Ask Lemmy

I just read opinion articles (for those that don't know, opinion articles are intended to bridge the gap; they're articles papers publish to share angles the editors disagree with). The problem is honest conservative media is basically gone. The sides have diverged to little more than fact vs fiction. Even the opinion articles can get totally ridiculous at times.

Ground.news does a good job of presenting both sides, and even has a blind spot feature

The Onion

I used to follow /r/Canadianhousing2 on reddit. Very right wing, conservative, simplistic views on the housing crisis in Canada. I realized eventually it was a cesspool of hate and racism and stopped.

No news source matches my political perspectives, so all of them, I guess.

The BBC, NPR and the NY Times. NPR in their effort to seem unbiased allows Republicans to frame the discussion of all things political and NPR participates rather than calling out obvious falsehoods or reframing any issue around facts. I bucket them firmly in the neoliberal controlled opposition camp. The NYT has become yet another corporate mouthpiece and the BBC does whatever they do. I never paid much attention to CNN but I engage with them even less now that they've switched to FOX's manufactured outrage "entertainment" model rather than engaging in journalism.

So, uh, all of those? I can't handle popular Republican "news" sources, they tend to twist facts in the name of this week's political expediency or simply lie.

Edit: I'd like to say "literally any corporate news source" here too, all of them present a view of the world that reinforces their owners' worldview and/or lobbies in their interest. All media should be carefully evaluated for a slant that benefits the owner of the publication regardless of their apparent political stance.

(moderate left, for reference)

• BBC. Mildly right-wing, very national POV.

• WSJ... sometimes. There's definitely points where they become utterly insufferable, but sometimes it can be helpful for an insight into the approach of a business-centric, right wing POV.

Really, as a moderate lefty, the collapse of the right-wing movement in the US into its current state has made it very difficult to find reasonable sources from the opposing side. Even "mainstream" right-wing sources take a lot of the batshit stuff at face value, or try and excuse off the more overtly insane elements.

I watch a lot of CNN (I am a progressive), because I like to yell at the TV. You can't convince me that CNN (and all corporate media really) is not just blatant controlled opposition

I don't pay attention to news sources.

Politically, I’m pretty much right in the middle. The only news source I follow is fairly neutral, with a slight left-wing bias, whereas Lemmy leans heavily to the left. On the other hand, the podcasts I listen to tend to lean more right, so I’d say I get a balanced diet of views from both sides. This probably explains why, on most political topics, I don’t usually have a strong opinion one way or the other. Whether I’m seen as leaning left or right really depends on the group I’m with. On Lemmy, for instance, I’m basically considered far-right.

I'm trying to be better about checking out content in the Ground News app to see some right wing content. Not great about right now though. I don't want to go to any communities because, especially when it's detached from the news sources, they always come off as next level crazy. Sometimes the news does too, but at least the grammar is decent.

Lemmy, and a few people on Substack

Follow is a strong word, I don't follow any news sources. Used to be able to read the conservative leaning newspaper here, it was OK, literally just a different perspective. It's long gone. Reason was ok, sometimes a little hysterical now but still pretty ok, it's where I look to get a conservative/libertarian viewpoint.

I like to read the Beaverton and check out the Rhinoceros party. They often have the best takes of our time.