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

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Post by nannal »

BjoernKW wrote: post #12

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.

I'd advise steering clear of anything related to UK politics published by the BBC.

There's been a clear pro-right trend for a number of years evident most clearly during the most recent election and Scotland's independence referendum of 2014.

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

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Post by clircle »

dejawu wrote: post #15

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 i…

Does anyone know if there is an RSS feed of the Current Events portal?

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

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Post by andrepd »

nannal wrote: post #22
BjoernKW wrote: post #12

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.

I'd advise steering clear of anything related to UK politics published by the BBC. There's been a clear pro-right trend for a number of years evident most clearly during the most recent election and Scotland's independence referendum of 2014.

Not to mention the appalling coverage of Jeremy Corbyn.

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

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Post by arethuza »

nannal wrote: post #22
BjoernKW wrote: post #12

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.

I'd advise steering clear of anything related to UK politics published by the BBC. There's been a clear pro-right trend for a number of years evident most clearly during the most recent election and Scotland's independence referendum of 2014.

The BBC received far more complaints on coverage on the recent election from Conservative (right) supporters than any other group:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/dec/31/bbc-election-c...

The right wing in the UK is usually the group most critical of the BBC (AKA "Brussels Broadcasting Corporation").

I would agree that the coverage during the Scottish referendum in 2014 was biased but I think that this is because the BBC is naturally biased towards the status-quo.

Any organisation that can produce The Thick of It being critical of politicians and W1A about its own antics can't be all bad....

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

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Post by kristopolous »

I try to avoid it. It's too much of a time sink and there's almost zero pieces of actionable information.

I know it's offensive to claim it's merely entertainment but in concrete terms there's no material difference resulting from tuning into daily banter that's any different than watching some serial drama on television.

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

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Post by objektif »

sudoaza wrote: post #14

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/

The intercept is by far the best news outlet. Most of their staff is incredible except a few pseudo journalists like Mehdi who are riding the anti-Trump train.
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