Re:Ask HN: What trustworthy sources of general news do you use?
by cubitesystems on Tuesday September 30, 2014 @02:17PM
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I use Reddit's Worldnews subreddit /r/worldnews for a nice crowdsourced news source. It will often contain breaking news at incredible paces.
The news agency Al Jazeera in English is an amazing news source. They stream 24/7 and it's free to watch. Very daring journalists whom approach the happenings moreso than most other agencies. Very rarely biased.
Re:Ask HN: What trustworthy sources of general news do you use?
by Someone1234 on Tuesday September 30, 2014 @02:51PM
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Al Jazeera English and BBC International.
I don't really trust any of the US news channels. Frankly US news to an outsider sounds like raw propaganda most of the time (and that is aimed at the so called "non-bias" news channels in the US, not just Fox News and MSNBC). And the rare times they aren't spreading propaganda, they're seeding fear into the population.
The only decent source of news coming from the US is a handful of newspapers and comedians (e.g. Daily Show, Last Week Tonight, etc).
Those two can tend toward overly cynical and conspiratorial but I find it easier to moderate that in my mind than read the totally sanitized stuff in major papers.
Re:Ask HN: What trustworthy sources of general news do you use?
by suprjami on Tuesday September 30, 2014 @04:23PM
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The Guardian. You can sign up for emails which arrive every weekday morning, summarising relevant headlines. If you like a story you can click it to learn more. This mail arrives just in time for my morning commute so I can read it on the train, or at my desk before I start work.
Re:Ask HN: What trustworthy sources of general news do you use?
by owenversteeg on Tuesday September 30, 2014 @04:37PM
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Reuters is super-unbiased. It does have one bias though, an anti-climate-change bias, which doesn't matter to me as I read more than enough science news to counter that.
The news agency Al Jazeera in English is an amazing news source. They stream 24/7 and it's free to watch. Very daring journalists whom approach the happenings moreso than most other agencies. Very rarely biased.
Google News, while old, is still quite good.
I also use http://news.google.com/ to lead me to news general interest.
I don't really trust any of the US news channels. Frankly US news to an outsider sounds like raw propaganda most of the time (and that is aimed at the so called "non-bias" news channels in the US, not just Fox News and MSNBC). And the rare times they aren't spreading propaganda, they're seeding fear into the population.
The only decent source of news coming from the US is a handful of newspapers and comedians (e.g. Daily Show, Last Week Tonight, etc).
Those two can tend toward overly cynical and conspiratorial but I find it easier to moderate that in my mind than read the totally sanitized stuff in major papers.