The news

[flamingsword]

It feels like time to re-engage with the news, but my old feedly account just has Information Is Beautiful, Al Jazeera, some cooking blogs, and the AP and Reuters headlines.

What do you read? What brings you information that does not immediately make you want to burn things? Where do you get your news?

Comments

[conuly]

I've had a lot of enjoyment from 1440 and pnut which I think you'll have to google for - I get them via email.

And The Marshall Project, which I have a feed for here on DW somewhere - but that WILL make you want to burn things, because the carceral state is awful.

(Though I do like, in a non-burny way, the Life Inside feature. It oscillates wildly between "Life Inside - I realized I was awful and now I've grown up and am no longer awful, and want to be great after serving my time" and "Life Inside - here's a way the prison system is suuuuuuper fucked up" and "Life Inside - wow, we're real folks just like you, and here's an anecdote to prove it!" and you never know which you're gonna get.)

[flamingsword]

The Marshall Project is known to me, and they do some good organizing work, from what i recall, but i think all three of those featurettes for Life Inside sound horrifying and burny to me, albeit in different ways. People should not have to hustle for their humanity to be recognized, or for an end to their enslavement by a carceral state.

I have the daily pnut open for perusal in the morning. Thank you!

[princessofgeeks]

Unfortunately all the news right now makes me want to burn things.

Mostly I read NY Times, AP and NPR. Also BBC for more breadth.

[flamingsword]

Ive got NPR open to look at in the morning, somehow i didnt know that they had text-based news online?

[princessofgeeks]

Yeah, they have a full scale news website.

I do like to listen to them in the car also.

[sabotabby]

I read CBC for the daily damage report. Then my friends link me to weird leftist stuff.

Oh, I like Canadaland and their spinoffs for national news, journalism-focused. I'm doing a lot of podcasts these days.

[flamingsword]

I mostly have world news covered, but i did find a really good debunked study on cbc, so thanks for the tip.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-19-vaccine-study-error-anti-vaxxers-1.6188806

[sabotabby]

It's not bad superficial coverage of Things That Happen In the World.

[motorharp]

I listen to NPR News Now - five minutes of news updated hourly, but I only listen to it once or twice a day, because burning things.

allsides.com focuses on a couple headlines a day. They give a summary and links to three difference articles with biases Left, Center, and Right.

Also, entertainment news podcasts can be less intense, like Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and Because News.

[flamingsword]

I don't absorb news very well in fast moving audio formats, but I did check out allsides. I might check back in on it in the morning, but i already thought of a couple flaws with its base premise. Rightwing news tend to flatly ignore any news they cant sufficiently explain (warp), so will anything without a quorum get ignored? Plus im not sure i agree with their divisions.

[wingedcatgirl]

Currently, we get our news - when we have the energy to get any news at all - from Tangle. Rare case of us thinking of someone being a "centrist" as a good thing.

Thanks!

[flamingsword]

I have checked them out and signed up for the weekday news digest.