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Re: Ask HN: Any viable alternatives to Google News?

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Post by freedude »

One single site will always have the echo chamber problem. In order to better understand the complex issues facing our country I have attempted to find alternative viewpoints.

The key to obtaining value from any reporting organization is realizing there are many viewpoints and the one from which I see the world is incomplete at best. Thus why I am looking at the news and avoid echo chambers.

Some worth checking...

https://summit.news/ https://www.zerohedge.com/ https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/ https://themostimportantnews.com/ https://jonathanturley.org/ https://brownstone.org/ https://winepressnews.com/what-is-the-winepress/

Re: Ask HN: Any viable alternatives to Google News?

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Post by [deleted] »

freedude wrote: post #12

One single site will always have the echo chamber problem. In order to better understand the complex issues facing our country I have attempted to find alternative viewpoints. The key to obtaining value from any reporting organization is realizing there are many viewpoints and the one from which I see the world is incomplete at best. Thus why I am looking at the news and avoid echo chambers. Some worth checking... ht…

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Re: Ask HN: Any viable alternatives to Google News?

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Post by gnicholas »

assttoasstmgr wrote: post #7

I quit using the totally-not-biased Google News over 5 years ago when nearly all top headlines were consistently sourced from The Huffington Post. This was logged-out by the way. For the uninitiated, it is a glorified opinion blog. Don't take my word for it; to quote Wikipedia, " HuffPost is an American news aggregator and blog... created to provide a liberal alternative to the conservative news websites such as the…

Google News these days shows more of a variety of perspectives. I use it in incognito and see headlines from across the political spectrum. Most of the right-leaning news is from Fox though, which is unfortunate.

Re: Ask HN: Any viable alternatives to Google News?

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Post by lizardactivist »

I mean, do read the western outlets too, and when they accuse all the other outlets of being "propaganda" just ignore it and read anyway. Now you have multiple opinions on topics and subjects, and can decide where you want to stand.

rt, cnn, south china morning post, telesur, spiegel, etc.

Re: Ask HN: Any viable alternatives to Google News?

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Post by Andaith »

PaulHoule wrote: post #2

I think of that song by the Talking Heads Psycho Killer that has the line "Say something once, why say it again?" which sometimes seems like the most sensible thing anyone has every said. That is, a "news" application should work a bit like Tinder. News articles should slide through and be either accepted or rejected: you should never see the same article twice in the "new" feed. This counts for sites like HN and red…

I want to see events, and then when I click on that event, I want an autogenerated blurb kind of like the autotldr bot on reddit, then I want to see all related article titles sorted by quality(Not sure how to quantify this though. Least clickbaity headline, most informative article, etc etc).

I'd also like events to not appear until either X amount of articles about them, OR X amount of time has passed. I'd rather be slightly delayed and read something informative than see 2 dozen first-to-be-printed articles with no substance.

Then I'd be happy to swipe away the event, and everything related to it, like you describe.

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