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What sources do you use for news? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by ProfessorYakkington@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I always struggle with what sources I should be reading for news (particularly political news). I don't want to read only sources that I agree with, but I also struggle finding news sources that aren't sensationalist and put forward varied view points. Here are a few of the places I frequent (criticism of these sources or other recommendations are welcome.) I don't think my political news sources are well varied so any recommendations there would be great as well.

hackernews
arstechnica
the economist
axios
MIT News
Wired

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[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

My main news sources are primarily NY Times, npr and a local city paper.

It's not a particularly varied list but I reached a point during the pandemic where I just couldn't handle the firehose of low effort journalism doom and gloom anymore. Opted to choose a couple of quality, relatively neutral sources and cut out the reddit feed. Npr is left leaning in their content and nytimes feels slightly left leaning on their journalism pieces, but based on the political op-ed writeups on the front page that I rarely read it looks right leaning

Initially I paid for a nytimes subscription until I found that I could get a library card from a sort of nearby large city in my state through a statewide reciprocal library card program, at which point I found that better funded library offers a free subscription to the nytimes to any cardholder, so that's how I get access now. I find their higher quality of journalism to be like a breath of fresh air after getting hot boxed every day from the low effort shit that reddit fed us