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Can I just say - the sources for good, actionable news are sometimes the strangest of places these days. I've started just reading: http://reddit.com/r/news ht

by tmsh 6y ago

Can I just say - the sources for good, actionable news are sometimes the strangest of places these days. I've started just reading: http://reddit.com/r/news http://reddit.com/r/news instead of newspaper websites and it's nice - some affiliate tv news stations (the Minneapolis newspapers...not so much) or student newspapers (I see you Crimson reporting on the anthropology department) are getting it done and sometimes more consistently than major news organizations. Crowd-sourced news is coming of age.

xapata 6y ago
Teen Vogue has been surprisingly adult in a time when adults ... aren't.
- dmurray 6y ago
  It's also very reasonable with ads. For me the page has 3 or 4 ads that interrupt the content, but don't masquerade as content, and they're all for other brands owned by the same publisher (so hopefully not on a third-party ad network). If all sites were like that I wouldn't feel the need for an adblocker.
  - afturner 6y ago
    To be fair, ad blockers block more than just advertisements
- Broken_Hippo 6y ago
  It has been quite refreshing. I find it unfortunate that the adult version hasn't followed suit.
terramex 6y ago
I use https://legiblenews.com https://legiblenews.com to keep up with most important things happening in the world.
- samizdis 6y ago
  That seems to be a timed snap-shotted version of Wikipedia's current events page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
  - HomeDeLaPot 6y ago
    Yep, there's an attribution at the bottom of the page that credits "Wikipedia contributors"
jasonjayr 6y ago
Someone mentioned SPIDR on HN a while back, and it's seems to have a wide range of headlines + viewpoints: https://spidr.today/ https://spidr.today/ The comments are useless though..
jbeam 6y ago
I like Memeorandum: https://www.memeorandum.com/m/ https://www.memeorandum.com/m/ It gives you exposure to whatever people happen to be talking about at the time, but also other takes on the issue. Completely automated.
Mirioron 6y ago
A word of caution: /r/news is quite partisan (so be skeptical). Not as bad as /r/politics, but not too far either. I do agree though that having a variety of what seems to be unusual news sources is pretty good.
joejerryronnie 6y ago
It is becoming harder and harder to find non-partisan sources of news these days. Even CNN (who I always considered impartial) pretty blatantly wears their politics on their sleeves now. I’ve resorted to reading multiple center-left & center-right sources and trying to reconcile the truth somewhere in the middle.
- cycomanic 6y ago
  This is a discussion that comes up again and again. How do you go from the news is partisan to the truth must lie somewhere in the middle. Truth does not care about political leanings. Moreover this assumption has caused a pretty extreme drift to the right in the US, all driven by the republican party & fox news moving more and more to the extreme right, but moderates still thinking the truth must be in the middle.
  - joejerryronnie 6y ago
    I make a case by case determination based on what info is out there, what I am able to observe, and the sum total of my life experiences. What I believe is true about an individual topic does not always fall directly in the center. But I guarantee you the left spins their stories just as much as the right does.
    - cycomanic 6y ago
      This has simply not been the case in recent years in the US, where there has been a concentrated and deliberate attack on the truth exclusively from the right, just look at any analysis on the unprecedented number of false statements (dare I say lies) from Trump. The whole argument also completely ignores the fact that pretty much everything of US politics is far right from the perspective of most other countries. So if the truth is in the middle, which middle is it?
      - Mirioron 6y ago
        >The whole argument also completely ignores the fact that pretty much everything of US politics is far right from the perspective of most other countries. I don't really mean to offend, but I think you've drunk so much of the leftwing coolaid in the US that you don't notice it anymore and consider it normal. Just try to analyze people like Don Lemon. The few clips I've seen of him are very partisan politics. Look at Time Magazine when they talked about border detention. The images used were there to paint a narrative. The US hasn't moved to the right politically at all recently. You're getting more government spending on social programs and you're getting a more liberal stance on many social issues such as gay marriage. If you still don't see it, then ask yourself this: how much has the religious right influenced politics recently? Because Bush cited religion as one of the reasons for war. It's clearly losing ground.
dntbnmpls 6y ago
> Crowd-sourced news is coming of age. That's what people thought around 2010, then we got censorship and control. If you like r/news now, then you would have loved it 10 years ago when it was more "crowd-sourced" with less censorship. r/news is now no different from other major subs, mod propaganda. Also, append "old" to reddit.com for a better user experience - http://old.reddit.com/r/news http://old.reddit.com/r/news

by tmsh 6y ago

xapata 6y ago

Teen Vogue has been surprisingly adult in a time when adults ... aren't.

