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How about the institutions in the news themselves? I follow local emergency services on Twitter for alerts in my area. If shit gets real, all I want to know is

How about the institutions in the news themselves? I follow local emergency services on Twitter for alerts in my area. If shit gets real, all I want to know is where to avoid. Don't need to sit and gawk at CNN to get all the gossip. I reach out to instructors/professors and discuss the work of those that reply (usually in STEM). Occasionally receiving copies of papers that are paywalled after being "officially" published. Why do we need an aggregator like CNN, where a bunch of paid shills, spin out of context quotes leaving it no more useful than Facebook anyway? If you believe CBS Evening News and the rest haven't been propaganda mills all these years, I know of a bridge... It's trivial to find the useful information if you want to know what's happening around you. And it can often, if not always, be had straight from the horses mouth.

gerbilly 10y ago
We don't all have the time or the resources or the curiosity to connect all the raw data making up the news. Sure the newspapers can have a bias or conflicts of interest but the journalism industry at least attempts to mitigate these, there is a code of ethics. You can only do so much on your own, and through one on one interactions. Some people find it valuable to have others do this for them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Sure it's imperfect, because there is always bias, but t's a lot easier to read a newspaper story about an issue than to redo all the work the reporter would have done, on every conceivable issue. You can even do your own fact checking after reading the paper. I'm mostly talking about newspaper reporting, and from high caliber sources, but your local community paper can be a good source of info as well. [1] http://english.stackexchange.com/a/244277 http://english.stackexchange.com/a/244277 (Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect)

gerbilly 10y ago

We don't all have the time or the resources or the curiosity to connect all the raw data making up the news. Sure the newspapers can have a bias or conflicts of interest but the journalism industry at least attempts to mitigate these, there is a code of ethics. You can only do so much on your own, and through one on one interactions. Some people find it valuable to have others do this for them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Sure it's imperfect, because there is always bias, but t's a lot easier to read a newspaper story about an issue than to redo all the work the reporter would have done, on every conceivable issue. You can even do your own fact checking after reading the paper. I'm mostly talking about newspaper reporting, and from high caliber sources, but your local community paper can be a good source of info as well. [1] http://english.stackexchange.com/a/244277 http://english.stackexchange.com/a/244277 (Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect)