 hours ago)
| legitster wrote:
| My local paper still does a good job of covering a variety of
| topics fairly and non-partisanly. Albeit it a day late and with
| paper-thin coverage. However, their staff has been cut so razor
| thin that most of the articles are from syndication.
|
| I read Money Stuff from Matt Levine everyday, if for no other
| reason than it's a good read.
|
| And if you want random, Peter Zeihan has been posting videos
| daily where he goes into depth on a geopolitical news topic a
| day. SUPER fraught, but highly informative.
|
| News in general is usually very low-quality across the board
| these days. There are very few local beat reporters anymore, and
| nearly every major paper ditched their foreign bureau. Everything
| has been replaced with shared wire services so there is no
| corroboration of stories. If there is even a story - for the most
| part, all we are getting is official government press releases,
| press conferences, and random collections of anecdotes.
| bryanlarsen wrote:
| Zeihan is a great read if and only if you also read a wide
| variety of competing viewpoints to contrast against. He gets
| some things right but he gets a lot of things wrong too. Like
| any popular talking head he says what people want to hear, like
| "China is going to collapse with a decade". But he started
| saying that 20 years ago.
| eastbayjake wrote:
| +1 to Matt Levine, if you're in tech/law/finance and not
| reading him daily you're missing out on the conversation (and
| the fun)
|
| I'm also a daily reader of CNBC, and a multiple-times-a-week
| reader of the New York Times, Politico, and of course Hacker
| News
| legitster wrote:
| I know that they are, like, one of the biggest news sources
| in the world. But I still think NYT's reporting is underrated
| and taken for granted. Their coverage is pretty
| comprehensive, they don't jump on every zeitgeist, their
| editors hold the line on journalistic integrity, and they
| still meet the demand to crank out articles as fast as
| everyone else.
|
| I was hoping WaPo would give them a run for their money, but
| the divergence in quality is there for anyone looking.
| aeze wrote:
| I'm sure it's not perfect but I've solely been using
| https://www.newsminimalist.com recently and have been happy with
| it
|
| Otherwise, https://www.allsides.com
| caterama wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
| sdfghswe wrote:
| Quick, downvote the guy with the best answer.
| gman83 wrote:
| https://www.metafilter.com/home/popularfavorites
|
| https://guardian.gyford.com/
| s_Hogg wrote:
| Hacker News, no joke
| adamredwoods wrote:
| recursively: https://news.ycombinator.com/
| legitster wrote:
| Every news article has an obligatory "this doesn't belong on
| HN" comment, but HN is actually one of the few places where I
| can find insightful commentary that doesn't usually just
| devolve along internet tropes or politics.
| trackone wrote:
| https://ground.news/
| newcomber wrote:
| https://brutalist.report/
|
| Aggregated headlines from a variety of websites with a minimalist
| design.
| fluidcruft wrote:
| HN had a story about ground news a few years ago and particularly
| the blindspot sounded intriguing. I subscribed and like it so
| that's what I read daily. It tends to not get much local news
| though. I also listen to news podcasts while commuting
| (particularly podcasts by local journalists).
| mjamesaustin wrote:
| I keep updated on global news from Democracy Now, hosted by Amy
| Goodman. She's an incredibly thorough, tough, and fair reporter
| and investigative journalist.
|
| https://www.democracynow.org/
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Goodman
| coyotespike wrote:
| Upvoting to cancel out unwarranted downvotes. I don't share the
| political bent of the cited source but the answer is on-topic,
| to the point, and well within the Overton Window.
| legitster wrote:
| It's a fair and honest response, but it's also fair to call
| out that it's super skewed. I personally would not recommend
| it as a _good_ source of news.
| tashian wrote:
| Not every day, but I appreciate the global tech perspective of
| https://restofworld.org
| mdwalters wrote:
| https://apnews.com/
| randomNumber7 wrote:
| reuters.com
|
| Most newspaper copy from there anyways and at least they dont
| bring their own opinion into every articly. In private tab you
| can read endless articles without an account.
| mindcrime wrote:
| I assume you mean "besides aggregators", so no need to mention
| HN, Slashdot, Google News, Reddit, etc?
|
| If so, I'm not sure there is any dedicated news site I visit
| _every_ day, but one that comes pretty close would be wral.com.
| That 's a local news site for my area, and if nothing else, I'm
| on there to check the weather quite often, so I can plan my
| bicycling activities for the next few days. Plus they report on
| all of the general local news that I have at least a mild
| interest in.
| [deleted]
| blumomo wrote:
| German investigative journalist, on his Telegram channel:
| https://t.me/oliverjanich
| ctoth wrote:
| Several years ago I signed up for Stratfor and I don't hate it. I
| feel like I read about stuff there a couple days before
| everywhere else, and less breathlessly. Of course very little
| focus on the Domestic US stuff (which is an upside for me.)
|
| I don't read it every day though, just 2-3 times a week.
|
| https://stratfor.com
| confd wrote:
| https://abc.es
| bluenose69 wrote:
| https://www.theguardian.com
| simonblack wrote:
| I strive to obtain as world-wide a coverage as possible.
| Obviously from one side or the other, some of those will be
| classed as 'propaganda'. But most of the biases tend to cancel
| out and give a fairly even point of view in the end.
|
| If I read every word in all those sites it would take me hours.
| But I scan the headlines and read only the pages that catch my
| interest.
| scktt wrote:
| news.com.au; unfortunately out of habit and ease of access. it's
| really not a good source for anything meaningful, and alot of the
| "stories" are tiktok copy paste bs, but i havent the musclememory
| to type in abc.net.au instead.
|
| edit: discovered redirect[0] for chrome; problem solved.
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| https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/ocgpenf...
| karlello wrote:
| Dozens of alternative news sites outside the influence of western
| mainstream media, to certainly include the insulting and brain-
| dead browser/BigTech news feeds. Anywhere BUT the MSM.
| motohagiography wrote:
| I like how I won't admit in public where I get my news.
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