your news sources?

[Eddi]

Question: Do you dare get your news from sources that are at odds with your political leanings?

I do

I'm a Social Democrat but I read The Daily Mail, or The Daily Fascist as I call it

Why? Because their website is well designed and updated frequently

I can see through their bias, indeed it often enrages me

Here is an editorial they published in the 1930s:

 

[Soandso]

I use an app called "Ground" that takes all the different news sources on a given story and lines them up side by side, that way I can compare how the coverage is being done

If I had to pick one, though, I do like Reuters

 

[ChristineM]

I use Upday and Google home screen. Fairly good selection of world and local news

 

[Stevicus]

Question: Do you dare get your news from sources that are at odds with your political leanings?

I do

I'm a Social Democrat but I read The Daily Mail, or The Daily Fascist as I call it

Why? Because their website is well designed and updated frequently

I can see through their bias, indeed it often enrages me

Here is an editorial they published in the 1930s:
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I've looked at a number of different sources for news and information. I don't rely on just a single source of information, and I have no fear of reading alternative viewpoints, even if they're radical or outlandish.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

Question: Do you dare get your news from sources that are at odds with your political leanings?

I do

I'm a Social Democrat but I read The Daily Mail, or The Daily Fascist as I call it

Why? Because their website is well designed and updated frequently

I can see through their bias, indeed it often enrages me

Here is an editorial they published in the 1930s:
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So, getting news from alternative views is really valuable. Getting them from the more extreme or ridiculously biased sources from the other 'side' is only likely to make you think there are no valid alternative views, though, since you're basically dealing with a parody of them.

Currently, I try to use written news sources with some variety to them, and of the podcasts I listen to, a couple have libertarian, or deliberately eclectic viewpoints. I get more out of those than I would listening to something that is more directly right wing.
I linked to this free news source in your other thread, but just for anyone reading along;

The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers.

Whilst a couple of the podcasts I mentioned are;

Home - Lost Debate
Podcast - The Fifth Column Podcast

Worth noting, the Lost Debate is an entire (if small and independent) network, and includes multiple pods, articles, etc.

 

[Quintessence]

The only things I really check on a regular basis are:

• The New York Times
• The Conversation
• National Public Radio (and my local state equivalent)
• various local newspapers and stations

For pop culture, none of these, though; it's not part of their respective wheelhouses. I don't really follow much pop culture stuff anyway, but for that there's industry-specialized websites that on the whole are of dubious journalistic quality.

 

[JustGeorge]

I get the local paper(in print).

I'm an ancient relic of a lost time, I know.

 

[ChristineM]

I get the local paper(in print).

I'm an ancient relic of a lost time, I know.

I get 3 papers, 2 local one national, not every day though. Usually once a week I'll get two french ones and there is a French national news in English one that comes out once a month.

 

[sun rise]

Google news, Flipboard (collection of sources including The Hill (slightly to the right)), NY Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, AP News, Wall Street Journal, BBC News and several local outlets.

Of course I don't read all of these in detail but skim headlines looking for interesting articles.

 

[John53]

For the last 5 or 6 months I've taken the ostrich approach and avoided all news sources.