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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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Other than that, there's a thing called The Media Bias Chart which is pretty good when it comes to identifying where various sources fall in the spectrum of reliability and political bent. You can find it all over the net. I think the most recent version is 5.0. link
For radio stations, NPR is as good as you'll find nationwide. I don't know your local stations so I can't comment on them. If you want my list of podcasts I'll happily share those too. Not sure if you have time to listen to those. I listen to several hours worth of them every day while walking the dog. (Or she's walking me.)
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I think you actually did give me a (partial?) list of podcasts once. Currently I use my commute as a sort of mental quiet time, and there's value in that, but perhaps news / podcasts are worth cutting into that mental time. :)
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