dmurray 6y ago
It's also very reasonable with ads. For me the page has 3 or 4 ads that interrupt the content, but don't masquerade as content, and they're all for other brands owned by the same publisher (so hopefully not on a third-party ad network). If all sites were like that I wouldn't feel the need for an adblocker.
- afturner 6y ago
  To be fair, ad blockers block more than just advertisements
Broken_Hippo 6y ago
It has been quite refreshing. I find it unfortunate that the adult version hasn't followed suit.

terramex 6y ago

I use https://legiblenews.com https://legiblenews.com to keep up with most important things happening in the world.

samizdis 6y ago
That seems to be a timed snap-shotted version of Wikipedia's current events page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
- HomeDeLaPot 6y ago
  Yep, there's an attribution at the bottom of the page that credits "Wikipedia contributors"

jasonjayr 6y ago

Someone mentioned SPIDR on HN a while back, and it's seems to have a wide range of headlines + viewpoints: https://spidr.today/ https://spidr.today/ The comments are useless though..

jbeam 6y ago

I like Memeorandum: https://www.memeorandum.com/m/ https://www.memeorandum.com/m/ It gives you exposure to whatever people happen to be talking about at the time, but also other takes on the issue. Completely automated.

Mirioron 6y ago

A word of caution: /r/news is quite partisan (so be skeptical). Not as bad as /r/politics, but not too far either. I do agree though that having a variety of what seems to be unusual news sources is pretty good.

joejerryronnie 6y ago

It is becoming harder and harder to find non-partisan sources of news these days. Even CNN (who I always considered impartial) pretty blatantly wears their politics on their sleeves now. I’ve resorted to reading multiple center-left & center-right sources and trying to reconcile the truth somewhere in the middle.

cycomanic 6y ago
This is a discussion that comes up again and again. How do you go from the news is partisan to the truth must lie somewhere in the middle. Truth does not care about political leanings. Moreover this assumption has caused a pretty extreme drift to the right in the US, all driven by the republican party & fox news moving more and more to the extreme right, but moderates still thinking the truth must be in the middle.
- joejerryronnie 6y ago
  I make a case by case determination based on what info is out there, what I am able to observe, and the sum total of my life experiences. What I believe is true about an individual topic does not always fall directly in the center. But I guarantee you the left spins their stories just as much as the right does.
  - cycomanic 6y ago
    This has simply not been the case in recent years in the US, where there has been a concentrated and deliberate attack on the truth exclusively from the right, just look at any analysis on the unprecedented number of false statements (dare I say lies) from Trump. The whole argument also completely ignores the fact that pretty much everything of US politics is far right from the perspective of most other countries. So if the truth is in the middle, which middle is it?
    - Mirioron 6y ago
      >The whole argument also completely ignores the fact that pretty much everything of US politics is far right from the perspective of most other countries. I don't really mean to offend, but I think you've drunk so much of the leftwing coolaid in the US that you don't notice it anymore and consider it normal. Just try to analyze people like Don Lemon. The few clips I've seen of him are very partisan politics. Look at Time Magazine when they talked about border detention. The images used were there to paint a narrative. The US hasn't moved to the right politically at all recently. You're getting more government spending on social programs and you're getting a more liberal stance on many social issues such as gay marriage. If you still don't see it, then ask yourself this: how much has the religious right influenced politics recently? Because Bush cited religion as one of the reasons for war. It's clearly losing ground.

dntbnmpls 6y ago

> Crowd-sourced news is coming of age. That's what people thought around 2010, then we got censorship and control. If you like r/news now, then you would have loved it 10 years ago when it was more "crowd-sourced" with less censorship. r/news is now no different from other major subs, mod propaganda. Also, append "old" to reddit.com for a better user experience - http://old.reddit.com/r/news http://old.reddit.com/r/news