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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?
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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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When I say that I'm not a bystander, I mean that I'm not some impartial embodiment of even-handedness, even though I don't think I'm grossly biased-- and I have political commitments and am involved, not standing back to judge loftily. So for an instance, I have strong opinions about what sorts of macroeconomic models and framings are effective in the world both in describing its cause-effect relationships well and in helping to generate policy prescriptions. I also have strong views about appropriate objectives for policies to achieve: for instance, I have no interest in the allocation of resources or remunerations on the basis of Recipient Worth, as I'm much more committed to resourcing activities I deem effective in working toward an equitable and sustainable nation and world. And these are things tht affect my reading.
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