Re:Google News Initiative
by joecool1029 on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @01:43PM
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>You can weigh your news sources.
Neat site that does it for you: https://www.allsides.com/
Thank you for this, hadn't run across a site as well presented as this.
This helps if you love/hate a few sources; not if you want a wide range of non-garbage sources; and especially not if you want the non-garbage stories from one source like CNN or WaPo or FoxNews that has some very good news and a lot of hot-button middlebrow-opinion-masquerading-as-news trash that bubbles to the top of the dungheap.
Thanks for this, I actually didn't know about that. Might be a product I'll like once I put a bit of effort into cleaning it up.
I'm worried I'll share kolpa's problem, where sources I use for certain like CNN are also full of absolute dreck I don't want to see. But with a bit of luck I can put together a "news of the day" feed, and I'll just go to those touchier sources directly when I expect a specific piece to be usable.
Re:Google News Initiative
by jacksmith21006 on Saturday March 24, 2018 @10:00AM
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I do NOT weight any news sources. It is just what happens or the default. I like all sides personally. But know some do not. Probably most do not.
I am naturally a super curious person.
I have zero problem with the UI on all devices. A big part is I am also use to it as I read news a lot.
You can find those sliders in your settings. Also they ask you periodically on the desktop homepage.
Pro tip: if you hate the mobile or new UI as much as I do, set your user agent to iPhone and go to google.com/nwshp. For whatever reason that magical incantation gives you the classic home page (with the sliders I mentioned in easy access/obvious places). I’ll be really excited if someone knows how to just set that globally in settings. I haven’t found it.