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Advice solicited. What are your news sources?
One of the things World Without Mind successfully convinced me is that if individual consumers want good, reliable, thoughtful, accurate written content, we're going to have to be willing to pony up.
I want journalism that is not recycled clickbait with outrage-inducing tweaks to the headlines. I want news articles with some investigation and fact checking behind them. I want editorials with depth and with critical thinking. I cannot expect to get the news content I want via the gateways of Google or Facebook. The market forces actively, strongly, and diametrically oppose it.
(I also want nonfiction books that are well-researched and professionally edited. I need to consider whether I can get those via the gateway of Amazon. So far, I can, if I'm choosy.)
So. I'm looking for good news sources, web OK but they need to be places I can go directly - and I'm willing to pay to subscribe.
How do you evaluate your news sources? Do you research where their money comes from? Do you base it on what you've read by them? Do you base it on what you’ve read about them? Do you do something else I haven't thought of? What are your favorites, and why?
(This is a public entry. Access-limited entry here for folks who don't want to comment on public entries.)
One of the things World Without Mind successfully convinced me is that if individual consumers want good, reliable, thoughtful, accurate written content, we're going to have to be willing to pony up.
I want journalism that is not recycled clickbait with outrage-inducing tweaks to the headlines. I want news articles with some investigation and fact checking behind them. I want editorials with depth and with critical thinking. I cannot expect to get the news content I want via the gateways of Google or Facebook. The market forces actively, strongly, and diametrically oppose it.
(I also want nonfiction books that are well-researched and professionally edited. I need to consider whether I can get those via the gateway of Amazon. So far, I can, if I'm choosy.)
So. I'm looking for good news sources, web OK but they need to be places I can go directly - and I'm willing to pay to subscribe.
How do you evaluate your news sources? Do you research where their money comes from? Do you base it on what you've read by them? Do you base it on what you’ve read about them? Do you do something else I haven't thought of? What are your favorites, and why?
(This is a public entry. Access-limited entry here for folks who don't want to comment on public entries.)
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In my car, I often listen to KCBS radio, for traffic, weather, and news, which is all fairly well done, and the news coverage seems to have a neutral viewpoint, with relatively few teasers (once I arrive, I'm not likely to wait for the upcoming news). If I can't make out a sentence, I can switch to their FM channel, which is delayed a few seconds. The sports coverage and the ads are mostly tolerable, but if the Kars-4-Kids jingle comes on, I immediately switch to NPR, which is more interesting and in-depth, but I'm busy driving and don't want to think -- I just want traffic, weather, and a bit of headline news.
My least favorite place for news is the gas pump. Our local gas station was USA Gas, then Shell, and recently changed to Speedway, with at-the-pump TV blather and ads, and I'm usually willing to pay the extra few cents/gal and drive a minute out of the way for the quiet 76 station.
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And wow, I didn't even think about audio news. I don't generally consume audio news. (I suppose with an average of 2.75hr in the car on weekdays, I could at least consider it.)