Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?

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Post by wastedhours » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 11:13 AM UTC

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #6

Is it sad to admit to BBC satirical news programmes. This generally works - they cover the "biggest" stories of the week, and if it strikes a chord I can go google for more. However it failed spectacularly a few years back - A political enemy of the UK prime Minister David Cameron had written a book claiming Cameron had put his (Cameron's) penis into the mouth of a dead pig for a university prank. This had been banne…

> Is it sad to admit to BBC satirical news programmes

I for years got all of my main news from HIGNFY, Mock the Week and Private Eye. I got most of the nuance, without the outrage. Shame we don't have anything in the UK like The Daily Show, otherwise I probably wouldn't frequent any news sources other than those that skewer it all.

Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?

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Post by BjoernKW » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 11:17 AM UTC

The BBC has a wide range of podcasts (available internationally), including ones about geopolitics and science.

Due to the nature of the medium and the BBC's generally more serious and composed disposition these podcasts tend to be about actually relevant information rather than the outrage-inducing, largely irrelevant rubbish commonly fed by "Now ... this" media.

Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?

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Post by balladeer » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 11:17 AM UTC

- I skim/read a national newspaper every day in the morning for around 10-30m - https://www.TheHindu.com (no this one's not religious at all - quite the opposite :D).

- BBC news (I try to listen to the daily podcast in the evening). I've a radio too.

- Sham Jaff's https://www.whathappenedlastweek.com/ every week.

And then there are friends who never let you miss any event of importance or otherwise.

PS. HN, for me, is other things but not at all a news source.

Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?

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Post by sudoaza » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 11:17 AM UTC

Spanish: Mexico https://www.jornada.com.mx/ Argentina https://www.pagina12.com.ar/ Cuba http://www.cubadebate.cu/ España https://www.elsaltodiario.com/ Colombia https://www.desdeabajo.info/

English: https://theintercept.com/ https://www.democracynow.org/ https://phys.org/

Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?

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Post by dejawu » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 11:19 AM UTC

After finally cutting myself off of Twitter, my main source for news has been the Wikipedia current events portal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

It's as close as can possibly be to unbiased, only lists significant events, and it covers world news rather than only focusing on America.

My secondary sources are reddit's /r/OutOfTheLoop, and the chyrons I see whenever I happen to walk by a TV that is playing the news (I learned of the Trump impeachment this way). If something doesn't come up in one of these three sources, it's probably not important enough to be worth the stress/anxiety that following the issue would cause.