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BobTheHawkHater

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Curious how others on CF stay up to date on current events, mostly in the US but not ignoring the rest of the world. What are your daily habits? How do you protect yourself from only getting one side of political news?

I'm a near boomer (my Gen Z kids call me boomer all the time) and once I find something I like I don't change often, so I'm going to get thrashed on here a bit, but here's what I do ...
  • I work from home, so I start out on my desktop. Browser home page is currently set to Google News. (I just changed this a few weeks ago from the plain old MSN home page but I'm not liking it. It links in too many articles from news sites that require a subscription. MSN was much better, but the algorithm tuned over years to my "preferences" is completely wrong.)
  • I visit DrudgeReport.com next. Yes, I'm admitting that on CF! Show me something better and I'll abandon it. It almost never links in sites that require a subscription. It used to be very conservative (back when I was more conservative) but recently I feel it's pretty good at showing me news from both sides of the political spectrum. Plus it never disappoints with obscure/funny articles about, for example, wives cutting off their cheating husband's member and frying it up in a pan, a memorable one from a few years ago.
  • BBC.com for a more serious look at world news.
  • Then, of course, off to CF to browse the first few pages of the forums, especially the political forums that have had a huge impact on me and seriously helped me become a better person over the past 10 years.
I have both the CNN and Fox News apps on my phone and I take note of the headlines coming in via notifications throughout the day, but I almost never open any Fox News links (nor watch the channel on TV, God forbid). I just have an interest in what the other side is saying (and it's scary).

I'm also a big fan of Face the Nation on Sunday mornings. Meet the Press is ok, but just obviously slanted to the left and they don't try to hide it. Face the Nation is much more down the middle, IMO.
 
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NetNewsWire fed with RSS from NBC News, NPR, Iowa Capital Dispatch, Yahoo News, NASA, and a handful of pop science journals. However, you can populate the timeline with whatever RSS feeds you want to include. I tend to add/subtract a feed or two per month but haven't hit the "perfect" combo just yet.
 
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Turn2 said:
NetNewsWire fed with RSS from NBC News, NPR, Iowa Capital Dispatch, Yahoo News, NASA, and a handful of pop science journals. However, you can populate the timeline with whatever RSS feeds you want to include. I tend to add/subtract a feed or two per month but haven't hit the "perfect" combo just yet.
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That looks really interesting. Thanks for the tip!
 
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My sources are typically NPR, WPR, NBC news, BBC, and then Deutsche Welle (the German version of BBC). And then maybe occasionally other news sources. Sometimes I will listen to Pod Save America but I feel like that is less for the news aspect of it and more hearing their commentary.

One thing I have been interested in trying is a service called ground news which allows you to see how a story is being reported from the different sources, has a feature to show how biased a source is and will show you stories that you may miss from your current media consumption.
 
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CF, local news websites, AP website and tiktok. Honestly, most of the good stuff comes from TikTok.
 
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The only "news" channels I watch on TV are CNN, MSNBC, and I do watch the ABC Evening News with David Muir if I'm home.

I listen to NPR a lot on the radio.

And honestly online... CF is not a terrible place to get some news as well IMO. At least you hear from both sides.

I totally understand that all news has a bias, and MSNBC especially leans left big time... but at least they are generally factual. Yes, you tend to hear the positive things going on by the left and the negative things on the right, but it's the truth.

Occasionally I have tried to watch Fox News because I do believe in trying to hear what the other side is saying... but since they have admitted to basically lying most of the time (and fined big time for it)... why would anyone bother? If you know you're being duped and lied to... why watch? Do you want to be stupid and ignorant or what?
 
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CF has good discussions with links to information from various sources. Looking at the Republican stance is often a waste of time in my opinion because it's usually rubbish based on opinion and not facts.

Outside of CF I read various news options both foreign and domestic.
 
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NPR, Iowa Capital Dispatch, The Guardian, and NWS and Chris Kuball on social media for weather.
 
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BobTheHawkHater said:
Curious how others on CF stay up to date on current events, mostly in the US but not ignoring the rest of the world. What are your daily habits? How do you protect yourself from only getting one side of political news?

I'm a near boomer (my Gen Z kids call me boomer all the time) and once I find something I like I don't change often, so I'm going to get thrashed on here a bit, but here's what I do ...
  • I work from home, so I start out on my desktop. Browser home page is currently set to Google News. (I just changed this a few weeks ago from the plain old MSN home page but I'm not liking it. It links in too many articles from news sites that require a subscription. MSN was much better, but the algorithm tuned over years to my "preferences" is completely wrong.)
  • I visit DrudgeReport.com next. Yes, I'm admitting that on CF! Show me something better and I'll abandon it. It almost never links in sites that require a subscription. It used to be very conservative (back when I was more conservative) but recently I feel it's pretty good at showing me news from both sides of the political spectrum. Plus it never disappoints with obscure/funny articles about, for example, wives cutting off their cheating husband's member and frying it up in a pan, a memorable one from a few years ago.
  • BBC.com for a more serious look at world news.
  • Then, of course, off to CF to browse the first few pages of the forums, especially the political forums that have had a huge impact on me and seriously helped me become a better person over the past 10 years.
I have both the CNN and Fox News apps on my phone and I take note of the headlines coming in via notifications throughout the day, but I almost never open any Fox News links (nor watch the channel on TV, God forbid). I just have an interest in what the other side is saying (and it's scary).

I'm also a big fan of Face the Nation on Sunday mornings. Meet the Press is ok, but just obviously slanted to the left and they don't try to hide it. Face the Nation is much more down the middle, IMO.
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If you really want “the news” & not what others (e.g., Matt Drudge) select for you to read, go to X. You can follow anyone you want from all perspectives of life and hear it directly from them all over the world if they also are on X. And X Premium gives you a much deeper dive.
 
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Not reddit and not CF politics.

Google feed, X, DMR, WHOTV, NPR, NYT The Daily, CF Off Topic, News Nation, etc.

Don't ask me to rank them based on it being honest and accurate news. There are not a lot of things I consider myself to be a SME on, but the few things I know a lot about, the news almost always gets wrong. Which kind of leads me to believe a lot of what I read/hear is not accurate.
 
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