| What news outlet do you use these days? 14:31 - Mar 16 with 2760 views | mutters |
Interested in hearing where people get their news/current events from as I am getting increasingly jaded by reading news/info which has political agendas.
Historically I am a Guardian reader, however recently I am finding them leaning too much to the left and feel a lot of their opinion pieces are opportunities to kick the right. (Not that I am against that when appropriate, I am just looking for more balanced journalism with no agenda/leanings).
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| What news outlet do you use these days? on 18:50 - Mar 16 with 506 views | DanTheMan |
BBC, Sky News, Guardian, Times, FT. Probably others. I don't read through them all obviously, but I do try and find sources that are different to my biases.
I also use Ground News.
https://ground.news/ |  |
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| What news outlet do you use these days? on 18:51 - Mar 16 with 506 views | CaptainAhab |
I subscribe to Times Online, I know it's Murdoch owned, but of all the newspapers it's always seemed the most balanced to me. For a while the comments section was a right wing froth fest, but even that seems to have evened out somewhat.
Also the Guardian, BBC and of course, TWTD |  | | |
| What news outlet do you use these days? on 20:41 - Mar 16 with 450 views | Swansea_Blue |
| What news outlet do you use these days? on 16:43 - Mar 16 by Churchman |
For headlines I look at the BBC, Sky, ITV etc. For in depth stuff, the Guardian first. It’s free to access. Then I go to yahoo news headlines that picks up a variety of sources including small articles from outlets that would charge if you logged in to their papers. Then if it’s a complex or very political story I’ll look further - foreign news. In other words, I try and read as widely as possible if I’m interested in the subject.
I learned from work first hand that most news is 85% rubbish. In other words are made up, based on nuggets of information, have a slant to them, are basically inaccurate. The percentage is of course variable depending on the subject and entirely subjective!
Oh, and I pick up the free Metro if I’m out walking past a stack and we get the Mail on Saturday. Mrs C likes the tv pages and reckons they’re good for cat litter. No I don’t read the paper itself. |
Yes, seeing how they work when they’re reporting on things you’ve been involved in is a real eye opener. Superficial at best and often misleading. You don’t really learn much from the press, rather just gain a vague awareness (albeit with the various slants and biases different outlets have).
The Byeline network sometimes carry the odd decent piece of investigative journalism. I don’t think anyone’s mentioned them yet (edit - ah, I see Crawford mentioned it).
Private Eye are worth a mention too. [Post edited 16 Mar 2023 20:44]
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| What news outlet do you use these days? on 20:52 - Mar 16 with 437 views | factual_blue |
| What news outlet do you use these days? on 18:44 - Mar 16 by Guthrum |
Regularly read the Guardian and the Telegraph (tho much less so the latter nowadays, it's gone badly downhill, but do still have a subscription). Variety of online sources, including on occasion overseas newspapers. Selection of YouTube commentators (e.g. Anders Puck Nielsen on Ukraine). |
The telegraph stopped being good when the last WW2 general died. |  |
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| What news outlet do you use these days? on 20:58 - Mar 16 with 425 views | Meadowlark |
I don't watch any TV news these days.
Haven't bought any newspapers for ages, except I do like The Times crossword.
https://novaramedia.com/ |  | | |
| What news outlet do you use these days? on 22:45 - Mar 16 with 395 views | Whos_blue |
Despite their recent brainfart, I'm still a BBC loyalist.
I rarely buy written press these days, but if I did it would be the Guardian during the week and the Observer at the weekend. |  |
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| What news outlet do you use these days? on 23:31 - Mar 16 with 385 views | MVBlue |
Torygraph, Sky News now Murdoch has left, BBC Website. Then some social media moved from Twitter to Mastodon Infosec. Use guardian less and less. User of the shares app on iphone feeds various sources also. |  |
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