I'm a fan of http://legiblenews.com
I think it uses Wikipedia as its source.
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#32I wonder if it got a bunch of traffic yesterday from being mentioned in a HN post, and they decided it wasn't worth it. Mentioned in here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21798623
Although this is probably the last website where a lot of traffic would be a problem.
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#33Well, at least there's https://text.npr.org/ ... for now.
As a reader of npr.org in Europe, I’m prompted by https://choice.npr.org to either accept cookies or visit the text site. I wonder if https://text.npr.org is also tracking-cookie free.
Check out USA Today.
I'm not a huge fan of them as a source, but their EU version is so damn amazing that I wish every news website would be like that.
From https://eu.usatoday.com/EU-learn-more/ :
> This site does not collect personally identifiable information or persistent identifiers from, deliver a personalized experience to, or otherwise track or monitor persons reasonably identified as visiting our Site from the European Union. We do identify EU internet protocol (IP) addresses for the purpose of determining whether to direct you to USA TODAY NETWORK’s EU Experience.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
My take. For a long time CNN was the "School Shooting Channel" and the "MH370 Channel"; call it bias or not, but it was definitely focused on things that seemed to get a certain kind of person watching while biting their nails. Then Trump started running for president and CNN discovered that he was good for ratings, and surprising to them, Bernie Sanders was too. Trump was very good for CNN's ratings because for once…
> For a long time CNN was the "School Shooting Channel" and the "MH370 Channel"; call it bias or not, but it was definitely focused on things that seemed to get a certain kind of person watching while biting their nails. And before that it was the Scott Peterson channel. Personally, I think the invention of the 24-hour cable news network was a mistake. There just isn't enough breaking domestically-relevant newsworthy…
For the brief period I watched, it was the "service men and women surprising their kids that they're home from deployment" channel.
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#36Sad times for CNN began 3 yrs ago when they added strong bias to otherwise objective and very professional coverage of natiowide and worldwide events. I grew up with CNN being my goto window to the world. Now it feels to become more like angry, old neighbor
Did it really start only three years ago? Or did you only notice it starting three years ago?
An editorial agenda is normally very easy to hide. If you're a paper and you support an administration, you're going to do so by suppressing news that harms your side, and if you dislike an administration, you suppress news that is favorable to them. You can also see this in non-partisan coverage, such as the total blackout on the Epstein story and ABC previously spiking Robach's investigation into it.
Suppressing news is an extremely favorable strategy because it's impossible to criticize something that isn't written as being biased. They can even bury a perfunctory story to deflect criticism of non-coverage.
So, yeah, you wouldn't notice it because a lot of negative news was suppressed during the Obama admin. For instance, immigration is a huge topic now, but our issues at the border didn't suddenly spring into existence when Trump took office, those stories were spiked. One amazing case was this[1]:
> GENEVA (Reuters) - A Nov. 18 story headlined “U.S. has world’s highest rate of children in detention -U.N. study” is withdrawn. The United Nations issued a statement on Nov. 19 saying the number was not current but was for the year 2015. No replacement story will be issued.
The story was, objectively, just as newsworthy, it's simply that Reuters initially wanted to run it because they thought it would reflect badly on the Trump admin.
But hit pieces clearly out you as a partisan outlet. There's no way to spin consistent negative converage against a single party. That's why it's so shocking that outlets like CNN have gone absolutely ballistic in the sheer volume of hit pieces against this administration. The negative coverage is in the high 90s and appears obsessive and bizarre. I don't think Bush even got this level of negative coverage even while he was conducting a deeply unpopular war.
[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-rights-child/story-on-...
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#37Fake news have they apologized yet for cooking up Russia collusion ?
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#38Well, at least there's https://text.npr.org/ ... for now.
This is actually the first news source I look at every morning! My co-workers balked at it because there are no pictures. I love it.
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#39There's also https://mobile.reuters.com
not as barebones, but also clean
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#40I wonder if it got a bunch of traffic yesterday from being mentioned in a HN post, and they decided it wasn't worth it. Mentioned in here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21798623
That would be quite unfortunate.
Searching HN for lite.cnn.com actually produces pretty frequent results