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Ask HN: Where do you get your non-tech news from?
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Re: Ask HN: Where do you get your non-tech news from?
#12Allsides.com. I get to see different perspectives from right/center/left on the same or similar topics. I think this is US only news however.
How does Allsides.com handle topics that is only covered by one segment of the political spectrum? To me this is where much of the bias lies.
Check it out and see. Major topics on top are the ones where they show all 3 leaning sides and how they slant it for their viewers.
On the bottom part of the site, you see individual articles that are from the right, center, or left. That’s where topics from one side or the other might be listed and allsides.com sometimes writes why it’s a focus of one side and if the other side is or isn’t writing about it.
I believe it’s a clever way of looking at things personally. At one point of my life, Long story short, the news affected me emotionally a lot. I cut it completely except for weather news. A few years ago I found allsides.com and that fixed that for me. So now once every few days I check the site for basic major news and I don’t get to engulfed in one particular echo chamber. Quite frankly this has kept me much happier and more sane.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you get your non-tech news from?
#13Twitter.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you get your non-tech news from?
#14Epoch Times - https://www.theepochtimes.com
I aggregate various sources at https://datente.com
Re: Ask HN: Where do you get your non-tech news from?
#15The local radio news. It takes 3 minutes or so a day and is followed by the weather, which ends up mattering a lot more than most news do for me.
I don't want to aggregate news, because that would just give me ten wrong perspectives on a subject I don't care about and/or upset me for no reason.
Really I just want to know that nothing terrible and relevant has happened, so my ideal news source would just be empty 99.99% of the time.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you get your non-tech news from?
#16NHK newsline, live news on the hour (in English)
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/live/
They also have some interesting programming every now and then.
I discovered it when traveling in Asia, and just kind of kept watching it regularly. It's not necessarily an aggregator but it is global news with more of a focus on Asia.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you get your non-tech news from?
#17The Current Events page on Wikipedia[0].
I also check the AP.