How do you stay up to date on current news?

[nfrine]

I gave up on Certainly Not News a long time ago. When they first started they did news. Now...it's just a talk show with political opinions.

Turn2 has a good approach but I spice it up with a few others to balance it out. NewsNation would be one.

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.

 

[ClonerJams]

 

[Raiders70]

For a corporate news outlet news nation is not terrible. How anybody can watch MSNBC or Fox and call it "news" baffles me.

 

[Gonzo]

I've been sleeping with Jen Psaki for a while now. She keeps me informed.

 

[exCYtable]

As I tell my wife, Cyclonefanatic is the source of all knowledge. What more could you possibly need?

In all seriousness, I get my weather fix, my meat smoking tips, and my Cyclone Jones all from CF. And I hate politics, so I just avoid the political threads. What else does one need?

 

[CloneLawman]

I've been sleeping with Jen Psaki for a while now. She keeps me informed.

Ah. So that's the source of your terrible takes on sports.

 

[Prone2Clone]

One thing I know for sure, if a famous or even semi-famous person dies, the RIP announcement will hit CF before the person takes their last breath.

 

[Cydkar]

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.

I honestly only rarely watch to laugh at the agendized ********. That goes for all the channels. It saddens me. I can generally see through the ********. I don't know what the truth is but I also know I'm not probably hearing it.

 

[Gonzo]

Ah. So that's the source of your terrible takes on sports.

C-

 

[Malty Flannel]

I don’t. The news is trash

 

[Cydkar]

C-

She gave you a C-? Work harder.

 

[CloneIce]

New York Times is by far the best site I’ve found for real news along with tons of interesting articles on a wide variably subjects. So much better than the Cable News channel sites. But it does require a subscription.

NPR is great too.

 

[Gonzo]

She gave you a C-? Work harder.

I'm 52, I'll take a C-, lol.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

I prefer to wallow in my own ignorance.

 

[BCClone]

I generally only see what the wife had on. If it’s a fox type, I watch it as though I’m a liberal, if it’s MSNBC, I watch as though I’m a conservative. Doing that and then mixing both of your perspectives will tell you more of what the truth is.

 

[Rabbuk]

AP
Reuters
NPR

This is my mix generally and then work has a market/economic news dashboard thing that aggregates a bunch of places

 

[cyclonedave25]

Denzel said it best: if don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you do read it, you’re misinformed.

If you get bored, go back through old news stories from big events and see what source ended up being the most accurate after it was all said and done.

 

[Bipolarcy]

I mostly don't. Any news I get is incidental -- something I read on the web while searching for something else, a video I see that looks interesting while looking for something else, etc. But I guess to answer your question, most of what little news I get, I get from the internet, which I then take with a very large grain of salt. I also have an app on my phone for local news, which I peruse when I'm waiting in line at a drive-thru or in an office waiting for an appointment. I have since found out it is operated by a Chinese group that spreads disinformation, so I now have to take that with an even bigger grain of salt.

 

[JEFF420]

Anyone ever been to Barnum, IA? some interesting google street views in front of the bar. lol its nsfw!!!!

 

[JEFF420]

yes, this is what i learned at caseys this morning