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Re: Ask HN: Is there a news source you read everyday? If so, what is it?

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Post by legitster »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #28
legitster wrote: post #16

My local paper still does a good job of covering a variety of topics fairly and non-partisanly. Albeit it a day late and with paper-thin coverage. However, their staff has been cut so razor thin that most of the articles are from syndication. I read Money Stuff from Matt Levine everyday, if for no other reason than it's a good read. And if you want random, Peter Zeihan has been posting videos daily where he goes into…

Zeihan is a great read if and only if you also read a wide variety of competing viewpoints to contrast against. He gets some things right but he gets a lot of things wrong too. Like any popular talking head he says what people want to hear, like "China is going to collapse with a decade". But he started saying that 20 years ago.

> But he started saying that 20 years ago.

This is a bit of an exaggeration. His first book mentioning China wasn't even published until 2014. And given that China is in a lot of tough situations right now (looming currency/debt crisis, complete wiping of the upper government, alignment with Russia collapsing, decline in trade) he may still have the last laugh.

He also got things like the shale revolution, the Russian invasions, decline of the EU largely right.

But regardless of his predictive power, it's honestly kind of refreshing to get non-partisan (or maybe better put, partisan-agnostic) technical explanations for current events.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a news source you read everyday? If so, what is it?

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Post by MuffinFlavored »

mindcrime wrote: post #30

I assume you mean "besides aggregators", so no need to mention HN, Slashdot, Google News, Reddit, etc? If so, I'm not sure there is any dedicated news site I visit every day, but one that comes pretty close would be wral.com. That's a local news site for my area, and if nothing else, I'm on there to check the weather quite often, so I can plan my bicycling activities for the next few days. Plus they report on all of…

What is usually posted to Slashdot that isn't posted to Reddit/Google News/HN/etc. (and vice versa)?

Re: Ask HN: Is there a news source you read everyday? If so, what is it?

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Post by mcquintrix »

I think twitter or X is still very good to get latest updates .. obviously lot of propaganda too but if you are trained enough to spot propaganda you kind of filter it out .. but don't open it more than 10-15 minutes to stay away from all twitter dramas .. place is still cesspool like our world

Re: Ask HN: Is there a news source you read everyday? If so, what is it?

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Post by bryanlarsen »

legitster wrote: post #33
bryanlarsen wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Zeihan is a great read if and only if you also read a wide variety of competing viewpoints to contrast against. He gets some things right but he gets a lot of things wrong too. Like any popular talking head he says what people want to hear, like "China is going to collapse with a decade". But he started saying that 20 years ago.

> But he started saying that 20 years ago. This is a bit of an exaggeration. His first book mentioning China wasn't even published until 2014. And given that China is in a lot of tough situations right now (looming currency/debt crisis, complete wiping of the upper government, alignment with Russia collapsing, decline in trade) he may still have the last laugh. He also got things like the shale revolution, the Russia…

Zeihan is very partisan. It doesn't line up with either the current Democratic or Republican party lines, but it is extremely partisan and opinionated.

This is a good thing, it's a great antidote to those who say that the USA sucks or that the USA is losing. And it feels good to hear, which is why Zeihan is so popular.

Just don't read/listen to him in isolation. The OP asked for singular sources of news and I'm pushing back against that. Reading Zeihan is good. Reading only Zeihan isn't.

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