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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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For local-to-me, I'm using the WGBH website, plus universalhub.com (basically one diligent person's aggregator, with congenial politics though perhaps an excessive interest in wild turkeys) and boston.com for lack of anything better.
And some friends, and online acquaintances, who collect and post links, or the occasional "
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Yeah, friends and online acquaintances are... well, individuals can be helpful, but if they're sourcing from google and facebook, that's not the feed I need to be drinking from. And among my own friends and online acquaintances, so far I don't know of anyone who's drinking from any other fountain.
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Sometimes there are enough steps between the original news source and me that it would be difficult to find out: I see something like [?google or facebook] -> member of my girlfriend's synagogue -> synagogue mailing list -> girlfriend -> me.
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