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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

[redbird]

coming back to this late, because I thought of it this morning: UniversalHub has an "about" page explaining that it's put together from local bloggers, Twitter, etc. and the blogger/compiler's background in reporting. A lot of what he posts is very local and/or ephemeral--bars that may be sanctioned for underage drinking, Cambridge trying to enforce restaurant regulations that don't actually exist, delays on Green Line D because a tree fell on the tracks--but "very local" means he's also one of my good sources for information about political rallies I might want to go to, No "both sides" or "neutrality" on political issues: Adam gives us the headline "Staffers at hospital that cares for LGBTQ and immigrant patients to protest visit by wife of noted immigrant-hating homophobe".

[cjsmith]

*grin* It's good to see someone who's not neutral stepping right up and owning it. Respect.