Which do you consider to be the least biased?
By being inflammatory online and having people seething and providing info.
I subscribe to a bunch of email newsletters. Read them during breakfast until I finish eating, which means I usually end up deleting about half of 'em. I think Tangle might be the best bet, as it tries to be middle ground and tries to provide context behind what both sides are saying. I’m also kinda a fan of “WhatTheFuckHappenedToday”, mainly because it’s brief & direct.
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/
Perhaps not oddly, I struggle to find free Conservative news sources. All the ‘good’ ones requires a paid subscription. How conservative of them! =D If someone has some suggestions, I’m down to just Fox at this point, and it’s like they put the interns in & aren’t bothering to chaperone them anymore.
+1 for WTFJHT. Bless that man for sifting through unfiltered news to protect the rest of us from MSM brain rot.
I try not to tbh.
I wake up to NPR Morning Edition, which is by no means perfect but it gives me a general rundown of what to be depressed about today.
And they were the first major news organization to start calling Trump’s lies “lies.”
I just hope, now that they’ve lost the funding from the administration, they can stop pulling their punches trying to keep from losing it. If so, I’ll double my donation, though tbf it’s a pittance.
What I’d really like would be if they never aired his slimy voice again. Summarize his actions, quote him if necessary, since it’s important for points of hypocrisy and idiocy and narcissism. But spare my pre-coffee soul from that mealy whine.
I’m a supporter of a few non-profit local news sources and they’ve been awesome.
I’ve been liking https://legiblenews.com/ but NPR marketplace and morning edition has been amazing for a traditonal source (I love https://text.npr.org/ too, not enough sites offer that amazing of UX) for national/world news. BBC World Service is pretty good too.
Ground News is nice for its blindspot feature but I think I’ll be sending my money elsewhere when renewal hits.
I like Ground News, the paid tiers give you a lot of info about each source that is covering the story.
Yup. Ground News is my go to for getting a balanced view.
They used to provide that info for free, but decided to lock it behind a paywall, and also locked most everything they offer, all of it simply using ChatGPT, so fuck them and their enshittification.
Oh no, people don’t want to labor for me for free!
You seriously convinced machine learning AI summarizations of news articles are labor? Please kindly go fuck off with that sillyness.
You seriously convinced no human intervention is required to run that kind of site?
Hosting, testing, development, ranking, electricity, bandwidth, payment processing, hr, payroll, sales…those are all AI as well? Must be nice living in a cartoon world.
Am I going crazy or are you here arguing with me whether or not you are enjoying slobbering on that corporate Ground.News cock?
I’m telling you to pay for the labor you use, be it ground news, fox news or news max, Trump sneakers, or the farmer down the road. If you use something, pay for it, if you don’t like it, don’t use it.
Fair enough point because I do your mother daily anyway, I should indeed pay up.
Most of my news I end up getting here, tumblr, and discord shitposting channels.
I have a very warped perception of current events I think.
I have a few independent journalists/newspapers that I trust, so I sign up for their newsletters or follow them on substack. But they’re not free of bias, nothing is. They do their best to be factual though.
I also use mediabiasfactcheck.com if I’m looking at news sources apart from the usual ones I follow. And like someone else said, I use GroundNews once in a while if I want to get an idea of how others are reporting on big events.
It depends on what I am looking to learn about but I use the Peoples Dispatch often. It is very left leaning and has great coverage of the global south. There is no such a thing as unbiased reporting, you must consume media critically with an understanding of the writer’s biases. Taking into consideration who pays the writer and how they get the money to do so is also very valuable.
The guardian is good too and is one of the few western sources I trust. For most things atleast
Awesome! Thanks.
Guardian & AP are my go-to mainstream media sources. Good to add another .org source to Slate, Mother Jones, Daily Kos & the like
All of them are biased. The question is whether they report with awareness of their bias, or if they try to hide it by claiming to be unbiased.
This is true, and why I phrased the question in a relative way instead of asking for unbiased sources. I suppose a better question would have been about credibility and supporting evidence.
Publicly funded media is where I tend to look. CBC News is usually good for that.
I have a local newspaper for my municipality every morning.
It mostly deals with local news that doesn’t reach the big news outlets. It’s slow to report world events (which I like to think is because they actually bother to confirm events before printing). It balances upsetting reports with feel-good and positive stories, and informs me of happenings (markets, small festivals, historical celebrations, crafting, classes and other events) locally that I would never hear about any other way.
AP news.
I do everything in my power to not know what is going on with current events. I do this to protect my sanity because nobody reports on a good thing that happened without first bombarding you with a thousand horrible things that happened.
My personal life is already shit enough. I do not need to know about all of the shit going on outside of my personal life on top of it.
Dude, please schedule an appointment with a LICENSED therapist/counselor, not advice from the fucking internet.
Why do so many people expect me to develop a fetish for being ignored?
Because that’s what every single therapist I have tried to set an appointment with has done to me in the last seven goddamn fucking years.
Fuck therapists, they are shit, they are terrible, they do not deserve to exist, they are a plague on our society, and they should be done away with, like recreational lobotomies and having tobacco smoke blown up your ass.
I say that because in my experience there are exactly two kinds of people that can actually get therapy.
One: rich people who do not have problems and do not need therapists.
Two: poor people who are so fucked they are absolutely destined to lead a miserable life and there’s nothing that can be done to help them.
If you are not female, neither one of those categories apply to you.
And this is not a hating on women thing. This is a personal frustration as a man that has attempted to make several appointments for therapy after using the online web apps, after using websites, after calling offices, after reaching out to groups that handle mass appointments for therapists, being sent hopeful, inspiring emails about how excited these companies are to work with me and to take my money and how grateful they are that I have good insurance that will make it very inexpensive out of pocket for me to get all the therapy I need for all of my mental health issues.
Then, every single fucking goddamn therapist in the entire fucking state who sees my name presumably immediately takes the sheet of paper that my name was printed on and balls it up and shoves it up their ass and then goes to the toilet and shits it out.
And then when that shit paper clogs the toilet, they plunge the toilet and get a sewer snake to grind that piece of paper coated in shit up until it’s a fine mist of particles that the plumbing system and the sewer systems can easily handle to feed the microbes in the sewer systems.
So fuck the recommendation of going to a therapist.
I probably would profit a lot from having one. I feel like a lot of my problems are workoutable with a friend and with guidance.
But being as that for some reason I am cursed so that no person who has the training and qualifications necessary to take care of the problems in my life will ever actually be available to me as a human being to take advantage of their services, they can all go fucking die in a fire.
Fuck them.
Hell yes, brother. That’s fantastic aggression. I’m being genuine, not sarcastic.
Now redirect that fierce emotion into continuing the relentless hunt for a good counselor that has an LCSW acronym by their name instead of useless chiropractors or random crystal hippies.
If the barrier of scheduling a simple fucking appointment is difficult for you, I have bad news for you once you grow up into being a real adult.
Mostly but there are others
- Guardian
- Al Jazeera
- 404 Media
- BBC America
Al Jazeera has gotten really, really bad for US news. I think their world news is still okay though.
Quality news not centered around the US is hard to find and why I go to Al Jazeera and BBC. I need to find a good source for Latin American news in English. I can manage basic Spanish but not enough to truly understand everything I am reading.
