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I get very frustrated, sad and emotional when I read CNN or any of the major news sites. So I avoid it. Instead I use Wikipedia once a month : https://en.wikip

I get very frustrated, sad and emotional when I read CNN or any of the major news sites. So I avoid it. Instead I use Wikipedia once a month : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/September_2020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/Septembe...

nunez 6y ago
This is incredible. I wish I knew about this years ago. I have long been looking for impartial news sources. I used to listen to CBC, NPR, and ABC (Australia) to try and get more angles to a story, but that got tiring.
- DC-3 6y ago
  I use the BBC World News site as my homepage. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world
jaredtn 6y ago
Thank you for this!
_prototype_ 6y ago
This, this is awesome
notankies 6y ago
That's intentional, especially with CNN. The major news sites have essentially been tabloids since the death of print. Sites from local TV news groups seem to be the most dispassionate reporting these days.
- Medicalidiot 6y ago
  PBS News Hour. I've never watched more boring and informative news in my entire life.
  - MeinBlutIstBlau 6y ago
    Cspan in a nutshell
    - koolba 6y ago
      Even C-SPAN has its hacks: https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-joe-biden-donald-trump-anthony-scaramucci-4657ccd8f5e51d1ce113290b9304f9d5 https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-joe-biden-donald-t...
      - SV_BubbleTime 6y ago
        Excellent wordplay
  - easton 6y ago
    Reuters TV[0] is pretty good for this too, you can even set how much time you want to watch it and it will pair down the information. Extremely boring for the most part. 0: https://www.reuters.tv/ https://www.reuters.tv/
  - throwawaygh 6y ago
    NewsHour is great. Litigation of the petty partisan crap is restricted to a 10-15 minute segment on Friday evening.
- WalterBright 6y ago
  CNN is nothing but editorials.
- throwawaygh 6y ago
  > Sites from local TV news groups seem to be the most dispassionate reporting these days. Really? Our local TV news websites are: 1) absolutely terrible user experiences -- like, so many ads that the scrolling lags on my 16 inch MBP. 2) clearly just reposting whatever their parent networks feed them for everything except local news (so, Fox and NBC, the two mentioned in this article, are literally feeding lines to these "local" channels that are ostensibly totally different from their parent networks) IMO: the death of local newspapers is a problem but the death of local TV news can't happen fast enough.
tartoran 6y ago
Thanks for sharing this link. It helps catching up with news once a month or so.
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mawaldne 6y ago
Great suggestion! I’m going to try this as well.
jader201 6y ago
The OP link is to September, but if you go to the main/parent link, it’s always the current month, which conveniently has today’s news at the top (reverse chronological): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
awak3ning 6y ago
That's a very good resource, I find that even if one truly believes that the news or political media is not warping your vision of reality and your beliefs that is not the case. Once you step back and view the situation from the outside, then you really start to understand how people's nervous systems are being regulated and influenced by the media.
AdamGibbins 6y ago
https://weekly.hatnote.com/ https://weekly.hatnote.com/ might be of interest, weekly update with the most active wikipedia entries. Tends to be news events.
spaetzleesser 6y ago
I read only Reuters and APNews these days. They report things but not in a way to make you emotional. They make news outright boring which is a good thing. I don’t know what happened to CNN. Seems they have decided to become the left wing FoxNews.
nradov 6y ago
Once you become consciously aware of their emotional manipulation techniques you can watch without being impacted. Still a waste of time, though.
lenitabinol 6y ago
Wikipedia is a great filter.

nunez 6y ago

This is incredible. I wish I knew about this years ago. I have long been looking for impartial news sources. I used to listen to CBC, NPR, and ABC (Australia) to try and get more angles to a story, but that got tiring.

DC-3 6y ago
I use the BBC World News site as my homepage. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world

jaredtn 6y ago

Thank you for this!

_prototype_ 6y ago

This, this is awesome

notankies 6y ago

That's intentional, especially with CNN. The major news sites have essentially been tabloids since the death of print. Sites from local TV news groups seem to be the most dispassionate reporting these days.

Medicalidiot 6y ago
PBS News Hour. I've never watched more boring and informative news in my entire life.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 6y ago
  Cspan in a nutshell
  - koolba 6y ago
    Even C-SPAN has its hacks: https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-joe-biden-donald-trump-anthony-scaramucci-4657ccd8f5e51d1ce113290b9304f9d5 https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-joe-biden-donald-t...
    - SV_BubbleTime 6y ago
      Excellent wordplay
- easton 6y ago
  Reuters TV[0] is pretty good for this too, you can even set how much time you want to watch it and it will pair down the information. Extremely boring for the most part. 0: https://www.reuters.tv/ https://www.reuters.tv/
- throwawaygh 6y ago
  NewsHour is great. Litigation of the petty partisan crap is restricted to a 10-15 minute segment on Friday evening.
WalterBright 6y ago
CNN is nothing but editorials.
throwawaygh 6y ago
> Sites from local TV news groups seem to be the most dispassionate reporting these days. Really? Our local TV news websites are: 1) absolutely terrible user experiences -- like, so many ads that the scrolling lags on my 16 inch MBP. 2) clearly just reposting whatever their parent networks feed them for everything except local news (so, Fox and NBC, the two mentioned in this article, are literally feeding lines to these "local" channels that are ostensibly totally different from their parent networks) IMO: the death of local newspapers is a problem but the death of local TV news can't happen fast enough.

tartoran 6y ago

Thanks for sharing this link. It helps catching up with news once a month or so.

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mawaldne 6y ago

Great suggestion! I’m going to try this as well.

jader201 6y ago

The OP link is to September, but if you go to the main/parent link, it’s always the current month, which conveniently has today’s news at the top (reverse chronological): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

awak3ning 6y ago

That's a very good resource, I find that even if one truly believes that the news or political media is not warping your vision of reality and your beliefs that is not the case. Once you step back and view the situation from the outside, then you really start to understand how people's nervous systems are being regulated and influenced by the media.

AdamGibbins 6y ago

https://weekly.hatnote.com/ https://weekly.hatnote.com/ might be of interest, weekly update with the most active wikipedia entries. Tends to be news events.

spaetzleesser 6y ago

I read only Reuters and APNews these days. They report things but not in a way to make you emotional. They make news outright boring which is a good thing. I don’t know what happened to CNN. Seems they have decided to become the left wing FoxNews.

nradov 6y ago

Once you become consciously aware of their emotional manipulation techniques you can watch without being impacted. Still a waste of time, though.

lenitabinol 6y ago

Wikipedia is a great filter.