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[cjsmith]

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?

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Comments

[amaebi]

As with all the sources I like, The Nation publishes a lot of stories involving solid research and nuanced analysis, and while they publish opinion essays their news stories don't seem to be promotional for liberals/radicals. (They're big on Bernie.)

Something I think works pretty well for me is looking at conservative takes on material I read in left sources. Often there isn't any. Often, it's denialist claptrap or attempted character assassination. But sometimes they make a point I'm glad I've read. And the lack of such strikes me as a form of verification.

[cjsmith]

I *love* the "solid research and nuanced analysis" concept. This is what I'd like to pay subscription money to support. (If I depend on ad revenue to support what I want to see, I eventually get more and more of the type of stuff that is best supported by ad revenue and less and less of the type of stuff that is not well supported by ad revenue.)

[amaebi]

Then I'd say Mother Jones, The Nation, truthout, The New Yorker, and Teen Vogue.

[cjsmith]

Awesome! Thank you. :)