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That's quite an enormous effort! Do you do it for professional reasons, or to keep up? If your objective is really to have an understanding of the world, it ma
by ArnoVW 5y ago
That's quite an enormous effort! Do you do it for professional reasons, or to keep up?
If your objective is really to have an understanding of the world, it may not be that effective though. Watching US news 8 hours a day does not broaden your news diet by that much.
Have you considered investing some of those 8h in learning French or German, and reading the international press? Being Dutch I read NRC. Since I live in France I read Le Monde, which is 'ok', except during election season. And I follow vaguely BBC and CNN, although they are becoming more and more unreadable. Through HN I get some articles from the economist and NYT / WaPo.
I've always found the difference in coverage between countries more interesting than the difference between sources within a country.
In France there is a weekly magazine called Le Courrier International. They translate articles from all over the world, so you get for example one page about a diplomatic incident between China and Korea, with one article from each country. Each source is contextualized, when the paper was created, who are the owners, etc. Maybe something like that exists in English?
- hkt 5y agoLe Monde also has a publication in English - Le Monde Diplomatique: http://mondediplo.com/ http://mondediplo.com/ I find it gives helpfully different perspectives on foreign affairs, and when it reports on my country (UK) it escapes the day to day press allegiances because it looks from the outside in. I'm having a go at learning Esperanto to read the edition they publish in that language, because I suspect the view will be even further from that of the English language edition. To GP: the populists are, in my experience, just partisans. There's not much value to any of them. Save your time and find international publications.
- mdp2021 5y ago> Le Monde Diplomatique ...which also uses RSS ( mondediplo.com/rss )! Unfortunately, that other suggestion, ground.news, does not seem to.
- lettergram 5y agoFirst, yes I listen to various items from around the world. I think I even put a couple in the short list. That being said, most of the stuff around the world is effectively propaganda. It’s good to see sentiment, but it’s generally paid for by government or for government. Even Le Monde started by request of the government and is own largely by someone in another country. IMO it’s pretty partisan. Not saying it’s bad by any means, just that you have to weight it.
- lettergram 5y ago> Do you do it for professional reasons, or to keep up? I tend to do it to keep up. But broadly politics has a massive impact on everything in our lives. I invest and typically do very well and my trick has been seeing the difference between these groups and moving prior to all the groups catching on.... so basically tracking “populist news & podcasters” and investing when they start mentioning. Then selling when the “corporate news” starts commenting.