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Ask HN: What site you go to for us/world news?

10 points by freediver 8y ago

I am new to US so have CNN bookmarked but find it somewhat populist. Anything similar to havker news but for all other news?

adventured 8y ago
Stick to sources that are fact driven instead of being in the business of selling angles and sensationalism. That excludes: NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, Fox, CNN. None of those consistently avoid pushing an agenda. If you utilize any of them, you have to mentally filter out their heavy propaganda, which is aggressively interlaced with actual news. I like Reuters (https://www.reuters.com https://www.reuters.com), they overwhelmingly do just straight to the point news reporting instead of cultivating stories to sell to a biased audience. And they offer comprehensive global news coverage. APNews (https://www.apnews.com https://www.apnews.com) is another decent option. They're more heavy on factual reporting, less on opinion and propaganda. There is still some overt bias you have to filter out with them. The BBC (http://www.bbc.com http://www.bbc.com) will get you some decent US + global news. They do a better job at factual reporting on US news than The Guardian and other European sources.
- freediver 8y ago
  Reuters and apnews are much better than CNN they just lack relevancy (to me). Example of their home page news that are completely irrelevant (to me): - Gates admits crimes with _ and embezzlement from _ Manafort - Serena Williams says struggling with 'postpartum emotions' - Pink in Sydney hospital with stomach virus, cancels 3rd show I guess I am looking for an aggregator like Zite used to be where you could teach it your interests. Apple news is good but you can not customize it well enough so it keeps pushing new and unwanted stuff to you (not to mention ads).
smt88 8y ago
There aren't any great options at the moment. You can't easily avoid stories about, for example, Meghan Markle or the Kardashians. My suggestion is to get an app that lets you filter out certain topics, and then pull in news from a variety of outlets.
kotrunga 8y ago
Legible News! It's simple to read, and provide links to wherever necessary. No ads, just clean text. https://legiblenews.com/ https://legiblenews.com/
- freediver 8y ago
  Thanks for the link, looks good.
jryan49 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events Usually has the news that matters to me on it, also more international.
isthisnagee 8y ago
- https://lite.cnn.io/en https://lite.cnn.io/en - https://text.npr.org https://text.npr.org

10 points by freediver 8y ago

I am new to US so have CNN bookmarked but find it somewhat populist. Anything similar to havker news but for all other news?

adventured 8y ago

Stick to sources that are fact driven instead of being in the business of selling angles and sensationalism. That excludes: NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, Fox, CNN. None of those consistently avoid pushing an agenda. If you utilize any of them, you have to mentally filter out their heavy propaganda, which is aggressively interlaced with actual news. I like Reuters (https://www.reuters.com https://www.reuters.com), they overwhelmingly do just straight to the point news reporting instead of cultivating stories to sell to a biased audience. And they offer comprehensive global news coverage. APNews (https://www.apnews.com https://www.apnews.com) is another decent option. They're more heavy on factual reporting, less on opinion and propaganda. There is still some overt bias you have to filter out with them. The BBC (http://www.bbc.com http://www.bbc.com) will get you some decent US + global news. They do a better job at factual reporting on US news than The Guardian and other European sources.

freediver 8y ago
Reuters and apnews are much better than CNN they just lack relevancy (to me). Example of their home page news that are completely irrelevant (to me): - Gates admits crimes with _ and embezzlement from _ Manafort - Serena Williams says struggling with 'postpartum emotions' - Pink in Sydney hospital with stomach virus, cancels 3rd show I guess I am looking for an aggregator like Zite used to be where you could teach it your interests. Apple news is good but you can not customize it well enough so it keeps pushing new and unwanted stuff to you (not to mention ads).

smt88 8y ago

There aren't any great options at the moment. You can't easily avoid stories about, for example, Meghan Markle or the Kardashians. My suggestion is to get an app that lets you filter out certain topics, and then pull in news from a variety of outlets.

kotrunga 8y ago

Legible News! It's simple to read, and provide links to wherever necessary. No ads, just clean text. https://legiblenews.com/ https://legiblenews.com/

freediver 8y ago
Thanks for the link, looks good.

jryan49 8y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events Usually has the news that matters to me on it, also more international.

isthisnagee 8y ago

- https://lite.cnn.io/en https://lite.cnn.io/en - https://text.npr.org https://text.npr.org