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They also think the US isn't part of the world. I get it, you want a news place that's not all US, all the time. I'm right there with you, but if I am going to
by byuu 10y ago
They also think the US isn't part of the world.
I get it, you want a news place that's not all US, all the time. I'm right there with you, but if I am going to "world news", then I expect news from everywhere in the world.
- bpicolo 10y agoThe US is the focal point of basically every other subreddit (e.g. politics), so they specifically go out of their way to be the rest of the world. That's not unfair by any means. If they open it up to US news then that's all it becomes. Call it "WorldNewsExceptTheUS" and you still put US at the focal point.
- jdietrich 10y ago"World news" is commonly used to mean "news from countries outside of our main remit". Examples: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world http://www.theguardian.com/world http://www.theguardian.com/world http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world http://edition.cnn.com/world http://edition.cnn.com/world
- ultraforce 10y agor/news does that, I don't actually go on r/worldnews and instead just use r/news which has actually a decent variety of news from around the world sometimes, also there are people who work hard to balance off the racist and hateful comments for the sub