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I think this is a large part of it. At some point I stopped falling for clickbait titles, unnecessarily drawn out slide show style articles, etc. These days, th

I think this is a large part of it. At some point I stopped falling for clickbait titles, unnecessarily drawn out slide show style articles, etc. These days, the automatic response I have is to block sites which waste my time. If that kills off sites which peddle such crap, maybe the media landscape will improve...

yuy910616 8y ago
do you instead pay for a good, reputable source of news?
- mondo9000 8y ago
  I tried the Wall Street Journal Online, since I think news about money is more real, but their website wasn't very good [1], I think there's still hope to get paying subscribers if the online reading experience is more pleasant. 1) Right now WSJ has three columns of text because they want consistency with their hardcopy, but it doesn't feel right for a laptop.
- Varcht 8y ago
  Do you have any suggestions? Are there any reputable sources remaining? Not sure I could trust any single source ever again. Not enough to pay for it anyways.
  - yuy910616 8y ago
    axios, economist, and this very article you're reading. i also read bill bishop's newsletter, very good as well
  - swebs 8y ago
    Associated Press, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg.
    - Varcht 8y ago
      AP has had a lot of "opinion..." in it's feeds over the last couple years. I used to be a big fan of their uncurated "Raw Feed" but they decided that was not something they wanted to expose any longer. The others are ok sources but still too much opinion mixed in for my money. Can't somebody just give us the facts?
    - pbalau 8y ago
      > Bloomberg What happened with that story about the magic Chinese spying chip, found only on SuperMicro motherboards sold to Apple? Did they prove it true? Did they retract it? There is a point about this, if I can't trust them with things I have an idea about, how can I trust them with things totally foreign to me?
  - ytNumbers 8y ago
    Some of the journalists who used to work for companies like Buzzfeed have joined the YouTube cottage industry of reporting as an independent journalist. Unlike 90% of the mainstream news media, these individual journalists are not owned and controlled by six billionaires. They make their living via the tiny percentage of their audience that is willing to pay them through sites like Patreon. The recent Covington mis-reporting by the mainstream media should start to wake people up regarding the need to receive one's news from independent journalists. Regarding specific recommendations... He's a little more left wing than I'd prefer, but I'd still recommend Tim Pool's YouTube channel.
Xamayon 8y ago
I do my best to, but the number of news sources which treat my time as important is dropping fast. It's all about the quick buck these days. hn is a great filter for tech stuff, which is a big part of why I'm here~

yuy910616 8y ago

do you instead pay for a good, reputable source of news?

mondo9000 8y ago
I tried the Wall Street Journal Online, since I think news about money is more real, but their website wasn't very good [1], I think there's still hope to get paying subscribers if the online reading experience is more pleasant. 1) Right now WSJ has three columns of text because they want consistency with their hardcopy, but it doesn't feel right for a laptop.
Varcht 8y ago
Do you have any suggestions? Are there any reputable sources remaining? Not sure I could trust any single source ever again. Not enough to pay for it anyways.
- yuy910616 8y ago
  axios, economist, and this very article you're reading. i also read bill bishop's newsletter, very good as well
- swebs 8y ago
  Associated Press, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg.
  - Varcht 8y ago
    AP has had a lot of "opinion..." in it's feeds over the last couple years. I used to be a big fan of their uncurated "Raw Feed" but they decided that was not something they wanted to expose any longer. The others are ok sources but still too much opinion mixed in for my money. Can't somebody just give us the facts?
  - pbalau 8y ago
    > Bloomberg What happened with that story about the magic Chinese spying chip, found only on SuperMicro motherboards sold to Apple? Did they prove it true? Did they retract it? There is a point about this, if I can't trust them with things I have an idea about, how can I trust them with things totally foreign to me?
- ytNumbers 8y ago
  Some of the journalists who used to work for companies like Buzzfeed have joined the YouTube cottage industry of reporting as an independent journalist. Unlike 90% of the mainstream news media, these individual journalists are not owned and controlled by six billionaires. They make their living via the tiny percentage of their audience that is willing to pay them through sites like Patreon. The recent Covington mis-reporting by the mainstream media should start to wake people up regarding the need to receive one's news from independent journalists. Regarding specific recommendations... He's a little more left wing than I'd prefer, but I'd still recommend Tim Pool's YouTube channel.

Xamayon 8y ago

I do my best to, but the number of news sources which treat my time as important is dropping fast. It's all about the quick buck these days. hn is a great filter for tech stuff, which is a big part of why I'm here~