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Where do you get your news?
Topic Started: May 8 2015, 04:30 AM (995 Views)
Harly
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So, most of us have to learn about what's going on outside our yard somehow, right? Some watch their local channel every day, others read magazines, and a growing number of people assume that twitter will have the most important stuff. What is your medium (or even specific publisher) for getting the news? What does it tend to cover, and what do you look for in choosing something like that?
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Reddit, which pretty much covers the big stories in the US and the world. I never really got into the News, too much time spent talking about accidents or murders that, while tragic, aren't really newsworthy.
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May 8 2015, 05:19 AM
Reddit, which pretty much covers the big stories in the US and the world. I never really got into the News, too much time spent talking about accidents or murders that, while tragic, aren't really newsworthy.
Me too.
Edited by Nikki, May 8 2015, 10:36 AM.
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I go to the BBC for my news mostly, I trust them to be impartial (though sometimes they take that impartiality too far, like when they had a debate between a climate change denier and a legitimate climate scientist and had to pretend their views were equally valid).

I also usually check rationalwiki's 'what's going on in the world' section, though that's more out of morbid fascination with the American political system than learning news that's relevant to me.
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Yeah I wake up to my radio alarm playing BBC news. That's my main source, but then things like twitter and facebook sometimes pop up news stories so I'll click and read links there too.
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Mostly NPR, sometimes BBC if it's convenient. I get local news from our local paper--we only get the Sunday edition since we don't have time to read it during the week.
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Does the BBC or some similar publisher have decent print media or something? I really need to start getting more world news but can't really watch videos most of the time, and most American news is really self-centered and biased. If I had a place I could read about the news online every day, that would be great.
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BBC does a mix of articals and videos, it might be worth a try:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world (you'll probably want /world since you're probably not that interested in UK news)
They'll still be some amount of putting things into a UK context, but it should be a lot better than some of the American sites.
Edited by Miva, May 8 2015, 01:00 PM.
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I try to diversify as much as possible. At uni I studied Media Studies, so I learned to cross check and keep bias out of influence over me as much as possible, and also learned to go looking for it for fun sometimes.

I tend to read the BBC world news, a Fairfax owned newspaper (the Sydney Morning Herald) when I can, the local rag for local events (and to check on ads I created to publish in them), and usually watch the SBS world news nightly. My sources tend towards international media groups and shy away from corporation-owned heavyweights, except when I'm doing some sharp analysis. Being conscious of media ownership and learning about how media is crafted for years has made one thing very clear to me - state media only suffers from obvious bias in states which are not free to speak and have a two sided debate - but corporate media suffers from bias everywhere.

I also try to read international state newspapers when I have the chance, for a chuckle at their oddities and just to reach news I wouldn't have heard from any local or world source.

I was reading the Khaleej Times from Dubai yesterday - they were demonising Australia by framing a small-town story about a man murdering a group of dogs right next to a claim that we in Australia were "defending" ourselves for co-operating with Indonesia in capturing drug traffickers (who were Aussie citizens later executed in Indonesia). There were also articles that took only a single opinion that was pro-state and basically official announcements from people with long sets of self-styled titles, with no other point of view even covered (and not even in the opinion section). It was pretty funny, sometimes you find yourself feeling very lucky not to live in a hereditary monarchy.
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I consume all news. Everything I can get. Consume and evaluate bias. It's all that High School Policy Debate. (I was team captain, actually!) Except Reddit.

Reddit is cancer.

I don't want cancer. I'm too busy being the chemo to get cancer.
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What's so cancerous about reddit? It literally just takes articles from other sites. And the comments tend to be quick to call out bullshit and usually have valuable discussions. Though not immune from getting all angry at each other, reddit commentors have overall been more reasonable than any comments section I've seen on other sites.
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Reddit is where jokes go to die. Reddit is controlled by extreme bias.

It's not a place to be trusted, and this certainly is not the thread for it.

EDIT: I mean it as in me spending the next 20 minutes bashing Reddit.
Edited by Captain Izayoi, May 8 2015, 04:32 PM.
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It's a good place to get an overall view of what's going on and what people are talking about, but I wouldn't call it a news website. It's a conglomerate of lots of other stuff on the Internet.
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Reddit has insane issues with moderators filtering and censoring and shadowbanning. There's a new thing called the Stormfront Filter that's starting to go around for example. Removes and reports posts automatically that contains any words or phrases the mod happens to not like. The specific filter is new, but Reddit has a history of that sort of thing
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Also, the comments section on any website ever is toxic and evil and not a useful way to judge a website.
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