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Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
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#182No one has said it yet to my surprise. Arguably the most trusted news outlet in America today is the financial times. Wall Street Journal at one time was a competitor, but it feels like less so today. I would support the argument made previously in this thread, that the news orgs in print and paywalled online produce better content because they don't have to run the rats race of outrage and ads - FT is one of those.
Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or you know, follow politics and meet with your elected representative and push for issues that you care about to make the world better for everyone. Plenty of despots sent plenty of soldiers over cobblestones carefully set into the ground. Though I do agree that following news reports over every gaff and tweet are pointless, even if they are entertaining. Understanding the pros and cons of something like the Trans P…
I agree in a scale-dependent way, where "politics" is really offhand for "non-local politics", which is my fault for assuming that's what most people who say politics or Geo Politics (the words in op's post) mean. I think local politics are underrated, and national (often including state) politics are vastly, vastly overrated time sinks. (full disclosure: I'm active in local politics, I was appointed to the bicycle-p…
> where "politics" is really offhand for "non-local politics"
Who ever said that? Assuming that you are an adult, the you're completely capable of participating in both local and non-local government. For whatever that's worth to you
Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
#184I subscribed to the print edition of the Wall Street Journal largely to get off the screen and consume less fragmented hot-takes.
The news and business reporting is amazing. The editorial board is very “Fox News”, but as someone who’s fairly liberal I get to see outside the bubble.
Edit: Oh, and Dan Neil’s car reviews every Saturday are one of the most relaxing reads of my week.
Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
#185reuters.com
- The UI (especially mobile) is pretty terrible so it's hard to get hooked
- It generally only reports global news that means something rather than talking heads or identity politics
- They have published some articles critical of themselves or affiliates, which in my opinion demonstrates objectivity
Also when I'm commuting to work, I'll listen to the local NPR station on the radio which covers some local topics.
Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
#186I subscribed to the print edition of the Wall Street Journal largely to get off the screen and consume less fragmented hot-takes. The news and business reporting is amazing. The editorial board is very “Fox News”, but as someone who’s fairly liberal I get to see outside the bubble. Edit: Oh, and Dan Neil’s car reviews every Saturday are one of the most relaxing reads of my week.
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Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It is important to know about decisions being made that affect the country you live in. It's mostly not. The vast majority of daily political yammering and scandals has no effect. People mostly use politics as a way to dodge real problems in their life that they could be solving. You see this most clearly with the way people bat about words like "capitalism" into nonsense definitions. Their criticisms are almost al…
Saying that twitter is anything like the sociopolitical dynamics of pre-1500 is just as ludicrous as your other statements. You're acting like hiding in a hole and ignoring the issues around you is the right thing to do.. and trying to sell it like you've discovered this new and better way to live.
I disagree. I've written a little about this: https://medium.com/@simon.sarris/are-we-still-thinking-795bd...
In pre-modern times one talked to more people, sometimes in a single day, than one would ever read in one's lifetime. Today it's the opposite: we will always read/see/hear from more sources that we cannot converse with than we will ever speak to. Twitter allows you great opportunity for dialogue again. It's the first social network that's gotten good at this way of interacting.
Declining to read news sites and ignoring capital P Politics is not hiding in a hole. Perhaps its having priorities that are too different than the ones you're used to, but if that's the case I hope it gives you pause.
Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
#188For the USA, the Federal Register is the "daily journal of the United States Government". No spin, just the actual rules.
Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
#189Quit news. Quit politics. Don't have a "media diet." Make stuff and try to be around people who make stuff instead. To lay a single cobblestone path is to have more virtue than a million hot takes. Most causes are not thought-out enough to advocate, certainly not to scream about. The cobblestone path may outlive you. Politics and news, for all of their rage and sense of urgency, turn with the leaves. If you want to d…
As much as I couldn't agree more with some of the points you make on quitting the toxic current affairs and the constant negative forecasting of the world made by the news media, I just disagree with the idea of simply reclusing from the real world and focusing only on tech-centric content, where this will bring a one-sided understanding of certain stories which forgets those who disagree with us and risks failing to understand why they do, which creates echo-chambers.
The tech that we create is starting to reveal the nefarious side of its uses and that is unfortunately real. The standards and rules put in place to keep them safe involve those involved in politics and legislation. If we as just tech creators ignore the implications, then we will be later held to account for this, despite the license saying other wise. It isn't as simple as that to ignore the importance of such things in this industry with possible regulation on the way.
> Twitter is the most intellectual, and underrated, social network, because people follow too many political accounts and celebrities instead of other people...
That's debatable. Perhaps for other things, but not for general communication. But that debate is for another HN thread.
The fact is, any tech that has a direct impact on the world would be hard for politicians, bad actors, activists and news corps to ignore and will most certainly question or exploit it to their agenda and those in power will ultimately hold us accountable.
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#190Trying to understand politics by watching the Web stream go flowing by is pointless. You need high-quality, big picture stuff that requires effort to produce and consume. In the US, the NYTimes and the Washington Post are the best sources. To ensure you're exposure is 'fair and balanced' I would add the Economist for a more conservative, but not xenophobic or straight-up nonsensical viewpoint. It has the nice additio…
Conservative Perspective: WSJ, Economist, The Hill, Reason, and National Review
Reason is libertarian, not conservative.